mithen

Title: Chapter Eight:  Watching the Moon
Pairing/Characters: Kal/Bruce, Alura, Zor-El, Kara Zor-El, Selina, Diana
Notes: "The House of the Earth" is an AU in which a few thousand Kryptonians escaped the destruction of Krypton to flee to Earth and conquer its people.
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 2700
Summary:  Kal has problems adjusting to life in Gotham--and meets his betrothed.

( Kal bit his lip, trying to keep his mind on the game, but the pieces were meaningless bits of color. Game pieces shoved about the board. )

I've always said I like more realistic, detailed art in comics. But lately, I dunno...I'm starting to see the appeal of art that's more "cartoony." I'm sure it can be done badly, but when it's done well there's an energy to it that the more static pin-up art style we see in flagship titles doesn't seem to have.

Case in point: Supergirl's Cosmic Adventures in the Eighth Grade. It's a Johnny DC title, which means marketed to kids. But it snaps along at a good pace and has some real emotion in it--not like the "Super Friends" title, which I love in part because it's so very, campily young, but this is good stuff for any age IMHO.

Plus, this title made me like Kara, which is very cool. And gave her a real secret identity, which I really want her to have more often in the main titles.

The story is that a rocket suddenly interrupts a fight between a power-suited Lex and Superman. It opens to reveal a Kryptonian girl, who is immediately harassed by the media--especially frightening to her because her powers start developing willy-nilly:

( Not very friendly to dial-up-ness below the cut. )