“Supergirl In Concert!”, as it says on the cover, is not Supergirl singing in a stadium full of adoring fans but instead fighting a handful of Female Furies and a mysterious Twilight person. She is in a stadium though and there are a lot of fans there just not necessarily for her and the concert doesn’t raise the roof so muh as bring it down.
Written by Peter David, with art by Leonard Kirk, inking from Robin Riggs, letters from Patricia Prentice, colors by Gene D’Angelo, and separation by Digital Chameleon. While the cover does read “Supergirl in Concert” the story is titled “Hell Hath No Furies” on the title page. We get pretty immediately into the action where we see a large crowd of Space Girls fans quickly making their way to the exits to get away from the new stars of the show; Supergirl, Twilight, and 5 Female Furies (Artemiz, Stompa, Bernadeth, Mad Harriet, and Lashina specifically). It seems like Supergirl is trying to bring Twilight down for something she did in North Carolina, Twilight trying to track down someone named Jane, and the Furies just there to further stir up trouble.
It’s issues like this that really make Supergirl Surprise interesting because I absolutely remember that Twilight is someone important and plays a fairly large role in the Supergirl series by Peter David as a whole, but when just reading issue #28 I cannot remember what her deal is at all. The Furies on the other hand haven’t forgotten who Twilight is, and snatch her up and boom-tube back to Apokolips with her leaving Supergirl left in the rubble of the Space Girls concert.
A lot of this comic is taken up with scenes of Supergirl fighting the Female Furies and it definitely makes for some great action sequences. Supergirl gets to show off a wide array of her powers and she does a great job of outsmarting her foes too. She takes Stompa out by breaking her ankles, and uses Lashina’s whips (ribbons?) to make her bring lights down on top of her all while delivering a pun “what could be more angelic than helping those who are evil see the light?”. She doesn’t face off directly with Bernadeth, Mad Harriet, or Artemiz here but taking out 2 of Darkseid’s elite by yourself is a pretty impressive feat on it’s own.
I mentioned earlier that Supergirl was left behind while the rest of her dance partners boom tubed away to Apokolips, she didn’t stay put for long though. Somewhere around this time, Supergirl started developing new powers tied to her being a fallen angel (that’s too much to explain here just take my word for it). Powers like fire wings and flame vision and a teleportation power called “Shunting”. She uses this Shunt power to follow the Furies to Apokolips however she is not prepared for the agony that would come with Shunting into such a hellish realm. A really interesting side effect that is presented here is that when not using a boom tube to access Apokolips, earthlings show up much smaller than they normally would. I’m sure I’ll talk about this more whenever Supergirl Surprise lands on Issue 29, but I really like the idea of Apokolips and all it’s residents existing on a larger scale than our main heroes and the size discrepancy is adjusted via boom tube. I’m not sure if this has ever been explored past this story, but it really puts the 4th world characters on a higher level to me.
Ads time! The big one I noticed was the ad for the infamous Superman 64 game. This ad does show that the game also has Playstation and Gameboy ports and I wasn’t familiar with those. Turns out there is a reason for that, only the Nintendo 64 version came out. I’ve never played the game but I’ll probably check it out at some point in my life. There is also a Powerpuff Girls ad, and also an ad for Subway which seemed to have DC toys. The Subway toys are interesting, you get keychains of Superman, Batman, Flash, and Wonder Woman and the 3 boy characters are all just in full form but Wonder Woman is in her invisible jet which feels like a weird choice and makes her keychain stand out. I hope you had a fun time checking out this action packed issue of Supergirl with me, and I look forward to seeing you come back for the next entry of Supergirl Surprise. For the rest of the Supergirl Surprise entries check them out here: https://blogofsupergirl.com/supergirl-surprise/
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