Page 45 Review by Jonathan
"Aunt Martha, I have big news, I'm quitting school."
"What happened?"
"Nothing yet.
"But something's coming.
"Something bad.
"IT'S FINALS!
"Tests were my kryptonite even before kryptonite was my kryptonite."
"Supergirl, you've fought supervillains and saved Super Hero High more times that I can count. Surely a little test can't be that bad?"
Ha ha, oh, it will be, especially given someone is abducting all the girl heroes and anti-heroes of Super Hero High for some all-ages mildly nefarious non-sinister ends. Yes, Supergirl, Wonder Woman, Katana, Bumblebee, Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn are being excluded from school by a mysterious shadow figure intent on making sure our chums fail their finals!! To what possible end?!
Well, I'm not going to give the culprit away, but it's nice to see DC doing some material squarely aimed at younger kids, and girls in particular, as some of the animations and their spin-offs can be a little heavy handed on the violence for the teeny-tiny ones aimed more as they are for the man-child market.
It's well written enough with art that's clearly aimed to appeal to the on-tap cartoon generation. I did try explaining to Whackers that 'when I were a lad' we got five minutes of Tom & Jerry a day if you were lucky and if you missed it, there were no catch-up rewinds or on-demand replays. The look of total and utter disbelief on her young face was hilarious. She was quite convinced I was perpetuating another of my many wind-ups. Kids today...
Anyway, decent enough fun filler of a superheroine bent whilst we all actually wait for the next HILDA (not long at all now!!!) / AMULET (far too long!!!) / ZITA THE SPACEGIRL (not sure, but Ben Hatke does have the first volume of a new kids series MIGHTY JACK VOL 1 out very soon!!!).
[Editor's note: ZITA THE SPACEGIRL was a trilogy. All books in stock, but it is over. Do check out Hatke's big book of empathy, LITTLE ROBOT, though!]
