I was looking through that first issue of the Reign in Hell mini-series, and lo and behold, there's Linda Danvers, with fire wings and everything. That was a little surprising, I thought she was persona non grata in the DCU since they brought the current Supergirl in.
I wasn't aware of the fact she was somehow connected to Neron. I suppose the fire wings should have been a clue, but I thought she was an angel on earth, so it didn't occur to me she'd be connected to their devil. I found it a little curious that the Shadowpact, worried that she might get drawn into the conflict in the infernal realms, decided to attack her, rather than approach peacefully. Given that she was doing absolutely nothing threatening at that particular moment, it seems like a needless escalation of things. Yes, she might respond in a hostile manner if they simply walk up and ask if she'll come with them, and certainly you don't want to get killed if you can avoid it, but if you attack you pretty much guarantee you'll get attacked right back.
Even if they had succeeded in restraining her, and putting her some place where she couldn't get recalled to Hell, at some point that conflict is going to be over, and what do you do then? You going to keep her locked up forever, based on her heritage, rather than what she did? Because that's very Marvel Universe isn't it, like an mystical version of the Mutant Registration Act and all those future where mutants are in camps simply because they're mutants. So that hardly seems proper for a team of heroes. So maybe they cut her loose. What's to stop her from turning around and immediately attacking them? They locked her up when she hadn't done anything. More than that, she'd built a life for herself there, and they probably wrecked it (even if they don't have a huge, destructive fight that reveals her true self to her friends and coworkers, she's probably missed work, and her friends haven't heard from her, she may have lost her home), so I'd say Ms. Danvers might feel a bit of butt-kicking was in order. You know, to redress a wrong.
Oh well, she did get recalled, so maybe the Shadowpact won't have to worry about any aftershocks..
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Even though nothing is official yet, I have a hunch that the Linda in Reign in Hell isn't exactly the one who was Supergirl. I've heard that the official line is that Kara 2.0 is the only heroine who ever adopted the Supergirl identity, making Linda ... someone else.
Maybe she's some angel/devil hybrid now, since she's suddenly taken to cursing and threatening to kill people.
If that's the official line post-Crisis it's relatively new. When Superman gives Kara 2.0 the Supergirl costume in Batman/Superman during the Supergirl arc he mentions that it had been used by others and she had a lot to live up to with it, or something like that.
Yeah, but was Supes talking about the Supergirl costume as a whole, or just the "S" shield?
Either way, this series could be a cool way to bruing Linda back into the DCU.
Also, I'm amazed that more people aren't commenting on the fact that Giffen has essentially re-written Barack Obama's stump speech as Lord Stannus's.
fortress keeper: Possible on both counts. This is "New Earth", so who knows what the score is.
seangreyson: I think they're just trying to confuse us.
jason: Bringing back beloved characters long absent is always (or usually) a good thing. I hadn't really noticed the similarity of the speeches myself. Interesting.
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