An updated, more comedy-oriented approach to Supergirl's arrival on Earth, which starts with the rocket carrying Kara Zor-El crashing through Luthor's latest giant robot focused attempt to destroy Superman. From there, we learn Kara hid on her father's rocket in an attempt to teach her parents a lesson for grounding her for asking them to pass the salt. . .wait no, I'm sorry, for telling her she couldn't be part of the cheer squad for the launch of the rocket because she got 72% in Temporal Mechanics.
Most of the six issues are concerned with Kara attempting to learn how to fit in on Earth while also adjusting to having superpowers, by attending a boarding school as "Linda Lee." This goes poorly, as she doesn't understand anything about Earth, like money for example. This allows Jones a lot of chances to draw Linda having daydreams about what she could do instead. Like flying to the Moon to become Moon Supergirl, who stops Moon Criminals from stealing Moon Money from Moon Banks.
Landry Walker adds several elements beyond the usual issues the new kid faces in school. Kryptonite rays filtered through an overhead projector can an evil opposite of her, who is popular and cruel and pranks Linda repeatedly. A piece of Kryptonite that gets electrified gives a cat super-intelligence and causes it to start kidnapping students. The one friend Linda makes at school turns out to be Lex Luthor's little sister. And the principal turns out to be Mr. Mxyzptlk, with some scheme to use collected Kryptonian emotional energy, combined with his 5th-dimensional magic to. . .let him rewrite all reality?
That part doesn't make a ton of sense, but Walker's Mxy is a more malevolent version, at one point implying he might have gone so far as to be responsible for destroying Krypton, just to engineer this entire circumstance. Still, the amount that gets crammed into the final issue, along with Belinda's statement that Linda was gaining more and more friends, which we don't see any evidence of, makes me wonder if things didn't get rushed by a premature ending.
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