Supergirl's in Gotham to find Buzz, the demon she's been uneasily working with to find the "earth angel" aspect of herself that disappeared roughly a year's worth of issues ago. Buzz had tried to help a girl being menaced by a gang, got accused of being her attacker, then got the shit kicked out of him by the gang, topped off by Supergirl not believing his claim of innocence. Because he'd been a lying shitheel since the moment he showed up.
Linda wants to apologize, but she's gotta find him first. To that end, she's. . .dressing up like a cheerleader and visiting dive bars? Did Lois teach her this? A little judicious throwing of jerks through windows gets the patrons in a helpful mood, but in the meantime, Buzz has hooked up with Two-Face.
Two-Face abducted Dr. Max Tuefeld, who's been advocating making cloning available to everyone. Buzz lifted a blood sample taken from Supergirl at a hospital after she got badly injured during some crossover event when she fought a big alien robot. Two-Face is on board with the idea of having a super-strong henchwoman, especially since Buzz swears he's got some 'mystic mumbo-jumbo' to speed up the aging process. And it avoids the whole "changing diapers" phase.
Supergirl's still trashing bars (somehow Batman hasn't gotten wind of a metahuman cheerleader carving a path of ass-kickings through "his" town), when "Big-Mouthed Murray" tells her Buzz was looking for Two-Face and got sent to another bar to speak with Janus. Setting aside how a guy with that nickname hasn't been killed yet, Janus is a rather ordinary - if vaguely froggy-looking - guy to have that name. He coughs up the location of Two-Face's current hideout, Mark Twain Books, which Linda eventually realizes is Two-Face making a play on words - "the place of two."
Maybe she's dizzy from all the thinking, but her attempt to sneak in fails when she falls through a weak spot in the roof. Or maybe it's the massive lifts in her boots. Buzz is waiting for her, with a spiel all ready about how the beating he took helped him remember who he was, and that he'd strayed from that by being in love with her, since before she was born.
(It'll turn out Linda's been reincarnated and she and Buzz were married back in Roman times. It ended badly, and the next time they met, he'd been encouraging Jack the Ripper and the guy killed her.)
Thank goodness Bizarro Supergirl is here to put a stop to all this whinging by beating the crap out of Supergirl. Or, as Buzz puts it, being gentle with her, as Two-Face apparently ordered Tuefeld to genetically program(?) the clone to only obey Two-Face and Buzz, by doing the opposite of what they say. I assume that's some play on "two-faced" by saying one thing but meaning the other?
Buzz leaves the girls to their fight (which is just Linda getting pummeled), and joins Two-Face on a trip to Arkham, where they'll collect blood samples of all the inmates, so Two-Face can have clones of them that are loyal to him. Which sounds stupid as hell. Why do you want a clone of the Riddler or Calendar Man, whether it's loyal to you or not?
It's a moot point, as they'll get Jokerized between now and the next issue, which we looked at 3 years ago.
{11th longbox, 15th comic. Supergirl (vol. 3) #62, by Peter David (writer), Leonard Kirk (penciler), Robin Riggs (inker), Gene D'Angelo (colorist), Digital Chameleon (separations), Bill Oakley (letterer)}
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