I'm Super Girl and I'm Here to Save the World

I’ve always been a dabbler in the comic book world. I know enough to get by in a conversation about the difference between the movie and the comic book (be that X-Men or Batman, so on and so forth).

However, recently I’ve discovered there’s so much more to the comic book world than the simple Batman, Superman, Spiderman, X-Men. Much more. The comic that I’m currently enjoying is the critically acclaimed event 52. 52 was a year-long weekly comic detailing the events of the year after Infinite Crisis in the DC Universe when there is no Batman, Superman, or Wonder Woman. We learn more of the lesser known heroes (Booster Gold, the Question, Black Adam, etc) and see how their lives and stories are all woven together in the DC Universe.

No worries - I won't give away any of the plot since we all hate *spoiler alert* spoilers.

The beauty of the overall story is that you experience the events of the DCU in real-time since each issue took place over a week and was issued every week. There are so many plot-twists and rich character developments that you can’t help but get lost in the story. Not to insult any hard-core comics fans, but the comic reads like a soap opera. You jump into an episode of All My Children and you know who Erica Kane is . . . but Greenlee and Jackson, how do they all fit together? You keep watching and realize everyone in Pine Valley is connected and their stories more complex than you could imagine. Gotham and Metropolis don’t appear to be much different than Pine Valley.

Right so. To sum: politics, mythology, globalization, commercialism, homosexuality, inter-galactic bounty-hunting, and spandex. Lots of spandex.