Batwoman/Supergirl : World's Finest Giant #1

by Margaret Stohl, Laura Braga (Illustrator), Sanya Anwar

"Sister Sister" : When a powerful alien weapon falls into the wrong hands, it will take the combined might of Batwoman and Supergirl to save the city from the Religion of Crime !
"Faceless" : Batwoman must go undercover in a highly secretive beauty company in order to track down a missing journalist. But what Kate discovers is far more insidious than she ever imagined !
"Exit Interview" : Since arriving on Earth, Supergirl has always followed in her cousin's footsteps. But maybe it's time for Kara to forge her own path...
Also include reprints of Batwoman : Rebirth #1, Supergirl : Rebirth #1, and Batwoman #0.

Genres: Comics, Comic Book

100 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2019

About the author

Margaret Stohl is the #1 New York Times, PW, USA Today, LA Times and Internationally bestselling co-author or author of twelve books, including the BEAUTIFUL CREATURES NOVELS, the DANGEROUS CREATURES NOVELS, the ICONS NOVELS, MARVEL'S BLACK WIDOW NOVELS, ROYCE ROLLS & CATS VS ROBOTS THIS IS WAR (forthcoming!) She writes the MIGHTY CAPTAIN MARVEL comic for Marvel Comics (ongoing) and has contributed to countless videogames; currently, she is a Narrative Director at Bungie.

From the author:

Goodreads Peeps! Please note I no longer review the books on my shelf, "stars"-wise. I do list books I read, and they're all automatically marked as 5 stars. That's because a) I don't list books that I didn't like enough to finish and b) I didn't want to delete the ratings I had already given. If I particularly love a book and feel inclined to comment, you'll still see the comments here. Sadly, I have to ask: please don't reproduce these comments on book jackets, websites, or in any other medium for the marketing of books. They're only meant for fellow goodreaders. Thanks so much!

ABOUT ME:

Writing has gotten me in and out of trouble since I was 15 (back then, mostly just in trouble.) For 10 years, I designed &/or wrote for lots of video games, one of which was nominated for “Most Innovative Game Design,” but I lost to a rapping onion. If you know games you get why my two bad beagles are named Zelda and Kirby.

School: I spent more years in it than a person ever should, because let’s face it, reading books is so much better than having a job. I fell in love with American literature at Amherst and Yale, earned an MA in English from Stanford, and studied creative writing under the late great poet George MacBeth at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. I taught Intro to Film as a TA at Yale and Romantic Poetry as a TA at Stanford. Don’t tell the people at Yale but sometimes I taught the section before I’d seen the movie it was about...

I live in Santa Monica, CA, with my family, most of whom were enslaved into working with me in one form or another on my first YA book for Little, Brown. I’m not kidding; when my daughters wanted to go to school I said “Why are you so selfish? Get back in there and edit,” and by said I mean yelled and maybe threw things, it’s all a haze. Now the Beautiful series has wrapped, but you can see the movie on February 13, 2013 or read my new book ICONS on May 7th. Nothing gold can stay, Ponyboy.

Reviews

[Viola · Rating 3 out of 5]

An okay team-up story between these superheroes and a good introduction to those unfamiliar with them. The new issues try hard to catch readers up with the backstory of Kate and of Kara but since there are old issues dedicated entirely to doing just that, it was a bit much.

As someone who does know them, Batwoman in particular, it was a bit surface level. Kate was a bit too chipper, she makes snarky comments, but not this often. Her inner monologue was better though. Also, I get that banter is necessary for a team-up, but not so much that the dialogue is almost unintelligible because there are so many quips.

Not sure where in the timeline for each hero is the story supposed to take place. Supergirl seems to match early Rebirth (based on the #1 issue in this giant) but Kate was part of the Bat-family back then, and she says she doesn't team up with others here. The presence of Alice hints at an earlier Kate and it could be a younger Kara, I'm not going to question continuity too much.

The art is beautiful. Shame this is a hard comic to get hold of, and it's not even available through comixology.