Supergirl, Volume 1: Killers of Krypton

In a clean break from Orlando's run, Supergirl heads out into space to solve the mystery of Krypton's destruction. This initially brings in the Green Lantern Corps in a section that works rather well, although how much it feels like Supergirl, rather than Green Lantern is perhaps debatable. From there we move to other spacefaring adventure, which is less engaging, but does at least provide a different vista than we normally get. It's an improvement over the often lacklustre preceding volumes, although there's none of the usual supporting cast and we really are starting from scratch. A couple of isolated short stories round out the collection - one filling in the background of a new supporting character, and the other a routine Christmas story.

It's enough to make me want to see where this is going, at a point where I would otherwise have dropped the line, so things are looking up even if I'm not really excited about this yet. And Andreyko is, frankly, a better writer than his predecessor (nice artwork, too). But, seriously, you had to include Krypto the Super-dog?