Superwoman, Volume 3: The Midnight Hour by K. Perkins

Superwoman, Volume 3: The Midnight Hour Reviews

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  Chad

  The only thing I liked about this book is that it came to an end. It was basically 6 issues of spinning their wheels and random guests from Supergirl's comic until they reset Lana. How much doubt and self-loathing can one character have without ever overcoming it? That was Lana's character from beginning to end. This book made me hate Lana and Steele more than anything else when I used to like both. The best scenes were the few flashbacks to Lana and Clark's childhood. This series was a failure from beginning to end. What a shame!
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  Wing Kee

  So in the end this entire run meant nothing…sad.
  
  World: The art is fine for the most part, a couple of artist changes for the last couple of issues but most were on point. For the most part this series has been gorgeous and Lana looks fantastic in that suit (it was so cool that it harkened back to …shivers…electric Supes…shudder). The world building is very choppy for the end, sure there is the tie into Lana Luthor which I think would have been correct as the last villain for this end of series (but it wasn’t). The choppiness comes from the slap dash of characters that suddenly show up and then disappear from the story which is already barely held together, we get Maxima suddenly showing up, then Supergirl and then Steelworks stuff, it’s a mess.
  
  Story: There are bits and pieces of beauty found in this mess of a finale, the scene in the past in Smallville are beautiful and I wish there was just a Smallville series (not tv related) in comic book form DC!!!! The rest of the final couple of issue is a mess of a book. It’s choppy, The plot barely makes sense, the villain is boring and contrived, the end is pretty much a reset for Lana and a crappy escape hatch for DC to just put her back into where she was before this book happened, it was just…Lana deserves so much more. Look at Marvel and what they’ve done with Gwen Stacey, she’s gotten what she deserves over there, Lana was the first and deserves so much more than what’s happening to her with DC…but then again that character deserves line (more below) is a whole nother can of worms. Sad end.
  
  Characters: Lana is still the same from issue 1 of this series to the end, well we get an end, but she’s still doubtful and self loathing and I don’t mind arcs like that but not for 18 issues. Lana deserves so much better writing than this, make her real, make her flawed, make her complex don’t make her one note but that’s one of the reasons this book failed, it was the same over and over and over. Then there’s the rest of the cast of characters which felt tacked on here. I love Steel and I love Nat they are great characters (Nat should be on the Teen Titans or a member that shows up every now and then to be a part of that) but both are just…sad sad side characters in this messy book and it’s a disservice to them. The final villain, stupid but needed to finish the story and reboot Lana. Supergirl barely here and pointless. What the fuck is Maxima doing in the book anyways?
  
  Argh. Yes it’s a reboot and yes it’s a step back but going forward with this poor poor series was torture for one of DC’s iconic female characters.
  
  Onward to the next book!
  
  *read individual issues*
  
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  Ivy

  5 🌟
  
  Lana deals with Amos, Maxima, and Midnight.
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  John Yelverton

  They knew that the book series was coming to an end, so they crammed everything that they possibly could into this last issue which was a complete let down. You're jerked from panel to panel and often forced to infer what happened between panels because they had to wrap everything up. Once it's all said and done, you really find yourself wondering why you started this book series in the first place.
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  Adan

  Finishing it’s horrible descent into horribleness, the Superwoman title just couldn’t recapture the amazing spark that it had in the first collection. Without Phil Jimenez, it seemed nobody knew what to do anymore, which is quite sad. I loved Lana as Superwoman and I loved Natasha Irons and Traci 13, so I hope they show up again somewhere in better hands.
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  Daniel Butcher

  A readable offering.
  
  I'm not 100% bought in on how they conclude with the big bad...but they did need to end this chapter of Lana's life.
  
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  Christian Zamora-Dahmen

  So much wasted potential.
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  Adam Fisher

  3.5 Stars.
  Starting this last Volume of Superwoman, Lana is fighting a friend of hers who has been drastically altered by Red Kryptonite. While she does save him, the story doesn't stay there long, and instead focuses on a battle against new character, M1dn1ght.
  M1dn1ght was created by Lena Luthor as a digital program to gain the powers of Superwoman so that she could be freed. A sentient program, she uses any means necessary to win, including kidnapping Lana's husband and partner, Steel. Going after Lois next, M1dn1ght infects her with binary code, which gives her location, so Lana will come and fight.
  After talking to Superman about what really makes a hero, she decides that she will sacrifice herself to defeat M1dn1ght and Lena once and for all. What happens instead is that they merge into one psyche: Lana controlling the mind, and M1dn1ght controlling the body. Through various heroic things, M1dn1ght learns the value of being a hero and human empathy. Realizing also that she will never be able to truely feel those emotions, M1dn1ght sacrifices herself, which appears to to take Lana's superpowers with her.
  Overall, a decent run on this book. I wonder what will happen next to the character...
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  Alex E

  As the Superwoman comic comes to a close, I cant help but think how unfortunate it is that the potential of this book was never fully realized.
  
  The last story itself is about Superwoman taking down a computer/cyborg named Midnight who is capturing everyone she loves. In order to defeat and "free" Midnight, Superwoman has to sacrifice a lot more than she bargained for. ...her powers I mean, I'm talking about her powers. And to be honest, the whole "Lana losing her powers" thing has not only been wildly telegraphed, but overplayed in this book. I think K. Perkins lost control of the narrative somewhere along the line so the whole book felt repetitive and redundant unfortunately.
  
  The art was pretty good for the most part. I thought the pencils matched the overall more serious tone of the book. Though at times, it did feel a bit muddy and rushed, but I think Stephen Segovia did a good job overall.
  
  Unfortunately this felt like a book that was spinning its wheels during most of it's tenure. Either editorial or the creative team themselves lost the plot and never really gained enough control to pull this out of the tailspin it ended up as. It seems Lana Lang is once again fated to be a side character in everyone else's Super books.
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  Cale

  In this volume, Lana teaches a computer how to love....
  No, really, that's the ultimate goal of the final story in this series. And to be fair, it's actually the best story in the series, as it helps end the Superwoman role and return Lana to what she was before everything happened.
  But to get to that, there are two issues that feel like part of a crossover, as Lana revises her origin story for the... third time I think? Complete with a high school flashback that is pretty much straight cliches, but still an enjoyable read. That's true of this whole volume - none of it made me cringe nearly as much as the previous volumes did. And while it does seem like the plotline of the second volume is completely abandoned (did they ever find Zeke Irons? Judging by a random comment in here, I think not), the self-contained portions of this book are at least interesting. And the art is pretty good - the whole Midnight plotline has some good color work and interesting visuals.
  Is it a good book? In comparison to the rest of the series, yes. Compared to the larger Rebirth series? Probably not. But it gets pretty close to the average for the series, which is not something I expected after that first terrible volume. It ended better than it began.
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  Krzysztof Grabowski

  Nadszedł wreszcie koniec przygód Lany jako Superwoman. Raczej definitywny i z takim zakończeniem, jakiego w sumie oczekiwałem. Aby jednak je zobaczyć trzeba przebrać przez te nieco ponad sto stron.
  
  Przyznam się szczerze, że były momenty, które mi się wizualnie podobały, ale były i takie, że ze względu na sposób narracji - szło się pogubić. Nie na długo, ale takie skoki pomiędzy przeszłością, a teraźniejszością, tłumaczące po trochu co się dzieje - tu średnio działały. Pod koniec pojawi się wreszcie w miarę spójny wątek nie jakiej Midnight, która nawet dawała radę. Tyle, że to trochę za późno, aby ratować tę serię.
  
  Dla tych kilku całkiem niezłych scen walki i sprawnej kreski. I dla momentu w którym bohaterka wreszcie może odpocząć i wszystko trafia na stare, dobre tory. W skali jakości serii w dc rebirth tytuł znajduje się jednak w tyle tego peletonu. A szkoda, bo początek był obiecujący...
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  Phil

  I know this wasn't necessarily a spectacular series and didn't quite gather any momentum, but I didn't find it as bad as many of the reviews. It focused too heavily on Lana's lack of confidence, however, it is a challenge many of us can relate to at one point or another in our lives. Although a little silly at times, the plot with midnight wasn't such a terrible way to end this run, and it's not like you have to suspend reality any more than in other DC novels. Anyway, it's one less character for me to follow even though there appears to be a few more coming after I read the Dark Nights & Metal storyline.
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  NullusAnxietus

  I really loved the idea of this series in the beginning, but it seems to have waned a bit for me toward this, the final volume.
  
  While the art-work is gorgeous and there's some great moments to be had, this wasn't a great finale for a character that I loved so much.
  
  The book feels a little disjointed and the pacing is a little off...that said, I did enjoy my time with it and I'm sad that we won't see anymore of the character.
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  Emmanuel Nevers

  Bittersweet ending to an extremely interesting title. I can't wait to see if Superwoman comes back in the future!
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  Laura Lawson

  I liked this story and Lana development across the books. Not sure if this was the end but a good read!
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  Iris Nevers

  (Read in single issues)
  It's been so long since I read this I can't believe I haven't logged it
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  J.R.

  Well, this was bad. Not a compelling story. Wrecks Lana as a character.
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  Jenny Clark

  A kinda lackluster ending. After all that... poof. I do like that Lana grew at least a little, though she still seams kinda juvenile to me but... Recommended for super-family or DC completeinists.
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  Username

  Such a waste of time, of a character. Good art, but no plot worth speaking of. Things just happen.
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  Will Cooper

  One of the most boring stories with a very boring Lana Lang revisiting the boring parts of her past with a boring "fight" and a boring finish.
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  Eyla

  Odd ending, kind of feels like nothing mattered in the end? But I was introduced to Maxima and I love her, and there were some sweet moments so... worth it in the end I think? Maybe?
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  May

  it sucks that these stories are not good because Superwoman is such an interesting character with so much potential.