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Supergirl: Good-Looking Corpse

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Official Name

Good-Looking Corpse

Universe

New Earth

Locations

Earth, Boston, Harvard University, Metropolis, Daily Planet, Cadmus Labs, Gotham City

Characters

Issue Began	Issue Ended
Supergirl Vol 5 #60 (March, 2011)	Supergirl Vol 5 #64 (July, 2011)

Synopsis

At Harvard University, two students are debating the evolution of human society. One of them named Alex maintains that it's often through conflict and conquer, because even evil empires improve society in many ways. Then he wonders if super-heroes are holding mankind back by stopping Earth from being conquered by alien races.

In Metropolis, Lois Lane meets Catherine Devereux, a former Cadmus employee who tells Lois of a project of Cadmus which could threaten the world. Catherine is concerned about her safety with Superman gone, but Lois reassures her that someone else is protecting Metropolis.

Meanwhile, Kara flies over the city and saves some guy falling off a building. It turns out the guy jumped off that building so that she would catch him and he could ask for her phone number. Kara rolls her eyes in exasperation.

Back at Harvard, Alex explains he has made an application called Flyover, for tracking superhero sightings: people see a hero, check in on the program and earn points, and can then upload photos and videos of the heroes.

In Metropolis, the guy Kara just saved uploaded a photo of her to FlyOver. Then some sort of portal opens up where Kara is, and Parasite, Kryptonite Man, Silver Banshee and Metallo step through. Kara asks who hired them, and Kryptonite Man says they want to kill her for free. They engages the villainous foursome.

In the Daily Planet, Perry is asking for some stories when Lois bursts in, yelling that Cadmus is, once again, experimenting with Kryptonian DNA.

Meanwhile, Alex reveals his goals: he wants to eliminate super-heroes so the next wave of alien conquerors will be successful. And he'll eradicate Supergirl and the younger heroes first because they represent the future. When his friends tell he is crazy, he threatens to reveal the skeletons in their closets if they don't keep their mouths shut. Then he tells he is done with college.

As Kara continues to fight the villains, Ms. Devereux comes home to find her child is dead, and a note from Alex that says: "It's not nice to talk out of class. Sorry for your loss."

Alex leaves, mindwiping his fellow students to ensure that they cannot incriminate him. Then he checks his app. Kara Zor-El has managed to take all four villains out against all odds. Alex realizes the young Kryptonian is tougher than he thought.

Back on the rooftops of Metropolis, the four defeated villains are teleported away before Kara can get them shipped off to Stryker's Island Penitentiary. Shortly after Supergirl meets Lois, who debriefs her about Cadmus' latest mad ploy. Supergirl thinks she isn't enough good to deal with that kind of trouble, but Lois tells she lets other people be the judge of that. Then she gives Kara a smartphone, tells her about FlyOver app and leaves.

Kara (as Linda Lang) is enjoying a bowl of ice cream and browsing the app when FlyOver shows Robin in Gotham City being accosted by Clayface and Mister Freeze. Without a moment's hesitation, Supergirl takes off for Gotham and helps Damian out. When she takes Clayface out, she notes that Clayface is easier to beat than usual.

Supergirl explains the FlyOver app to Robin, and figures out it's being used to track heroes by some villain. As they talk, Blue Beetle shows up on the app and she figures out he's in danger. Then she and Robin realize the villains they have fought during the night are androids mimicking the powers of said villains.

Throughout the battle Alex, who is behind the attacks on heroes, has been watching and scheming from the safety of his secret lab, and he has realized that Supergirl is the biggest threat of them all, and might be worthy of special attention.

Kara, Robin, Blue Bettle and Miss Martian join in trying to take down Alex and his FlyOver app as Kara finds the Cadmus lab with a dead Kryptonian inside. There they find out that "Alex" is a Dubbilex clone slightly modified with Kryptonian DNA. They fight, and Kara manages to defeat the clone, earning Damian Wayne's respect.

Issues

Supergirl (Volume 5) #60 (Good-Looking Corpse, Part One)
Supergirl (Volume 5) #61 (Good-Looking Corpse, Part Two)
Supergirl (Volume 5) #62 (Good-Looking Corpse, Part Three)
Supergirl (Volume 5) #63 (Good-Looking Corpse, Part Four)
Supergirl (Volume 5) #64 (Good-Looking Corpse, Part Finale)

Notes

"Supergirl: Good-Looking Corpse" takes place concurrently with the "Superman: Grounded" storyline.
Supergirl (Volume 5) #61 and Supergirl (Volume 5) #62 were originally solicited as being written by Nick Spencer. That did not occur, though he did write Supergirl (Volume 5) #60. He explains in this tumblr post that his plan was to have Supergirl learn how to be a leader by forming a team of "cream of the crop" next-gen super-heroes, and they were to fight the Luthor/Brainiac hybrid clone who was seeded in Geoff Johns' Adventure Comics. The team would have included Supergirl, Robin, Batgirl, Blue Beetle, Static, Miss Martian, and Impulse. In the story, the team would have been captured - excepting Kara - who would then have to create another team to rescue them. Spencer hoped the story would serve as a backdoor pilot for a new Young Justice series.

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 In the [[Daily Planet]], Perry is asking for some stories when Lois bursts in, yelling that Cadmus is, once again, experimenting with Kryptonian DNA.
-Meanwhile, Alex reveals his goals: he wants to eliminate super-heroes so the next wave of alien conquerors will be successful. And he'll eradicate Supergirl and the younger heroes first because they represent the future. When his friends tell he is crazy, he threatens to reveal the skeletons in their closets if they don't keep their mouths shut. Then he tells he is done with college, and leaves.
+Meanwhile, Alex reveals his goals: he wants to eliminate super-heroes so the next wave of alien conquerors will be successful. And he'll eradicate Supergirl and the younger heroes first because they represent the future. When his friends tell he is crazy, he threatens to reveal the skeletons in their closets if they don't keep their mouths shut. Then he tells he is done with college.
-As Alex gets out and Kara continues fighting the villains, Ms. Devereux comes home to find her child is dead, and a note from Alex that says: "It's not nice to talk out of class. Sorry for your loss."
+As Kara continues to fight the villains, Ms. Devereux comes home to find her child is dead, and a note from Alex that says: "It's not nice to talk out of class. Sorry for your loss."
+Alex leaves, mindwiping his fellow students to ensure that they cannot incriminate him. Then he checks his app. Kara Zor-El has managed to take all four villains out against all odds. Alex realizes the young Kryptonian is tougher than he thought.
-Kara is able to defeat the villains and Alex realizes Supergirl will be a much harder threat to get rid of then he suspected. Supergirl learns about the Flyover App and realizes it is how the villains are finding heroes and attacking them. She goes to help Damien fight Clayface only to find that Clayface is actually a android mimicking the powers of the villain.
+Back on the rooftops of Metropolis, the four defeated villains are teleported away before Kara can get them shipped off to [[Stryker's Island Penitentiary]]. Shortly after Supergirl meets Lois, who debriefs her about Cadmus' latest mad ploy. Supergirl thinks she isn't enough good to deal with that kind of trouble, but Lois tells she lets other people be the judge of that. Then she gives Kara a smartphone, tells her about FlyOver app and leaves.
+Kara (as Linda Lang) is enjoying a bowl of ice cream and browsing the app when FlyOver shows [[Damian Wayne (New Earth)|Robin]] in [[Gotham City]] being accosted by [[Clayface]] and [[Mister Freeze]]. Without a moment's hesitation, Supergirl takes off for Gotham and helps Damian out. When she takes Clayface out, she notes that Clayface is easier to beat than usual.
+Supergirl explains the FlyOver app to Robin, and figures out it's being used to track heroes by some villain. As they talk, [[Jaime Reyes (New Earth)|Blue Beetle]] shows up on the app and she figures out he's in danger. Then she and Robin realize the villains they have fought during the night are androids mimicking the powers of said villains.
+Throughout the battle Alex, who is behind the attacks on heroes, has been watching and scheming from the safety of his secret lab, and he has realized that Supergirl is the biggest threat of them all, and might be worthy of special attention.
 Kara, Robin, Blue Bettle and Miss Martian join in trying to take down Alex and his FlyOver app as Kara finds the Cadmus lab with a dead Kryptonian inside. There they find out that "Alex" is a Dubbilex clone slightly modified with Kryptonian DNA. They fight, and Kara manages to defeat the clone, earning Damian Wayne's respect.