![]() ![]() While he provides her wisdom beyond her year, he excels at presenting her grieving process-showing Ruthye compartmentalizing her suffering and focusing on the task at hand only breaking down when all hope is lost. ![]() For starters, this isn't a standard superhero story as it focuses more upon Ruthye's story, which has its own appeal as King writes Ruthye's voice in very measured and specific fashion. There are some strong elements to this issue. To obtain justice, Ruthye seeks to hire an assassin and it's that act which puts her in the path of Kara Zor-El who happens to be visiting a bar on this planet so she can get drunk during her 21st birthday. From there, the story unfolds as Ruthye's narration of her father's murder and her subsequent quest for justice. As such, readers know this story will ultimately lead to Kara killing a man, but as Ruthye soon explains, that man murdered Ruthye's father. On an alien world orbiting a red sun, a young girl named Ruthye narrates events the reader is preparing to read having already lived them. ![]() The issue opens, in a sense, not at the beginning of the story but at the end. ![]()
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