There are times when you have the feeling that the story you are reading is familiar, because the writers ran out of ideas and decided to do a parody of "The Wizard of Oz"; this used to be a common gambit in long-running sitcoms that would delight the television audience with a dream sequence in which the sitcom's regular characters would act out an extremely low-budget version of the beloved 1939 MGM musical.

ER I MEAN oh what a fantastical adventure Supergirl seems to be having, I wonder what will occur?


One day a tornado appears near Supergirl's alma mater, Stanhope College, which I guess is a regular occurence in whatever state Stanhope is in. Luckily Supergirl and Streaky the Supercat are back from Easter vacation, and I hope that one day we'll get a story about what Supergirl and Supercat do on Easter vacation.


Supergirl might be going in one direction but good luck getting Streaky to do anything other than go off on a tanget, chasing whatever imaginary mice he happens to see.


Great Krypton, this place looks like someplace out of a fairy tale, but not close enough to any particular fairy tale to be legally actionable!


I feel like 95% of all Supergirl stories involve her losing her super powers for one reason or another. I know this happens to all the super characters once in a while but the writers really, really seemed like they didn't know what to do with a girl what was super.

Or maybe this is just a callback to when Dorothy and Toto lost all their super powers when they landed in Oz, I dunno.


Which beloved character is Supergirl going to meet? The frightened feline? The homunculus stuffed with straw? It's a robot, so it must be a man (?) made from a type of metal! Can she save him (?) from this giant candy?


Just like in the beloved 1939 movie, Supergirl gains new powers in this fantasy land, completely confusing ones where her voice can destroy a giant candy cane plant but not harm anything or anyone else around her.


And Streaky helped!


Um hello? You do have super powers, just not the same ones you usually have. Why give away your secret identity, are you worried DC's lawyers are gonna come after you if you don't have the exact same powers as Superman?


ooohhh so he... hasn't got a... brain? Memory, I guess?


Follow follow follow follow, follow the legally non-actionable crimson trail!


Well Supergirl, I mean "Linda", he's the sort of character a writer comes up with when he's got a tight deadline and a set of Scrabble tiles.


Now they come across their next lovable character, a... cautious dogboy? Fearful Bear? Timid... something with a lizard tail?


You'd better pick it up, because Streaky is seconds away from grabbing it in his mouth and then you'll have to spend the next half hour getting him to drop it.


[insert cheap joke about something growing bigger when Supergirl touches it]


I'm pretty sure that's not how compound eyes actually work, which spoils this otherwise perfectly scientifically sound tale.


Then, after countless follow follow follow follow's they meet their final companion on their journey, CFL Lightbulb man


Supergirl shows off her newest power, charging Reddy Kilowatt back to life!


Their party now complete, they make their way to the emerald pyramid... no, that's too close... SKY pyramid, how's that? I'd like to see MGM's lawyers come after us for that one!


A Chamber of Honor is a lot like a Chamber of Horrors, in that it's usually a ripoff that jerks you around for a couple minutes in an uncomfortable little car.


Oh, they're just gonna call it an emerald pyramid, OK. You can't copyright a color.

Well, I guess like Pantone could. I'm sure they've tried anyway.


Okay but there's 5 of you, how did Streaky get there


As the story nears the conclusion, the weary writer runs out of steam coming up with things that sound demonstrably different from a pre-existing IP and can only change "witch" to "one".


Pay no attention to that fancy little man behind the squiggly egg!


The story begins with a tornado sweeping Dorothy/Supergirl away to Oz/Doov, so naturally it ends with a... geyser? Sure, OK


I would say the "wicked one" being changed from Margaret Hamilton to a buzzard with a long tail is a serious decline in quality, but I've seen "Wicked" so I guess it's alright.


Finally "Linda" can start calling herself "Supergirl" again!

Oh, it sounds familiar does it?


Did you catch the clue on Page 1? Did you? Did you catch it? The only way you could've figured it out is by reading this:
OR by quickly glancing at the artwork and figuring it out that way, and by every panel thereafter. Anyway, to wrap up for those in the reading audience who might have serious head injuries: This was the Wizard of Oz. Thanks for the detailed explanation "Linda".

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