Loved both the H'el plotline and Power Girl.

The 4th star is probably kind, but the weakness can mostly be blamed on the H'el crossover. This series is clever and creative and is one of the few titles New 52 gets right. The issue with Wonder Woman was great.

For more on Supergirl check out this episode of Comic Book Coffee Break: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj5wmMQ8-2A&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR24lQrVSfB7F47FIbH5CEQgECwjwYP5yAif0hyq_dz0ltNmB0PAO25XSiQ

So what's funny is I like every artist more than the featured artist. So I'd say art super unbalanced. Story was, meh, I really enjoyed Power Girl, but everything else is another, Supergirl is convinced to to the wrong thing, and I feel like that's just a super overused story for her.

Most of this book covers the arc H’el on earth and is super confusing if you don’t read the rest of the stories together. Since I’d read the rest of the stories already this rating is based on the extra stories already. Most of the stories are random and confused. Too many characters pop up and I just felt that I had missed some plot points somehow. Had to go back to see if pages had been ripped out or something. No such luck.

The introduction of power girl was the last straw. Where did she come from, why? And how come other people from other earth don’t pop in for tea more often since it’s so simple?

The sanctuary program was cute - almost like playing portal but it couldn’t save the book for me.

If I was reviewing this edition ONLY, I would give it one star. If I was reviewing the story ONLY, I would give it five. Unfortunately, you can't buy either this volume or the Superman/Superboy/Supergirl crossover graphic novel H'El On Earth, since Supergirl Vol. 3 includes issues that came both before the crossover and after. That's all that frustrated me, though.

I didn't like Power Girl, but I enjoyed her interactions with Kara. Kara is by far my favorite superhero and I still really sympathized with her. I'm still anxiously waiting for Vol. 4 so that I can continue the story. After that, I can read my husband's issues and then wait for the monthly issues like a normal person.

So I liked the action, I am still happy with Kara's character, and I am a fan of her continuing to save a world that has only been cruel to her. Not a fan of the pacing, though that's probably due to the story progressing in other comics, I am tired of her getting experimented on and kidnapped, she needs a friend or two seriously,and did she just lose the sanctuary? She needs her own fortress of solitude, maybe something that doesn't try to kill her. Her story is not balanced, she has no life outside of missing Krypton and having evil men use her for their own purposes. Side note I thought H'els plan was fine since the Earth would of come back. They wouldn't leave Krypton if it didn't die so the Earth would of been fine the second time was there another reason it was bad?

Crossovers are such a pain in the ass! I've grown to expect unfinished cliff-hanging storylines in DC collections, and I've also grown to dread them, because most of the time (read: all of the times so far) I haven't read the other parts of the crossover, and didn't even know they existed. I don't read Superman and I hadn't HEARD of Superboy until the day before I read Sanctuary, so needless to say, I was totally baffled by the time The Flash and Wonder Woman showed up. Although I did get a kick out of seeing Wonder Woman in print, since I haven't read any of her comics yet.

So the H'el on Earth storyline was mostly lost on me. From what I could see, Supergirl has the wool pulled over her eyes pretty easily by the bad dude, but I can kind of understand that, given her emotional flux and teenager-ness. The storyline cuts off pretty abruptly (at least from my POV, given that I hadn't read any other parts of the story) and I had to piece together the resolution from the crumbs left in the following issue... which dropped Power Girl into the story.

I think I was supposed to know Power Girl's backstory, but I didn't, so I was lost again. Someone in Power Girl's office (where she's Karen, I guess) says Supergirl looks like her, but I have trouble recognizing Super Girl HERSELF at certain angles in these books, so I assumed it was just a passing resemblance at first. But I STILL don't know who Power Girl is, really, even after reading pages full of Power Girl/Supergirl comparisons and conversations.

I still loved the concept of Sanctuary, and Sanctuary's conversational tone is hilarious, so I enjoyed that storyline, despite my confusion.

However, because I was confused so often, I found this collection irritating as a whole. This might not be the fault of the writers, but in similar situations -- my first reading of Batgirl, for example -- I was confused at first, but as the story moved along I could figure out the gist of who people were or why things were the way they were. No such happiness here.

I'm reading on, since my library happens to have all of the new Supergirl TPBs, but only because I have easy access to them.

It was an ok collection. I am liking the build up of Supergirl, but it's uneven at times. The collection started off with what looked like a conclusion of a story (a very bad way to start a collection....it should be a complete story) and ended with a Power Girl story that was too confusing. They assumed we knew who Power Girl was. I didn't and was lost.