Some thoughts about Superwoman #18

Can Superwoman return to her old life?

Midnight has trapped Lana into a void where neither of them can escape unless Lana realizes what is most important.

Okay, this was an ending of sorts.

I have been a fan of this series at the beginning thanks to Phil Jimenez's characterization, content and ideas but things started to go downhill once that Kate Perkins replaced him. Her run sadly consisted of derivative ideas, mediocre stories and sometimes even wrong characterization, worst of all is that it had a certain repetition in the kind of tales she was telling since most of the antagonists and premises tended to be pretty similar overall.

This issue marks the conclusion of her run and this book and is decent enough. Perkins emphasizes how strong Lana is as a character in her own way, not really as a superhero but as a person and that's a fairly appropriate to handle her I believe. Midnight is not really an interesting antagonist by itself but serves as a some sort of reflection for Lana and in that regard gets the job done. At the end, Lana goes back to normal in a way that you can at least tell that everything has come full circle.

Unfortunately, this doesn't compensate for how uninteresting and sometimes even decompressed some of the previous chapters were to the point where most of them felt redundant. Also, while this is an adequate finale for the book, I believe that Jimenez's ending for his run was much more satisfying as a whole.

Max Raynor handles the artwork and is solid, the characters are expressive and the style is vibrant.

Don't know how to feel about this overall but I guess I can call it passable at the very least.