I've said it before on this very blog, I'm sure - Carmine Infantino draws a very lovely Supergirl. I'm not 100% a fan of the rest of the fashions in this book, but Supergirl's look is fantastic.
The rest of the cast wear early 80s fashions, and they're just awful. I was talking to someone the other day about how 80s fashion is making a comeback. It stuns me. I really thought the decade's fashions were terrible at the time.
Today's comic is really more of a wrap-up of a previous adventure. Supergirl tears apart an underwater base for reasons I'm unclear on, and then runs into Negative Woman at a music festival a few days later. There's really not much of the Doom Patrol in this issue, though the focus on Val Vostok got me interested in seeing where the character ended up going, as I noted a few days ago. It turns out she does indeed maintain an existence post-Doom Patrol, carrying on through some of the more espionage-oriented titles in the DCU, such things as Checkmate and Vigilante. I may or may not track all of these down, as they're not really adventures involving the Doom Patrol. For much of them I'm fairly certain Val isn't powered, and it really does seem that she escapes the vortex of strangeness that is the Doom Patrol's existence.
"That woman -- I'm getting incredibly bad vibes from her --!"
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