New Comic-Book Night 2/5 - a little late

Unlike last week, during which we had a snow storm, this week I was able to get to the comic-book shop on New Comic-book Night (Wednesday). I picked up both this week's and last week's comics as a result.  This two-week sampling included three items from the pull list - Lazarus 6; Suicide Risk 10; and  Thor, God of Thunder 18.  I also violated my rule against picking up titles only for the crossover, and purchased Green Lantern/Red Landerns 28, a "flip book" issue (two stories printed upside-down from each other in two halves of the book) that represents part one of the new Supergirl story arc "Red Daughter."  I'll explain why I violated my anti-crossover rule in my brief summary below.

Because I usually reject crossovers, the comic-shop owner noticed GL/RL 28 in my purchase stack and expressed surprise.  As we discussed it, he said something quite interesting and undeniably true of Supergirl -- that he can't even express to people who she really is or what her comic is all about. "Peter David's earth-born angel stuff was easier to explain than who this character is," he stated.  And I could not disagree.  Kara Zor-El has been such a mess since the H'el on Earth arc (and really, since long before that -- basically since issue 8), that the character has come to seem directionless and, frankly, pointless.  Frankly, if it weren't Supergirl, I'd have dropped her book a long time ago.  The only good arc in the entire thing so far was the first arc.  After that, it went completely off the rails.