Wednesday, 24 June 2026

Graphic Novel Review - 'DC Super Hero Girls: High School Reunion' by Shea Fontana (Writer), Yancey Labat (Artist)

A cute, wholesome and colourful super-sequel to the 'DC Super Hero Girls' comics, set ten years later, for, as the title says, a 'High School Reunion'.

It is about the no-longer teenage Wonder Woman, Batgirl, Supergirl, Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, and Bumblebee (I don't know why Katana is on an alternate cover, she's hardly in the comic) - they are the DC Super Hero Girls - plus Beast Boy. He's very popular in this franchise, and I don't mind a bit. Not having grown up a bit since graduation and "boyhood", he has been promoted to the token guy of this superhero group; an inverse and almost subversion of the Smurfette Principle.

All of these heroes are cool and fun, and full of bad puns!

Although, 'High School Reunion' is mostly about Harley Quinn, and her insecurities as a nonpowered "burden" to her superhero team and friends, whom she'd ghosted since graduating DC superhero high school; it is her development from that. She lives with Poison Ivy, and it is heavily implied they are a couple in this franchise as well. Fantastic!

Got to appreciate that Ivy is not skinny like the other girls, too.

'DC Super Hero Girls: High School Reunion' is simple, kiddie and cartoony - aimed at a younger audience, despite its heroes being adults now - but it is an enjoyable and fresh ride to kill around a half hour of time in reading. Therein lie so many adorably, hilariously bad puns - nearly every line of dialogue contains a pun.

On a surprising note: there is an antidiscrimination and fearmongering theme running in 'High School Reunion', especially in regards to xenophobia. However, it isn't featured much, nor developed on a deeper level beyond what this light, colourful, funny-and-punny children's superhero comic could perhaps handle or get away with. Still, I appreciate its presence. It is a very important topic to bring up and teach to the youth, especially in this hellish, dystopian day and age.

For my review of the first 'DC Superhero Girls' comic, 'DC Super Hero Girls Vol. 1: Finals Crisis' (from ten years ago!), click here

Final Score: 3.5/5

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