This could so easily have been another throw-away gimmick story; just a transparent rip-off. But instead the readers are treated to an imaginative reinterpretation — transformative, even — that cleverly references its source and pays it due respect. A Supergirl makeover was in the offing, but this story is a clever, if somewhat quirky, way of leaving this section of Kara's adventures on a high.
Supergirl: Luck had nothing to do with it, Shyla... I knew you couldn't control your flying ability yet, so I let you get in that last punch... Then I used Newton's Law of Motion— for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction— It forced you back into the Projector's ray!
Comet loses his memories when he feeds on the same kind of water-lilies that Ulysses' men ate when they visited the Land of the Lotus Eaters in The Odyssey.
Nomed shows Supergirl a coutyard adorned with golden statues and -falsely- claims they are formerly living humans "turned into metal by King Midas with his golden touch".
Endor claims his spell to temporarily turn beasts into humans was the basis for the "Beauty and the Beast" legend.
The Iliad's Trojan Horse is built by Midvale's Ancient Greece pageant.
, the anonymous critic says:This could so easily have been another throw-away gimmick story; just a transparent rip-off. But instead the readers are treated to an imaginative reinterpretation — transformative, even — that cleverly references its source and pays it due respect. A Supergirl makeover was in the offing, but this story is a clever, if somewhat quirky, way of leaving this section of Kara's adventures on a high.