In Adventures of Supergirl #7, Kara discovers the source of her dreams, and the previous stories begin tying together.

Adventures of Supergirl #7 continues the story of #6 (review here) in which Kara finds herself trapped in her dreams. We keep the same writing and art team from the previous volume, giving a sense of continuity both visually and story-wise.

The issue opens with Kara sleeping. Her inner monologue discusses the significance of dreaming — for most people and for her. After dreaming for more than a decade in the Phantom Zone, Kara has had complicated feelings about dreaming since arriving on Earth. And the fact that she is currently trapped in a never-ending cycle of dreams only adds to that complicated relationship with sleep.

In her dreams, we see Kara locked in combat over and over in different situations. In her dreams, that have felt like they’ve gone on for days, Kara is forced to fight as a means of distraction. But in each dream she is also able to sense the presence of the one responsible for her being stuck in the dream. Before she can confront this figure, though, the dream inevitably changes and the cycle starts again. We see her fighting wolf knights, Kryptonian soldiers, futuristic monsters and so on.

Kara, though, fights through each dream until she pushes into her captor’s mind. We discover the one responsible is Psi. She calls herself the Dream Mistress of Fort Rozz and says she’s been watching Kara for a long time; she believes Kara to be a monster who needs to be put to sleep for eternity. She tries to put Kara back to sleep, but Kara pushes through it.

Psi reveals that she was friends with Rampage. When Fort Rozz crashed, she was left without a body, so now she keeps watch and she believes Kara and Alex are guilty of crimes against Rampage and her sister. Kara has been unable to broach the subject of Alex’s first kill at the DEO, but she convinces Psi that her intentions toward Rampage were pure.

This confuses Psi, who reveals she’s working for someone named Facet. Before Kara can find out who this is, however, Psi releases Kara from the dream prison. Kara promises to help her, and when she wakes up she calls Alex. They have a new mission.

Kara’s indomitable will is on display in this issue, as she fights continuously to discover what is going on. It’s also interesting to see the variety of dreams Kara fights through. In each of them, she appears to be hero or leader, fighting to protect people, which is less effective in keeping her down than the dream she had in “For the Girl Who Has Everything” when she was inserted into the life she dreamed of.

In the latter dream, it was significantly harder to convince her that she was dreaming or make her want to leave. Perhaps that is Psi’s point, though. She does not believe Kara deserves a peaceful dream because she believes her to be a monster. But in both cases, Kara is able to overcome the external force keeping her asleep.

Perhaps the best part of this issue, though, is how it starts pulling in the other Adventures of Supergirl stories, indicating a connection between everything Kara has been dealing with in this digital-first comic run. While the Rampage arc was a good start to the comic series, exploring a seemingly monster of the week type story with Supergirl working with the DEO, seeing that the stories all tie together gives both the Rampage arc and the Adventures of Supergirl comic as a whole more weight.

Psi has appeared in the DC Comics, but Facet is a name I’m unfamiliar with so I’m looking forward to seeing where the story goes next. Who is Facet, and why is she after Kara?

Adventures of Supergirl #8 will be released on Monday, May 2.