#Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow

[kara-zor-els]

Kara Zor-El in Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow #2

#comicedit #dcedit #dcmultiverse #dcladies #supergirledit #kara zor el #kara danvers #supergirl #supergirl: woman of tomorrow #my edits

[comickergirl]

EYYYYYY a Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow adaptation on DC’s new film slate, ya love to see it. XD

#my art #dc comics #dc studios #I guess? XD #supergirl #supergirl: woman of tomorrow #kara zor el #krypto #ruthye #don't *love* that it's live action as opposed to animated but! #excited nonetheless

[jewish-skitter]

Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow #3/Worm 30.7/Nona The Ninth/Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow #8 The truth of things.

Image IDs: Four screenshots of various texts.

The first is from the comic Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow. It shows Supergirl sitting with a young girl on steps. A caption on the top left with white font reads, "Chapter Three: "Modest, Calm, and Quiet." The young girl says "It's too big. We're too small."

The second, from Worm, is prose with white text on a black background. The prose reads: "I looked away. I looked up. My eyes were wet. So many stars. The universe so vast. We're s-so very small, in the end."

The third, from Nona the Ninth, is prose with black text on a grey background. The prose reads "'Palamedes, yes,' she said. 'My whole life, yes. Yes, forever, yes. Life is too short and love is too long.'"

The fourth is also from Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, later in the comic. The first panel shows Supergirl, the young girl, a defeated man kneeling, and a dead man lying on the ground on a desert island. In that panel, Supergirl says "Ruthye... it's..." and in the next panel, which just shows Supergirl, somewhat bloody with her clothes torn, looking down, she says, "It's too big. We're too small." End IDs.

#web weaving #supergirl wot #nona the ninth #worm #parahumans #web weave #supergirl: woman of tomorrow #supergirl

[greatfillboar]

I present you... Kara Zor-El and her potty mouth:

#kara danvers #kara zor el #supergirl #supercorp #supergirl: woman of tomorrow

[vicstwashington]

Well, here it is...

SUPERMAN: LEGACY — Written by James Gunn, the film will hit theaters on July 11, 2025 and focus on Superman balancing his Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing.

THE AUTHORITY — DC's WildStorm characters will join the DC Universe as members of The Authority take matters into their own hands to do what they believe is right.

THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD — The DCU will introduce its Batman and Robin in this unusual father-son story, inspired by Grant Morrison's comics.

SUPERGIRL: WOMAN OF TOMORROW — This science fiction adventure will be based on Tom King and Bilquis Evely's amazing, award-winning recent comics stories and present a Supergirl that viewers are not used to seeing.

SWAMP THING — The film will investigate the dark origins of Swamp Thing.

CREATURE COMMANDOS — This seven-episode animated show, written by James Gunn, shows Amanda Waller creating a black-ops team out of monstrous prisoners.

WALLER – Starring Viola Davis, this series features Team Peacemaker and will be written by Christal Henry (WATCHMEN) and Jeremy Carver (Supernatural).

BOOSTER GOLD — In this live-action series, Booster Gold uses basic technology from the future to pretend to be a superhero in the present day.

LANTERNS — This enormous TV event series follows intergalactic cops John Stewart and Hal Jordan as they uncover a dark mystery.

PARADISE LOST ­– Set in Themyscira, home of the Amazons and birthplace of Wonder Woman, this TV drama focuses on the genesis and political intrigue of an island of all women.

#DC Studios #DC Comics #DC Films #Warner Bros #Superman: Legacy #The Authority #The Brave and The Bold #Batman #Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow #Swamp Thing #Creature Commandos #Waller #Amanda Waller #Booster Gold #Lanterns #Paradise Lost #Wonder Woman #James Gunn #Video #HBO Max

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Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow (2021)

Incredible art, fascinating settings, fantastic protagonists, and great character development for both characters self-contained, GREAT ART, Kara is allowed to be mature and still kind, has great characterizations in general (yes this is a Tom King comic. idk what happened), made me cry twice.

Robin: Year One (2000)

THE Robin story! Great characterization, great art, just a 10/10 book all around.

#dc comics #poll #best of dc poll #supergirl: woman of tomorrow #supergirl #kara zor-el #robin: year one #robin #nightwing #dick grayson

[luthwhore]

kara is so gorgeous in supergirl: woman of tomorrow…

#i haven’t finished the book yet and i don’t know her solo content very well so i don’t have any strong opinions on the writing atm #but this art? 🔥🔥🔥 #kara zor el #supergirl #supergirl: woman of tomorrow #dc

[big-gay-apocalypse]

// Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow

#kara zor el #supergirl #supergirl: woman of tomorrow

[fandomtrxsh19]

I’m reading Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow and I’m just gonna stop and appreciate these panels

disaster sarcastic kara is best kara

also…..

I’m very normal about this panel omg h O O O O O T

#dc comics #kara zor el #comics supergirl #supergirl: woman of tomorrow

[justiceleague]

The first 10 projects in the works for the DC Universe have been unveiled by DC Studios chiefs James Gunn and Peter Safran. The current plans see the DCU kick off with 5 series and 5 films, spanning live-action and animated TV series and theatrical films.

“Here at DC, we have Metropolis, Gotham, Themyscira, Atlantis, Bialya… This is the world that we’re creating,” Gunn shares. “We’re coming into a world where superheroes exist and have existed for some time in one form or another, and that’s the universe. We are telling a big, huge central story [...]. What we’re starting with today is the first part of the first chapter of our universe,” reveals Safran. “The first chapter’s called ‘Gods and Monsters.’ Many of the following projects are already being worked on, but we’re remaining flexible and we’re going to adjust because we’re never going to put a project into production before the script is right. This is a general timeline, but there will be flexibility within it.”

Among the 10 projects, Gunn and Safran announced one animated series (Creature Commandos), four live-action series (Waller, Lanterns, Paradise Lost, Booster Gold) and five theatrical films (Superman: Legacy, The Authority, The Brave and the Bold, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, Swamp Thing).

Currently, of all the projects, only Superman: Legacy has a release date planned for July 11, 2025. More details under the cut:

The projects listed below are in order of announcement. No other release date has been unveiled yet. All the series will be released on HBO Max, and all the films in theaters. 

“Creature Commandos” — Series, animated The main characters appearing in the series will be The Bride of Frankenstein, Eric Frankenstein, Rick Flag Sr., Nina Mazursky, Doctor Phosphorus, G.I. Robot and Weasel.

“Waller” — Series, live-action Viola Davis will reprise her role as Amanda Waller, with characters from the live-action Peacemaker series appearing as regulars too. Christal Henry (Watchmen) and Jeremy Carver (Doom Patrol) will write the series. The story will be set between the first season of Peacemaker and the second.

“Superman: Legacy” (2025) — Film, live-action Not an origin story, the James Gunn written film will focus on Superman balancing his Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing. The film has been set for a July 11, 2025 release date.

“Lanterns” — Series, live-action Starring two of the most famous Green Lanterns — Hal Jordan and John Stewart — it’s going to be more of a True Detective-type mystery, a terrestrial-based mystery that leads into the overall story that will be told throughout the different movies and television shows of the DCU. “We find this ancient horror on Earth, and these guys are basically supercops on ‘Precinct Earth.’” — James Gunn

“The Authority” — Film, live-action A lot of WildStorm imprint characters will be included in the DCU, and this is an example. The Authority will focus on a group of characters who are good-intentioned, but they think that the world is completely broken and the only way to fix it is to take things into their own hands, whether that means killing people, destroying heads of state, changing governments—basically, whatever they want to do to make the world better.

“Paradise Lost” — Series, live-action Paradise Lost will be envisioned as a Game of Thrones-type story about Themyscira/Paradise Island, home of the Amazons and the birthplace of Wonder Woman. The story will take place before Diana’s birth and will involve all the darkness and political matters behind the society of Themyscira.

“The Brave and the Bold” — Film, live-action This will mark the introduction of the DCU’s Batman. Not Robert Pattinson, not Ben Affleck. This is a story of Damian Wayne, who’s Batman’s actual son that he didn’t know existed for the first eight to ten years of his life. He was raised as a little murderer and assassin. It will be based on the Grant Morrison comic run. Other members of the Bat-Family will be included as well.

“Booster Gold” — Series, live-action Booster Gold is a total fan favorite. A loser from the future who uses his basic future technology to come back to today to pretend to be a superhero. Per Gunn, “it as basically the story of a superhero’s imposter syndrome. How do you deal with that? (It’s about) how he tries to use this future technology to be loved by the people of today and what is really at the base of that. It’s a character story that’s going to be a very different type of show.”

“Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow” — Film, live-action In this story, which will be based on Tom King (and Bilquis Evely)’s wonderful comic, “we have Superman who was sent to Earth and raised by incredibly loving parents while Kara was on Krypton. She was on a piece of Krypton that drifted away from the planet and she lived there for the first fourteen years of her life in a horrible situation where she watched everyone around her die. She will be a much harsher Supergirl than you’ve been used to thus far.”

“Swamp Thing” — Film, live-action According to Peter Safran, “it’s important to point out that in these stories, although they’re interconnected, they’re not all tonally the same. Each set of filmmakers bring their own aesthetic to these films, and the fun is seeing how these tonally different works mash up in the future.This is brought us to include a film that will investigate the dark origins of [the very-well known character of] Swamp Thing.”

#creature commandos #waller #superman: legacy #lanterns #paradise lost #the brave and the bold #booster gold #supergirl: woman of tomorrow #swamp thing #the authority #dc universe #dcu #dc #news

[stranger-who-writes-fiction]

What's this? Another Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow post?? But it's 2024! Surely, there's nothing new to uncover with regards to this seminal work of sequential storytelling...right?!?!?

Well...kinda. XD

BEHOLD! Another Tom King podcast interview, wherein he discusses Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, and mostly confirms stuff we already knew, but! BUT! He does drop some new bits of info!

Right then. LET'S GO!

My usual disclaimer applies, recommend listening to the interview firsthand to get a more objective perspective.

But if you're cool with my (INCREDIBLY BIASED! ALWAYS! ALWAYS BIASED WITH THIS BOOK!) summary, then ONWARDS WE GO.

(And when I say 'biased summary' what I mean is that I will be including the bits that make me want to run a victory lap because my readings were SPOT HECKIN' ON, ALL YE NAYSAYERS!*)

Ahem. Anyways.

So I'm going to start off with some new-ish info (at least, it's new-ish to me. XD) The interviewers had asked about the title, specifically in regards to Zor-El's dialogue in issue six (I believe it's the portion where Zor is explaining to Kara why he's going to save her, and says something like, "tomorrow will come soon enough...and you will be a woman looking back on the many decades of your life..." hence 'Woman of Tomorrow') and whether that was planned from the outset, or if that part came about organically as he was writing it.

King said he'd originally written a completely different script for issue six (which we did know) but FUN NEW FACTOID TIME: Zor-El/Kara's origin (initially) weren't included in issue six like, at all. It therefore would not have come up at any point within the mini-series, had they gone with that first script.

But editorial hated it (King agreed with their conclusion, and another fun fact, we'll get to see said script in the backmatter for the new deluxe edition, YAY) and when King asked if there was anything in it that they liked, they said the tiny flashback to Kara's time on Argo was good.

SO. King then decided to expand that/incorporate her origin, because that would be 'easy', and this was back during his crazy COVID writing schedule.

(Folks will perhaps recall that he wrote issue seven in like...a day. What we did not know was that he rewrote issue six in that same week.)

And then it ended up being everyone's favorite issue so yaaaaay for editors! Unsung heroes of comics!

They are also comics' greatest villains but that's a discussion for another day!

Evely's art was mentioned at this point and King was like, 'I had to go back and make the writing more beautiful/esoteric to match what she was putting out.'

Also we stan a comic writer who lets his artists take as long as they need on art. (Though as he's mentioned before, Evely was able to turn in the art quickly on this book, which is heckin' WILD to me, have you SEEN that woman's pencils and inkwork??!??!?!??!?!)

They touched on the True Grit comparisons, only relevant/new bits there are that King feels it's the perfect novel (agree) and that the John Wayne version is terrible (also correct) and the Cohen Brothers' version is great (right again.)

Another bit we already knew: It was an editor who was responsible for the suggestion that Kara should be Rooster, not Mattie. (I think in the past he credited this to Jamie Rich, but this time he said he couldn't remember if it was Rich or Brittany Holzherr, and said they could fight over the credit if they want. XD)

Either way, THANK YOU, WHOEVER YOU ARE, b/c the alternative pitch, with Kara as Mattie and Lobo as Rooster, sounded awful.

Instead King went with, 'Kara will learn from the young naïf, and teach the young naïf.'

(Much better.)

MORE NEW, FUN TRIVIA!!!!

King said they had the first issue completely drawn, colored, and lettered--basically ready to go, and DC said, 'we can't publish this because Supergirl doesn't drink.'

King called Jim Lee, trying to make his case, that she was twenty-one, it was legal, it was a totally normal/human thing to do, and Lee was like, 'but we can't.'

King: Could I do it with Superman? Lee: Yeah.

Essentially it was a lot of tiptoeing around stuff like, 'girls can't get drunk and whatnot' coupled with 'Supergirl can't do that because she's perfect and pure.'

But! Lee ultimately was like, 'okay, you can leave the scene in, but you can't say she's drunk.'

So if you go back and read the actual dialogue/narration, there's no explicit language confirming that kara is three sheets to the wind.

(Which is so, so ridiculous to me because the art makes it very, very clear that she is. XD LOOPHOLES!)

King and the interviewers pointed out that this real world editorial incident ironically tied into one of the metanarratives of the character, that being the pressure placed on Kara, which Clark doesn't have to deal with.

Art imitating life etc. etc. XD

Feel like I've heard this bit in other interviews but it's sweet so it bears repeating: the green sun planet's name is based on King's nickname for his daughter, and she was the one who came up with the idea of a 'green sun planet' during a discussion at dinner one night.

So shifting gears a bit, the rest of the podcast focused specifically on various plot points that the interviewers wanted to discuss/had questions about; it's basically King offering his insights as the writer. And I really, really appreciate this, for reasons I'll get to further down. Now then, more summarizing!

One of the interviewers brought up a sticking point he had with the book: the execution of the Brigand in issue four. Ruthye says to Supergirl that she thought she would save him. To which Supergirl replies: Did you?

King explained that Ruthye and Kara are on opposite journeys in this book. In issue one, Kara is on the side of 'I don't kill, heroes never kill' and Ruthye is on the opposite side, 'Krem killed my father, I have to kill him.' At the end of the book, they are once again on opposite sides, but they've switched.

(I love the way King described it, that Ruthye becomes Supergirl, and saves Supergirl. More on this later.)

But specifically that part in issue four, where Kara doesn't step in, King confirmed that she's on that journey, she's going through that transition, but she hasn't crossed the line of, 'I'll kill him myself.' Rather, she's allowing the system to do what it will.

King also mentioned that this theme isn't especially new and has been examined in comics time and time again, of superheroes asserting their morality over governments, and how that spirals into fascism. He cited Kingdom Come, etc.

Further comments from King on Kara's character: she's conflicted, unlike Clark. Clark's soul and ideals are aligned one to one; Kara wants that. She loves those ideals and wants to uphold them, but she's not fully aligned like that because of what she's been through (read: She's Seen Some Things)

Loved this bit from King: "Supergirl's a little more human than Clark, in spite of being more alien."

King said DC probably would've let him have Supergirl kill Krem in the end, BUT (and it's a good 'but' tying into that earlier bit about Ruthye becoming Supergirl) he said that the theme of this book was 'what makes Supergirl awesome' (he admits this is kind of a dumb theme, but hard disagree, sir) and he liked that Kara's lessons to Ruthye are ultimately what saves her. Kara saves herself.

(STICK A PIN IN THAT ONE, FOLKS)

King once again stated, for the record, that Krem does not die in the end!

The two interviewers had differing interpretations, hence King needing to confirm. XD He even pulled out his script for issue eight, and the description does indeed say that Krem is unconscious, not dead.

And, AND, Evely even made this clearer in the art; the script didn't have Krem moving after Ruthye hit him, but Evely added Krem placing his hand on his head.

Another point the interviewers wanted to discuss: Ruthye writing that Supergirl had killed Krem.

King confirmed that this was to prevent the Brigands from retaliating against Ruthye, and instead focus on going after Supergirl.

In King's mind, Kara feels immense guilt that her father saved her over literally anyone else, so she spends her life taking on other people's pain, to make up for what she sees as taking someone else's spot on that ship.

The scene in issue seven, where Kara's falling through the atmosphere and pushes through in order to preserve the memories that she carries with her was inspired by events from King's life; his mother died unexpectedly, and when going through her things, realized that he was one of the only people who carried certain memories of his mother and grandparents; he described it as a kind of burden.

Last question from the interviewers: Why make Ruthye and unreliable narrator? Do we believe anything in this book, now?

King started off his answer by noting that he fought against using captions in his books for his entire career; by the time he started writing comics, caption boxes had sort of lost their vitality and had become the equivalent of thought balloons, which had long since fallen out of style.

But when he returned to them with Supergirl, he said, (and I have the full quote below)

King: "What I love about [captions] is that you can write things that contrast what's in the pictures, so that the captions can tell you a little bit of a different story than what you're seeing, and thereby enhance it--it's that idea of Ruthye being, she's narrating the story but we're seeing pictures of what's actually happening, creates an excellent sort of tension I think." (Bold mine)

And so, some THOUGHTS!

As always, I love learning new things about this comic. I wish this comic had a commentary track, with King (and Evely, Lopes, and Cowles!) talking about the creation/processes behind the book.

Next best thing is podcasts, I guess! XD

But IN ADDITION to fun, new information, as I mentioned at the outset, King has basically confirmed a bunch of stuff I mentioned in my deep dive posts.

To quote one of the interviews: "I was validated by Tom King!"

XD

This also debunks like. Every bad-faith criticism lobbed at the book. It's almost like a checklist of the month-to-month stuff I was seeing from those aforementioned naysayers, complaining on twitter that King had ruined Kara beyond repair.

They'll likely never listen to this podcast, but I wish they would! I think it would make them feel better. XD Like, hearing the insights on Kara/Ruthye/etc has just reminded me once again how good this book is, and how emotionally moving.

Like, again, I love the way King sums up how Kara and Ruthye work together in this book to shine a spotlight on Supergirl; Kara teaches Ruthye lessons, Ruthye becomes Supergirl thanks to those lessons, Ruthye then saves Kara, thus Kara saves herself.

(Which hey, I touched on in my issue eight post, way back when.)

(I'm also beyond thrilled that my assumption that the art is the true account while the narration boxes are Ruthye's recounting was CORRECT.)

(Which isn't to suggest this is a terribly deep, difficult to decipher text. I mean. It's a monthly comic book intended for mass consumption, starring popular IP--the writing isn't inaccessible by any means. XD But I just remember seeing SO MANY PEOPLE deliberately misreading these specific points as a way to Stay Mad, so I'm relieved that my glass half full interpretations wasn't just the result of desperate Evely Stan goggles, you know? XD)

TL;DR: I cannot heckin' WAIT for that big, beautiful hardcover coming out in July (IDK if I've posted about it here yet but Lopes said he recolored some stuff so you BETTER BELIEVE I'll be back on my Woman of Tomorrow nonsense this summer) and I'm also thrilled that this entire creative team has returned with a new creator owned title (EXPECT A POST ON THAT...AT SOME POINT???)

#long post #supergirl: woman of tomorrow #supergirl: woman of tomorrow spoilers #dc comics

[kara-zor-els]

Kara Zor-El in Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow #4

#supergirledit #comicedit #dcedit #dcmultiverse #kara zor el #supergirl #supergirl: woman of tomorrow #my edits #mine

[comickergirl]

Listen, Bruce has been adopting Robins for YEARS, it’s the Superfam’s turn. XD

#my art #dc comics #silly comic #supergirl #superman #kara zor el #clark kent #supergirl: woman of tomorrow #action comics

[smashpages]

Nominees announced for the 2023 Hugo Awards

The winners will be announced in October.

#hugo awards #comics #supergirl: woman of tomorrow #saga #monstress #dune #once & future #cyberpunk

[blorb-el]

spoilery research question for people who have read supergirl woman of tomorrow. I have read tom king's answer on this/the intended interpretation, but my read of the artwork was the opposite and now I'm wondering if other people thought the same way.

Page in question for reference under the cut

(the yellow panels are NOT describing what is happening, they're part of the meta-narrative which is revealed to be a falsified account. I'm talking about the interpretation PURELY of the artwork. also in the preceding panel he looks like he's... 80+ years old)

#supergirl #kara zor-el #supergirl: woman of tomorrow #i know everyone nuts about the artwork in this book and it is very lovely esp the colors but like. leaving the last page this ambiguous #when it apparently was not supposed to be ambiguous....?? is. a bit of a L. imo. sorry. #i read it and i was like ok soo supergirl stands there as this (genocidal asshole) guy gets bludgeoned to death in front of her. a choice #sure whatever throw him in the pz for 300 years and that makes ''''''his soul better'''''' and then kill him anyway. aight cia man #but apparently he is supposed to be alive at the end. which. entirely different story

[dccomicsbracket]

Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow (2021)

Incredible art, fascinating settings, fantastic protagonists, and great character development for both characters self-contained, GREAT ART, Kara is allowed to be mature and still kind, has great characterizations in general (yes this is a Tom King comic. idk what happened), made me cry twice.

Green Lantern Legacy: The Last Will and Testament of Hal Jordan (2002)

Last Will is about Tom Kalmaku coming to terms with his friend, Green Lantern's descent into madness and his feelings of betrayal as well as him facing his fear of Parallax (wayyy before the bug retcon). He does all this while trying to watch over a boy who claims to be Hal's son, and then it's revealed that it was Hal's ring, who saw itself as Hal's son. Also reveals that if Hal had a choice in his successor as GL he would have picked Tom!

#dc comics #poll #best of dc poll #supergirl: woman of tomorrow #supergirl #kara zor-el #green lantern legacy #green lantern #hal jordan #tom kalmaku