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comfortfoodcontent · 1 month

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1993 Superboy, Steel and Supergirl Superman Titles DC Comics House Ad

#superboy #kon-el #connor kent #supergirl #matrix supergirl #steel #john henry irons #superman #comfort food superman #1993 #90s #1990s #dc #dc comics #dc comics house ads #house ads #comic house ads #print ads #comic ads

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dailydccomics · 7 months

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look! up in the sky! it's the superfamily! Outsiders vol 2 #24

#kon el #matrix supergirl #john henry irons #dc comics #superfam #superboy #supergirl #steel #dc #gabrielle doe #halo #outsiders #windfall #outsiders vol 2 #vintage #comics

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hawkzeyez · 9 months

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I call these “Mae when dealing with men” please enjoy use them as icons if you would like 👍 idc

Supergirl (1996-2003)

#Mae Kent #Linda Danvers #Supergirl #dc #dc comics #comic panels #matrix #matrix supergirl

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matrixkent · 6 months

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matrix sighting

#mae kent #matrix supergirl #mae #dc #mypost #tuesday spoilers

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chrisman1983 · 17 days

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Supergirl Powergirl Matrix Supergirl

#supergirl #powergirl #matrix supergirl #dc comics #supergirl bruce timm #bruce timm

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shriekinghavoc · 1 year

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#batgirl #supergirl #teen titans #matrix #cassandra cain #matrix supergirl #dc #comics #comic #artonly #portfolio

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dcbinges · 11 months

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Superman #16 (1988) by John Byrne

#superman #john byrne #dc #dc comics #80s comics #80s #supergirl #lana lang #matrix supergirl #comics

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comics-n-stuff · 2 months

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Anyway Supergirl should be just as buff as Superman. In every iteration.

#kara zor el #Kara #supergirl #linda danvers #linda lee danvers #mae #matrix supergirl

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fancyfade · 1 year

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some comic characters have weirdness in their origins that is just grandfathered in. you can't get rid of it. matrix is a protoplasmic person initially believing she was lana lang, created in a pocket dimension that contains the silver age superboy stories in order to defend the pocket dimension people from evil kryptonians who destroyed all human life on earth. and i wouldn't have it any other way

#matrix supergirl #supergirl #dc comics

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bobbenkatzen · 1 year

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The Last Souls of Krypton

Kara Zor-El /Karen Starr / Superwoman; Rocketed away from the destruction of their home planet, Kara Zor-El and her infant cousin Kal-El crash land in field in Kansas. With an understanding of technology far beyond Earth's, Kara would create the human identity of Karen Starr and build a tech empire that would rival Wayne Industries and LexCorp while raising Kal as her son "Kalvin". Kara, inspired by the actions of the Justice Society of America would join their ranks as Superwoman.

Kal-El / Kalvin Starr / Superboy SuperMAN; A young man raised in the lap of luxury with the powers of a God, Kalvin is the cocky and bratty sidekick partner of Superwoman.

The Death of Superwoman

The combined forces of the Justice Society and new heroes couldn't prevent the destruction caused by the monster named Doomsday. The beast would be slain by Kal-El unleashing all of the collected solar energy in his body into a super-flare, permanently damaging his body's solar cells.

Reign of the Supergirls!

Superman; Now equipped with a special, solar suit and a legacy to uphold Kal-El finds himself stepping into the mantle he so desperately wanted as Superman, but is he ready?

Supergirl; Linda Dharwan's mystical powers arrived in the form of telekinesis and pyrokinesis. Now, between college classes and her part time job, she fights on as Supergirl.

Power Girl; The incomplete clone of the deceased Superwoman, Galatea wants anything but her name. Don't call her Supergirl! Matrix; A protoplasmic being saved form the depths of space prior to Superwoman's death, the being known as Matrix takes on a similar form to honor her legacy.

Steel; Inspired by the death of Superwoman and her uncle John Henry, Natasha Irons completed his experimental armored suit with some personal touches.

#superman #superboy #clark kent #kal el #dc characters #dc comics fanart #dc fanart #superwoman #supergirl #kara zor el #karen starr #kara zor l #power girl #matrix supergirl #supergirl matrix #steel #natasha irons

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starsxstripe · 2 years

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Linda Danvers, formerly known as Supergirl descends from the heavens and makes her return as the SERAPH!

Commissioned by me, drawn by @heleizition on Twitter.

#dc comics #linda danvers #peter david #superfam #supergirl #supergirl 1996 #supergirl ‘96 #matrix supergirl #pad supergirl #superman #seraph #seraphim #earth born angel #fallen angel

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cantsayidont · 6 months

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April 1960. In the first 15 years of the Superboy strip, Lex Luthor appeared only once, in a 1957 story in SUPERBOY #59 that showed him as an adult while Superboy was a teenager. This story in ADVENTURE COMICS #271, written by Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel, completely redefined Superman's relationship with Luthor, showing that the two were about the same age (rendering the 1957 story apocryphal), had first meet as teenagers, and for a time were actually friends.

This story says almost nothing about Luthor's family (about which more would be established later), although Luthor is described as "a recent newcomer" to Smallville, and he describes himself as a farmboy. When Superboy first meets him, Luthor is driving a tractor on his family's farm, which proves fortuitous; a Kryptonite meteor lands in the field, immediately paralyzing the Boy of Steel, but Luthor saves him by using the tractor to push the meteor into a quicksand pit. Afterward, Luthor reveals that he has idolized Superboy for years, calling him "the greatest boy in the world," and explains his interest in science, conducting experiments in a laboratory in his family's barn. In gratitude for Luthor saving his life, Superboy builds him "a modern experimental laboratory" and stocks it with "rare chemicals, some still unknown, which I burrowed out of the ground, at super-speed!"

Superboy jokes, "I could easily peek at your formula with my super-vision-- ha, ha-- but I wouldn't do anything to... er... snoop!" Luthor replies, "Of course, you wouldn't... ha, ha!" Superboy then flies away, as Luthor marvels at his good fortune. Then:

Later recaps of this story (with the notable exception of Elliot S! Maggin's 1978 prose novel SUPERMAN: LAST SON OF KRYPTON) tend to omit or skim over the details of Luthor's experiment, but this is obviously quite significant: Luthor has created a living being, a crude protoplasmic entity. Naturally, he's ecstatic, and grateful to his benefactor for making this possible:

Then, disaster:

This story is often mocked for attributing Luthor's bitter, violent enmity toward Superman to the loss of his hair, but as these panels make clear, that is expressly not the only thing Luthor is angry about, nor even the most important one:

Superboy's contrition notwithstanding, this is a pretty reasonable thing for Luthor to be angry about: He created a living creature that is now destroyed because Superboy tried to put out a chemical fire by blowing on it. The loss of his hair, aside from the social impact of being rendered permanently bald at the age of 15, is also a reminder of Luthor's more consequential loss. In the LAST SON OF KRYPTON novel, Maggin describes his reaction like this:

He would never grow hair or a beard again. He would laugh or cry or become enraged when pansy philosophers wondered, in the future, whether laboratory life could have a soul. He knew that such life would have no less than the soul of its creator. Lex Luthor chose, from the moment his creation died, to hate the being who had saved his miserable life, who was responsible for the loss of his brown curls and his child. It was the only way he could walk slowly, one millimeter at a time, from the abyss of madness.

Written 18 years later for a different audience, Maggin's prose version is more emotionally charged than Siegel's, but it's mostly quite consistent with the original account, although Maggin doesn't mention the paranoia that's evident in this story. Luthor's insistence that Superboy deliberately sabotaged him out of envy is irrational, but not wholly without basis; Superboy's response to the fire (which he should have immediately known was a chemical fire, since he was the one who stocked the lab) was not at all sensible, and Luthor has paid a heavy price for it.

Luthor pretends to calm down, but he then retrieves the Kryptonite meteor and attempts to use it to kill Superboy, which fails, ironically, thanks to the last dregs of Luthor's Kryptonite antidote. Afterward, Luthor challenges Superboy to arrest him, but Superboy refuses, declaring, "No! You saved my life once! Now we're even!" Then:

(I believe the final panel of this story may have been the first time that Luthor had ever been given a first name; his earlier appearances, and some after this, just referred to him as "Luthor.")

At first blush, Luthor's protoplasmic creation is an odd feature of this story, which is probably why it was often dropped from subsequent accounts. However, it's tempting to see it as a kind of echo of Siegel's own feelings. It was Siegel who had first conceived the idea of Superboy in the mid-1940s, and the character was a significant factor in Siegel and Shuster's first unsuccessful lawsuit against National-DC over the rights to Superman in 1947. According to Les Daniels (in SUPERMAN: THE COMPLETE HISTORY), Siegel had intended Superboy to be quite different, a kind of mischievous super-brat, but editor Whitney Ellsworth hadn't liked that, and had had Don Cameron rewrite Siegel's initial script (for the story published in MORE FUN COMICS #101, pictured below) without Siegel's knowledge or approval, an unwelcome reminder that Siegel and Shuster didn't really have control of their creation. (DC now officially credits the story solely to Siegel and Shuster, although that may reflect the outcome of their most recent settlement with Siegel's family.) After the failure of their lawsuit, Siegel and Shuster were shown the door, although a decade later, editor Mort Weisinger hired Siegel as a freelance scriptwriter for a while. Much of that would probably have happened anyway (Siegel and Shuster were also unhappy that their work was diminishing as National was raking in money on Superman adaptations and merchandise), but Superboy was certainly one of the catalysts.

Mort Weisinger, who was notoriously brutal with talent and staff and had a low opinion of many of the writers and artists who worked for him, called Siegel "the most competent of all the Superman writers" and "the best emotional writer of them all." One of the reasons for that was that Siegel put a lot of himself into his stories, and in this respect, his relationship with Superboy was not unlike Luthor's in this story: He had created something crude but vital, with enormous possibilities, and Superboy had effectively destroyed it.

Besides Maggin, one of the few later creators to remember the actual details of this story was, surprisingly, John Byrne, who incorporated it into his origin of the post-Crisis Supergirl. In SUPERMAN #22 (October 1988), the final issue of Byrne's run, Superman learns that Supergirl is really a protoplasmic matrix, an artificial life form created by the Lex Luthor of the Pocket Universe in the image of his world's late Lana Lang. (In the Pocket Universe, Luthor didn't arrive in Smallville until after Superboy was dead, so the accident depicted in the Siegel story never took place, and Luthor completed his protoplasmic experiments in Superboy's own lab.) This is why that version of Supergirl, whose powers included the ability to change shape, was subsequently called "Matrix."