Supergirl returns to DC’s comics this summer to headline her first new series in years: Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, a new eight-issue limited series. Launching in DC’s Infinite Frontier era with art by Bilquis Evely and Mat Lopes, written by Tom King, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow takes Supergirl—and sidekick Krypto—into space on a journey that will have Supergirl fans cheering for more!
Kara Zor-El has seen some epic adventures over the years, but has recently found her life without meaning or purpose. Here she is, a young woman who saw her planet destroyed and was sent to Earth to protect a baby cousin who ended up not needing her. What was it all for? Wherever she goes, people only see her through the lens of Superman’s fame.
Just when Supergirl thinks she’s had enough, everything changes. An alien girl seeks her out for a vicious mission: her world …
Supergirl returns to DC’s comics this summer to headline her first new series in years: Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, a new eight-issue limited series. Launching in DC’s Infinite Frontier era with art by Bilquis Evely and Mat Lopes, written by Tom King, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow takes Supergirl—and sidekick Krypto—into space on a journey that will have Supergirl fans cheering for more!
Kara Zor-El has seen some epic adventures over the years, but has recently found her life without meaning or purpose. Here she is, a young woman who saw her planet destroyed and was sent to Earth to protect a baby cousin who ended up not needing her. What was it all for? Wherever she goes, people only see her through the lens of Superman’s fame.
Just when Supergirl thinks she’s had enough, everything changes. An alien girl seeks her out for a vicious mission: her world has been destroyed and the bad guys responsible are still out there. She wants revenge and if Supergirl doesn’t help her, she’ll do it herself, whatever the cost.
Now, a Kryptonian, a dog and an angry heartbroken child head out into space on a journey that will shake them to their very core!
Brought to you by Eisner Award-winning writer Tom King (Batman/Catwoman, Mister Miracle and Rorschach) and Eisner nominee artist Bilquis Evely (Sandman Universe: The Dreaming) this maxiseries promises to be a character-defining masterpiece the likes of which has never been seen before for DC’s Maiden of Might.
Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow #1 cover by Bilquis Evely & Mat Lopes; variant by Gary Frank & Alex Sinclair
Artwork had me dreaming of a different decade, reminding me of the best that the (old old old) Valérian, Thorgal, and Métal Hurlant could deliver. And the narrative frame was immediately compelling.
Supergirl remains a favourite for exactly the themes described in this book: an exploration of how you keep living in unimaginable pain and grief, when your world has ended and keeps ending every single day.
stunning in its magical girl aesthetics & fairy tale-esque storytelling
5 stars
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breathtaking (though dense) prose, telling of a journey in supergirl's life when she crossed paths with a vengeful alien girl, and of a supergirl somewhere between a state of hopelessness and endless optimism in her grief and perseverance. ruthye as a character is representative of supergirl's undying will to believe in hope for everyone and everything despite her past, despite all of what she witnessed during krypton's destruction as a teenager, and ruthye being the character to change her own (and supergirl's mind) about revenge and killing, after ruthye's strong determination to find some sort of revenge for her father's murder all throughout the plot, is poignant in how it represents supergirl's wavering in her beliefs and how she ultimately returns to her ideals above all else.
and despite all this, in the end, when they do silently murder krem after his hundred year imprisonment, after he's found himself to have changed in his confinement and after the three seem to have found some sort of acceptance with the matter... it also shows that justice is not something that is black and white for supergirl, despite how the story had framed it. she came to the compromise that his imprisonment can happen as well as his murder for his crimes, and so did ruthye. and the story ends there - make of that what you will, king seems to say with that final page, and as evely seems to say with the direct parallel in artwork from this final page and the first page in the initial issue.
ok that's a lot of dense analysis lol. overall: beautiful and thought provoking story, drenched in magical girl aesthetics and filled to the brim with themes typical of fairy tales side-by-side with superhero-typical themes. it's short and direct even with ruthye's dense inner monologue and reaches a conclusion that is satisfactory just as much as it is inquisitive of the book's themes.
