Ep 438: Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow Recap and Review

It supposedly has an influence on the Supergirl film that will be dropping this weekend as time of recording.

This is a story that a lot of people say is their favorite Supergirl story.

This is written by Tom King, who I think does excellent work with these miniseries where he's able to kind of zone in on these characters.

Books like Vision, books like Mr.

Miracle, even Human Target I find myself enjoying a lot.

Views are mixed, in my opinion, of his Batman.

I'm not reading his Wonder Woman, so I'm not sure how he's working on that.

But I thought and I think that this book is a hell of a book to tackle the entirety of the mythos of the House of L, and particularly Kara Zorro in Supergirl.

Before we go off and talk about this very excellent, excellent book, I kind of wanted your guys' background in general with the Supergirl character.

Because I can tell you up front, I knew very little about this character other than like the headband and the t-shirt in the Justice League cartoon kind of stuff.

I was aware there was a 70s movie, right? I went and saw that.

God awful.

And then the lovely Melissa Benoist played Supergirl in the Arrowverse.

And I did follow that series where, you know, the best part of the Arrowverse is when it was able to stick to lore and kind of educate its fans as far as the characters were concerned.

And I got a lot of information there.

uh from that but then when i started to try to read supergirl after that i wasn't sure if the synergy of the arrow verse had changed the character so i'm not quite i don't think i really ever got a handle on it and then i read this uh series and this is this the portrayal of her as a survivor um as somebody who has so much on their shoulders literally carrying the weight of her dead planet on her shoulders kind of gave me a little bit of more illumination to who that character could be.

So Russ, I'm going to start with you.

What's your background with Supergirl as a character?

Yeah, so I mean, I guess it starts with kind of like, I feel like a lot of people, the Timverse was where we were introduced to so many different characters when we were younger from all the stuff in Justice League and Justice League Unlimited.

I mean, that was

my big introduction to all of this stuff.

And I mean,

there probably is no better introduction to the

DC Universe than how great the Timverse was and everything it did.

So from there, I watched all of Smallville.