Essential Supergirl Comics
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- In many ways, she is a symbol of a not-so-good era of super-hero comics, when DC and Superman were at the top of their campiness and the concept of a Supergirl fell along with a Superboy, a Super-Dog, and so on. But the character has been through many incarnations since then, as a being from another dimension, an angelic hero, a fake alien and finally to the return of Kara Jor-El to modern continuity. Through it all, a few select authors did manage to find something original about the character that allowed her to finally come out from under her cousin's cape. These are the essential Supergirl Comics.
Top Ten ranks as follows:
10 - Bizarrogirl
9 - Who Is Superwoman?
8 - Brainiac
7 - Crisis on Infinite Earths
6 - Many Happy Returns
5 - Fallen Angel
4 - Being Super
3 - The Supergirl Saga
2 - Body and Soul
1 - Woman of Tomorrow
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@@joki7610 True. The fact is that for most of her existence, Supergirl wasn’t the most interesting of characters. Not until the 1990s Peter David series.
Sweet! I love Supergirl!
Superman series when?
@@tonyraju631 Every Superman Run coming next week
YES! Essential Teen Titans Comics next?
@@greendaleforever I use the Essential format when the character/team doesn’t have enough material to justify a 100 Best video, which I have done for the Titans. There’s a Every Titans Run and Reading Order coming down the line, but not in the next few weeks.
Its finally here🔥
how Kara managed to revive (back to life) after Crisis on Infinite Earths?
@@user-py7vg6fx3d She didn’t. She simply arrived on Earth for the first time (again) in post-Crisis continuity. While it’s the same character, her pre-Crisis history and death were still erased from continuity. That might change again after the most recent DC reboots, but it’s too soon to say. After her death in Crisis, I believe the original version only appeared in a short “dream” sequence and in the Convergence event.
@@comicbelief I think they'll explain that in the 30th Anniversary Zero Hour special in August.
Supergirl is wearing a black suit with a Silver S on it...and we all know what it means when the house of El wears that.
I presume that what happens with each Reboot (or in the case of Zero Hour-Infinite Crisis and Convergence-Dark Crisis a retrobooted historical correction, Flashpoint was also initially planned as retroboot, but became soft-reboot rather than retrograde because of an unwatched Watchman.) is that the Crisis on Infinite Earths ends differently and as such some events were augmented and this has been alluded to since Infinite Crisis. We have proof of this in how Death of Superman and Reign of the Supermen is told after Flashpoint. During the Rebirth sequences, Kara is seen present at Superman's funeral in her Rebirth costume, and not the Earth-Angelic Linda Danvers in the proper Helen Slater suit with a heart buckle (Matrix was retconned out as protoplasmic Supergirl via retroactively making the Elseworlds story Supergirl: Wings canon so that Matrix was always a bitter angel cursed to become human and was given redemption by becoming Supergirl and merging with Linda in that way, but the two forgot due to the merger that they were ever two seperate people for they were always one Earth-Angel of Justice once they merged. The reason for retconning the protoplasmic stuff out? Cosmic Boy would never be so evil as to make a pocket dimension back-up of clones of Clark, Kara & Pals for self-preservation+ if Superboy was treated as non-existant and the Legion Origin was revised at Zero Hour to have it be the whole league inspire them instead of just Superman when he was a boy...this dimension makes no sense narratively in the revised Superman-Batman-Wonder Woman centrifical energies)...which means her death didn't happen during the Crisis as originally thought...and I think there's a way to explain that...related to Crisis animated part 3 (since DC occassionally adapts things that are useful from external DC media)
At the last second before Supergirl punches the Anti-Monitor, the Wonder Woman of Pre-Crisis Earth-1 (now Earth-1956) absorbs the backblast in her place and when Supergirl intends to pull Diana out, she being extremely drained just collapses in Superman's arms after he pulls her away saying that Diana knew what she was doing and bought them some time and so he places Kara in a recovery suit and then he later encounters his own issues needing such a suit. This allows for Reign of the Supermen to occur with the following replacements Metropolis Kid (Conner Kent, he's no longer just Superboy, let him use his old tagline as a codename), Steel (John Henry Irons) and Cyborg-Superman all stand in for Superman, likewise Power Girl, Nat, Lana Lang and Lois Lane as co-Superwomen and the Earth-Angelic Linda all stand in for Supergirl, and Linda gets a field trip to Pre-Crisis where she temporarily becomes Superwoman making a divergent timeline and having Ariella before retiring.
@@Superlad9494 I’ve got into comics in the early 1990s, so I’ve only read pre-Crisis comics with a post-Crisis perspective, but I remember reading people criticizing the event saying that Crisis had Marvelized DC. Today we don’t even fully understand what that means.
I didn’t like the New 52 reboot but I like even less the constant attempts to fix things. One of the New 52 issues of Batman included his new chronology, because the hero was much younger but DC wanted to retain many events of his pre-Flashpoint self, so the result was just bizarre. He partnered with Grayson for a year or two, than Todd for a bit, then Death in the Family, Killing Joke, Tim Drake, all these got compressed within a few years.
I will read the comics, I will try to make sense of them, that the Kents are alive, then dead, then alive again, whatever, but really giving me an information in a caption doesn’t carry the same emotional impact of seeing the Antimonitor kill Supergirl or the Joker kill Robin. So for me, DC continuity feels like a very abstract concept right now and I try not to get too hung up about it.
@@comicbelief the phrase Marvelized means "took a bright sunny world and made it utterly and unnecessarily grimdark"...this is more true of the Nu52 though.
Post-Crisis really just streamlined it to be slightly more realistic, but still had room for silliness.
@@comicbelief also yeah don't get too hung up on continuity...it's always run on "Hawkman, pick your Hawkman" logic.