I’ve added the Adam Hughes variant cover for Supergirl & the Legion of Superheroes #23 (1 in 10 shipping ratio) to the Comicsbooks: Supergirl/Kara II page. Oooh, pretty. A little cheesecakey (okay a lot), but I love her face. Ships October 25/06.
There is a wallpaper version (Supergirl’s Wallpaper Annex).
it may be ‘cheesecake’, but at least the new Kara Zor-El doesn’t look emaciated(a la Churchill’s interpretation of her).
So far I haven’t seen anyone else draw Kara as emaciated/super-torso as Churchill does. Yet his Kara is still huge improvement over Turner (*all* of his character designs make me want to claw my eyes out).
Her character design changes in every different book she appears in, and it really bugs me. Kind of makes me long for a house style that would make it possible to recognize a character from artist to artist, not just on the basis of their costume. The only consistency in Kara’s physical chara design seems to be the lack of any hard muscle. *sigh*
I like this cover, also…Adam Hughes does have a ‘cheesecake’ style, but what draws me in are his faces, especially the eyes.
One thing: if Kara is in space, what’s making her cape and hair flutter?
As for her lack of hard muscle, I figure that Kryptonians have more dense bodies, so that they appear ‘soft’ but are actually rock-hard and “super” strong(and this body density is why bullets bounce off them). For this reason, I’ve never understood why Superman HAD to be drawn highly muscled…topic for another time, I guess.
Speaking of Kara’s face, I just got the newest issue of SuperGirl and well … Are SuperGirl and WonderGirl related some how? They have the same face? A lot of the girls in this issue (and there are a lot of girls in this issue) look a little like Kara.
Sadly the last issue #9 was good, this issue stinks. Sad to report.
I liked the issue myself. I expected the school setting to last for more issues, so I was surprised when Kara left so abruptly. However, I really like that this was Kara’s experiment, her choice, and her decision to stay or leave once she got what she wanted out of it. I like that they are not requiring her to attend high school just because she’s that age. It’s an overused cliche to make the alien waste their time in (public) school to become assimilated, as if all kids *should* go thru that experience.
One other thing that bugged me: Kara is still acting like she knows way more about Earth than she should. How the heck does she know what prison movies are, let alone that those titles are that genre? In reality, she wouldn’t last 5 minutes in school. She wouldn’t be able to carry on a conversation without coming across as socially disabled.
Yes, Ian Churchill only has 1 face for most of his female characters. I’m surprised you only noticed this now =) The number of girls in this issue made it painfully clear that the artist only has one face and body type for women. The lack of variety made the stereotyped “fat girl” seem like a freak, ala teen movies. In real life, high school doesn’t look like Veronica Mars: Skinny Blond White Girls =P
Issue # 10 was alright…but there’s nothing that makes this issue a Supergirl story; it seemed like a generic ‘exchange student in high school’ story.
I get the continuing feeling that no one knows what to do with Kara; most of the previous issues seemed like she was a guest in her own title…and the next few solicited seem to follow this pattern. It would be nice to have a continuing storyline, so that it feels that there is development, rather than ‘done in one’ issues that make her seem like she has a short attention span(unless that’s what they’re trying to do).
I like the fact that Cassie is part of the supporting cast…it gives Kara a bit of perspective and a sounding board…Boomer I’m still unsure about…get a creepy vibe from him.
Overall, I’m still cautiously optimistic. There have been signs of improvement in the last couple of issues…I’m just getting impatient waiting for a coherent direction and storyline to develop.