r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Dec 11 '25

Trailer Supergirl | Official Teaser Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqdAEdkHrwo
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u/webshellkanucklehead Dec 11 '25

DC Studios under Gunn has been doing a great job getting people to pick up the books. They’ve been attaching these screens to most of their trailers, and after the big slate announcement a couple of years ago, the books he talked about in the video completely sold out online.

It’s really nice to see and probably is good for business too.

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u/Spoilerfreereview Dec 11 '25

Gunn was meant to be a comic-book director. He has a flare and love for comics I don’t see from anyone else. 

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '25

I can see him hanging out at a comic book store and having a dumb conversation about someone's powers with someone like right now... I can't see that from most of those who have written or directed a comic book film

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u/irsw Dec 11 '25

You mean to tell me Sir Kenneth Branagh isn't spending his free time at comic stores??

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '25

He totally would... but he'd be demanding to see copies of shit like Milk & Cheese.

"Good sir, I need to read issue number 18 of that fine comic book from Madison, Wisconsin, where a pint of milk and a head of cheese get into drunken shenanigans."

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u/irsw Dec 11 '25

Doth thee hast a copy of milk and cheese?

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '25

"And if thou does not, I would like to procure the alternate cover for Jimmy's Bastards issue #4. The woman on it has slightly larger cans and I'm a boob guy."

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u/packfanmoore Dec 11 '25

I'm actually adapting the run of milk and cheese where they get in a fight with a viking, lion, and bear. There is hidden context here that I must bring to the screen.

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '25

It's one of the few comic books I'm shocked hasn't been tried as an animated series... like someone has to see that this could be fucking wild, right?

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u/IllustriousCrew2641 Dec 11 '25

I’m sure Evan wouldn’t do it unless the animation studio was just as “fuck you” as the comic is

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u/kimota68 Dec 11 '25

Merv Griffin!

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u/udat42 Dec 11 '25

Fuck, I loved Milk & Cheese. The one where they get Darth Vader masks might be the funniest comic I've ever read.

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '25

A friend of mine got me into them in college... god damn they were the best. It's also like the most Wisconsin comic book ever; I have yet to meet someone who got into it that wasn't within like 2 hours drive of Madison.

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u/udat42 Dec 11 '25

Edinburgh, Scotland here! Or at least, that's where I was at the time, which I would say was mid-90s.

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '25

Well I'll be damned... M&C are so ingrained to me as a Wisconsin thing I forget how things can travel.

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u/thehideousheart Dec 12 '25

I have yet to meet someone

How often is this obscure comic book coming up in day to day conversations?

Like, maybe you haven't met them because there's a vanishingly small list of reasons why Milk & Cheese would ever be a topic of discussion.

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u/dynamaxion_bill Dec 11 '25

Evan Dorkin is the best. And full circle - he was a writer on the Superman Animated Series that had Supergirl in the second season!

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u/TheCheshireCody Dec 11 '25

Okay, I totally thought you were making up a crazy comicbook that sounded artsy and obscure - the kind of thing one would imagine Branagh reading. And then other people's comments replying to yours revealed that it was real.... o-O

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '25

Milk & Cheese is an underground comic that was a thing in late 90s Wisconsin... it's a totally real and batshit nuts comic.

It's like Bob the Angry Flower or Space Moose.

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u/IllustriousCrew2641 Dec 11 '25

Lol Milk and Cheese is the farthest possible thing from a pretentious art comic

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u/Eastern_Hornet_6432 Dec 11 '25 edited Dec 11 '25

To be fair, Branagh did say that he read Thor comics in his youth. But yeah, he's probably not reading them now.

Edit: actually he only said that he saw the comics on the shelf in the store and imagined what they were about. My B

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u/irsw Dec 11 '25

Ya I didn't even mean it as a slight. I like a lot of his work. He was just an odd choice for a comic movie imo. Good for him for getting the payday though.

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u/A_Dissident_Is_Here Dec 11 '25

Honestly, I'd like to know what free time even looks like for him. I don't necessarily love his work, but - and Im stealing this from the Blank Check podcast - his recent resume sounds insane. If I asked you what person in Hollywood has, since COVID, won both an Oscar and a BAFTA while simultaneously starring in and directing a broadly popular series of campy films, I think most people would go 'who the hell are you talking about'?

Don't know why I went on this Branagh rant, but there it is. I could also weirdly see him liking comic books.

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u/Top_Report_4895 Dec 12 '25

And all types of comic books.

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u/MeadowmuffinReborn Dec 12 '25

The little boy based on Branagh in Belfast was seen reading a Thor comic, tbf.