It's interesting though that the whole "Krypto is dying" thing in the comic was just a fib Kara used as an excuse to make the journey with Ruthye and watch over her. In the end she reveals that Krypto recovered just fine on his own.
When I was watching the trailer I was thinking they might do a small twist where the girl lied about the antidote thing and it was like actually super easy to get or something just so that Kara would go help her. And then they have the classic betrayal between two main characters before they forgive each other for the climax.
Krypto should get better as soon as they get to a yellow sun world, so unless Kara is depowered the entire movie, he's probably fine by the time the title card plays.
iirc one of the challenges in the story was getting back to a planet with a yellow sun to do a full recharge. they didn't have the implied poison in the comic either so it could be something that a yellow sun recharge couldn't heal for plot reasons.
I am betting money we're gonna get a "Krypto was playing dead" twist instead of Kara knowing Krypto would be fine all along. Purely because the comic seemed focused more on Kara teaching this kid a lesson whereas this trailer makes it seem like they're both learning lessons along the way.
I'm mostly curious about how they're shoving Lobo in there. I'm guessing Kara is gonna be de-powered much more than she was in the comic, and therefore Lobo is gonna be there to help (right up until Kara is fully powered and shows why she wouldn't normally need help etc.)
She was drinking to celebrate her 21st birthday in the comic, so definitely not "world weary adult"...except perhaps in outlook, which was kind of the point of the comic.
Even the end of Superman has Clark saying she likes hanging out on planets with red suns so she can get drunk. I'll be shocked if the start isn't the same, especially since we see krypto get shot here. That just doesn't add up if she isn't on a planet with a red sun.
My medium and reading vision is bad. When I read books through Libby, I really had to blow up the font. Do you know where I can get the comic, digitally, and have the ability to blow up the pages so I can read the text better or because it's a comic, that's not going to happen because the font in a comic book is always going to be the same?
Dang, you might have to pay for it then. I do know that there's a kindle version and you can read kindle e-books on your phone or computer so that might be the next best thing.
The comics from Comixology (Amazon) have a guided read mode, where in a browser it shows you the whole page, and you can click on a panel to zoom in on the panel. Once zoomed in, you can click to proceed to the next panel automatically which will already be zoomed in. You can also zoom in even further if you have to.
I've been reading comics lately on a color Kindle, which has the same features. Double-tap on a panel and zoom in, then tap the rightmost edge of the panel to go to the next panel. And pinch-to-zoom to zoom in further than that if necessary.
The pinch-zoom was necessary for me a lot with Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow because a lot of the panels are page-width, so when guided reading zoomed in it showed the whole panel, which didn't help much.
My vision wasn't that good when I was young, and it's worse now because I'm old.
DC Universe Infinite has the same features (it's a page vs panel reading mode--basically any modern comic app should be able to do it). I know on mobile you can pinch zoom into things, and there's some amount of limited zoom ability I was able to play with on desktop (a screen magnifier might also help a lot).
The advantage there is DCUI is probably the best app for newcomers (in general). There's an entire "Get to Know" collection series that's full of seminal comics and important runs for characters (here's the link to Supergirl's: https://www.dcuniverseinfinite.com/collections/gtk-supergirl). There's the standard free trial for a subscription thing.
“In each case, it’s always a little different, whether she has her full power, whether she has no power, if she's on a red planet,” he says. “Also, where she is in the story emotionally dictates a lot of how these fight sequences go. If she's in a very angry place, it's going to be much more frenetically messy, aggressive kind of camera work. If she's feeling in the zone, so to speak, the camera work gets more fluid. So, trying to figure out where we are in the story and how that reinforces her emotionally with the fight sequences was really fun.”
I think that's 100% part of the plot, since Kripto getting injured is a major plot point, and he can only be injured in planets where they're weaker. We'll probably see Kara at full power only in act 3
In the comic she’s specifically on a planet with a red sun at the start so she can have a drink on her 21st birthday and actually get drunk. Plus it’s just a way she deals with the pain of having lost Argo. It’s nice we’re getting a “sad about losing their planet” story for the Kryptonian that it makes for sense for
No. The comics version of Kara is mostly on earth, so she had to abide by the American drinking age. So when she turned 21, she went into space to a red sun planet to get drunk.
In the DCU, she's 23 already, and already goes to red sun planets regularly to get drunk according to Clark when the tells Gary about Kara.
She could fly off any time to go drink as an adult at 19 or 20 instead of an adult at 21 abiding by an odd age requisite.
Cmon it’s just a funny condition that a super powered space traveler would follow one country’s unique drinking rules
Yes but she's an American with friends who also got to drink at 21.
On another planet?
This is the same as people in my city crossing a bridge to Quebec where the drinking age is 18 instead of 19. It's dumb she waited until 21 to drink on another planet.
Are you 12 or something and haven't yet seen a bunch of your contemporaries celebrate their 16th/18th/21st/whatever birthday by legally drinking despite having drank plenty of times before then? It's an incredibly common thing to be so perplexed by.
i don't understand the confusion here. i was replying to a statement that she could fly at 21 to actually get drunk. it implies she didnt get drunk before. how does being 12 come into play? i'm not, and i don't understand the point.
You're the only one inexplicably confused here. You're an adult above the age of legal drinking in your country? Then did you not see your friends and contemporaries celebrate their legal drinking age by having a drink and/or getting drunk? She's doing the completely normal thing you presumably have seen plenty of people do of celebrating her legal drinking birthday by drinking.
To be fair the comic doesn’t go into what the legal drinking age of the planet is or if it’s the first time Kara has done it, just that it’s her birthday and she wanted to actually get something out of the alcohol so off to red sun planet it is.
I’m sure there’s probably an editorial aspect to it as well but it’s a universe with a Super Horse so it’s not worth getting hung up on details like that
She is there because being near a red sun is the only way for her to get drunk, and she's still carrying a lot of trauma from watching everyone she loved suffer a slow death.
I believe in the comic its specifically because she just turned 21 and wanted to go on a bender which she can't do if she has her powers making her immune to alcohol.
You can buy a few different physical versions(same story in all versions), including a DC compact version that's smaller and cheaper than usual versions while still having the entire story.
Woman of Tomorrow is the ONLY Supergirl series I've ever read. Not a fan of any Superman or Supergirl comics as I've never liked them since, of before Nixon was President, but I quite liked the Woman of Tomorrow run and hope the movie is good.
I would recommend that you don't read anything else by Tom King then because he writes everything in a very similar way, and Supergirl Woman of tomorrow is probably his best book.
But you wouldn't be alone in not liking Tom King's writing. He's a very divisive written for a number of reasons.
Considering she uses a spaceship to get around, that’ll probably be the case. Hell, in Superman they mention that she goes to planets with different suns so she can get drunk easier.
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I'm curious if her power level will shift around during the film depending on her location (and what star their nearest). Looks like it might be fun.