#as well as supergirl as a show

[karaspal]

the damage this single panel has done to kara's reputation needs to be studied. "see, she doesn't care about humans." wrong! she does. it's just that this comic is bad.

[90s-kid-sad-adult]

fools in love

[konmics-n-stuff]

I really resent the Young Justice tv show for … a lot of things. TBH.

[necrotic-nephilim]

Tell me why Kara Zor-L is one of my your favs! I'm been meaning to make the jump from the CW show to the comics. Any recommendations?

- @cicero-in-gotham

@cicero-in-gotham oh i would LOVE to!! Kara Zor-L is my darling beloved.

firstly for suggestions, i'll be honest Kara can be... a hard character to read for. you have to slog through a lot of really shitty "male gaze" content to get scraps of interesting stuff. the top comics i'd recommend are

Power Girl: Power Trip

Power Girl Returns

Power Girl (2023)

some people like Harley Quinn & Power Girl. i'll be honest... i did not. and Power Girl (2009) has... ups and downs, is the nicest way i'll say it. but it's also solid for what it is. certainly better than her New-52 content so i can't really complain.

anyhow, i always am enamoured by characters who are disconnected from their "family", especially due to trauma. bc no one really counts Power Girl as part of the Superfamily. and even within the Superfamily if people are talking about the "outcast" of the family, they always say Kon. (which, eh? maybe New-52!Kon but i wouldn't say the main Kon is an outcast, his issues are internal) but to me, Kara far better suites that role. it's one thing to be one of the last survivors of Krypton. it's another thing to be one of the last survivors of your entire *universe* as well. she lost everyone, *twice*.

i adore characters who feel like imposters and Kara is *peak* imposter syndrome. everything about her identity is constructed around not feeling like a "real" Super, or a "real" Zor-L. she has to live with knowing she's on an earth that has Supergirl, meaning they don't need her. she didn't wear the S crest for so long even on her own earth, because she felt like she didn't server it.the only thing she feels like she has going for her is her sexual appeal and so it's so amped up she lacks a personality outside of it. she has been isolated again and again by her trauma and she struggles to face her grief, masking with humor and oversexual appearances. i find that to be so interesting. she lost *everything*, twice. and now she's an imposter who will always hold herself at a distance from the Supers because she doesn't want to make them uncomfortable with her existence. she has to live on an Earth and know everyone is... slightly off. she has Clark, but it's not *her* Clark. she has the Justice Society of America, but it's not *her* JSA. and she doesn't have her best friend, Helena Wayne at *all*, because this earth has Helena Bertinelli as Huntress. (unless you count New Golden Age stuff but that's future timeline nonsense)

i find Kara's lack of identity interesting, and the way she just sort of drifts. she has done a lot of things, but lacks a sense of self importance bc she will never view herself as a "real" Kryptonian of this universe. she's just so neat to me. i also love the JSA personally, they're one of my favorite superhero teams, so i love any character connected to the JSA, they're always so underrated.

the Power Girl Special (which is collected in Power Girl Returns) is like, genuinely one of my favorite single issues ever. that comic just lives in my bones. it also has one of the *best* internal monologues i've ever read. something something comics are art. this is cutting some stuff out but just to show you have beautiful the writing is, this is an excerpt from that comic

people tend to think of hatred as love's opposite. but i disagree- i think hatred is just love's sharpened edge. it's the same passion. the same potency, the same intensity. just a different flavor. so no, hatred isn't love's opposite. grief is. grief is the void left behind after something you once loved was violently ripped away. grief is what happens in love's sudden absence. love is when your cup runneth over. but grief is hollow. a chasm. there is no negotiating with grief. it does what it wants to you, when it wants. you will never outgrow or outrun it. but... you can find ways to grow around it. i never got to say goodbye. i was loved, once. i was once loved so much that my life was prioritized above all else. i will never feel worthy of that love or sacrifice. but i'm realizing now that to freeze or falter in the shadow of that love is the only way to fail their sacrifice. i have to live in the light. i can step out into the sunlight, and still carry them with me.

like that is??? so Character to me. she is Everything. i'm just. so unwell over her internal struggles and how she faces the world, i cannot recommend her enough. she means the world to me and that comic has stuck with me since i read it for it's conversation about handling grief. i am begging everyone to be a Power Girl fan i know she's confusing but once you get the hang of her backstory she's so cool i swear-

[laurabenanti]

CHYLER LEIGH as ALEX DANVERS SUPERGIRL | (01.13) For The Girl Who Has Everything

[kent-farm]

—The Dick Van Dyke Show, “The Redcoats Are Coming”

[slozhnos]

despite the fact it makes me so sad i love watching supergirl season 1 episode ten

[lilydvoratrelundar]

shes so autism and i love her

[livvyofthelake]

i know we all love pink pony club but unfortunately i can’t listen to that song without thinking of the most egregious example of “text of the lyrics changed for an edit so it makes more sense for the canon or whatever” i have ever seen in my life… and it’s soooo funny every time and it makes me unable to take that song seriously. lol. sorry. from november to april i had like three jokes and none of them were funny unless you were me wow… it happens. anyway rip pink pony club i still love you i just can’t keep it as real as i should with you…. 🩷

[oifaaa]

Have you seen the new DC Slate? It's out here: https://discussingfilm.net/2023/01/31/james-gunn-dcu-slate-every-new-film-show/

Yeah I saw it and I won't lie I'm not excited for any of it I'm just so tired of when studios do this when they show all the stuff they're gonna make it feels so overwhelming and exhausting and with dc especially I don't trust them at this point to actually make half of this stuff

[therealladylucifer]

Look it's not that I'm not excited for all the new DC projects coming out but I wish the superhero genre would stop with live action remakes. They can be interesting sometimes, especially for more gritty/grounded characters but I honestly think that comic book characters work better in animated mediums. Start making animated adaptations of comics. They don't have to be for kids. Please. I'm begging you. I can't take much more of this.

[karaspal]

karadox will forever be doomed by the narrative, huh?

[90s-kid-sad-adult]

girls do mature faster than boys

[kyliafanfiction]

I'm glad we got gay Alex, but I have to admit, there was real potential in Lord Danvers. It could have been a fun ship.

[ectonurites]

I don't have fully formed thoughts on the matter but my brain has just been rotating these two images around next to each other for days. interpret that as you will

(Crisis on Infinite Earths #12, published December 1985/cover date March 1986)

(Stranger Things S4E9, takes place in March 1986)

[lenakluthor]

i miss knowing a show so well i know exactly what episode things happened in without having to look it up