Supergirl in the Multiverse: Earth-55

After Cyborg accidentally unleashed a techno-virus upon Earth the world and all it’s super heroes. This virus, initially thought to just be the anti-life equation, would later be revealed to be the product of a eldritch being from an adjacent dimension who sought to destroy the universe. All that is just to say this is the zombie universe. The DC answer to Marvel vs. Zombies that came out about a decade after the pop culture zombie craze, and in my opinion it’s one of the best zombie stories I’ve read. The series was told in 3 parts and a couple spin-offs and by the end of it pretty much all the DC universe has been exposed to the virus and there are quite a lot of interesting story moments that show characters in wildly different roles than they take in the normal DC universe as well as intense stakes where characters you don’t expect to fall, fall.

For the most part, many hero’s share their origins with their respective earth-0 counterparts and this Elseworld’s tale seems to present this as a story spinning out from the current day earth-0. Supergirl is a bit different however, not showing up until part 3: War of the Undead Gods, we see that Kara Zor-El wasn’t sent to earth but instead sent to New Genesis. Zor-El, Alura, and Kara all lived in Kandor and when the planet was meeting with destruction Zor-El had a similar idea to his brother but instead of sending his child to live with Earth primitives, he chose to send his child to live with other powerful beings on the planet of the New Gods. Unfortunately for Kara, when she landed on New Genesis it had already fallen to the techno-virus and she soon fell as well and became a fierce foe with both Kryptonian powers and zombie rage. I will also mention that a Supergirl shows up in issue 5 of the original miniseries but because of the origin shown in War of the Undead Gods this could not have been the same Supergirl. More than likely this was an editorial oversight since she just showed up in an wider hero shot, but it could be read as that was the Matrix Supergirl who perhaps fell in the initial zombie attack and that’s why she never showed up again in later stories.

As with all my Supergirl in the Multiverse posts, this is my own artwork. The zombified Supergirl of Earth-55 is reaching towards the viewer witha crazed look on her face. The overall design has rough and aggressive pencil lines throughout. The top right features a motif of the Supergirl S with a 55 on it.