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  • The Supergirl Timeline

    The Supergirl Timeline

    Supergirl has a long history, going back nearly 70 years and while a lot of things about her have stayed the same – arriving after Kal, being a younger hero, coming to earth as a teenager – there’s also been a lot of variance over the years and I’d like to break that down and explore exactly how Kara came to earth and when things happened around that. I’ll be giving specific number values to events when it’s relevant and mentioned in story. The major life points I want to note are: Kara Zor-El’s birth, Kal-El’s Birth, Kara’s age at time of Krypton’s destruction, and Supergirl starting her heroic career, although some other events will be explored too. At the end of this post I will be focusing on current continuity and how everything fits together (to the best of my ability) but before we make our way to the present, let’s look at how the girl of steel got to where she is now.

    What is probably the most well know origin of Supergirl doesn’t come from the comics, but instead from the CBS/CW Supergirl television show that started in 2015. This series explored what I will be referring to as a stasis-type origin. Her origin is told fairly clearly in the pilot (Supergirl S01E01) as well as in most of the show’s opening narrations. Most importantly for today however, is that we’re given clear numerical values for all the events in Supergirl’s life. Both Kal and Kara leave Krypton at the same time right before its destruction and while Kal is a baby (let’s call him 1 year old), Kara is 13, which put’s Kal’s birth at 1 BKE (Before Krypton’s Explosion) and Kara at 13 BKE. While Kal would make his way to earth on time, Kara would instead be trapped in stasis in the Phantom Zone for 24 years making her arrival on earth 24 AKE (After Krypton’s Explosion). to update, Kara is 12 years older than Kal, but by the year 24 AKE, Kal has grown to be 25 on earth and has embarked on his heroic career, while Kara is still 13. Kara would stay in secret for the next 12 years before making her debut as Supergirl at age 25 in the year 36 AKE, which would make Kal in his late 30s-early 40s as the show progresses.

    In contrast to this more widely known origin, we can instead take a look back to Action Comics #252 which was Supergirl’s comics debut and uses what I will be calling Argo-Type origin. Kal was born right before the destruction of the planet and we can keep him at 1 BKE, but instead of Kara being born on Krypton, we see her born on Argo City. The inclusion of Argo here will add a new item to the timeline which will be Argo’s Destruction. While it is not clearly defined exactly how long Argo survived after the destruction of Krypton, we can make some inferences based on elements we do know. Superman was an established hero by the time Kara is rocketed from Argo and I think it is reasonable to assume Kal would begin his Superman career around the age of 22 (22 AKE), this would allow for Clark to attend and graduate journalism school before beginning both his career at the Planet and his career in blue tights. Allura and Zor-El are seen viewing Kal’s heroic career through a super-telescope before Kara leaves the planet and I think about 3 years of being Superman before Kara arrives on earth is a reasonable timeframe. The added fact of Kara being 15 when she lands on earth lets us fill in some of these events. Kara is born at 10 AKE, which allows for a decade of Zor-El living safely on Argo, ample time to meet and marry Allura. Kara will leave Argo and arrive on earth in 25 AKE.

    This specific origin does have a couple other events I want to mention, namely the secret weapon aspects. The silver age Supergirl began her career as Superman’s secret weapon and wouldn’t be properly revealed to the world until later on. In real world time this was about 3 years later, but comics time doesn’t always work the same way. Again this is my personal speculation, but 1 year of secret adventures and learning her powers makes sense, which would put Supergirl’s reveal to the world (and her adoption by the Danvers) at 26 AKE. This allows for Linda to live with the Danvers for 2 full years before going off to college and the career world which seems like a perfectly reasonable timeframe to allow for the type of bond the Danvers family unit seems to have. This Supergirl also notably dies during the events of Crisis on Infinite Earths. This is also after having attended no less than 3 colleges and 5 career endeavors so to give her time to have a full life, I think it’s reasonable to have her being about 28 at the time of her death (38 AKE). This is also young enough that her death is tragic, and puts Superman at 38, which puts him at a reasonable age for the events of Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow to play out.

    I’m going to rapid fire through a few additional origins and how they differ from the established Stasis-Type and Argo-Type origins we’ve already discussed. In Superman the Animated series we get a Stasis-Type origin with Kara In-Ze (not a Kryptonian) being cryogenically frozen for decades after the destruction of Krypton and is the only survivor when Superman finally answers the planet’s distress signal. Kara is about 15 in this iteration. Smallville too had a Stasis-Type, with Kara’s ship landing in the meteor shower along with Kal, however her pod got knocked into a reservoir triggering the ships stasis safety mechanism until Clark finds her about 19 years later. The 1984 movie is an Argo-Type origin with Kara only ever knowing life on Argo and she seems to be around 16-17. Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade shows us a 13 year-old Kara with an Argo-Type origin but has Argo as a moon of Krypton not a city, and Argo is still a perfectly functional and livable location here (just in a pocket dimension). This is not an exhaustive list but I hope it showcases haw much variety can exist in Supergirl’s origin compared to Superman’s “Rocketed to Earth as a baby and raised by 2 humble farmers” origin.

    To explore the current continuity Supergirl’s timeline of life, there are 2 main sources I’ll be looking at, The New History of the DC Universe and the 3rd story from the Summer of Supergirl Special. Both these stories are written by Mark Waid and the latter is more of an extension of the origin told in New History. The basic premise of DC’s current continuity (everything since Doomsday Clock) is that everything is canon. Everything being canon makes things a tad messy but I think we can make it make sense. To start off, current continuity uses the Stasis-Type origin, most recently told in issue 6 of Woman of Tomorrow. We see Kara in class on Krypton when the planet’s destruction begins and her living on Argo for a time before it too perishes. I will be making some inferences on Supergirl’s age throughout this section so bear with me. Supergirl is in a classroom at school when the planet’s destruction begins, she does seem older, but I’m going to put her at age 12, I feel like this lines up with other versions of Supergirl that use stasis-type origins. Also I can’t imagine Kryptonians teaching Binomial Coagulations before their equivalent of middle school. The next stop on our timeline is Argo’s destruction. I’m putting this at 4 AKE, giving the Argoians 4 years of life, and putting Kara at age 16 when she’s rocketed away, again this seems to line up with most versions of the character. At this point Kara is stuck in stasis, I think it is reasonable to insert the pre-Flashpoint origin here. As seen in the Supergirl storyline from Superman/Batman, Kara is in stasis inside a large Kryptonite asteroid that hits earth’s atmosphere well into Superman’s heroic career and this asteroid could very well be the last bits of Argo following Kara to earth and the 4 year difference in leaving Krypton could account for Kara’s much later arrival. Based on post crisis continuity, Superman is about 29 when we start following his adventures in Superman (Vol. 2) #1 (thanks to Mike Bailey of baileyplanet.org for this number) and it’s safe to say an amount of time passes between that point and when Kara arrives, he died, got married, and met his daughter from the future in that time, so let’s call Kal 32 when Supergirl arrives on Earth, or 32 AKE. With Kara 16, it puts Kal 16 years her elder which seems plausible based on their relationship.

    At this point, Kara chooses to live in Midvale orphanage to live among people her own age and not around her cousin who is twice as old as her and all his similarly aged friends. Kara would soon be adopted by the Danvers and she would continue her adventures in Midvale and Stanhope as we saw in the Pre-Crisis storytelling. Supergirl dying in crisis is also in canon, and Darkseid is responsible for her resurrection. This does fudge up the timeline a bit and it makes this endeavor much trickier, but I’m going to give it my best shot. I think, in current continuity, her death makes sense to happen after her Stanhope days but before she went to Vandyre University or any of her careers. I am putting her death at age 19 (35 AKE) and I am assuming she stayed dead for 7 years.

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    This 5 year gap helps account for Jon Kent. Jon was born about 12 years ago (10 years before the volcano incident and let’s say he’s been an adult for about 2 years since coming back) I like to think Clark is about 47 in current continuity, making current continuity around 47 AKE and Jon being born in 35 AKE, the same year Kara died. Kara coming back 7 years later but being 19 still upon her return allows her to pursue those other universities and careers (and a brief stint as a Red Lantern) and this all happening while Jon is alive helps explain why he’s so knowledgeable about her life in the Summer of Supergirl special.

    Woman of Tomorrow clearly lists Kara as being 21, and the current Supergirl ongoing title confirms that being in continuity and in the current past. Supergirl is over the age of 21 now, but still able to be peers with Lena Luthor II who is mentioned as being under the age of 21 so Kara cannot be much older, but she does have some amount of responsibility at least in regard to Lesla and the bottle city. I think it is reasonable to assume she’s about 24 currently (in 45 AKE) which lines up with the 5 years that have passed since coming back to life.

    As I mentioned above, a lot of these numbers are purely speculation but hopefully my reasoning makes sense for anyone reading. For your reference, and my own, I’ve put together a timeline graphic based on the numbers discussed above. This timeline is also of course subject to change at any given moment when any future writer wants to fiddle with continuity and that’s perfectly fine. In my opinion, I would much rather have an Argo-Type origin and it makes the timelines a whole lot easier to work, but it seems like Stasis-Type is what DC wants to go with. Surprisingly though, the new Supergirl movie has Kara being born on Argo 8 years after Krypton’s explosion so maybe there’s hope for the Argo-Type origin in the future.

  • Supergirl in the Multiverse: Earth-309

    Home to a fleet of original characters first hitting the Twitter landscape in 2022 is the Fodderverse of Eath-309. The Fodderverse is a universe of superhero OCs from the creator @makemineamalgam on Twitter and Bluesky that first started making their way onto the internet in late 2022. While some of the characters share similarities with Marvel and DC heroes, they all have their own distinctive flair. The universe is home to characters like The Goof, Ace, Chief Bravery, Avian, Kook and Captain Splendid, all of which were created by @makemineamalgam via kitbashing various action figure parts together into new creations. The universe is constantly growing and characters continue getting more and more story told.

    For Supergirl in the Multiverse, we have a character called Hourglass, who the creator referred to as “basically Supergirl with a hint of Stan Lee era Thor”. Kali is from the planet Chronos and was rocketed to earth by her father (and the ruler of the planet) Father Time to serve as an ambassador on her 18th birthday. Kali would adopt the human identity of Kali Lauper while working for Robert Raveneau at MidasTech, and would continue her super-heroic duties as the hero named Hourglass. Hourglass has a fairly standard power-set of Super Strength, Super Speed, and Flight but she also has accesses to limited time manipulation powers that she’s still getting a handle on. Similar to Hourman or Ben Tennyson, her powers have a 1 hour limit before she is forced to revert back to her civilian form. She is included as part of Supergirl in the Multiverse’s Pride Month celebration because she is canonically bisexual showcasing attraction to both male and female characters in the Fodderverse.

    As with all my Supergirl in the Multiverse posts, this is my own artwork. Hourglass is shown being launched out of an upper floor window of MidasTech and she is reaching towards an hourglass in the foreground. Shards of glass are flying out all around her and the outside lawn and connecting streets around MidasTech can be seen below her. A motif of an hourglass with a 309 on top of it can be seen in the top right corner.

  • Supergirl (2026) Initial Reactions

    Supergirl (2026) Initial Reactions

    As I write this introduction, it’s the morning before I go see the new Supergirl movie and I’ve been extremely excited for it so what follows will be my immediate reactions after leaving the theatre and I’ll probably do a more thorough look at the movie in a couple months, probably once the Blu-Ray is released. I did of course show up to the movie in costume (pictured above). I did initially plan on sewing a pocket into the cape since the skirt doesn’t have pockets however I ran out of time to do so. As a backup plan, I instead brought my Super Hero Girls purse so I would still be on brand.

    At the theatre I was able to pick up a couple bits of merch, first is the freebie comic that is a reprint of Woman of Tomorrow #1 with a new cover by Bilquis Evely based on the movie and I also got the cup with the not ideally designed coat accent, I went for the Supergirl topper aside although Lobo and Krypto were also options.

    From here on out this is my thoughts on the movie so tread carefully if you’re worried about spoilers. Right away, I gotta say I did enjoy the movie, while it does follow the story of Woman of Tomorrow, it does deviate quite a bit and in my opinion it addressed a lot of the issues I had with the source material. If you’d like a refresher on my thoughts of the comic this is based on, check out my post about it here.

    To start with I want to bring up one of planets being named “Bilquis”. This is of course a reference to the artist of the Woman of ,Tomorrow miniseries Bilquis Evely and assuming the movie pronounced it right, gave me a much better idea of how to pronounce her name.

    Probably the most surprising change I noticed in the movie, was that for the first time in over 20 years we’re not dealing with an origin where Kara is (technically) older than Superman. This origin is most notably shown in the Supergirl TV series, although all the comics since 2004 have also had some version of Kara being born before Kal and being stuck in some sort of stasis for a dozen or so years before finally making her way to earth. Here were clearly shown a Kara that was born and raised on Argo for her entire childhood before being rocketed to earth.

    The Krypton element of Supergirl’s origin was something I was curious about specifically in reference to last year’s Superman movie. The Jor-El depiction in that movie has a bit of a nefarious reason for sending Kal to earth, and it’s nice to see that Zor-El and Alura don’t share those ideas. This means that either Jor-El was an outlier in his mindset on Krypton and not all Kryptonians are d-bags, or the trauma of living on Argo for over a decade changed the minds of those Kryptonians.

    There was a running theme throughout the movie with sayings like “you don’t have to be nice but you have to be kind” and Ruthye even tells Supergirl “you’re not perfect, but you’re good” and I think that’s a great message that the movie explores and I personally liked supergirl having a more grey mantra as opposed to the clear black/white good vs evil mindset that her cousin has. The only one of these lines that didn’t really track for me was “he sees the good in everyone. I see the truth” which was also present in the trailer. That line just didn’t really make sense in the grand scheme of the movie.

    There is a good chunk of the movie that is spent exploring the Brigands as sex traffickers and I think it helps enforce the idea of Supergirl seeing a girl in need and saving her which is a big part of both this movie and the comic with the Ruthye character. So in my opinion it’s a welcome addition that also makes the Brigands even scummier.

    Lobo of course was not in the book at all, but his inclusion in the movie seemed perfectly fine and was a reasonable addition to the story without overstepping. I feel it also adds a bit more star power to the movie and allows for more thorough ties to the wider DC Studios movie universe.

    Before I just continue going into all the differences, which I’ll probably cover in a future post, I’m going to address my main problems with the book and how the movie addressed them. Ruthye never once calls Kara Supergirl, from the moment she learns her friend’s name it’s always “Kara” and nothing else, a welcome change to Ruthye only calling her Supergirl in the book. Placing this story at the beginning of Supergirl’s career as opposed to the middle as it was in the comics helps maintain the heroic status of the girl of steel and puts this more as a stepping stone for her on her path to becoming a great hero. I also much preferred how Ruthye was shown in this movie and it’s probably because we didn’t have to deal with mountains of narration boxes from her. Also the horse isn’t in the movie but I think that’s my own personal bias and shouldn’t be a mark against the book.

    There is one major change that the movie made that I didn’t like, and that was Kara killing Krem. I felt like it did a lot of disservice to the character and it worries me a bit that we might be going down a Man of Steel neck snap road, but hopefully we’re able to address it more in upcoming Supergirl adventures as part of the DC Studios line.

    To close out, I will say that this is not a perfect movie, but I really enjoyed it and would recommend it. To paraphrase Ruthye’s line “it wasn’t perfect, but it was good”. I will be going to see the movie again in theatres at least once more, and I do think everyone should go see it.

  • Supergirl in the Multiverse: Earth-118

    The Dark Knights of Steel series, the main series for Earth-118, is sort of a combination of the classic Elseworlds stories Last Family of Krypton and Superman: Kal. In the Last Family of Krypton, we explore a world where Jor-El and Lara joined their son in his exodus to Earth, and in Superman: Kal we see the DC universe explored in medieval times. In Dark Knights of Steel, the El family crashes on the outskirts of a kingdom, later to be revealed as the Kingdom of the Waynes. The story leads to the El family taking over the monarchy and ruling that land and throughout the series we are introduced to other kingdoms in this world and we get to see a large population of otherwise familiar DC characters reimagined as knights and wizards and whatnot.

    One of these characters introduced, is Zala Jor-El who is the son of Jor-El and Lara and younger sister to Kal-El. She is the princess and youngest member of the house of El and spends much of her time with her girlfriend Diana on Themyscira which is where we first meet her in Dark Knights of Steel #2. Zala is a rather fun-loving character and generally pacifistic. She was born on earth after the destruction of Krypton so she has no ties to that planet or lifestyle, but being the daughter of Jor-El and Lara she is a full blooded Kryptonian and has all the powers that come with that under a yellow sun.

    As with all my Supergirl in the Multiverse posts, this is my own artwork. The Princess Zala Jor-El is casually sitting in her throne while balancing a sword on her finger tip. There is a beam of light shining through a window in the top right. Behind Zala is a tapestry with the House of El symbol and styled after the flag of Krypton with rainbow colors used. The top right corner has a motif of the El symbol with a 118 on top of it.

  • Supergirl The World: 14 Stories, 14 Costumes

    Supergirl: The World is a comic that released a few weeks ago and is the 4th entry in DC’s The World line. This line of original comic short stories takes creators from around the globe and lets them produce short stories of the titular character. Before the woman of tomorrow, Batman, Joker, and Superman got similar The World collections and I can only imagine there are more to come from DC. Instead of taking a look at the stories collected here, I’m going to take a similar approach to how I covered Supergirl’s Family Vacation where I covered the easter eggs in the book. This time however, I’m going to count down from least favorite to most favorite Supergirl costume presented in this book. Supergirl: The World features 14 stories and with each one comes an artist’s interpretation of Supergirl’s costume. I will also only be talking about the costume itself and won’t base my ranking on the artist’s work, although I will talk about it if it’s relevant. Also I’ll do my best to pinpoint the specific elements of the costumes and see if I can reference which era of the girl of steel it’s representing.

    For my least favorite entry, it’s more of a disqualification than a true “worst costume”. The Italy story, “Dark Reflections”, is told by Francesca Michielin, Irene Marchesini, Federica Croci, and Andrea Accardi. The story has Supergirl taking a break from her super-heroics to take care of her mental health. A perfectly interesting story to explore, but in doing so she doesn’t suit up and is instead just wearing a tank top for the whole story. We do get a quick look at the costume hanging up in her hotel room where we can see it’s a fairly standard blue tunic/red skirt ordeal, although the thick gold belt seems reminiscent of the Rebirth-2 costume that Supergirl started wearing after Bendis’ Man of Steel mini-series. Although that costume had a blue skirt rather than a red one.

    The next few entries are all fairly simple and use a standard blue tunic/red skirt/red cape combo which is generally the classic go to for Supergirl. We got similar costumes in both the 1984 movie and the 2015 tv series, and in comics we saw this combo of elements in 1983, 1988, and 2016. While iconic, this costume combo isn’t my favorite by far which is why all instances of it skew more towards the bottom of the list. For the #13 slot, we have the costume from “Foreign Skies’ Sun” from the Serbia team of Uroš Dimitrijević, Stevan Subić, and David Tankosić. This costume doesn’t do much to differ from the norm aside from a bit of flair on the belt but I think if anything I prefer that less to a standard belt. Also I’ve grown quite fond of Supergirl with curly or at least wavy hair, and this Supergirl has quite straight hair so it loses points there as well.

    “Home Sick Home” is the story from the Turkey team of Mahmud Asrar and Aykut Tanay. Once again we get a standard Supergirl fit, although this one does seem pretty specifically in line with the Rebirth costume especially when looking at how the boots look and how the sleeves fall on the backs of Supergirl’s hands. I was first introduced to Asrar’s art when I read through his work on the New 52 Supergirl title and I really loved how he handled the character. However, in the back of the first collected volume of the New 52 Supergirl comic, there were sketch pages of alternative designs for Supergirl that Asrar did and I would’ve much rather seen one of those here instead of the more classic look that was presented. Costume aside, the art is quite stunning and there’s a panel near the end where Supergirl is glowing which looks quite stunning.

    The Columbia team brings us “Song of the Humpbacks” as presented by the one woman team of Sara Rodríguez. Again we’ve got the classic look for the girl of steel, although Rodríguez does get a couple bonus points for giving Supergirl curly hair and the wrist cuffs ending in gold bands instead of staying blue.

    #10 goes to the Japanese team that brought us the story “Superman & Supergirl vs. Chàteraesé’s Cheap & Tasty Sweets” which is by far the longest title of an of the stories here. The story is presented to us by the same team that brought us Superman vs Meshi; Satoshi Miyagawa, Kai Kitago, and Wes Abbott. The story is presented in black and white, although that doesn’t dock it any points. This costume gets a bit of an upper hand here because I think Supergirl’s hair is cute in this story. The short hair is a good look for her.

    It’s very possible that this entry gets such a high ranking because of the artist’s (Joel Jurion) style, which I previously mentioned I wouldn’t do, but I do really like this depiction of the classic Supergirl costume and I make the rules. It does seem to use the same belt that the Serbia team used that I previously mentioned not liking, but the extra bits of yellow on the boots and wrists help to elevate the costume. There’s also a abstraction of the classic S symbol here that also gives it bonus points in my mind, Marguerite Sauvage did a similar thing with the S when she was working on the Power Girl comic a couple years ago. I also much prefer how the cape sits covering the shoulders as opposed to staying all the way behind. All that being said, France gets the highest spot of all the classic costume set from the team of Kid Toussaint, Joel Jurion, Yoann Guillé, and Nube Consulting.

    We now move into what I’m going to call the “classic costume plus” section of the list. First up is the Spanish team’s entry in the story “Supergirl Y La Maliciosa” by Aneke and David Carro. This is a costume clearly inspired by the upcoming movie with the S symbol and costume design being a near copy. This depiction also has the girl of steel in a coat, however this is more of a bomber jacket as opposed to the movie Supergirl having a trench coat. I did initially have this costume a bit lower on the list because it’s really just the classic costume with a coat instead of a cape and I don’t really care for the coat look. But the costume has kind of grown on me, The collar is a good look to me, and I like the skirt and my preference is always having the S symbol looking less like an “S” and more like an alien symbol which the Kingdom Come S certainly does.

    There’s a bit of a weird discrepancy in regards to the Mexico team’s Supergirl costume in the story “The Sentinels of Chichén Itzá”. The cover shows the Supergirl costume to include pants or blue leggings under her skirt, while the interior art forgoes the blue legs. I initially thought this might’ve been some sort of coloring mishap, but all the creative duties of this story were done by Mariana Moreno including the cover so maybe she just wanted to show off both options. I personally think the blue pants under the skirt is a better look so I’m ranking the costume based on how it’s presented on the cover, which puts it both above the rest of the classic costumes and above the movie inspired costume. Aside from the pants, this costume is pretty heavily based on the Rebirth Supergirl costume that she wore starting in 2016 after DC Rebirth, even including the extra style lines in the tunic.

    Another classic costume plus fit coming from Cameroon’s story “Children of Ngonnso” by Suyru Njoka, Minko Coeurtys Ulrich, and Ejob Nathaneael Ejob. Classic costume plus is a great way to describe this fit because for a good chunk of the story Supergirl is just in her classic costume. It is only when she gets possessed by Ngonnso that her costume gains these extra elements but the extra texture and detailing gives the costume a nice bit of flair.

    The next 2 entries exclusively show Supergirl in her new costume designed by ArtGerm for the Supergirl Vol. 8 series that started in 2025. While still being a fairly standard blue shirt/red skirt ordeal, however it does have a couple elements that push it over the edge. Supergirl in a crop top is a great look and I too am a fan of wearing crop tops, and I’m sure the early 2000s Supergirl costume has a lot to do for my preference. The cape also connects to the front of her costume in a rather interesting way. Also this version of the costume introduced a much needed alternative version of the S symbol that different from her cousin’s S and all her own. The above image comes from the America team of Mariko Tamaki, Skylar Patridge, Trish Mulvihill, and Ariana Maher.

    As mentioned above, this entry and the previous are pretty much just the current Supergirl fit and they could be easily interchanged between the 4th and 5th slots. It does seem like the Polish team of Anna Krztoń, Kasia Niemczyk, and Tomasz Bratkowski added a bit of flair in gold wrist-cuffs but it’s not really enough to set it apart from the America entry. Joëlle Jones also used this costume for her cover to the hardcover collection, although I think she’s listed along with the America team.

    While this is the #3 slot, it’s not quite a standout and it’s really just the top 2 entries that are exceptional. “Strong Girls can Make History” from Johanna Sinisalo, Rosi Kämpe, and Janne-Matti Keisala (Finland’s team) also uses the ArtGerm costume but due to circumstances of the story, there is a bit added to it. There are time travel shenanigans which cause Supergirl to be powerless in 1908 Finland which makes exposing her midriff a tad more indecent than in 2026. Because of this, she adopts a more preiod appropriate attire, but instead of fully changing into a dress, she just adds a longer red skirt on top of her costume giving this Supergirl a distinct look. Also she has a cute braid!

    The final 2 entries are where we really get into what I like to see. “Touch Ground” comes to us from Argentina’s Tomas Wortley, Rocio Zucchi, and Camila Jorge and its a visually exciting and striking design for Supergirl’s costume and does a lot of things that I really like. There’s a lot of yellow accents to the costume, Supergirl’s got short hair, she’s got earrings, she’s wearing pants, somehow rocking both sleeves and no sleeves at the same time! Unfortunately the only thing that keeps Argentina from taking home the gold medal, is that it’s a bit too busy for my liking and does too many good things. Although the costume is just too good to be anything but 2nd place. Also while I’m here and I’m not sure when else I’ll talk about it, the villain is Toyman but he’s acting much more like Professer Pyg or Doll Maker when kidnapping people and turning them into living dolls. Just feels like a weird choice or possibly a translation error at some point in either the research or localization of creating this story.

    As I’ve compiled this list, I’ve come to find out what I like to see in a Supergirl costume, and this costume from the German team (Yann Krehl and Marie Sann) hits a lot of the notes I like. Supergirl has short, wavy hair (both things I’ve previously mentioned I enjoy) and her ears are pierced (actually it’s just her right ear that’s pierced, which is why it’s not seen in the above art) and she’s got shorts instead of a skirt. I have long felt that the skirt on Supergirl is iconic, and I’m glad the Supergirl in the new movie has a skirt, but my favorite Supergirl costume of all time has shorts. My favorite costume being her standard fit for what I think was the entirety of the 70s, which had shorts and a v-neck shirt. This costume also has 3/4 sleeves which is also a look I like to see. I won’t say this is a perfect Supergirl costume though, I would like to see more yellow in it and I’m not the biggest fan of how the cape is positioned, but it’s a really great look and it’s for sure my favorite of the book.

    This list is purely subjective and entirely my own opinion so if you have different thoughts that’s okay and I’d love to hear which is your favorite. Looking at the specifics and intricacies of Supergirl’s costume(s) has long been something I’ve enjoyed and is a big part of why Supergirl in the Multiverse exists. I also had a fun time taking a bit of a different look at this new Supergirl book and I hope you did too. If you want to pick up the book but $25 is out of your price range, the DC Universe Infinite app does have it available to read although it may only be accessible at the Ultra tier.