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.
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.
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 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.
It’s been about 18 months since I started the Supergirl in the Multiverse project and I have no intention of stopping. So far I’ve touched on 75 separate Supergirls and while some of the universes have since shown more than one Supergirl per universe, this week is the first time I’m revisiting the same Supergirl that I’ve already covered. Earth-24 is home to the Bombshells who I covered more thoroughly in the initial post for this Supergirl, but in short the WWII era universe is protected by a handful of female super heroes that have become know to the public as the Bombshells.
The reason for this Supergirl to make a return trip is because of my coverage of canonically queer Supergirls as part of all the June 2026 Supergirl in the Multiverse entries. Kara Starikov never specifically identifies her sexuality but it is certainly sapphic leaning with her prominent relationship with this universe’s Lois Lane. Eloisa “Lois” Lane first shows up in Bombshells Chapter 37 (collected as issue 13) where she would have a handful of adventures until she would eventually track down Hugo Strange and his Super Weapons where she would meet Supergirl in Chapter 87 (collected as issue 29) and their attraction becomes immediately noticable. The later chapters of Bombshells would show Kara’s Kryptonian mother, Faora Hu-Ul, coming to prominence as a fiend and eventually turning into the monster Doomsday before being overpowered and imprisoned in the Swamp Thing. After this brutal battle, Kara and Lois seemed to grow closer and in Bombshells United Chapter 33 we can see the confirmation of their relationship when they kiss before Supergirl goes off to fight parademons and whatnot. This chapter also shows Kara with a shorter haircut which I used as inspiration for this Supergirl in the Multiverse drawing.
As with all my Supergirl in the Multiverse posts, this is my own artwork. Bombshells Supergirl is floating and waving with her scarf billowing behind her. There are flower fields in front of and around her and a blue sky with a rainbow in the background. There is a motif of Supergirl’s S symbol with a 24 on it in the top right corner.
