Tag: Supergirl in the Multiverse

We looked at the Webtoons branch of the multiverse a few weeks back when I covered the Red Hood Outlaws universe, but Wayne Family Adventures is where DC made it’s Webtoons debut. Wayne Family Adventures is a weekly web comic that has been published onto Webtoons (and recently re-published as DC Go comics) since 2021 and is continuing strong through it’s 4th season. The Wayne Family Adventures comic is a light-hearted slice of life comic where the Batman Family gets up to every day life and are much more open about their emotions and its a fantastic comic. There is a very clear tie to the James Tynion IV run of Detective Comics in the Rebirth era, for the most part the character roster is the same and the costumes and character interactions line up with this era of the comics. I’m particularly fond of Spoiler and Orphan in this comic although seeing all the characters interact in much less violent manner than they are normally depicted is a nice change of pace.

Supergirl does show up in Mini-Episode 3 before the start of season 3, although it is a very brief appearance. Duke is training with Dick in the Batcave when he asks his older brother when he will get a Kryptonian or Amazonian partner and sites the various other Bat/Super/Wonder team-ups and Supergirl is shown alongside both Barbara and Stephanie as Batgirls as their Kryptonian partner. Aside from this single panel, Supergirl has yet to appear again, but with the series continuing on (and Episode 87 was completely set aside for “Kent Family Adventures”) I hope we get to see more Supergirl in future Wayne Family Adventures. Because of how Supergirl was introduced to the series (as a partner to Batgirls) I thought it was important to also include my favorite Batgirl (she’s also my favorite Robin) alongside Supergirl in this week’s drawing.

As with all Supergirl in the Multiverse posts, this is my own artwork. Supergirl is flying through a clear blue sky while Stephanie “Spoiler” Brown is riding on her back like a surfboard and both girls are smiling. There is a Supergirl S in the top right with a “W-1” on top of it.

Earth-2052 is another universe that is currently undesignated but fairly recognizable as the universe that houses the Gotham City Garage. I did briefly consider naming the universe Earth-GCG although 3 letters felt clunky and for the most part I would like to keep the universes as numbers if possible so the designation comes from the first issue which lists the story as taking place 35 years after Luthorrise. Presuming Luthor’s rise to power happens in the same year the series started (2017) that will make the stories in this universe taking place in the year 2052. I also like that the designation is adjacent to 252 and the prevalence of Supergirl to the story seems reasonable that naming the universe after the girl of steel’s first appearance would be reasonable.

The story of Gotham City Garage tells of a world that has fallen to destruction either by nuclear warfare or some sort of Darkseid affair or possibly both. With the whole world as a wasteland, Lex Luthor has stepped up and saved a single city to the ravages of the wasteland called The Garden where he has brainwashed an entire city to feign happiness and fall into line based on his will. Fear not however, there is a group of rebels working outside the city limits who have not fallen to Luthor’s brainwashing working out of a garage/bar where Gotham city used to stand.

Supergirl in this story has a pretty interesting origin that helps set this universe apart from most others. She is still Kara Zor-El in this timeline, but instead of being raised by the Kents or the Danvers or any family that is generally associated with Supergirl, she was instead raised by Jim Gordon. Kara’s pod was intercepted by Luthor and he brainwashed her to not remember her time before landing on earth. This, along with the dome around the Garden simulating a red sun, Kara had no idea she was anything other than Barbara Gordon’s sister. Jim Gordon, tired of putting up with Luthor’s reign, helped his adopted daughter escape the Garden where he knew the yellow sun would give Kara powers. Kara would successfully make it outside the walls, find the rebellion, and successfully end Luthor’s tyranical rule. Also it’s revealed at one point she had a unicorn on Krypton which informed her unicorn tattoos she got when remembering her Kryptonian memories.

As with all my Supergirl in the Multiverse posts, this is my own artwork. Supergirl from Gotham City Garage is riding a motorcycle towards the viewer on a cracked road. There is a wasteland all around and a domed city in the background. A s-shield with a 2052 on it is in the top right corner.

We have once again been met with a universe without an official universe designation, that being the home to the Ame-Comi Girls. Similar to the Bombshells universe of Earth-24, this line was also started not on the pages of a comic, but with collectible statues. The comics began showing up (digitally first) in 2012 with the statues releasing soon before. Aside from a loose anime/manga influence (hence the name “Ame-Comi” or a loose approximation of “American Comics”  or “アメコミ”) this universe offers few dissimilarities to the main DC Universe. This is a world where only females have super powers but for the most part we don’t have female versions of male superheroes, and instead just have female heroes growing to prominence without the getting overshadowed by what is generally a boys club.

On the comics side, there are 2 volumes of the series, the first being a 5 issue miniseries which then launched a 8 issue ongoing series. The miniseries was somewhat set up as character introduction one-shots for Wonder Woman, Batgirl&Robin, Duella Dent, Power Girl, and Supergirl. However there is a clear linear storyline through this miniseries so the issues don’t really work as one-shots. The Supergirl side of this universe does actually have a slight variation, although not with Supergirl but her cousin Kara Jor-El. Kara Jor-El landed on Earth a couple decades ago and grew up on a farm in Smallville with the Kents until moving to the big city and becoming the hero Power Girl. Supergirl on the other hand has a fairly standard stasis-type origin (check out my Supergirl Timeline post for more explanation of this). I do find it odd that both Jor-El and Zor-El named their daughters “Kara” and the continuing story of Ame-Comi doesn’t help much with this issue either.

Supergirl specifically in this story gets sidelined a lot as Power Girl takes center stage. In the first arc, Supergirl doesn’t show up until the last chapter and soon gets infected by black Kryptonite by Brainiac and is put on ice until issue 4 of the ongoing where the team is able to remove the black-k infection. Supergirl would help the rest of the team against the threat of Sinestra weilding both yellow and black power rings. Sinestra turns Supergirl (and the rest of the team) into zombified black lanterns before being set right by Metra. After this successful battle against Sinestra though, Supergirl never shows up again and it’s uncertain if Metra decided to bring her back or not after re-setting the universe (I do not have the time or space to fully explain the events of this storyline and I also cannot recommend you reading it yourself).

As with all my Supergirl in the Multiverse posts, this is my own artwork. Ame-Comi Supergirl is floating in space relaxing with her hands behind her head and her cape billowing behind her. The expanse of space is behind her including an orange planet in the lower left and the top right has Supergirl’s s-symbol with a “AC” on it.

Earth-148 has an interesting place in the grand cosmos of the DC Universe because when just exploring its core premise (heroes are villains and villains are heroes) you may be wondering how this isn’t just a precursor to Earth-3 and the Crime Syndicate. What may surprise you however, is that Earth-3 actually predates this universe by about half a year. So what sets this universe apart from the more famous hero/villain universe? In 1965, in the pages of World’s Finest #148, Superman and Batman are transported to a world where they meet a villainous mirror of themselves as well as Luthor and Clayface working with the police. Similar stories would appear in the next couple years in Wonder Woman #175 and Flash #174. These stories would similarly feature the character’s swapping places and in each instance we see that even when acting fiendishly, the character’s would still maintain their capes and tights name. Instead of Ultraman or Owlman the character’s are still Superman and Batman which allows for the Earth-0 counterparts to be mistaken for their villainous versions. The other main notable feature I noticed in these stories is that the villains as heroes (specifically Mirror Master, Clayface, and Joker) seem to be just as important to the stories as the villainous heroes.

Supergirl does not appear in any of the 3 stories mentioned above, but with the focus from this universe on well known criminals on earth-0 working with the police on earth-148, I thought this would be a perfect time to include Reactron. Reactron, to me, is the closest foe of hers that would line up as arch enemy. Reactron has not appeared a lot in Supergirl comics, but he has appeared in pre-crisis, post-crisis, and the CBS show which is something I don’t think many other Supergirl enemies can say. Reactron also stands apart as being specifically a Supergirl enemy and not a Superman enemy which is an important distinction when picking out her arch-enemy. In the World’s Finest issue we do get a bit of an altered history for the well known characters. Superman, instead of being adopted by friendly farmers, are instead adopted by criminals dressed as farmers. So I could see the criminal Kents having a similar criminal family friend (Fred and Edna Danvers) that Superman takes Supergirl to after landing on Earth.

As with all my Supergirl in the Multiverse posts, this is my own artwork. Reactron is in the foreground shooting a radiocative beam out of his arm at Supergirl who is bursting through the roof of a bank where she has just stolen a large sack of money. There is dialogue between the pair revealing Reactron to be a hero and Supergirl a criminal. There is also a text box in the bottom right with a similar design to common Silver Age splash pages. There is a S Symbol in the top right with a 148 on top of it.

In a surprising sequence of events, the knowledge of this universe to inclusion into Supergirl in the Multiverse was quite accelerated. For those unaware, this project is fairly well planned in advance and often does not get changed from my initial plans. Season 1 of Supergirl in the Multiverse was clearly defined by the Multiversity Guidebook and somewhere near the end of season 1, I publicly showed my list for the entirety of what universes would be showing up in season 2. However, Earth-332 was not on my radar at all until I was working my way through Supergirl in the Silver Age Omnibus Volume 2 a few months back and instantly fell in love with the story told in Action Comics 332 and 333. So much so I nearly immediately wrote a blog post about it (How Superwoman trained Superboy) and this was just 2 months ago. So if I’m so ahead of my game and have my lists planned out months ahead of time how did it happen that I was able to slot Earth-332 in in the middle of an ongoing year? The short answer is that when I made my list I only accounted for 3 July entries not 4 (an error that can be seen in my list screenshots that I showed in my Season 1 Recap) and when realizing that I had a free week I immediately filled it with one of my new favorites.

I did cover the stories that this universe includes in the aforementioned How Superwoman trained Superboy post, so please check out that post for a more thorough dive into the world. To briefly recap however, this universe explored a universe where Kara Zor-El and Kal-El switched places. Kara was the baby born on Krypton, and rocketed away soon after her birth and moment’s before the planet’s destruction. Whereas Kal was born later on the miraculously saved Argo City that survived the destruction of Krypton by Jor-El’s invention of a protective bubble over the city. In addition to that change, it was also not just Kara that rocketed away when the planet exploded, but the whole Zor-El family who made it to earth and integrated into a small farming town called Smallville as the Zorelles. Carole would grow up to become the hero Superwoman, while working as a private investigator with Jimmy Olsen as her day job. She would later encounter a rocket that originated from the city of Argo containing her cousin Kal-El, who Carole would place in Midvale Orphanage and he would become Superwoman’s secret weapon, Superboy.

As with all my Supergirl in the Multiverse posts, this is my own artwork. Carole Zorelle is walking out the door of her Private investigation practice while ripping her shirt open to reveal she is Superwoman. The door behind her reads “Private Investigators Carole Zorelle James Olsen”. The top right corner has a motif of Superwoman’s S symbol with a 332 on it.