Tag: Supergirl in the Multiverse

Earth-31, formerly known as Earth-494, first showed up in Detective Comics Annual #7 from 1994. The DC Comics annuals from that year were all Elseworlds stories and this story is no different. The story tells a tale of a different sort of Batman, a Captain Leatherwing pirate captain of the Flying Fox. Neither the classic, nor current iterations of this universe have very many appearances but the theme is pretty easy to follow. This is of course the pirate universe.

Mary El is the rebellious niece of Admiral Gar-El who has escaped her cozy rich lifestyle to live the thrills of the pirate life as captain of the ship, Comet. Captain Steel-Skin, so called for her invincible skin, leads her crew of pirates pillaging the 7 seas. While Admiral Gar-El has shown up a couple times since showing up in The Multiversity Guidebook, mostly it is as a cameo. As such, Captain Steel-Skin unfortunately doesn’t actually exist in canon but I feel the idea of a pirate universe consisting of pirate versions of all our favorite DC characters has room to tell lots of stories.

As with all my Supergirl in the Multiverse posts, this is my own artwork. Captain Steel-Skin is shown flying above cresting waves pulling her ship Comet behind her. The ship has its sails aloft and a flag at the top showing the crest of the house of El. Captain Steel-Skin has her sword drawn pointing forward as she leads her ship. The top right features a motive of the El Crest with a number 31 on top of it.

Earth-30 is the home of Red Son Superman. The story of Red Son has a simple premise, what if Kal-El landed in the Soviet Union instead of Kansas. The story was initially told across 3 prestige format issues under the Elseworlds imprint in 2003. The story opens and closes fairly well without much room for any sort of sequel, but because of the iconic nature and look of this universe’s Superman, he does show up quite frequently in stories dealing with the multiverse.

Most often when needing to create a Supergirl for this series, I come up with a backstory for how a Supergirl may exist into the universe. I considered the possibility of a Zor-L also existing, and also trying to save the future the same way Jor-L does at the end of Red Son #3. There was also a Red Daughter in the Supergirl show that came into existence via some black Kryptonite. I do think however the best example of a Supergirl landing in the Soviet Union already exists in the pages of Bombshells. Seeing as we already looked at the Bombshells Supergirl a few weeks ago, I decided instead to take the iconic look of Red Son Superman and apply it to the Girl of Steel, and we’re left with Kara Starikov, Red Daughter.

As with all my Supergirl in the Multiverse posts, this is my own artwork. An homage to Supergirl (vol. 2) #13, we see Red Daughter, hands on her hips and standing in front of the flag of the Soviet Union. The background is striped in shades of red reminiscent of propaganda posters. The top right features a motif of Red Daughter’s symbol with a 30 in it.

Earth-29, or Bizarro World or Htrae, is the home to bizarro versions of the Earth-0 residents. Bizarro world has not always been a separate universe and is instead usually depicted as a planet in the same universe as Earth-0 but far away in the depths of space. Bizarros are a fairly well known concept and the idea of an imperfect clone of Superman (and other heroes) is pretty easy to duplicate. As such, these Bizarro imitations of Superman have shown up in all kinds of non comic media in shows like Superboy, Smallville, and more recently Superman and Lois.

Bizarrogirl herself started appearing as early as Superman (Vol. 1) #140 and has since go on to appear in many forms. She showed up periodically in Peter David’s Supergirl run and was a feature character in the story written by Sterling Gates, Bizarrogirl. As well as her comic appearances, Bizarro Supergirl has shown up in outside comics media as well in shows like Supergirl and DC Superhero Girls. She has also shown up in comics out of main continuity in stories like Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade, and Tiny Titans. For my drawing this week I’ve chosen to base it on her appearance in the aforementioned Bizarrogirl story by Sterling Gates (I have recently posted a synopsis and breakdown of this story that you can read here).

As with all my Supergirl in the Multiverse posts, this is my own artwork. This drawing depicts Bizarrogirl facing away from the viewer with her hands on her hips and her cape billowing behind and above her. Her right boot is missing. Bizarrogirl is standing on an asteroid taking up most of the right side of the page. The background is a space scene that has a few other asteroids floating around and Htrae prominently shown. Htrae’s blue sun can be seen barely rising behind the planet. A motif of Bizarrogirl’s symbol with a 29 on it is in the top right corner.

As America was celebrating the end of WWII, the country and the Justice Society of America was suddenly attacked by a Parademon. This monster from the skies was barely able to be taken down by the JSA and during the conflict they suffered many casualties. Knowing now that mankind was not alone among the stars and the thought that more terrors may come from above, the world began to shift their ideas towards scientific advancement to be prepared for any further conflicts. It would be decades later before the world, now more equipped, would encounter these monsters again. The world would now be protected by a team of superheroes using mech suits and together they would defeat the threat and become the Justice Squadron.

Supergirl does not show up in the pages of DC Mech and because of how severely the destruction of Krypton is shown, it doesn’t seem like any Kryptonians aside from Kal could have escaped to Earth. However the story does include a Bizarro character that was made by Lex creating a clone from Superman’s blood. With this in mind, I pulled together an idea based somewhat on the post-Crisis Matrix Supergirl and Lena Luthor II. The Matrix Supergirl was made by the pocket universe Lex and Lena II was the daughter of New Earth’s Lex so that’s the sort of relationship between L3-N4 and Lex. Lex-Corps Supergirl is meant to be a competitor to the Justice Squadron and seen more as Luthor’s own answer to protecting earth from extra-human threats.

As with all of my Supergirl in the Multiverse posts this is my own artwork. A digital drawing laid out as almost a schematic for Supergirl’s mech suit. The top left reads “LexCorp presents Supergirl project: L3-N4.” On the left hand side there is a small depiction of Lena outside of her mech, a scale drawing of Lena and her mech, and Lena’s Lex-Corp logo that’s on both her suit and her mech. Below this is a text box that gives a short promotional dialogue about who Lena is. Most of the right half of the page is taken up with a drawing of Lena’s green and purple mech suit. The top right has a motif of Lena’s suit symbol with a 28 on top of it.

Earth-26, sometimes referred to as Earth-C is home to the funny animal characters that make up the Zoo Crew. Led by Captain Carrot, the Zoo Crew are citizens of a world without humans and fully inhabited by anthropomorphic animals. The 6 members of the zoo crew were all affected by a fragment of a meteor that landed on the planet along with Superman when he broke through the dimensional barrier. These meteor fragments were affected by being in proximity to Superman when he burst through from pre-crisis Earth-1 and when landing near the 6 members of the Zoo Crew they each gained miraculous powers. These events and the specific origins of each Crew member are told in the pages of Captain Carrot and his amazing Zoo Crew #1 as well as the preview comic included in copies of New Teen Titans (Vol. 1) #16. These meteors and the somewhat accidental nature of their powers reminds me a lot of X-Kryptonite that gives Streaky his powers (read about Streaky here)which is quite fitting since the Zoo Crew are also animals.

Captain Carrot is the most prominent hero of the universe and the self-proclaimed leader of the Zoo Crew. His powers seem similar to Superman’s but he can’t fly and doesn’t have any of the wacky vision powers. But he can jump extremely far and has heightened strength and speed. Rodney (Captain Carrot) Rabbit doesn’t have a female sidekick in comics as of right now, but that hasn’t stopped me in any of the earlier Supergirl in the Multiverse posts. My idea for Carrot Cutie (the Supergirl of Earth-26) was to give Roger Rabbit a niece named Rachel Rabbit. Rachel, one day while visiting her uncle, gets a craving for a snack and accidentally eats one of Roger’s Cosmic Carrots transforming her into the brand new hero Carrot Cutie!

As with all my Supergirl in the Multiverse posts, this is my own artwork. For this post I mad a brief comic strip that explains Carrot Cutie’s origin. Three panels on the left have a brief dialogue between Rachel and Rodney as Rachel is looking for a snack until she is distracted by the carrots in Rodney’s windowsill. On the right, Rachel has now transformed into Carrot Cutie with a costume similar to Captain Carrot’s and in the background is Rodney’s artist studio where he works on his comic Just’a Lotta Animals. A motif in the top right features the Captain Carrot symbol with a 26 on top of it.