Supergirl (Craig Gillespie, June 26, 2026) Movie • Page 2

I think my favourite Tom King is still The Vision, but Supergirl is a close second.

 

Oh wow he did those Vision comics? They were awesome. Makes me look forward to Supergirl more

 

For my money, the actual best Supergirl material is the Silver Age stuff, largely written by sci-fi legend Otto Binder and charmingly illustrated by Jim Mooney.

It’s very silly, heightened, cartoony, dream logic, etc., in a way that modern readers eager for “grounded” “realism” from cape shit don’t always vibe with. Like, if you’re not on that wavelength, you’ll make fun of Comet the Super-Horse instead of finding him fanciful and joyous. But, the imagination and playfulness is so special.

As far as modern stuff, the current series by cartoonist Sophie Campbell (with gorgeous colors by Tamra Bonvillain) is already an all-timer at just 3 issues. She’s infused her work with influences from the Silver and Bronze Age (Streaky the Super Cat!), and also from the CW show (Lena Luthor!), into the platonic ideal of a modern cape comic. Hope it gets a long runway.

(Honorable mention to the 00s Superman/Batman story by Jeph Loeb and Michael Turner that reintroduced Supergirl. Loeb sucks, lol, and the late, great Turner was in some ways a bad fit, but it’s a formative comic for me that I still appreciate in certain ways. Also shout out to the 90s when Supergirl was a weird alien goo “matrix”; comics are wild.)

 

Tom King being a CIA spook has always given me the ick.

 

aside from Woman of Tomorrow i liked Mariko Tamaki's Being Super. haven't read much else but i do have Gates/Igle which i've heard is good

and yes, the current run by Campbell/Bonvillain is already fantastic

 

I will say, if Woman of Tomorrow really does have a ton of narration like Tim said, that will drive me nuts and I might give up on it haha

 

Ordered woman of tomorrow. Gunn got me interested in reading comics again

 

It’s kind of Elseworlds? It’s more of a jump to the future that was meant to originally be the end to his run before it was cut short. I really enjoyed it, but it’s definitely one to read all at once because it’s telling 3 intertwined stories all at once and doesn’t always have clear markers on which one is happening in a given panel outside of costumes and context.

 

Your comic is arriving this Saturday as a FYI, @Jason Tate !