It's a physical manifestation of the emotional journey she's going through. But those small emotions play a lot into her physical journey through space. And it doesn't mean her story is going to be a deep, dark, navel-gazing character study about grief, and that sort of thing. It's because she hasn't processed her survivor's guilt. There's an actual logic to why she has to recombine herself. So it was fun discovering these facets of the character that had been laying a bit fallow over the years and then bringing them into the forefront.īecause some of the problem with the character of Supergirl is also the problem that she has, you know, sort of defining herself. And she's probably smarter than Clark! People forget-you know, doing the research when I took the book over, she's a child prodigy. Kara's always been, 'Marcia, Marcia, Marcia' to a certain extent. So unpack all that stuff on an emotional level. You come to Earth, your baby cousin is now an adult, and the #1 hero on the planet. You know? Imagine everything you knew dead. Well the first issue I did, Issue #21, there's a scene between Kara and Clark where she says to him, 'Krypton is theoretical to you, you were a baby.' She doesn't say it but in so many words, he's the grandson of a Holocaust survivor. Was that something you wanted to foster, or a direction you wanted to take Kara? I've been reading Supergirl comics on and off for more than a decade, and that's one part of her character she's never really gotten to embrace. It's just a joy to write stuff like that, the strength and power of family, the strength of who you love, and who you want to protect. Every person inspires someone else, you see that happening through this family for generations and how close they are. And now she gets to be a mentor, senior class buddy sort of equivalent. what you just said, about it being the inverse of her relationship with Clark, is her relationship with Jon. And a lot of these scenes write themselves. Oh it's a thrill, I think what Brian Bendis did with Jon, it was slightly controversial but I think it's a real smart thing to do by aging his character up. What did you want to get across in writing their reunion? Because they seem to overlap now, almost more than Kara and Clark ever did.

Kara already has some experience with Kryptonian cousins changing overnight, but now we're getting another dose - after baby Clark grew into Superman while she was asleep, Superboy has become an adolescent in weeks.

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