The Team Behind Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow Looks Back on Kara’s Legacy, and Her Future

Kara Zor-El has lived many lives across her long, occasionally strange comic book history, but arguably no book has been more important to her modern imagining than Woman of Tomorrow. When the smash-hit miniseries released in 2021 to critical acclaim, it quickly became the jumping-on-point recommendation for people who wanted to get the Supergirl experience, even with its uniquely sci-fi bent. And then everything changed again a few years later, when James Gunn nonchalantly dropped the book as one of the comics his new era of the DC movie universe was going to draw inspiration from. Now, Woman of Tomorrow is consistently one of DC’s premiere trades—spurred in part by the anticipation for next year’s Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow movie, directed by Craig Gillespie and starring House of the Dragon breakout Milly Alcock as Kara. It’s an anticipation that has only grown further when it became clearer that the film isn’t just taking the book’s catchy title, but specifically drawing on its w ... Read full article.