Today marks the 17th anniversary for this site.
Seventeen!
I started the site to sing the praises of Supergirl as a character. I wasn't a big fan of her comic at the time and wanted to remind people of her history and adventures.
Since then, in the time I have been doing this, the character has had multiple comic series, multiple appearances in animated features, a live action television show, and an Elseworld appearance in The Flash movie. Next month she'll have another solo title on the shelves. And next year she'll have a major motion picture on the big screen.
I have loved the character since I first started reading her adventures, seeing so much of myself in someone trying to find their place in the world - whether it was a difficult romantic life or trying to find a career or sticking with certain schooling, or someone living in the shadow of someone close to you who was a bright light, or someone trying to be a hero but learning, fallible.
She has matured since those early tales and in the current DCU she mostly is written as a competent young woman, confident in her role in the super-family and still learning herself, a sort of middle figure between heroes and sidekicks. That works for me.
It hasn't all been perfect. Her solo story this year was incomprehensible and boring. The major motion picture is based on a story which, for me, portrayed her terribly.
All that said, I don't see myself going anywhere. I mean, there is a new series to review!
As always, I am grateful for the people who come here, read my long missives, and chime in. I love the community here of Supergirl fans.
So happy anniversary to all of you too!
11 comments:
I grew up in a society towards which I felt little affinity (working class north-east England). I was therefore attracted to characters who, like me, had a struggle to 'fit in'. I'm much better integrated now and I'm certainly happy with my life, but I still love Supergirl and the Legion of Super Heroes.
Happy anniversary, anj- many more to come, hopefully.
Thanks for kind words!
Congratulations for 17 years!!! I have followed your dight for many years, as a fan of Supergirl from early 70s, The hot pants version is still the real Supergirl to me!!! I am hoping that the new Supergirl comic series turns out so much better than the terrible Power Girl series. The art was pretty good but Power Girl was not the heroine of series and was not the character I knew. Maybe different powers but she was not the heroine I grew up with, changed name, had a different attitude. Let's hope they get the true Supergirl this time!!!
Always a Comfortable "Home" for the Much Buffetted Supergirl Fan....JLG
Congratulations on seventeen years. I look forward to many more celebrating one of comics greatest heroines.
Congratulations! I've loved reading your blog for many years.
T.N.
Thanks for the only blog so good I check it daily! BTW, I didn't watch the Flash movie because I just couldn't do that to myself but what I read made it sound like Supergirl in that movie was a Kal variant.
Thanks for continued comments!
Yes Steve, in the Flash she was definitely more a Kal variant and very clearly based on the Flashpoint Project Superman series!
Congrats on 17 years!
A belated Happy Birthday, Anj, you know what this page means to me.
And blimey, I never knew John’s (Somewhere in England) was close to my family home - I’m from Co Durham in the North East.
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