Something I don't understand

[james_davis_nicoll]

Why the change from having Jonathan Kent support Superman's career as a hero to opposing it?

Supergirl, as I recall, has always had someone trying to discourage her. In the old days it was Superman. And I cannot recall if the Danvers had any idea she was Supergirl; they may not have had the option to support or discourage her.

Not that comic book characters age in real time but if she was 16 in her first 1959 appearance, Supergirl would have become an adult at a very interesting time for women's rights in the US...

Comments

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

It's probably relying more on DC's general goodwill. They've been famously lawsuit-crazy in the past, but these days they're more likely to try to co-opt good cartoonists who do sufficiently interesting things with their characters. Kate Beaton made those sketches of surly Wonder Woman and ended up doing one or two short comic stories about her for a DC indie collection.

Of course, it's playing with fire.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

...am I right about that? Perhaps I am not right about that. I thought that was the case, but Beaton's work for the Big Two seems to have been for Marvel.

[liviapenn.livejournal.com]

I think you're thinking of Noelle Stevenson (her webcomic is Nimona) -- she draws a lot of fanart as well, and has also done Wonder Woman stories for DC.