Supergirl: Being Super
DC · 2017 · 4 issues
About the series
Mariko Tamaki and Joëlle Jones reimagine Supergirl’s origin in this four-issue DC series from 2017, grounding Kara Zor-El’s adolescent powers and alien heritage in a small-town coming-of-age story. With Jones’s expressive, grounded artwork and Tamaki’s nuanced character work, Being Super strips away cosmic spectacle to focus on the loneliness and quiet wonder of a teenage girl who is literally not from this world. It’s a thoughtful, intimate take on the Super-mythos that stands apart from the mainline continuity.