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kara in-ze
Apr. 15th, 2024 09:57 pmI'm keeping up with my DCAU watch. Currently I'm watching "The New Batman Adventures" and "Superman: The Animated Series", roughly in order. I have a looooot of thoughts about it, some of which I've shared in brief(ish) posts over tumblr, but that might end up as longer journal entries in the future. One is guaranteed to be needed to encompass all that is Timmy Todd as a character, and the links and differences I see between him and other comics characters. Another will probably be about Brubabs, to my surprise (maybe called "if ONLY they didn't do THAT... and that and that and that" lol). But today I want to talk about the DCAU's version of Supergirl: Kara In-Ze.
I don't know if it's that I missed her introductory double episode (Little Girl Lost, the season 2 finale), and maybe her other episodes (though I could swear I have seen some of her appearances), but somehow I totally missed that she's an adopted cousin / a cousin of choice in this version: Clark finds her in Argo, Krypton's ~sister planet. I loved that!
I'm primarily a Bat-related reader, but I've been thinking a lot about Superman comics, making myself a list of some reading I want to get around to. One of the things on that list is Chris Kent, Clark's adopted son from the prereboot era. I found out about his existence not that long ago, and I became both really, really curious about it, and gained another reason to dislike the reboot. It seems that from 2011 till now, detective comics comics is little more that ~corporate interests~~, all hellbent into embracing conventionality in all its forms, the nuclear family chief among them, which is particularly egregious when it accompanies the Superman mythos, in particular.
All of that, in combination with Kara In-Ze, made me realise how much I vastly prefer for Clark not to have living biological relatives LOL. I still have to read about new earth!Kara (barring some panels here and there, where I can already tell I'll like her), and maybe in terms of her character there will be something about her being part of the House of El that'll resonate in particular (although there are ways around it, like having In-Ze embrace both of Clark's families etc.). But in terms of the Super-lore in general, I was very appreciative of the DCAU version, and I'm determined to use her on some story in the future.
I don't know if it's that I missed her introductory double episode (Little Girl Lost, the season 2 finale), and maybe her other episodes (though I could swear I have seen some of her appearances), but somehow I totally missed that she's an adopted cousin / a cousin of choice in this version: Clark finds her in Argo, Krypton's ~sister planet. I loved that!
I'm primarily a Bat-related reader, but I've been thinking a lot about Superman comics, making myself a list of some reading I want to get around to. One of the things on that list is Chris Kent, Clark's adopted son from the prereboot era. I found out about his existence not that long ago, and I became both really, really curious about it, and gained another reason to dislike the reboot. It seems that from 2011 till now, detective comics comics is little more that ~corporate interests~~, all hellbent into embracing conventionality in all its forms, the nuclear family chief among them, which is particularly egregious when it accompanies the Superman mythos, in particular.
All of that, in combination with Kara In-Ze, made me realise how much I vastly prefer for Clark not to have living biological relatives LOL. I still have to read about new earth!Kara (barring some panels here and there, where I can already tell I'll like her), and maybe in terms of her character there will be something about her being part of the House of El that'll resonate in particular (although there are ways around it, like having In-Ze embrace both of Clark's families etc.). But in terms of the Super-lore in general, I was very appreciative of the DCAU version, and I'm determined to use her on some story in the future.
