Kryptonian Crack: the Supergirl The Movie comic adaptation

[perletwo]

So, I happened across a cbr of the Supergirl Movie Special comic the other week, and in honor of the news that Helen Slater's going to be involved in the writing of Supergirl #50, I thought I'd post some of it. 16 pages of a 48-page story, plus 3 pinups. Adaptation written by Joey Cavalieri from Gary Odell's film script, art and colors by Gray Morrow.



Meet Wee Kara of Argo City, last remnant of mighty Krypton, who is currently pestering city founder Zoltar. Also, meet our movie's MacGuffin, the Omegahedron!



Wee Kara's incredible clumsiness causes Argo City to lose the Omegahedron in a segment I've cut for space, soooo....



Meet our villainess, Selena the eeevil sorceress bent on world domination, and her mentor Nigel. That's Peter Cook and Mommie Dearest herself, Faye Dunaway there.



And the MacGuffin is soon followed by...



But what's a poor alien girl to do?



It's established on page 1 that Kara knows her cousin is on Earth. But somehow she knows he's Clark Kent, and in the page following this forges a recommendation letter from him. We also learn Nigel is a teacher at Midvale School. Lucy Lane becomes Linda's roommate, and she's dating Jimmy Olsen. And then there are further shenanigans with the school's Mean Girls, which I have cut for space, and also because I have a shred of mercy in my soul.

Meanwhile, Selena and her henchwoman Bianca (Brenda Vaccaro!) have met our love interest, the indolent hunk o'burnin' love Ethan, and Selena has hatched a sinister scheme...



While Selena is distracted by a visit from Nigel, the roofie'd Ethan staggers out into the carnival, where Lucy, Jimmy and Linda are wandering around.



Selena's spell-hijacked bulldozer wreaks havoc on the carnival. A quick change to Supergirl later, and - guesses? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?



Yeah, that's right. Kara's acquired an archenemy over this dude. She deals with an invisible monster Selena sends to Midvale School quite cleverly in a segment I've cut for space. For reasons not clearly explained, the bracelet Zoltar gave Kara glows when the MacGuffin is near, and as Linda she follows the glow back to the carnival, where Ethan is waiting with roses, chocolates, and the Creepy Stalker Full Court Press.





With Nigel's help Selena magically drags Ethan to her love nest and chains him - literally, with a big padlock - to her bed. She then betrays Nigel and sets Ethan up as bait for a trap Supergirl quickly walks into, and Selena magically ships her off to the Phantom Zone.



That is, of course, hard as hell, and she loses Zoltar along the way. Meanwhile Selena and Bianca set about taking over Midvale, every supervillain's first stop on the World Domination Tour. Jimmy and Lucy are leading a protest against her, and Bianca overhears the two of them chatting about their missing friend Linda. The villainesses put two and two together and have stormtroopers in riot gear seize the lovebirds; Selena pens them and Nigel up in big round cages suspended from the ceiling - buy 2 get 1 free sale at Villains 'R' Us, perhaps.



Kara freezes the spikes with super-breath so they shatter on contact, and sends the hostages running. Selena conjures a Dark(er) Selena to battle Kara, femslashily...







I believe we've found the prototype of the Edward and Bella teenage romance model here, guys.



And all's well that ends well!

The comic also includes (bad) reprints of a few movie publicity stills, so I'm posting them for your viewing pleasure. They're not part of the story so I don't think they count against my page limits, but if I'm wrong, mods just say so and I'll take them down.







Say what you will about what a crappy movie this was - and there's plenty to say - but daamn, she looks good in that outfit.


Seriously, folks, if you're a fan of Supergirl upskirts, find yourself a copy of this thing. Gray Morrow drew pages and pages of them I didn't even have room to post here.

Comments

[yaseen101]

Helen Slater looks so beautiful as a Super-girl.

Oh great, now I feel weird about crushing on a woman who is older than my mom, Slater being the second one does not help!

[icon_uk]

Could be worse, you could be crushing on your mom, and that's a whole new level of "ICK!"

[yaseen101]

Now that's just icky and wrong.

[scottyquick]

Spend more time here, Box will corrupt you.

[yaseen101]

Why not? I'm already seeing too many sub-text between two of my friends.

[scottyquick]

Haha, same. I just wish it would become canon already.

[yaseen101]

It's crossing over from sub-text to text on this side. Though it's funny because they don't know they are being gay, they think they are just being very good friends but they don't know how much sheer sub-text and wrong ideas they are giving to every one everyday. There was this hilarious incident one day and my face was a hilarious combination of WTF and lol.

[scottyquick]

Why, what did they do?

[yaseen101]

Nothing much really, I was walking home from school one day and I was passing near this huge park and I turned a corner and I saw them and one of them had their hand on the other's cheek, it was so intimate and one of them was smiling and....hell you should have seen it yourself. I was all WTF and lol. Anyway, it was more of an accidental innuendo because when one of them saw me, he was like, "Hey dude, what's up!" , "N-n-nothing, I was just going home,s-s-see ya!" "What's up with him?" Anyway, I decided to ship them from then on, because why the heck not? All the sub-text and innuendo was there, all I have to do is wait for them to realize it and go steady one day. Plus, it gave me something to think about during the holidays.

[scottyquick]

L!

Sorry, I totally forgot what you said because L!

[yaseen101]

Aren't he the awesomest?

I'll make my hair like his once I escaped Mom's clutches.

[kamino_neko]

Oh great, now I feel weird about crushing on a woman who is older than my mom, Slater being the second one does not help!

... This is supposed to be unusual? (Well, OK, for a period in the very late teens, early-to-mid 20s, I suppose I can see it, but...Jeez...)

[yaseen101]

Well yeah, I have crushed over women who are 10 or so years older than me (I'm 16) but this is the second time I crushed on a woman in her 50's or so.

[kamino_neko]

Helen Slater is only 46. Still possibly older than your mom, but, for heaven's sake, she's middle aged, not a senior citizen.

And I was 10 when one of my earliest celebrity crushes (Hayley Mills) was 41. I've regularly crushed on women in their 40s, 50s, and 60s since. I'm still not seeing the problem here.

[yaseen101]

I have crushed on people in their late 30's and the likes of Princess Diana , Queen Rania of Jordan and heck I had a crush on one of my High School Teachers and creeped myself out when I found out that I was feeling disappointed when I found out she married and had kids! What creeped me out was that this was second time in a very long time that I crushed on someone in their 40's who could pretend to be my Mom if she wanted to.