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DCnU Maxima





Supergirl #5
Written by MICHAEL GREEN and MIKE JOHNSON
Art and cover by MAHMUD ASRAR
On sale JANUARY 18 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T
Supergirl’s nightmare is finally over – she has left Earth and has somehow made it back to Argo City! But it’s not the home she remembers, and a deadly new adversary stands in her way. Enter: Maxima!

Date: 2011-10-18 02:00 am (UTC)
q99: (Default)
From: [personal profile] q99
Not very 'Maxima'-ish (the colors don't pop, while Maxima was extremely bright in the old look), but not a bad design in itself. Could work.

Date: 2011-10-18 11:02 am (UTC)
drmcninja: (Default)
From: [personal profile] drmcninja
That's what I thought too. It really is a nice design, it just isn't really her. I fee like I'm looking at a Namor villain.

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Date: 2011-10-18 02:06 am (UTC)
freezer: (Default)
From: [personal profile] freezer
So they've turned Maxima into a Cenobite?

Date: 2011-10-18 02:38 am (UTC)
shadowpsykie: Terra is Scared (TerraTerror)
From: [personal profile] shadowpsykie
That series gave me NIGHTMARES just from seeing the commercials!

"We''ll tear your soul APART!"

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Date: 2011-10-18 04:21 am (UTC)
protogarrett: (Default)
From: [personal profile] protogarrett
She's a Hadal from a Jeff Long novel.

Date: 2011-10-18 02:13 am (UTC)
perletwo: Movie Supergirl is easily distracted by shiny things. (supergirl shiny)
From: [personal profile] perletwo
There's something kind of insectoid and alien about this design, from what we can see of it. There might be potential there.

Date: 2011-10-18 02:21 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] nightauditguy
Superman will certainly not want to be her mate now.

Date: 2011-10-18 07:16 am (UTC)
icon_uk: (Default)
From: [personal profile] icon_uk
Which would be sadly ironic given how xenophobia seems to be so rampant amongst humans.

I hope he'd judge her by who she is, not what she looks like.

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Date: 2011-10-18 02:21 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] kd_the_movie
I was just thinking about Maxima the other day.....

Im ambivalent on the change but its really only an issue if you really care about all of the aspects of the "I WANT YOU AS MY MATE SUPERMAN" dynamic.

Date: 2011-10-18 04:39 am (UTC)
mrstatham: (Default)
From: [personal profile] mrstatham
I don't see the problem. Superman never willingly reciprocates her feelings, and that dynamic can still be maintained, as old as it'll get all over again after the first time Clark responds in the negative to her affections.

The only thing lost so far is the fact she looked like Angie Everhart, and to me, it's not a big loss.

Date: 2011-10-18 02:25 am (UTC)
werehawk: (Default)
From: [personal profile] werehawk
Still too humanoid for an alien (I dislike the idea that there are any humanoid aliens really, Superman/girl included), but a step in the right direction.

Date: 2011-10-18 07:19 am (UTC)
icon_uk: (Default)
From: [personal profile] icon_uk
A couple of reboots ago it was because a lot of the "powered human" worlds we saw in the Legion were actually started by humans. Subjects of Dominator experiments who'd had their metagene messed with, and who didn't want to return home, so were taken to new worlds where their powers would be useful, by Valor/M'onel.

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Date: 2011-10-18 02:26 am (UTC)
pyrotwilight: (Default)
From: [personal profile] pyrotwilight
Yeeep. DC really is apparently going the way of making sure alien characters this time around really are more alien.

Date: 2011-10-18 04:43 am (UTC)
mrstatham: (Default)
From: [personal profile] mrstatham
And so they should. It's a bit of a joke that four to six of the major aliens or alien races in the DCU, be they Kryptonian, Daxamite or whatever, all looked the same as humans, really.

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Date: 2011-10-18 02:49 am (UTC)
auggie18: (Default)
From: [personal profile] auggie18
Neat. I like it.

Date: 2011-10-18 03:23 am (UTC)
citygod: (Default)
From: [personal profile] citygod
I have no idea who Maxima is. Does her name refer to the volume of her hair?

Date: 2011-10-18 09:30 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] celestialchild
Haha.

She was some alien who came to Earth looking for a suitable mate, and wanted Superman. On her planet they have done selective breeding for centuries or something, which is how she gained all her super-power abilities etc, and she wanted to breed with Superman for his.

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Date: 2011-10-18 04:12 am (UTC)
proteus_lives: (Default)
From: [personal profile] proteus_lives
I don't have a problem with her looking more alien.

Date: 2011-10-18 04:14 am (UTC)
mullon: (Jade Curtiss)
From: [personal profile] mullon
So she gets more cleavage, but we lose the legs and the face takes a hit. I tihnk I'd rather have the legs back.

Date: 2011-10-18 04:34 am (UTC)
mrstatham: (Default)
From: [personal profile] mrstatham
I'm sure the cleavage, at least from that image, will be one of those things that different artists interpret in their own way, given the cut of the material. The angle it's drawn at is a little awkward to be showing off that much, though..

Given the common Wonder Woman argument at the moment, I think the new outfit is better designed than the old, as much as it's apparently sacrilege to say anything associated with the portrayal of a woman in the DCnU is good, because that breastplate doo-da stopping just below her breasts, a thong, and then some thighhighs in an entirely different colour is just bad. And it shows off more skin than the new one, really.

Date: 2011-10-18 04:50 am (UTC)
mrstatham: (Default)
From: [personal profile] mrstatham
Definitely a step in the right direction visually, imo. That the woman hunting space for the perfect mate just happened to be be an ultrahot redhead who looked like Angie Everhart on her best day was always a bit weird to me. And again, it's a nice step away from the 'every alien looks human' thing that most of the alien races not associated with the Green Lantern Corps suffered from in the old universe.

She still looks feasibly attractive, she just doesn't look like a badly dressed spacebound underwear model anymore.

Date: 2011-10-18 05:17 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] nightauditguy
Her sword looks like a giant can opener.

Date: 2011-10-18 05:54 am (UTC)
proteus_lives: (Default)
From: [personal profile] proteus_lives
Multi-use.

Fear her, space monsters and giant space cans.

Date: 2011-10-18 05:23 am (UTC)
cypherfdp: (Default)
From: [personal profile] cypherfdp
Cleavage is still a staple on other planets, I see

Date: 2011-10-18 08:55 am (UTC)
tsunamiwombat: (Default)
From: [personal profile] tsunamiwombat
Also BATTLE HEELS.

I do however, like that she's an alien thats not just a human with different colored skin or a walnut stapled to her forehead.

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Date: 2011-10-18 11:39 am (UTC)
nezchan: Toony version of me, more or less (Default)
From: [personal profile] nezchan
Supergirl is looking very Amanda Connor there, I like.

Date: 2011-10-18 02:00 pm (UTC)
kenn_el: Northstar_Hmm (Default)
From: [personal profile] kenn_el
So this Maxima wants to mate with Kara? It doesn't seem that that would work all that well. (Though, in a universe where Clark is unattached, Maxima wouldn't work as well as she previously did.)

Date: 2011-10-18 02:57 pm (UTC)
leoboiko: manga-style picture of a female-identified person with long hair, face not drawn, putting on a Japanese fox-spirit max (Default)
From: [personal profile] leoboiko
Good: aliener.

Bad: Pointless armor.

Bad: Heels.

Bad: Ridiculous cleavage-showing top thing.

Worst: absurd vagina-hinting V-cut pants.

Date: 2011-10-18 08:08 pm (UTC)
q99: (Default)
From: [personal profile] q99
Sword arm armor isn't entirely unsensible. It's the arm you're going to have pointed at the enemy after all.

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Date: 2011-10-18 05:45 pm (UTC)
fifthie: tastes the best (Default)
From: [personal profile] fifthie
Why not just make a new character?

Date: 2011-10-18 08:09 pm (UTC)
q99: (Default)
From: [personal profile] q99
Maybe personality-origin wise she's more strongly based on oldMaxima.

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Date: 2011-10-18 09:31 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] celestialchild
I like it. It gets boring when ALL the aliens look human, though considering her story it makes sense that she is nonetheless humanoid.

starring!

Date: 2011-10-19 05:53 am (UTC)
equinox216: (Default)
From: [personal profile] equinox216
MAXIMA is...
ELRIC OF MELNIBONE in...
TYLER PERRY'S...
CHRONICLES OF AMBER!

Re: starring!

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Re: starring!

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Re: starring!

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Date: 2011-10-19 02:11 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] rickperry
I'm hoping her face and skin turn like that when shes angry or something.

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