#Ruthye

[comickergirl]

EYYYYYY a Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow adaptation on DC’s new film slate, ya love to see it. XD

[karaspal]

voice actor? VOICE ACTOR? THE F*CKING DOG CAN SPEAK NOW???

[arya48]

Supergirl woman of tomorrow fanart I made, loved the comic, binged it in a couple of days, so good!

[bat-besties]

Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow Movie thoughts

These are my personal opinions! 

Essential

From his origin, Superman has been a Jewish superhero and his tale of Krypton deeply tied to the Holocaust and experiences of Jewish refugees. Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow expands on the theme of genocide, explicitly using the word holocaust a few times, and is by a Jewish writer. I really can't see how this story can be done justice without a Jewish creative team, including writers, producers, and director.

Since it is such a big blockbuster on the themes of genocide I also think it's essential they consult Amnesty International, ZACHOR Holocaust Remembrance Foundation, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and other charities. It's complex and emotional content for a superhero film, and especially with rising antisemitism it has to be handled well.

I would also love to see Jewish actors, and other creatives working on this film!

Krem can't "have a perspective", or a tragic backstory, or anything to make him more complex or redeemable. The whole point of his character is that he genuinely loves killing and only regrets it after his time in the Phantom Zone. The story has more than enough moral complexity on the side of Kara and Ruthye, it doesn't need a man who commits genocide to have a voice.

Ruthye should be played by a teenager or someone in their early twenties who easily passes for a teenager for her character to be impactful. With the success of The Last of Us, this is the one area I'm really not worried about.

Kara's actress needs some experience with tragic and complex roles rather than just action acting. I think a stage actress could really work.

I'd really like both actors to be Jewish, but with colourblind casting.

The aesthetic has to be bright and beautiful and artistic like Bilquis Evely’s work. The contrast between serious and tragic content and the ugliness of sentient beings against a beautiful universe which holds kindness is so important and makes this story unique. I so want her to consult on this.

Hopeful 

DC should be working on a unified and recognisable aesthetic for their version of space. While the recognisability of Star Wars or Star Trek is probably too much to aspire to, I think with enough funding for creatives and inspiration from comics (let Everly consult!!!), something is possible. Also, use of real costumes and sets rather than CGI.

I understand that Kara's time on Argo City will have to be condensed into a shorter flashback, but I really hope we have more time on that for the different waves of radiation. 

Niche but I’d love pre-apocalypse Krypton to be depicted as comic-style animation to show the distance/memory/innocence of Kara’s thoughts of it

The scene where Kara teaches Ruthye to wash her hands after the toilet is not only important but allows being unhygienic which women often aren't.

There should be as little exposition on Superman as possible. He's enough of a cultural icon we might need a shot of how he came to Earth, but not the whole becoming Superman thing. This isn't about him!

A consistent Kryptonian conlang for use throughout the DC universe would be great.

Films usually condense timelines, but I think there should be at least montages or timeskips to show Ruthye is with Kara for a while, and they see a lot of destruction

Let Kara Say Fuck (they probably can't have as much as she does in the comic, but she needs at least one. She's an ADULT WOMAN who has gone through so so much.)

Things I would like 

The fact Ruthye stinks and is proud of it.

Ruthye asking if "@£!^%" is the name of Kara's lover

The fact Ruthye's mother gives her blessing for the revenge

The moments on the space-bus of Ruthye's personal space being invaded and how that links into her experience as a woman

References to poems about Supergirl

Ruthye being from a rock farm is important to her character and I hope they keep it, but I get it might seem a bit weird for audiences unused to comicsy logic 

I think for simplicity's sake, Cosmo should be shot instead of Argo, and then Cosmo should be just a horse so as not to confuse new audiences.

I’d love to hear more ideas/dream castings for Kara and Ruthye/things people are hoping for :))

[lesansnom]

Ruthye du superbe comic supergirl : woman of tomorow ✨

LE meilleur comics que j'ai lu pour l'instant , vraiment un sans faute ! Que se soit dans la narration , le rythme , les dialogues ( surtout Ruthye qui est la narratrice et que la traduction française rend à merveille le style très soutenu et romanesque du personnage sans briser le rythme ) et le dessin avec couleur qui est SUBLIMES , que ce soit les décors ou les personnages , tout est poétique et dégage une sensation de nostalgie tout en nous narrant un récit épique, d'aventures, d'introspection et un beau Space Opéra qui nous racontes une des aventures d'un des personnages les plus forts du catalogue de DC : Supergirl

Parce que faut pas la sous-estimé, elle est PUTAIN de balaise dans l'âge d'argent !

Le dessin ai fait uniquement au stylo bic , même le croquis

[yellowwallsbluesky]

[dailydccomics]

Supergirl by Lee Weeks

[jesncin]

please do tell about why woman of tomorrow sucks i love reading your takes they’re always so well written

Sure! And thank you for throwing me this bone because WOOF

(btw it's totally fine for people to like Woman of Tomorrow, and I can even see why! This is just my experience with it that I wish was talked about more)

Quick context: Woman of Tomorrow is about a space farmgirl named Ruthye who seeks revenge on Krem, a guy who killed her dad. Supergirl guides her on this journey so they can learn lessons about grief and revenge.

The biggest flaw of the comic is the narrative prose. Ruthye's dialogue is a rambly, over-indulgent, stylized mix of an attempt at medieval Shakespearian speak, but then in the last few issues the writer remembers she's a farmgirl so he decides she should suddenly say "ain't" more often and speak in double negatives to sound a bit more Southern. I can enjoy wordy comics! But Ruthye's dialogue and narration is blatantly excessive purple prose. So many scenes would hit harder with a less-is-more approach while still being stylized and characteristic. Sometimes the narrations pairs nicely with the art to create layered irony, but most of the time it feels like it's disregarding the comics medium altogether.

The other thing about Ruthye's narration is that it holds the story back. I get that the narration is Ruthye writing from the future, but the way it's done gives us a very passive relationship with the events of the story. We don't get to be with the characters in the action heavy moments because we're reading caption boxes of Future Ruthye rambling about poetry recounting The Battle of Capes. I'm not experiencing grief or dread with the characters, I'm being told about it. All of Ruthye's narrative rants boil down to "Supergirl is really badass, sad and kind. I promise this is deep." and "here's how my farm girl experience is relevant to this". Ruthye also speaks in glowing admiration, idealization and worship of Supergirl; it makes it really hard to get to know Kara in a humanizing way. I'm sure the purple prose hits differently for others, but I personally think the story would have more room to breathe without it.

You know how people like saying "Superman is boring because everything is too easy for him, he's too powerful" yeah that's Woman of Tomorrow. The conflict Kara faces are not challenges to her character, they're inconveniences. The resolutions to each story don't feel clever or earned. Kara just knows where to find the murdered purple aliens, Kara just happens to have a silver age-reference magical horse that can outrun the suffering-ball Krem throws at her, Kara just toughs out 10 hours in the green sun. Why be a smart storyteller when you can just give your heroine the upper hand every single time? There could've been a great bonding moment where Ruthye uses her famer-smarts to build shade for Kara, she could've crafted a salve to protect Kara's skin. But I guess having her guard Kara from dinosaurs is ok. Kara helps of course, even though she's dying because she's so cool, badass, sad, kind, etc.

Kara's internal conflict is that she was hoping that taking Ruthye on this journey would teach the farmgirl a lesson about revenge, but has Kara herself learned to move on? She's still thinking about Krypton after all. The problem with how this is presented is that it's not a flaw that we get to see evolve with the story. We see Kara act mopey, get an origin story flashback and then Kara tells us this- in hopes it'll recontextualize everything you've read before. By the time we make it to the end, the characters act like they've learned so much and I'm just standing here wishing I got to see all this growth they're talking about.

At the heart of it, I feel like Woman of Tomorrow represents the side of Super-fandom that wants to see the Kryptonians deified by the narrative. They hate seeing Kara do silly girly rom-com teenager things, she needs to be SERIOUS and EDGY and SAD and ALONE but like a god would be and not how a young woman would be that way. How else will boys take her seriously? Don't forget to remind the reader that she's STRONGER than her boy scout wholesome cousin! There's potential in a short revenge story about young girls finding hope in seeing a role-model woman survive loss, but not like this.

"You don't think I could've solved all those problems? C'mon I'm Supergirl." I sure love seeing female characters be badass girl-god legends who don't get to be humanized by being unflatteringly flawed people. Anyway the better Supergirl grief+revenge story is "Supergirl: Being Super". I don't think it's perfect because it misses the crucial difference between Kal and Kara among other things- but as a story about a teenage heroine learning how grief shapes her and those around her, it's way better.

Woman of Tomorrow's art is stellar though lmao would get a copy just as an artbook to reference.

[argoscity]

SUPERGIRL: WOMAN OF TOMORROW (2021) #5 written by Tom King art by Bilquis Evely

[kal8elle]

Art by https://twitter.com/drawin_casscain

[bisupergirl]

kara zor el, superwoman #2 || supergirl: woman of tomorrow #8

kara having two different stories where her constant acts of heroism and compassion inspire a revenge driven, rage-filled child to let go of their anger and then they, in turn, pull her back from giving in to her worst impulses is... very special to me !

[zeequicks]

the outsider POV used to narrate supergirl: woman of tomorrow is really what locks in the revenge western atmosphere and it works so so well

imagine: you've been living a meaningless little life in a meaningless little town where violence happens with no rhyme or reason, and one day an actual god (kryptonian) waltzes into your nowhere town and nothing life.

suddenly someone sees how angry and desperate for vengeance you've become, and that acknowledgement itself would have been enough! but kara goes even further than that and offers to see you through to the ends of that anger, and hold your hand along the way

the western tale immortalises legends, yes, but they're also a way of thanking them + passing on hope when the journey is done and everybody goes their separate ways

[karaspal]

ruthye didn’t kill krem of the yellow hills at the end of “supergirl: woman of tomorrow” btw. she just boinked him on the head real good. you can see him raising his hand to hold the place he got boinked. the message is that you don’t owe forgiveness to anyone, even if they served their time for what they did. not “make the mfrs who did you wrong suffer then kill them”.

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

Still can't believe the absolute best story featuring any member of the Superman family (Clark included) is just a remake of True Grit.

[throwbacktears]

can we talk about the ending of woman of tomorrow because i have questions and im too scared to post them on reddit

[bisexuel]

in woman of tomorrow ruthye says that because she's the youngest in her family the only experience she has caring for babies is via taking care of her younger cousins. and when they come across a crying baby all alone she says she's thankful supergirl is not the same as her and therefore knew what to do... and god she's just described kara's exact situation (and not for the first or last time)