There's lots of cool DC Comics history peppered throughout the Supergirl TV show. Here's what we found...
This article contains spoilers. Lots of them. For a spoiler-free review of the first episode of Supergirl, click here.
Just like The Flash and Arrow, Supergirlisn't shying away from the character's comic book roots. With that in mind, we expect every episode to be a Fortress of Solitude full of Superman, Supergirl, and all around Kryptonian goodness, with the rest of the DC Universe showing up for good measure.
We'll update this post every week with the latest bits we find. Click the episode titles to go to the full episode reviews. Newest episode is up top, and then they're chronological after that.
But again...if you haven't watched the episodes yet, this is going to be positively loaded with spoilers, and potential future spoilers as well!
Supergirl Episode 7: Human for a Day
- Supergirl's power outage as a result of blowing out all her stored solar energy is a very recent addition to the Superman mythos, first introduced by Geoff Johns and John Romita Jr. in the pages of Superman#38 this year.
- Jemm first appeared in (wait for it) Jemm, Son of Saturn #1 in 1984, a moody little comic book series with art by the brilliant Gene Colan. He was considerably less villainous than what we saw here this week. Is he dead? I hope not.
- Cat Grant talks about how people can feel "isolated and alone." That's an interesting choice of words, and I can't help but feel it wasn't accidental. In Superman: The Movie, which this show loves to reference, Superman's mother Lara worries about how her superpowered son will cope on an alien world. The words she uses? "Isolated" and "alone."
What, something else happened in this episode? Oh yeah...
- Well, I was wrong and a whole bunch of you were right. Hank Henshaw is indeed J'onn J'onzz, the Martian Manhunter. That's his newer, New 52 costume design they're using here, and that's just fine with me.
Martian Manhunter has been around since Detective Comics #255 back in 1955. His origin story was fairly different from what we see here, not to mention the fact that he never masqueraded as Hank Henshaw. I still expect we'll see the "real" Hank (cyborg body and all) will re-emerge at some point, though.
And now for the previous episodes...
