DC Comics today not only announced a new comic book miniseries by Mariko Tamaki and Joëlle Jones, to be called Supergirl: Being Super, they released a nine page unlettered preview of Jones’ pages (which runs below this article).
Jones, who will be providing not only the interior pages and the monthly cover art, had this to say about the upcoming collaboration: “Working with Mariko on this book has been great! The format is giving me a chance to do something very different and I feel lucky that DC is giving us the freedom to really play with this character. “I hope fans have as much fun reading it as I have had drawing it!”
“I’ve had so much fun working on this project with DC and Joëlle,” says Tamaki, the Caldecott Honor and Eisner Award winning author of This One Summer. “Clearly, I’m a writer with a devoted interest in adolescence, so it’s been a thrill having the opportunity to explore the alien side of 16.”
The official series description from DC Comics reads as follows:
Imagine this: You’re an alien. You have super powers. You are SUPERGIRL. But you’re also 16, a teenager just trying to survive the day-to-day life of high school. The upside is, yes, you can fly, you can crush diamonds with your bare hands. The downside is that being super can be a super complicated and super confusing thing to be, especially when the whole being super thing is a secret.
This is the story of Kara Danvers, known to her home planet of Krypton as Kara Zor El. On the one hand, Kara is a typical teen, navigating relationships, friendships, and classes, on the other she’s a being with immense power and potential, with the added responsibility of managing her developing super powers. As if transitioning into adulthood wasn’t hard enough!
As Kara turns 16, her powers begin manifesting in bizarre hot flashes, glowing zits, symptoms that are becoming harder to control. That’s right, two words, ALIEN ZITS. This new series is more than just heroics. It is the action-packed and heartfelt story of Kara Danvers and her attempts to balance the roles of teenager and hero.
Fans of Supergirl and the Super-verse in general will be excited by the prestige format of this series, with each bimonthly issue to contain 48 pages of story.
Supergirl: Being Super #1 premieres on December 28th.
Offiical unlettered preview:
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