Oklahoma’s Sterling Gates to write “Supergirl”
Just announced at Wizard World Chicago is the new creative team on DC’s “Supergirl” title. Writer Sterling Gates, who grew up in Tulsa and graduated from the University of Oklahoma, joins artist Jamal Igle as the creative team on “Supergirl,” starting with issue #34.
Nerdage asked Gates a few quick questions about his plans for the Girl of Steel.
Matt Price: What’s your take on Supergirl?
Sterling Gates: Supergirl is one of the strongest girls on the planet Earth. One day, she’s going to grow up to be one of the greatest heroes the world has ever known. In the meantime, however, she’s got a lot of learning to do.
Life is hard for Kara Zor-El. She’s an immigrant who was put in suspended animation and sent to Earth by her parents in order to escape Krypton’s destruction. Now that she’s here, she’s found herself living in her cousin Superman’s shadow. That’s a
LOT for a teenage girl to deal with and wrap her head around, to live in constant comparison to someone who is, or who comes off as, perfect. So she’s tried everything she can think of to try and separate herself out from just being “Superman’s cousin,” and it’s not worked out too well, so far.
And that’s more or less where we pick up in Supergirl #34. My goal for that book is to build Kara into a better hero, and hopefully when I leave, she’ll be one step closer towards being the hero we all want her to be.
MP: What are your favorite “Supergirl” comics?
SG: Y’know, I was a big fan of the Carmine Infantino-Paul Kupperberg “Daring New Adventures of Supergirl” comics in the mid-80’s. I loved loved loved Supergirl the movie when I was a kid, and I read that comic book adaptation they did so many times the staples fell out. I’m also a big fan of the Jeph Loeb-Michael Turner story in Superman/Batman that introduced this version of Kara Zor-El.
And I’d obviously be lying if I didn’t say the “Death of Supergirl” issue of Crisis on Infinite Earths wasn’t one of the greatest Supergirl stories of all time. I get all misty just thinking about it.
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