The turns of phrase King uses within Ruthye’s interior monologue read well, and I especially appreciated how clear and simple her narration was. King’s captioning is also strong in this book, maybe the strongest of any of his series to date, with the possible exception of The Vision (although it’s tricky to compare the two, given this series has an olde English fantasy motif while the earlier book was cold and robotic). This is the book’s greatest strength it’s just a gorgeous gorgeous comic to look at from start to finish. It’s an interesting and straightforward enough premise for a fantasy comic, one that is greatly elevated by Evely and Lopes’ powerful artwork, which really makes both the fantasy and sci-fi elements distinct from other entries in those genres. With this framework, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow is a relatively simple high fantasy revenge story in the tradition of something like True Grit, with Supergirl playing the Rooster Cogburn role. No, this first issue is all about a new character, a young girl named Ruthye, about whom we essentially know the following: -her beloved father was murdered by a dastardly man named Krem -she badly wants to avenge said murder by murdering Krem. Its narrator - and, indeed, its chief protagonist - is not Supergirl as its title suggests (although I suppose there are still seven issues remaining for this to change). The book is essentially a high fantasy comic set on an alien world. With this in mind, the plot in Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow #1 is certainly tailored to Evely’s strengths. Evely’s work has long been assured and distinct, and - for lack of more articulate phrasing - just a whole lot of wonderful to look at it.
Evely (colored here by regular collaborator Mat Lopes) is one of the best artists in the current DC Comics stable, having most recently worked on a sustained run of The Dreaming, as well as a few issues of Detective Comics, and before that Wonder Woman.
The first thing readers are likely to notice about this book is that it is an absolutely gorgeous comic. Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow #1 arrives this week, from the creative team of writer Tom King and artist Bilquis Evely.
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