Supergirl of Smallville Ch 22 -- Now posted 7/14/10

Awesome work guys! Was this a throwback to the old Supergirl issue?

Haha, I don't know why this particular story makes people excited. I liked the illustrations, but it just looks like an extremely long piece of fanfiction.

Yes, that was an excellent chapter. Good work gentlemen!

but it just looks like an extremely long piece of fanfiction.

...something that a community built by a bunch of people who get hard-ons for Supergirl is surprisingly lacking in quantity.

sgfan05: Thanks for the props!

goobers: You, too. Ace and I weren't referencing any particular story. Which one were you thinking of?

steelknight3000: Ace and I prefer to think of it as an "homage" ...

It's from one of the first issues of Supergirl where the cover is of her sitting outside of a school dance, mourning that she can't get a date

It's from one of the first issues of Supergirl where the cover is of her sitting outside of a school dance, mourning that she can't get a date

Oh, yeah, this one:

www.comics.org/issue/25911/cover/4/?style=default

I didn't have it in mind while Ace and I were writing Chapter 22 -- but we had TGK draw an homage to that cover for Chapter 14.

Another good chapter. Hard not to feel sorry for Lana and Lex; nothing seems to be going as they've planned.

Thank you for the time and effort put in.

One question, was the bit when Supergirl overheard the radio the incident that Argo mentioned a while ago in relation to the laws of physics or is it yet to come or already gone? I'm curious to see how that was resolved.

Glad you liked it.

Regarding Lex and Lana: Stay tuned.

In answer to your question:

Remember when Supergirl used her super-breath to keep the farmer's pick-up from going off the road, just before she flew off to rescue Suzy and Jake? In the original draft, I had Supergirl swoop down ... push the truck away from the guardrail ... ask the farmer if he was all right ... then fly off.

That's when Ace went "Sheldon Cooper" on me and pointed out that Jake and Suzy would have been a mile away by then, and that by the time the sound of the crash reached Supergirl's ears it would have been too late for her to catch them.

Three years into our partnership, Ace and I still have a friendly and mutually respectful working relationship, but every now and then we do butt heads -- sometimes over the most trivial things.

I was fine with Supergirl stopping to help the farmer, but I wanted her to take off and start watching Jake and Suzy and as she was closing in on them, she would see the crash and then put on a burst of speed to save them.


From a story teller's point of view, Argo wanted SG to be doing something else and then be surprised by hearing it happen and then have to rush off.

As we always do, we comprised and he got to do it his way, but we had the crash happen only 1/5 of a mile or so away ( one second for the sound to reach her) so the laws of physics were not broken!

Since no one noticed or objected ( we did not get any letters to Super Fe-Mail on this), I guess it worked out alright!

And you wonder why it takes us so long to finish a chapter sometimes!

I probably wouldn't have noticed that the speed of sound was a problem with the original scenario, but I'm glad the laws of physics weren't broken in the end. Thanks for the glimpse behind the scenes.

That's right -- no laws of physics were broken as Supergirl flew off to save Tami and Jake. :wink:

"That's right -- no laws of physics were broken as Supergirl flew"

The irony of this statement puts a smile on my face. =)

You guys seem to be implying that a law was broken. Which one?

Well, Doesn't Supergirl flying break the rules of physics? And if thats the case then theres not a story in the genre that doesnt break the rules of physics. I guess what I'm saying is....I wouldn't worry so much about physics.

I think he was talking about breaking the laws of physic without telling us.

To the best of my knowledge, Lana did not break any of the laws of physics when she flew off to the rescue.

The speed of light is roughly 186,000 miles per second. Lana needed to cover roughly one fifth of a mile so her average speed would be about one millionth of the speed of light.

You don’t really have to worry about relativistic mass effect until you get to velocities about 0.1C, and her speed was far, far from that so standard Newtonian Mechanics would apply.

F=MA where F is the force, M the mass and A the acceleration.

Put another way, A =F/M

A 30.06 rifle bullet leaves the muzzle around 3000 feet per second. Even if it slowed down to an average speed of 2000 feet per second it would cover the 1/5 mile in ½ a second.

We all know that Kryptonians are faster than a speeding bullet, so there is certainly no violation of the laws of physics for Lana to accelerate for the first 1/10 of a mile and then decelerate for the next 1/10 and arrive in time to save the day.

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You puppies' serial killer!

Don't you never read about everytime you use real physics to explain a super being a puppy is killed by a scientologist?

I love Lana, and being sincere, I don't need real physics explanation for her powers and deeds. All what I want is read a good story about a red haired super girl and wonder how the world will act once she graduate to super woman... I imagine she would be the inspiration for a whole generation of heroines, maybe even be the muse for Legion of Super Heroines at 30th century

You don't need to worry about physics in a story like this, especially when it involves comic book superheroes that can magically fly and shoot lasers with their eyes. In fact I enjoy it when a super female is so strong and fast she seems to defy physics, as long as it doesn't get too absurd.

I'm back from vacation and catching up on online stuff, so a belated cheer for Chapter 22 and its dedicated production staff. Thanks guys!