A few images

Don't call her a wench

That's from the Warlord / Powergirl crossover of 1987. Kara had been convinced at the time that she was an Atlantean goddess, not a Kryptonian, and somehow wound up in the alternate universe occupied by the Warlord and Megan. Lots of great artwork in that handful of issues, which I've got in my vault.

Here are a couple of images (that I happen to have online) from that series. Not as good as Sarge's, but its what I have handy.





Shadar

Here's a more modern PG in a bit of artwork by Raymund Lee. This is one of the more dynamic scenes of raw strength that I've encountered. She appears to be not only lifting a portion of a collapsed bridge, but as I see it, part of the foundation as well.

Unimaginable heavy -- enough to apparently challenge even a Kryptonian:



Shadar

Carrie LaChance interview. Plenty of Supergirl commentary. Says she got a lot of feedback on the shoots.

DON'T open the Spoiler below if you love Teddy Bears. My first thought on seeing this picture was to laugh, and then it occurred to me that if the woman was a Velorian, this would hardly be dangerous. Except to the Teddy. But it is a bit kinky. Not sure if I should label this as NSFW or not. At the least, it should be labeled WTF.



Shadar

To make up for my last WTF image, this one is a favorite of mine.

While everyone has always wondered why PG has that big window in her costume, I've got my own theory.

It's a safety thing.

WTF you ask?

Well, shooters are most likely to shoot where they are looking, and ricochets and errant rounds are always a serious issue with Kryptonians. But not if she's shot in the window. Gentler, blunted rebounds with a lot of bullets simply captured, to be shaken out later.

So her cut-out is there to protect bystanders.

Another bizarre theory by Shadar. Whatever the case, she's giving off a lot of attitude and confidence in this pict. Classic PG, or at least as I envision her.

shadar wrote: Well, shooters are most likely to shoot where they are looking, and ricochets and errant rounds are always a serious issue with Kryptonians. But not if she's shot in the window. Gentler, blunted rebounds with a lot of bullets simply captured, to be shaken out later.

So her cut-out is there to protect bystanders.

Nice! If Palmiotti & Conner had thought of that theory during their run helming PG, it might well be canon! It totally fits with their take of Karen as being someone who is trying to be a good Kryptonian hero like Clark, but can't quite pull it off as neatly or as Boy Scout-ish as he does.

That actually makes sense. I'm always fascinated about what exactly happens when bullets hit an invulnerable superwoman. It makes sense that a bullet rattling around in PG's cleavage would lose momentum and become safe.

geekseven wrote: That actually makes sense. I'm always fascinated about what exactly happens when bullets hit an invulnerable superwoman. It makes sense that a bullet rattling around in PG's cleavage would lose momentum and become safe.

The drawback, after a bunch of shooters open up on her in full-auto mode, is that she'll have a lot of spent bullets to shake out of her costume.

No problem for a woman who can fly... she can just hang upside down and stretch out the top of her costume and shake herself like a dog, letting all the trapped bullets fall to the ground. That would be fun to watch.

Of course, the real issue is why do bad guys shoot at her in the first place? Are they all that stupid? So much in love with their firepower that they can't comprehend that it doesn't work on her?

The answer is "fan service". It's just something we love to see. In a more realistic portrayal, it would be far more effective for the bad guys to threaten hostages with those guns. Or rig them with explosives on a pressure detonator that the bad guy holds. That kind of threat is going to be their only hope to escape her.

The other question is whether PG holds to the 'no killing under any circumstances' rule that Superman was famous for. Again, more realistically, she should adopt the rule that I established for Velorian Protectors: The Least Harm Principle. if taking a couple of lives saves a hundred more, it's a good deal. Especially if the two are the bad guys. But even sacrificing two hostages to save a hundred might sometimes be a good deal.

In the comic books, Supes always has a way to avoid that dilemma. A guy could be threatening a city with a nuke, and he'd risk everyone's lives to find a way to stop him without killing anyone. I say BS. A Velorian would fly through the bad guy at Mach 5 while using her full heat vision on him as she approached, if that was the surest way to stop the threat. He'd never see or hear her coming. He'd just turn into pink mist. Or do the same to the nuke itself. Once you mechanically damage a nuke, it can't detonate at yield (although the debris from the detonation of the conventional triggering charges will contaminate the immediate area). Still, that's way better than having it yield and nuking a whole city.

In the 'more realistic world' of our writing, the outcome from facing a super heroine should not as neat and tidy as in the comic books.

shadar wrote: Of course, the real issue is why do bad guys shoot at her in the first place? Are they all that stupid? So much in love with their firepower that they can't comprehend that it doesn't work on her?

The answer is "fan service". It's just something we love to see.

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In the 'more realistic world' of our writing, the outcome from facing a super heroine should not as neat and tidy as in the comic books.

Somewhere on my Google Drive is a scene I wrote where a superheroine delivers an obscenity-laden, Malcom Tucker-esque, rant to a criminal, about how stupid he is to try and shoot her.

""Do you not see the big ***ing 'S' on the front of my big ****ing chest, you ****?"

You get the general idea.

Of course, it would be embarrassing to be the guy who didn't try to shoot Supergirl and then find out later that Turquoise Krytonite had temporarily made her vulnerable to bullets.

For me it all comes down to the author's choice, based on what kind of story they are trying to write and who the audience is. Not everyone is trying to write the same kind of story.

A scene where PG has to empty out slugs that have collected in her cleavage could be funny and a little sexy without being explicit.

A scene where PG forces the criminal to press the barrel of his gun into her invulnerable breast before pulling the trigger could be dark and erotic.

A scene where PG reduces him to pink goo before he even knows she's there could be a violent, "realistic" description of superpowers.

This discussion reminded me of a pair of picts that I have knocking around. Combining them provides the mix of reality and unreality that I always enjoy.

The first picture is former President George Bush talking with Queen Rania of Jordan at the Mandela memorial service.
She's a Palestinian who is now married to the Jordanian monarch, King Abdullah bin Al-Hussein. She grew up in Palestine and eventually went to American University in Cairo and then worked for Apple before meeting the then Prince. She's very westernized and dresses accordingly.
As you can tell from the pict, Bush's wife, Laura, doesn't look all that pleased about the goings on.



Now, for the second pict... lets just call it A Waste of Bullets. It is definitely NSFW. All I will say is that the Middle East is a dangerous place, and many erstwhile assassins regret ever picking up their AK47s and their magazines of jacketed military rounds. I'll leave it as fodder for your imagination, and for you to decide if there are possible connections between the two picts. But I will venture the thought that invulnerable women can ruin a bad guy's whole day.

She goes by the name Tania Amazon. What more can I say?

Admin edit....

The image attached is NSFW.

"We were trying to setup the last of the seismometers when all hell broke loose. A big eruption this time. Sparks were flying out of the caldera like an exploding firework. Except that each of those sparks was a car-sized boulder. Several crashed around us, the impacts knocking us off our feet. It was just a matter of time before one landed on us. And there was nowhere to hide."

My listeners stared, eyes wide as they tried to imagine that moment.

"That's when the sky darkened and I looked up to see this boulder-sized rock falling directly on top of us. I tried to dive to the side, knowing I could never make it, and then something crashed down in front of me. Blinking, I saw red boots. Slowly lifting my head, certain that my last seconds had gone into slow motion, I saw the most incredible thing I'd ever seen. I barely had the presence of mind to push the Shoot button on my camera."

Turning, I pointed at the wall sized screen as I pushed another button. The image that I knew was going to be a sensation filled the wall. Now the whole world was going to believe. That she was real.

"Her name is Kara."

Cover of Worlds' Finest #30

From the looks-can-kill.net/ website.

Maybe the artist is taking some of my advice. A lot of hot art. Little to zero superheroine content. For now. Cheap lifetime subscription.

Super powered female disarms stupid male. I'm sure there is a short story here.

Here's a pane from a SG comic from a few years ago that I think will delight most SWMers, Kara Zorel, shooting pool in a bar that she's way too young to be in:



Shadar

Hi these are from my personal collection. I enjoy so much those secret identity TFs where the heroine have the costume under her regular clothes.

Starfurys483 wrote:

Do we know who this is?

www.enjoygram.com/missdollycastro

Cool woman, with a good going business!

Sarge395 wrote: www.enjoygram.com/missdollycastro

Wow - if she had bigger arms she'd really look like the character in my profile icon.