The beasts facing Ruthye are similar to dinosaurs with some fun flair.
The time changing is conveyed well through shadow and the colors in the sky along with where the sun is, which helps create anticipation. The alien world comes to life thanks to Lopes’ colors, which give even the ground underneath the characters a fleshy color. With fewer scene changes and dialogue filling the pages, Evely and Lopes supply readers with a lot of entertainment. The overall plot of the book is one-note, but it’s more about the adventurers trying to stay alive just a bit longer as you turn the pages. Supergirl must survive many hours, further cementing the fact that she’s a total badass. There are some fun bits too, like Supergirl pointing out Kal-El was under unbearable pain for 45 minutes before rescue on the very same planet. Imagine teleporting somewhere and being stopped to death. King keeps the reader’s interest up as Ruthye jots down her thoughts in her journal conveyed through captions in an impossible situation that’s super dangerous.
Supergirl’s powers are so wasted that she’s incapacitated and Ruthye must protect her from the various meat-eating animals. Not to give too much away, but Supergirl and Ruthye are teleported to a world with a green sun that zaps Supergirl’s energy. If there was ever an issue that needed a lot of captions, it’s this one, which you’ll see on page 9. In Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow #5, Supergirl and Ruthye’s journey of finding and apprehending Krem takes a dangerous turn.
It also shows Supergirl with a bit more edge, somebody who isn’t afraid to swear or speak her mind while she navigates a universe filled with killers and genocidal maniacs. Tom King has been writing prose through captions gracing nearly every panel in a book that’s gorgeously rendered by Bilquis Evely and colored by Mat Lopes. If I had to use one word to describe Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, it’d be “unconventional”.
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