super-lad

the aesthetics of supergirl

[super-lad]

Supergirl's Family Vacation by Brandon T. Snider

 Supergirl’s got big plans for summer break!Pre-teen Kara Zor-El is an excellent superhero. She a...

4.5 / 5 ⭐️

A sweet read constructed around the Supergirl-Superman relational conflict I love to see explored. I appreciate how fearless they are in showing how Kara is jealous of Clark because that’s real. The art style really shines in its ability to balance strong emotion with adorable visuals (shoutout to the art team and Sarah Leuver, a staple fan artist in the CW Supergirl days) which really turns this story into something super.

[super-lad]

if u get a gooseneck holder for your kindle, you can read like a roman emperor

[comickergirl]

IT’S A REAL BOOK!! THAT YOU CAN GO BUY AT A STORE!! XD Supergirl’s Family Vacation is available now! (Bookstores today, comic shops tomorrow!)

[comickergirl]

Meant to get this posted yesterday but got a bit sidetracked. ^^; With the release of Supergirl's Family Vacation, just wanted to make sure to say THANK YOU to all for the encouragement and support of my work over the years! I'm immensely grateful, and very much appreciate it. :)

[comickergirl]

Another local event this weekend! :) I’ll be signing Supergirl’s Family Vacation at Flying Colors Comics, Saturday @ noon!

[telffiin]

my darling kara

[karaspal]

kal’s powers are the last gift of his first home. kara’s powers are the first gift of her new one.

kryptonian powers, to clark, mark the difference between humans and kryptonians for the first chunk of his life, long before he ever begins to understand his home culture or meets others like him. he looks human, he’s treated as one. his powers are the only thing that sets him apart (culture too, but that’s something he won’t uncover for years.) so those powers become his only tangible connection to his people. he has never existed as a kryptonian without them. to him, they are something normal for kryptonians. it's what ties him to krypton, because they’re the one thing kryptonians have that humans don’t. at least as far as he understands. he doesn’t yet grasp that on krypton, his people didn’t have powers either.

kara, on the other hand, lived as a kryptonian without powers. earth is where she first experiences them when she was a teen, and because of that, they don’t feel inherent. they feel foreign. gaining those abilities is what makes it undeniable that she’s no longer home. because on krypton, she lived a life without powers.

clark's powers come from his kryptonian biology. kara's from earth’s yellow sun.

powers remind clark that he’s kryptonian. they also remind kara she'll never go home again.

(this, in a way, feels like a part two of this post.)

[softlytired]

Goddess Ashera will wait patiently for her judgement, but only for 25 minutes. After that, she will begin her assault.

[super-lad]

[batboyblog]

I hate when qualified, hard-working, accomplished women who care deeply get taken out in favor of unqualified, brutish and selfish shitty men

Maine Gov. Janet Mills Drops Out Of Senate Race

The Maine governor said her campaign simply lacked the funding it needed.

[super-lad]

i'm glad trump is ok. political violence destroys democracies. yet, i struggle to have empathy for what happened to him. this is a guy whose rhetoric is so violent. joking about shooting hillary clinton. asking generals if he could use armed forces to shoot protestors in the leg. saying there'll be a bloodbath if he loses in 2024, calling undocumented immigrants vermin and animals, asking the far-right, violent Proud Boys to "stand by" in the leadup to his 2020 loss and then inciting the jan 6th insurrection. making fun of nancy pelosi for a failed assasination attempt on her that led to the almost death of her husband. saying that the failed kidnapping and assassination attempt on michigan gov. gretchen whitmer "maybe wasn't a problem."

he dragged our politics into the gutter. he did not deserve to be shot. our politicians need to be safe for our democracy to function. but he alone lead this country to the charged atmosphere that allowed a 20-year old registered republican to shoot his own president.

[super-lad]

in light of Charlie Kirk’s death, this stuff has a direct relation to the rhetoric of the Republican Party. :) they’re following dear leader straight off a cliff.

[super-lad]

So like I guess this is gonna be a yearly thing huh

[phantomrose96]

Sometimes it is possible for there to be a many-months-long effort in software engineering where the instructions from leadership are "go as fast as possible, don't think decisions through, just do things, because time is the most important factor, be as fast as possible" and so a bunch of people get together to make a shittier and shittier train which is only designed to go as fast as possible and all the bolts are wiggling loose under the momentum and sometimes you're like "the bolts are super concerning. the 1 million loose bolts are super concerning. and everything else. i dont like to look at this. im not even sure that's salvageable" and leadership says "train should be faster" and you're not even the fastest train because the shitty huffing wiggling-apart locomotive is being overtaken by other trains that spent longer on the train engineering and then your train derails and gets all crashed up in the grass and is a lot of crashed up busted train pieces all in the grass and leadership is like "okay just put it back on the track and make it go fast" and I don't know how to tell you how much a crashed up train rolling down the hill into the nearest river below is never going to actually be a good fast train.

[matthiasportzel]

So so so much this OP. There’s this idea that “get it working shoddily and quickly so you can get the customers and the money then fix the issues with the money” and while there are a lot of problems with that mindset the one that drives me crazy is the idea that getting it working shoddily is easier and cheaper and quicker than getting it working right. This isn’t naivety because the naive position is actually that, of course shoddy engineering is quicker than good engineering. But in my experience it’s so much easier and quicker to build the second half of the building if the first half of the building isn’t actively collapsing underneath you. But management loves to be like “the people living on the first story of the building don’t mind the walls swaying, so just build the second story of the building on top real quick and then we can reinforce the first story.” And I’m going insane because it’s so much harder and worse to build the second story of a building on top of a swaying first story but what do I know.

(This is still about software development.)

[super-lad]

[super-lad]

was the original old man yaoi cs lewis and tolkien…

[super-lad]

geezus read mythmakers by john hendrix. beautiful graphic novel of their relationship and rift. I teared up at the end cause I didn’t want it to.

[larkandkatydid]

CONCEIVED IN SIN,

BORN IN INIQUITY,

NURTURED BY TYRANNY,

DIED OF ACHRONIC ATTACK OF PUNCH

161 years ago today. WE CAN DO IT AGAIN.

[super-lad]

was the original old man yaoi cs lewis and tolkien…

[jovaline]

I got to draw Wonder Woman with writer Sarah Kuhn and colorist Olivia Pecini for DC Comics SUPERGIRL NEXT DOOR 2026 Valentine’s Day anthology! We made a cute, fun, shoujo-inspired 10 page story about Diana on her day off and it just might be the prettiest thing I’ve ever drawn. ⭐️💖✨ We’re also joined by letterer Travis Lanham who absolutely nailed the vibe!

Huge thanks to editor Sabrina Futch for getting the band back together and shepherding the team through some of my favorite comic work ever! The anthology comes out on January 28, 2026 at your local comic book shop! 🩵