Mind you, I'm biased on th second as I'm now writing and directing it....

I do agree with the list with one exception. Helen Slater as Supergirl should be at least # 5. And I keep hoping they'll make a Supergirl movie soon and have Britney Snow play her but since WB feels like female starring movies bomb...

BTW, who did the art on the Supergirls wallpaper mentioned above? I have it too but I can't make out the sig.

Of course, there’s always the chance that could be due to young girls being constantly bombarded with female exploitation and a media that seems to confuse promiscuity with being a “strong woman”. While art imitates life, the converse is also true.

Thanks much for this, and for the comments following.

As a comic book fan I sometimes feel a vague need to apologize to women everywhere, and to distance myself from the myriad of titles and artists who apparently cannot draw a female character without dressing and posing her like a Vargas girl or a succubus.

I just tend to avoid books where that happens, so I don't feel that compulsion.
If the artist draws every woman as some sexed up deformed street whore, then chances are it's going to be a shit book.

I’m strangely OK with Supergirl dressing like a street whore, because in my observation that is how teenage girls today seem to want to dress.

Of course, there's always the chance that could be due to young girls being constantly bombarded with female exploitation and a media that seems to confuse promiscuity with being a "strong woman". While art imitates life, the converse is also true.

I'd say that played a part in the reasoning behind killing her off, but you also had the "reboot" factor where Superman was going to be the lone survivor of Krypton (though that might not have been a done deal when they decided to kill the character) and the fact that thanks to her various solo series, the pre-Crisis was a continuity nightmare.

Between her debut and Crisis Kara...
- Joined the Legion on her second try.
- was adopted
- graduated high school
- graduated Stanhope College
- Got a job as a TV reporter/camera person
- went back to school(?)
- Became a student advisor at the New Athens Experimental School
- Became a soap opera star
- Went back to college

And the whole time, her cousin stayed 29 years old.

Maybe DiDio's original intention of Dick Grayson taking the dirtnap in Infinite Crisis could be based on the "Supergirl Principle" - Evolution of spin-off character must not over-age the main character.

My best friend's daughter is 14, and all of her friends dress one of two ways: street whore, or tomboy butch. There's no middle ground.

Theno

"Why must the current Supergirl have the body of an anorexic and dress like a street whore?"

I couldn't agree more. Her skirt is so low, it's pretty obvious that she shaves. Her goods are ready to fall out! Entirely unappropriate for a teenager.