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Supergirl: Being Super by Mariko Tamaki

Supergirl: Being Super

Mariko Tamaki, Joelle Jones, Joëlle Jones

DC Comics · Paperback · Forthcoming

A Newsweek Best Graphic Novel of the Year!

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Who it’s for
Kara Danvers’s everyday teenage concerns meet buried secrets when an earthquake strikes her small town.
Genres
YA Superhero Comics, YA Coming-of-Age Comics, YA Sci-Fi Comics
Published
DC Comics, Forthcoming

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About this book

A Newsweek Best Graphic Novel of the Year! New York Times bestselling and Caldecott Honor-winning writer Mariko Tamaki (This One Summer, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me) and Eisner Award-nominated artist Joëlle Jones (Lady Killer, Catwoman) combine forces for a coming-of-age tale of Supergirl, presented with new color in an all-new format. Kara Danvers is super-strong. She can fly. She crash-landed on Earth in a rocket ship.

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But winning the next track meet, celebrating her sixteenth birthday, and surviving her latest mega-zit are her top concerns. And with the help of her best friends and her kinda-infuriating-but-totally-loving adoptive parents, she just might be able to put her troubling dreams--shattered glimpses of another world--behind her. That is, until an earthquake shatters her small town of Midvale...and uncovers secrets about her past she thought would always stay buried. The time has come for her to choose: Will she find a way to save her town and be super, or will she crash and burn? Collects the limited series Supergirl: Being Super #1-4.

Kara’s Midvale

Kara Danvers’s everyday teenage concerns meet buried secrets when an earthquake strikes her small town.

Come here for

  • Kara Danvers balancing track meets, her sixteenth birthday, and super-strength
  • Troubling dreams that hint at another world

Expect

  • A coming-of-age tale about Supergirl
  • A collected limited series, #1–4, presented with new color

Where it sits

YA Superhero Comics87%
YA Coming-of-Age Comics68%
YA Sci-Fi Comics38%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • YA Superhero Comics
  • YA Action & Adventure Comics
  • YA Coming-of-Age Comics
Authors
Mariko Tamaki, Joelle Jones, Joëlle Jones
Publisher
DC Comics
Published
Forthcoming
Format
Paperback
Reading lane
YA Superhero Comics