In the comic books, Supergirl spent her first decade or so as a plucky-orphan type, acquiring Streaky the Supercat and Comet the Superhorse along the way. She was a soap-opera actress in the 1970s and went back to college in the 1980s, only to get killed off in 1986. By 2004, she was fully back to life, in an angrier and more alien incarnation. But through it all, Kara Zor-El never quite acquired the full mythic heft of her cousin Kal-El. That changed with the acclaimed 2021 miniseries Woman of