After the end of War of the Supermen, I was looking for a creative change. I decided that I was going to leave the book. At that point I had been on Supergirl for almost 18 months, creatively for some of us that's a very long time to be on a single project. I knew I wanted to go out on a high point, while I was still into drawing the book and didn't want thew work to slack or look uninteresting. So I decided that if I was going out, it was going to be in style. I'm exceedingly proud of the work Sterling Gates I did on Supergirl and I think that this issue, which began the Bizzarogirl story arc is the best work we did.
The initial change in hair sketch for Kara and the original Gangbuster redesign.
The idea was to harken back to the original version of the character, but make it slicker and more streamlined.
Thumbnails for the issue
This was also the first and only cover that I had drawn for the series after being on for so long. they went from Josh Middleton to Amy Reeder but needed a cover for this issue.
Sketch and pencils
inks and solicited version (colors by Tom Chu)
Later Mark Chiarello would me to add a background element to the cover.
So I drew a new background, cleaned up the original speed lines and superimposed them in photoshop
Final published cover.
Layouts for pages 17,18 and 22
This would also be the last issue colored by Nei Ruffino, who did a magnificent job. Inked by the always awesome Jon Sibal.
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