The Maid of Might Returns in Supergirl This June!

On June 26, 2026, DC Studios is bringing Supergirl to the big screen, and it’s one of my most anticipated comic book films of the summer. Based heavily on Tom King’s Woman of Tomorrow run, this iteration of Supergirl, following in the steps of Helen Slater and Melissa Benoist, features a more jaded, battle-hardened Kara Zor-El—an interesting contrast to her cousin, as we saw in the closing scene of the latest Superman movie starring David Corenswet.

The stunning cosmic visual backbone of the upcoming movie: Bilquis Evely’s intricate artwork (with colors by Matheus Lopes) for Tom King’s acclaimed *Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow* run.

If you have been scrolling through social media recently, you may have noticed some criticism directed towards actress Milly Alcock for her remarks in a viral interview on the topic of online culture. It sounds like a lot of noise over nothing from the usual toxic corners of the web. Alcock proved she has the presence for the cape with her scene-stealing debut cameo in last year’s Superman. I think we should absolutely give her room to fly before boycotting her even before the movie officially premieres. This is a trend that is doing damage not only to superhero movies, but to the film industry as a whole.

As a fan of Helen Slater’s interpretation of Kara Zor-El (the movie wasn’t that great, but Slater nailed it as Supergirl) and Melissa Benoist’s fantastic run on the CW, I’m incredibly hyped to see what Alcock brings to the legacy.

The Main Man Arrives

If Alcock isn’t enough to get you to the theater, the trailers dropped an absolute bombshell: Jason Momoa is officially playing Lobo.

While some internet critics love to claim Momoa lacks range, the reality is that he is the only actor working today who can effortlessly channel the sheer, unadulterated, cigar-chomping swagger of the Main Man. We witnessed his imposing physical presence in both Conan the Barbarian and the Aquaman movies. Seeing him cruise through space as Lobo on his signature space chopper is a dream come true for this fan of the Main Man. Word is it’s a brief, impactful cameo to set up his future in the DCU, but seeing a drunk Supergirl cross paths with Lobo is going to be pure superhero movie gold.

Leave the internet drama at the door, and let’s see what the new DCU can do.

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About the Author

Jules-Pierre Malartre currently lives on a small island west of Montreal (Quebec), which is as close to the Great White North that he will ever dare go, but still cold enough to save him from big-ass spiders, alien abductions, undead dinosaurs and tourists who find his French accent charming. In 2005, he quit a promising aerospace engineering career to go into freelance writing, which was a very, very bad idea according to his mother. Since then, he has become considerably poorer, but he has grown much happier. Along the way, he adopted cats—lots of cats! When he is not writing technical manuals, newspaper articles, press releases or blogs on anything from comic books to yoga, he is busy working on his first novel, a semi-autobiographical fictional account of his life that dares to ask the question, “where did God go wrong with me anyway?” His first short story, “The Rest Was Easy,” was published by the online literary magazine Amarillo Bay in 2013. The five people who read it liked it. He’s well aware that it took him over a decade to publish another one, so he’d really appreciate it if you'd cut him some slack about it! He loves coffee, cats and reading, mostly because those three things go very well together.