[quote=@Lord Wraith]
Well we're almost a week into the IC and already on our third page so out of curiosity, what are the driving factors and influences in your story?
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The biggest crux of the foreground of my story with Kara comes from the miniseries [b]Being Super[/b] from Mariko Tamaki and Joelle Jones. Other influences are undoubtedly present – some of which from past ideas I’ve had with the character (Kara in college with the niece of Lex Luthor, a coming of age conceptualization of Supergirl, and my Battlestar Galactica influences in the Kryptonian corner are just a few examples of this). Other [non-original] concepts are drawn from other comics including Spider-Gwen and pretty much all of the parts of Supergirl I’ve enjoyed reading from 1997 to 2018. Also American Alien because that comic just fucking ruled in general.

The only thing I can safely say that is not an influence is me is the godawful CW/CBS show.

As for driving factors? I want to paint a more “nerd chic” version of Kara while keeping her definitive personality traits. I want her characterization to fall somewhere between Kara Zor-El on Justice League: The Animated Series and the ideas planted by modern interpretations of the Gwen Stacy character in Spider-Man. I want to tell stories that cover an interesting angle on the kryptonian end, develop Metropolis in a different but interesting way, and write my favorite comic book character with due diligence and passion. I guess I really just want to tell a story that everyone finds fun to read.