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    Character » Supergirl appears in 3413 issues.

    Kara Zor-El is Superman's cousin and last survivor of Krypton's Argo City. She has a brash and defiant personality that she developed in response to the destruction of Krypton. Currently, she's operating out of National City alongside the D.E.O.

    is it just me or does Dark Supergirl look exactly like Selene

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    #1  Edited By Ferris08
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    looking at the Promo Poster for Superman/Batman: Apocalypse, I noticed that Supergirl looks too much like Selene in the Necrosha promo art: 
     
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    #2  Edited By Nova`Prime`

    She does, but I believe Super Girl looked like that when she was working for Darkseid.

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    #3  Edited By JCJQLB

    Yes, she does!

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    #4  Edited By Ferris08

    I've read that story arc and although everyone from artemis to harbinger looked the same, she didnt look as generic as this.. sad though, the goth-girl look for a heroine-turned-villainess is so not original.
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    #5  Edited By Magian

    I guess they used the same artist.

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    #6  Edited By Primmaster64

    Same artist

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    #7  Edited By IrishX

    That's just sad...

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    #8  Edited By CiaranStatham

    They do look a little similar, but then they're by the same artist, and the expression is similar. It's not a case of Greg Landing, though - The nose is different, the shape of her face is different, the ears and hair are different, etc, etc.
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    #9  Edited By WW-Fan

    Kara looks super evil on it!! :O
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    #10  Edited By MrMiracle77

    Inverted the DVD cover left to right and did some cropping, transparancy, and rotation:
     

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    #11  Edited By WW-Fan

    well isnt this the same artist?
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    #12  Edited By MrDirector786

    When's that movie coming out on DVD?

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    #13  Edited By vance_astro  Moderator
    That art is effin terrible.
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    #14  Edited By FadeToBlackBolt
    @Vance Astro said:
    " That art is effin terrible. "
    Yeah, I'm not a fan either. 
     
    I'm curious as to what the actual film's art will look like though.
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    #15  Edited By WW-Fan
    @MrDirector786 said:
    "When's that movie coming out on DVD? "

    in september
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    #16  Edited By N7_Normandy

    besides the hair color, yes, she most certainly does.
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    #17  Edited By xerox_kitty

    How is it the same artist?  Clayton Crain did Necrosha.  Assuming he did also do the cover for Batman Superman Apocalypse, he's not the kind of artist who recycles his own work (ala Greg Land).

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    #18  Edited By Mercy_
    @xerox-kitty: It looks eerily like his work, the very sharp edges and such. 
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    #19  Edited By howlettgrowl
    @MrMiracle77: you should work for the police...
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    #20  Edited By Gylan Thomas

    No.
    It's just the same artist.
     
    Supergirl's blonde, Selene isn't.

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    #21  Edited By Gylan Thomas
    @Ferris08 said:
    " I've read that story arc and although everyone from artemis to harbinger looked the same, she didnt look as generic as this.. sad though, the goth-girl look for a heroine-turned-villainess is so not original. "
    They did all look the same.
    May Michael Turner rest in peace but I really never understood the appeal of his work.
    How can an artist not understand the "big" part of Big Barda?
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    #22  Edited By MrMiracle77
    @Gylan Thomas: 
     
    He did decently well with Barda.  You'd be surprised how many artists get something as basic as the height wrong, let alone her other eponymous attributes.
     
    Its certainly not uncommon for an artist to re-use certain expressions regularly.  I haven't heard of very many actually doing a dupe of their own reverse, though. 
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    #23  Edited By xerox_kitty
    @Gylan Thomas said:
    " No. It's just the same artist.  Supergirl's blonde, Selene isn't. "
    One tiny portion of the cover is the same, but that doesn't make it the same artist.  Clayton Crain doesn't copy & paste his work like Greg Land does.  Someone else has taken that pose & re-used it.   
     
    People should be looking for the original poses that provided the Batman, Superman & Darkseid portions of the cover.  Compare those original poses with other artists' work.
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    #24  Edited By WW-Fan

    who did the art on the dvd?
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    #25  Edited By Mercy_
    @xerox-kitty said:
    " @Gylan Thomas said:
    " No. It's just the same artist.  Supergirl's blonde, Selene isn't. "
    One tiny portion of the cover is the same, but that doesn't make it the same artist.  Clayton Crain doesn't copy & paste his work like Greg Land does.  Someone else has taken that pose & re-used it.    People should be looking for the original poses that provided the Batman, Superman & Darkseid portions of the cover.  Compare those original poses with other artists' work. "
    Are you thinking that it might be an homage cover using various poses? The Superman looks uncannily like (to me) Brandon Routh from Superman Returns. 
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    #26  Edited By xerox_kitty
    @The Dark Huntress said:
    "Are you thinking that it might be an homage cover using various poses? The Superman looks uncannily like (to me) Brandon Routh from Superman Returns.  "

    My point is that people are blaming Clayton Crain.  He provided the art for Necrosha.  No-one knows if he did the art for this DVD cover, so how can they blame him for recycling art?  It's not his style to recycle poses.   
     
    Find examples of where the other three poses came from (the Superman, Batman & Darkseid portions of the cover).  I would be willing to bet money that they are not from Clayton Crain's back cataclogue of work, but from a wide variety of comics.
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    #27  Edited By Mercy_
    @xerox-kitty: I'm not going to deny that I think that the Supergirl on the cover and Selene look eerily similar, my first thought when I saw the cover was to wonder if Crain did the art, but I also don't think that it's his style to recycle ala Greg Land. He's far more original than that.   
     
    I would be willing to bet that as well.
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    #28  Edited By Ferris08
    @MrMiracle77:  
     
    what u did is freakin' amazing..
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    #29  Edited By Ferris08
    @Gylan Thomas said:
    " @Ferris08 said:
    " I've read that story arc and although everyone from artemis to harbinger looked the same, she didnt look as generic as this.. sad though, the goth-girl look for a heroine-turned-villainess is so not original. "
    They did all look the same. May Michael Turner rest in peace but I really never understood the appeal of his work. How can an artist not understand the "big" part of Big Barda? "
    I agree.. Barda looked more supermodel than superheroine in that one.. like stick-figure-ish supermodel.. but the dark-tinted-style and his depiction of Batman is pure awesomeness..
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    #30  Edited By vance_astro  Moderator
    @xerox-kitty said:
    " How is it the same artist?  Clayton Crain did Necrosha.  Assuming he did also do the cover for Batman Superman Apocalypse, he's not the kind of artist who recycles his own work (ala Greg Land). "
    What's shown above may not be similar but it definitely shows only subtle changes in faces between Supergirl and Selene.
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    #31  Edited By MrMiracle77
    @Ferris08 said:

    " @MrMiracle77:   what u did is freakin' amazing.. "

    That wasn't really a photoshop, it was just Power Point.  Power Point happens to have a lot of options for taking an element and giving it a spin, resize, or semi-transparency.  You can make jpegs out of it, but they're restricted to sizes that are typical for presentations, which is why there's a lot of white space around the image.
     
    And credit where credit is due, I wasn't the one who spotted the similarities in the first place.
     
    On closer inspection of the images, I found a number of key differences:
    Selene's eyes are shaped like slightly cutoff ovals, Supergirl's are more rectangular.
    Supergirl's nose is narrower and more triangular.
    Selene's pose covers a different portion of her neck.
    Supergirl's ears are taller and more pointed than Selene's.
     
    Its easy to glance at the pictures and let details like the black lipstick, widow's peak, and choker overpower many of the other differences.  Those things tend to stand out quite a bit.  I don't think this is a trace, though.
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    #32  Edited By Sinestro2828

    Sorta similar, but thats only cuz both have the whole evil look in their eyes and expression

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