Oklahoma’s Sterling Gates to write “Supergirl”

Just announced at Wizard World Chicago is the new creative team on DC’s “Supergirl” title.   Writer Sterling Gates, who grew up in Tulsa and graduated from the University of Oklahoma, joins artist Jamal Igle as the creative team on “Supergirl,” starting with issue #34.  

Nerdage asked Gates a few quick questions about his plans for the Girl of Steel.

Matt Price: What’s your take on Supergirl?
Sterling Gates: Supergirl is one of the strongest girls on the planet Earth. One day, she’s going to grow up to be one of the greatest heroes the world has ever known. In the meantime, however, she’s got a lot of learning to do.

Life is hard for Kara Zor-El. She’s an immigrant who was put in suspended animation and sent to Earth by her parents in order to escape Krypton’s destruction. Now that she’s here, she’s found herself living in her cousin Superman’s shadow. That’s a
LOT for a teenage girl to deal with and wrap her head around, to live in constant comparison to someone who is, or who comes off as, perfect. So she’s tried everything she can think of to try and separate herself out from just being “Superman’s cousin,” and it’s not worked out too well, so far.