SUPERGIRL: Kara Gets A New Super Suit In The New Promo For Season 4, Episode 4: "Ahimsa"

Agent Liberty???

Who dat?

I don't quite remember the Daxomite invasion effecting the area outside of the city. Is that something that actually happened in season 2, or was introduced into this episode?

Otherwise, pretty good episode, best so far this season. I thought the backstory to Agent Liberty was good for the most part. Lockwood's hatred seemed a bit unrealistic, a bit too far and a bit too fast to me; and it also didn't make sense coming from his history teacher background (where he was saying stuff that was actually contrary to his beliefs and didn't really make sense). But that's just a minor gripe, and Witwer did a great job and I'm looking forward to more from him. As of now, with this Agent Liberty storyline, I think we may have our best season of Supergirl so far, with the best villain. Lets see if they can keep it up!

Also, that suit-up at the end was pretty neat (and only further convinces me that we will see a Lexo Suit 2.0, perhaps with Lena teaming up with Kara). Someone make a gif!

@KingPatel - [frick] YEA!!!

"SUPERGIRL: Kara Gets A New Super Suit In The New Promo For Season"

Sam Witwer is a great actor! He should be a bigger name than what he is...

Let's see how off-topic I can go...

So, I've been toying with painting something from comics for a while now and I'm thinking about finally biting the bullet. Lately, I've been knee deep in reading Paradise Lost while also puttering around Assassin's Creed Odyssey and I'm feeling a sort of classicist itch. And the comic-thing I've landed on is the moment that Jean erupts from the water as Phoenix for the first time. Around here, I've mentioned some of the meaty theological implications of that moment, while also having that particular moment feeling like a genuine modern mythological moment that isn't a directly derivative of something older. It just feels like rich soil.

I thought about using Botticelli's Birth of Venus as a model (goddess emerges from the ocean foam fully-formed)...



...but even as the details are maybe similar, it's just all wrong. So then, I moved back toward the theological allegory of Jesus that I've hinted at before. Specifically, the Baptism of Jesus wherein the Dove descends from Heaven (a scene I've even seen depicted with an intensity that seems derivative of X-Men, actually, such as this Daniel Bonnell painting from the 90's)...



But, that didn't really give me the feeling I wanted, either. So, right now I'm looking at paintings of 18th-19th century naval battles. The energy of the water and flames of the explosion of the Orient at the Battle of the Nile has that sense of scale and portentous release that I'm looking for, for example:



So... I'm still in the very early stages, and just teasing out my composition and palette (and checking it on a different computer/monitor setup because the PC I paint on is a little deceptive in its color display) and I thought I'd post the thumbnail that I'm kind of liking.



If I were to keep working on it, the goal would be to really focus on the details. Depict the X-Men as washed away bystanders caught in the wake of Jean's power, like the sailors in boats escaping sinking ships in the naval battles. The figure of Jean herself is small, but I was thinking of interpreting the physical manifestation of Jean (that canonically takes her place, though I don't personally care for that detail) as a luminous figure in the more classic arm-straight pose within the aura itself. Essentially trying to depict docetism visually.

It's a heavy lift, but I sometimes find painting a good outlet, and just wondered if there was anything major I'm missing with this conceptual approach. (Feedback is welcome.) Maybe I'll never do anything with it beyond this, though. Just an impulse.

Davis Bloome is baaack! :P
Actually really enjoeyed this episode.