Date: Aug. 19, 2026. Updated Aug. 31
It’s take two for Supergirl adaptations in 2026. Specifically the “Woman of Tomorrow” storyline, which is cited as being a primary influence for the 2026 Supergirl movie. Now, Penguin Radom House and its audio division are taking a super-powered Crack! at the relatively recent story.
Tom King wrote the comic with Bilquis Evely as the artist. The story spanned eight issues and was part of the Infinite Frontier run from DC Comics, the successor to DC Rebirth. For added context, before Rebirth was the New 52 line of comic books.
The story follows Supergirl — Kara Zor-El —as she helps a young warrior attempt to bring their father’s killer to justice. The Supergirl movie released this year took inspiration not just from the source material but the behind the scenes lore at DC comics. According to Arthur S. Poe from Comic Basics, King wanted to include Lobo as the comic’s co-star along with Supergirl. King pitched it as a team-up story, but the idea was ultimately shot down by DC’s editorial team at the time.
The original “Woman of Tomorrow” issues released from 2021-22. The final issue of the comic dropped in April 2022, less than a year before the Supergirl movie was announced. It is perhaps the quickest turnaround time for a comics to live action adaptation announcement. Approximately nine months had passed between the two events, though development for the Supergirl movie began in 2018.
The upcoming audio dramatization has even less time between “Supergirl’s” box office run and the release of the audio drama; a mere two months. In terms of characters making their live action movie debut, the one with the quickest turnaround time from comic to live action project was G’iah who appeared in the comics on March 2019, and later in the MCU movie “Captain Marvel,” two days later on March 8. Originally credited as an unknown, G’iah had the benefit of being retroactively confirmed to be the unknown character from the movie. For TV, that honor belongs to Lash the inhuman from the “Agents of SHIELD” show, who first appeared in June 2014 in the comics until the show’s second season where he was played by Blair Underwood and then by Matthew Willig in season three as the transformed version.
Meanwhile with Supergirl …
Shifting back to Supergirl, the showrunner for the “Woman of Tomorrow” audio dramatization is the same as the one for the “DC High Volume: Batman” podcast from Realm. Previous entries in the Random Penguin audioverse comics adaptations (Name is pure conjecture. No official title has been given to these productions, if any) include “Kingdom Come*” and “All-Star Superman.” My review of the latter can be found on the main site.
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Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow will be the fourth in the series, after the 2026 release of “New History of the DC Universe.” Mark Waid is credited as the writer of the original comic book, published in 2025, and was adapted into audio by Kevin Thomsen. It supposedly features the voice talents of the writers and artists from the original comic book, though that has yet to be confirmed.
Opinion: An Audible Crisis on Audio Earths?
The following is pure speculation. None of the information provided below has been confirmed, verified or checked for accuracy. It’s not factual and should not be used as evidence of the story being true.
Since both the podcast and the upcoming Supergirl full-cast audiobook share a creative lead, it begs the question if DC Comics would allow a cross-over of the two productions in a moment like “Crisis on Infinite Earths.” Hearing Marc Thompson as Clark Kent/Superman from “All-Star Superman” and “Kingdom Come” meet the Superman (Chester Rushing) from the “Nightwing: Year One” sections of the “DC High Volume” podcast would be an interesting route to go. Whether through adapting the original graphic novel or doing something more creative like CW’s Arrowverse crossover did when it loosely adapted the comic to the world they’d begun to build in 2012’s “Arrow” TV show.
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Michael Bergonzi is the founder of AudioDramaReviews.com — a website and podcast dedicated to reviewing podcast fiction and other stories told through sound. He began the site in 2013 and the podcast in 2018. His reviews can also be found on GreatPods: an aggregator like Rotten Tomatoes for podcast reviews. Michael is also a speculative fiction indie author with an epic fantasy series loosely based in Asian history and mythology, and a science fiction novella about giant fighting robots in a society where suicide is a punishment for the next of kin. In his spare time, he’s working on a steampunk story where forensic science is an actual magic system.
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I’m tempted to check this out. I haven’t seen the film yet.