The excitement surrounding next year’s Supergirl movie is already palpable. When Milly Alcock’s take on Kara Zor-El / Supergirl literally crash-landed into the last scene of this summer’s Superman, her seconds-long cameo stole the hearts of many.
Supergirl‘s first teaser poster basically broke the Internet when it was unveiled in July. Copies of the movie’s source material, Tom King and Bilquis Evely’s maxiseries Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, have sold out multiple times over. I’ve, personally, already run into at least a dozen different cosplays of Kara at conventions, complete with the brown trenchcoat and a Krypto plushie.
As the Supergirl hype continues to grow, DC just announced a pretty perfect comic to complement it. On Friday, as part of DC’s January 2026 solicitations, the publisher unveiled the first details around DC’s Supergirl Next Door #1. Arriving just in time for Valentine’s Day, the anthology promises to show Kara “and a host of lovestruck heroes and villains” as they encounter basically every rom-com trope possible.
DC’S SUPERGIRL NEXT DOOR #1
- Written by NATHAN FAIRBAIRN, CRC PAYNE, ROSIE KNIGHT, DORADO QUICK, NICOLE MAINES, SARAH KUHN, DAVE WIELGOSZ, and more
- Art by PAULINA GANUCHEAU, ARIELLE JOVELLANOS, RAFAEL PEREZ, MICHAEL SHELFER, and more
- Cover by AMY REEDER
- Variant covers by ALEXANDER LOZANO
- $4.99 US | 32 pages | Variant $5.99 US (card stock)
- ON SALE 1/28/26
- There’s something about Kara. She’s effortlessly cool, adored by all, and looks great in a cape—she’s truly all that! She could have fifty first dates lined up in a minute, but love actually wasn’t on her radar…until now! In this hot new anthology, join Supergirl and a host of lovestruck heroes and villains as they bravely embark on quests for love, even if it means running through every rom-com trope to get there. You’d be hard pressed to find ten things to hate about this book, so pick it up this Valentine’s Day—and place it on the shelf next to all the books you’ve loved before!
You’re gonna love Kara!
In recent years, DC has absolutely crushed these holiday-themed anthologies, both in their pun-filled naming schemes (the summer-themed G’nort’s Illustrated Swimsuit Edition still remains a masterpiece in concept and execution) and in the variety of characters and stories within them. The ones published around Valentine’s Day have always been particularly fun, with titles like Lex in the City and How to Lose a Guy Gardner in 10 Days.
In concept alone, Supergirl Next Door seems to be a pretty perfect addition to that, especially with the solicit leaning into the rom-com tropes of it all. It’s also lovely to see Kara getting a publishing push in early 2026 months before her movie debuts in the summer, beyond Sophie Campbell’s delightful and weird Supergirl ongoing series. When a comic character is about to be spotlighted in a movie, being able to point to one specific comic — whether it be the first issue of a new series, a new arc, or a standalone one-shot like this — is so helpful to get new people on board with reading about them. Just look at DC’s “Summer of Superman” initiative around the movie earlier this summer as a perfect example.
Supergirl Next Door is also a clever title because, once we get to see more of Kara onscreen, the long-running stereotype of her being the “girl next door” is going to change. As anyone who has read Woman of Tomorrow already knows, the story leans into Kara’s reputation as a beloved and respected hero, as well as her personal demons and flaws… which she tries to run away from by getting drunk on planets without yellow suns. Her brief cameo in Superman previewed this to great effect, but some “fans” clutched their pearls at the notion that such a sunny and buttoned-up character would revel in getting drunk.
Regardless of however you feel about that, the cultural perception of Supergirl is undeniably going to change over the course of the next year, and I am excited to see how Supergirl Next Door plays into that.
(featured image: DC)
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