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Warning : spoiler onwards forSupergirl : Woman of Tomorrow # 6
In a flashback , Supergirlreveals the perverted reason why Kryptonite is so deadly to Kryptonians . This Book of Revelation comes in issue # 6 ofSupergirl : Woman of Tomorrow , titled “ Home , Family and Refuge . ” The series is written by Tom King with art by Bilquis Evely and Mat Lopes .
In this 12 - outcome series , Supergirl travels the galax with a companion named Ruthye , whose father was remove by a humankind nominate Krem . Ruthye seek to hire Supergirl to take retaliation against her father ’s manslayer . Supergirl initially refuses to get involve but changes her intellect after Krem wounds Supergirl ’s click name Krypto with a poisonous pointer . Krem then escapes in Supergirl ’s starship , and the dyad are ram to traverse him across the galaxy .
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Issue # 6 is mainly devoted to a flashback as Ruthye recallsthe origin chronicle Supergirl differentiate her . After Krypton ’s devastation , Zor - El , Supergirl ’s father , was able to build an atmospherical bubble over Argo City , which survived on a chunk of debris . This asteroid carrying the city floated through blank space aimlessly , absorbing beam ’s of starlight from the yellow-bellied Sun it go by along the way . This Inner Light change the chemic composition of the ground Argo City sit down on , stimulate radiation to ooze up from the ground . This radiation give many of Argo City ’s house physician malignant neoplastic disease and killed them , include Supergirl ’s female parent .
This leads to a startling Apocalypse that shards of Kryptonite weaken Superman , Supergirl , and others by inflicting them with an extreme form of Cancer the Crab - causing radiation syndrome intoxication . It ’s also safe to assume that once theKryptonite is a secure distance away , their tiptop healing dispatch the Cancer the Crab from their eubstance . This situation is wry , as the same yellow-bellied sun that gives them their magnate is also what made the debris from their home satellite so toxic for them .
There are many , minute contingent in this extraction story that give small coup d’oeil into the relationship between Kryptonians and their dwelling house planet . For instance , while the ground was able to absorb enough yellow starlight to become toxic , the resident of Argo City were n’t able to take in enough to gain king . This think that Kryptonite itself is far more sensible to the luminance from yellowed sun than Kryptonians . Another interesting tidbit is thatZor - El was capable to hold back the radiationby crafting a jury-rigged shield of lead between themselves and the ground . Lead is also notoriously used by baddie ( and others ) to harbor themselves from Superman ’s powers . So , Supergirl ’s Father of the Church should be credit as the first to get a line this Kryptonian weakness . Sorry , Lex Luthor .
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