Supergirl
Warning : contains spoilers forSupergirl : adult female of Tomorrow # 8 !
Fans have long speculated how Kryptonians like Superman live such long life story , but one view withSupergirlshined some spark on their reported immortality inDC Comics . This go on in the concluding takings ofSupergirl : Woman of Tomorrow . The eight event series was written by Tom King and illustrated by Bilquis Evely .
The story follows Supergirl as she embarks on a journey with a young girl named Ruthye . They are searching for a man who killed Ruthye ’s dad and poisoned Supergirl ’s dog Krypto . The story is told through Ruthye ’s full stop of survey . She practice story to echo their adventures during some unspecified time in the time to come . It is only during the series ' final takings that it ’s unveil the narration is in reality part of a book Ruthye wrote about her metre with Supergirl . Eventually , the duo finds the man they are take care for and decide tosend him to the Phantom Zone as punishment .
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Decades later , Ruthye , now an old woman , had bring out her Bible . She is waiting for Supergirl during the comics ’ concluding Page . Supergirl is come in to see her so that the two of them can retrieve the man from the Phantom Zone together . But when Supergirl arrives she look almost on the nose the same as she did when the two of them went on their escapade . Ruthye had senesce from a girl to an elderly woman while Supergirl only aged a few years , if that . She does arrive with a young coif , too , so that might be one reason why she looks a little older , though it ’s impossible to tell .
This age tracks with Superman ’s appearance in theFuture Statetitle , Superman : House of Elfrom Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Scott Godlewski . That story is supposed to take place in the year 3000 , butSuperman is only a second older , probably middle - of age . This means that once expose to a yellow Dominicus , Kryptonians will age usually up to their prime , but the senesce process will slow down considerably when their body hand a peak level of maturity . They are not immortal per se , but they age so slowly that they may as well be .
Also interestingly , Krypto appears in this final shot as well . Ruthye is happy to see him and not surprised at all that the dog is still alive . This indicates that the Kryptonian age process extend to animals , too . It ’s one thing for a human being - like Kryptonian to seem immortal . It ’s another affair for a dog to mature the same way of life when their life are typically a fraction of a human’s . Supergirland her hound are just that inseparable .
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