WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for Supergirl #21 by Mark Andreyko, Kevin Maguire, Sean Parsons, FCO Plascencia and Tom Napolitano, in stores now.
Earlier this year, it was announced that the Supergirl comic series would welcome a new creative team with issue #21, bringing with them a new beginning that would see Kara Zor-El slip into a new, and much different, costume.
This new outfit will be a departure from the character's usual look; the predominantly blue and red design trades the yellow of her traditional ensemble for black, with a cape that working as a sash covering part of her now-silver House of El emblem. According to writer Mark Andreyko, the change in costume will happen for a specific story reason, and it isn't necessarily permanent so much as it's a natural reflection of the new quest Kara finds herself on.
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Despite the costume appearing on the cover of Supergirl #21, it looks like fans will have to wait a little longer to find out what, exactly, prompts Kara to change into her different outfit. Instead, the issue features aa different costume change when Kara slips into another outfit, one that's bound to look familiar to Silver Age fans.
Following the events of The Man of Steel, Kara Zor-El is looking for answers. Although she was the one who defeated new villain Rogol Zaar, the revelation that he was the one behind the destruction of Krypton prompts Kara to decide to leave Earth behind and travel to space in order to discover whether the alien villain was telling the truth. There is a larger conspiracy around Rogol Zaar, Kara believes and she's determined to unravel it. To do so, she must venture far away, to places she has never gone before. And in doing, she may not always be near a yellow sun, the power source that continuously charges her body with superpowers.
In order to keep her powers, no matter what corner of space she may find herself in, Kara slips into a different costume: a solar collector suit that looks quite similar to the first costume the original Supergirl wore in her first appearances, back in 1959.
The most important feature of this new/old costume is the glowing emblem, which serves as a yellow solar battery. As she heads back to the stars, it's fitting that Kara would don a costume that is almost exactly like the one she wore when she first landed on Earth.
Two years ago, the Supergirl title was relaunched under the Rebirth banner. This new volume of the series took heavy inspiration from the character's CW show, from the presence of the DEO in Kara's life, to the live-action series' red skirt-suit. Now, even as a new creative team arrives to usher in the hero's next era, Supergirl brings back the classic blue skirt look of the character for one last spin before adopting her upcoming all-new look.
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