Last Update June 29, 2026
Supergirl ain't flying, it's crawling
Supergirl domestic at $38 million...DC/Warners planned on $50 million – Hollywood Reporter
The situation: this film has a reported $170 million production budget, an unknown amount spent on marketing (probably another $75 million?) but currently the total worldwide earnings reported put it at poor $68 million in total. The break even for this film likely is $400 to $500 million globally (if the usual arrangement of movie theaters keeping half of ticket sales is in play). Is that doable?
With Supergirl heading into a July 4th weekend, that will probably help a lot for a few days while huge numbers of people across America off work and family groups are seeking fun entertainment together. The current problem (meagre earnings) might dissipate, that is, unless word of mouth is really bad, confirming the online critical consensus. That will doom Supergirl to a quick fade out like Masters of the Universe, which recently appeared, made $106 million worldwide (against a $170 million production budget) and then evaporated from theaters.
Heading into the weekend, the Warner Bros. and DC Studios film was targeting a domestic start of around $50 million to $55 million, which already would have been a soft launch for such a big-budget tentpole...."
Variety.com
On the other hand, the Variety article says that, despite certain films flailing when tossed out into the world to find an audience, in general cinema is enjoying its best earnings since covid hit, with only 1.7% behind 2019 numbers. Don't know if that ratio calculates in the differences in ticket prices and the big influence of inflation since 2019. Toy Story 5 is the weekend's top film, pulling some $70 million after debuting last weekend with a super-respectible $160 million start. This next weekend is Minions and Monsters coming out, another crowd-grabbing animated film.
Was Supergirl doomed from the start?
Regarding word-of-mouth, the online world is mostly kicking Supergirl right in the shins. If superhero movies are going survive, the movie studios have got to make some kind of peace with the right-out-of-the-blocks "kill" campaigns that build up around "big" movies when either the stars say cranky things about the fanbase, or the film product itself trumpets elements that are going to get it shellacked by an army of pundit/critics that are massed into the fanosphere like a gauntlet.
When Supergirl started out a few days ago, some online critical platforms were already racking up over a million views parleying the opinion the film was simply awful. Wishing that those voices would go away is the same as wishing they don't matter: neither is going to happen.
...Supergirl became even more challenged over night with a $10.7M Saturday (-41% from Friday/previews), which is turning into a $38M domestic opening. Again, that isn’t the lowest 3-day start for a DC title, but it’s not good for a cosmos-hopping movie that cost $170M-$186M net before global spend. Supergirl‘s stateside start is lower than Disney/Marvel’s lowest, The Marvels ($46.1M) and it’s God awfully close to that DC disaster, Joker: Folie a Deux ($37.6M). Worldwide was horribly low ..."
– Deadline Hollywood
One thing in common with all three of these movies is the merciless, castigating reviews online that heralded their crushingly small total earnings. Superman, last years big summer superhero film, had a disappointing box office, but it was at least in a range where the argument became "did it make enough money to be truly profitable?" (the answer to that is most likely "yes") versus "how badly did it crash and burn?" which would have made sure Supergirl never even got made since it is a sideways sequel to the other film.
Mollifying the powerful online voices that are philosophically aligned against Hollywood can't be done, but film projects can sow confusion and split-partisanship with those same voices by not picking a fight with them, understanding what the expectations for failure are and why those expectations have become erstwhile standards across the freelance pundit/critical world. Whatever feeling there may have been in the film-making world that marketing can bulldoze over the way the online world is now arranged has turned out to be, as Sean Connery used to say, "a bucket of smoke."
Excuses
Is Supergirl proof feminist superhero films are still 'taboo'?
– India Times
Any explanation for Supergirl failing that bases it on the characters gender won't explain why Captain Marvel made $1.1 billion, and Wonder Woman made $816 million. Suicide Squad (2016 version) featured Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn turned in a $744 million gross even though that film got extremely unflattering reviews. Consider that there were many negative reviews against Barbie (another Margot Robbie film) from the same voices arraigned against Supergirl but Barbie still piled up a $1.4 billion worldwide gross in 2023.
Jerry Moriarty has died – NY Times
Influential painter who depicted comic book pages on canvas.
Why Tom King is important – MSN Men's Health
He-Man Masters of the Universe Toy Display at Walmart - the stock looks virtually untouched atabout 3 weeks after the film's premiere.
Did they sell out? Or did the staff clear the shelves? What the aisle display for Star Wars Mandolorian looked like about three weeks before
More cover art for Amazing Spider-Man #1000 – Comic Book Movie
Whoa: Spider-Man Brand New Day trailer racks up massive 600 million views – MSN Deadline Hollywood
Supergirl movie debuts
"Milly Alcock is great but ...unconvincing computerised mutt is one of the many problems..." – UK The Times
The pressure on Milly Alcock for Supergirl to fly – NY Times
...in her first lead film role, she’s carrying the weight of the retooled DC Universe’s second movie, the follow-up to the $618 million-grossing "Superman" from 2025 and a big bet from the DC Studios heads James Gunn and Peter Safran. "Supergirl" reportedly cost $175 million not including marketing and needs to make $315 million just to break even. And unlike the Marvel Cinematic Universe heyday of the 2010s, superhero movies are far from a sure thing in 2026: One hasn’t crossed the billion-dollar mark since "Deadpool & Wolverine" in 2024...."
Supergirl "a hero in search of a better movie" – Boston
"Supergirl is a blast" – MSN Canadian Press
"DC’s disaffected heroine" – MSN Wall Street Journal
"...flat, pretentious and underwhelming" – First Post
"Milly Alcock's Kara Zor-El soars while Jason Momoa's Lobo steals the spotlight" – MSN India Times
Supergirl "not off to a flying start" – MSN Huffpost
This movie "promotes courage, perseverance and protecting the vulnerable, and emphasizes that trauma doesn’t define a person" – Washington Post
As reviews come in, Supergirl buzz is "fading fast" – Forbes
... things are starting to wobble. Gunn himself was so excited about the Supergirl script from Ana Nogueira that he then put the writer on the upcoming, all-important Wonder Woman. But a few days ahead of the Supergirl release, box office tracking is dropping, and the recently embargo-dropped social media impressions are mixed, at best...."
Absolute Batman will become animated series – Hollywood Reporter MSN
"DCU's decision to double down on Jor-El and Lara being villains" – Comic Book Movie
Supergirl "derivative if altogether watchable" – New York Times
She likes to party hard, this chick, and will slam down drinks as heedlessly as any bro on a bender before crawling into bed alone on her artfully groovy, dishabille spaceship. When she finally wakes, she’s trying to swat away her frisky dog, Krypto, and protect her eyes from the morning light with mod, oversized Jackie O-style shades... faithful moviegoers have been caught up in a seemingly interminable cycle of indulgent excess and morning-after regret. That’s at least one way to describe what it’s been like to have watched the numbingly similar superhero stories that have flooded cinemas for decades..."
Two editions of Action Comics #1 and a copy of Amazing Fantasy #15 come to auction – Yahoo
The cartoonist as critic – The Comics Journal
The Kelley Jones art style animated film Batman Nightfall – Outlook India
Wednesday comics - – Fresh Comics
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Image Comics — 66 issues
DC Comics — 54 issues
IDW Publishing — 37 issues
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Batman Caped Crusader Season 2 promo
The Webslinger apparently has an alternative income source – Comicsbeat
Promo for Spider-Man Brand New Day movie coming July 31st reveals Peter Parker's upscale living conditions.
The upscale nature of Peter Parker’s pad was immediately spotted on social media – it even has its own washer/dryer, a luxury that ordinary New Yorkers in their 400 sq foot rent controlled hobbit holes can only dream of. It has high ceilings, tons of exposed brick, hard wood floors and even lots of light!... I would move in here in a heartbeat. Checking Zillow, I found a comparable apartment in BedStuy renting for $5495 – actually a pretty good deal..."
Charity donation drive to help with funeral costs for former Heavy Metal Magazine and Comics Journal editor Ted White – Go Fund Me
Anti-Putin Russian caricaturist Robert Kuzovkov AKA Semyon Skrepetsky shot dead
Story at UPI Press MSN
The things you may not know about the Batman movie of 1989 – 13th Dimension
Spider-Man hoodie and Helluva Boss Blitz & Stolas shirt at a Virginia Mall, June 2026
What happens when your shop has a lot of copies of Absolute Batman but the competing store in town doesn't? – Bleeding Cool
Still, this week made up for it, for us at least. Absolute Batman is the bestselling comic here in the store. People love it, and so do I.Absolute Batmanis the magnet that now brings in the most customers. But this week, it brought even more, and I saw lots of new faces, and sales are even higher than I expected. By 1 pm, I do what I tell myself never to do: I check the store sales, even though I should be focusing on the customers. My curiosity got the better of me, and two hours into opening, the sales total is already around the average for a total Absolute Batman Wednesday.
More people I have never seen before are coming in, even those who had abandoned their pull box through us. This is a perfect time for an awkward conversation. Finally, some customers tell me that another store not too far away was unlucky enough not to receive their full shipment for Wednesday, and that they did not have any copies ofAbsolute Batman at all... "
"Alex Ross is a monumental figure in the comic book medium" and he has "big plans for comicon" – ScreenRant
Review: Disclosure Day – Director Steven Spielberg has a lot of serious thoughts about UFOs and the spacemen who ride them, and has made other films that pay attention to the subject in a thoughtful way. But in Disclosure Day Spielberg goes "all the way" and makes a direct appeal to the audience in the form of star Emily Blunt looking straight across the "4th wall" and telling the popcorn eaters to "listen."
More about Disclosure Day, 2026
"Marvel relics" auction has Killmonger’s full Black Panther "Golden Jaguar" suit – Comicbook
Starting bid is $50K – Heritage Auctions
John Byrne comes back to X-Men – MSN Hollywood Reporter
Superman's "golden age roots" are featured in new series – Mary Sue
Lance Footer "legally blind" superhero artist at Charlotte Heroes Concention – North Carolina Post and Courier
The September books coming from Marvel – Bleeding Cool
Trenchcoat and Schwarzenegger arms for Absolute Batgirl – BleedingCool
A José Luis García-López Artist’s Edition book coming next year – Comicsbeat
You can now buy Wolverine's jacket and claws from X-Men United – Comicbook
That is, Hugh Jackman's outfit from the film. It is starting off at $50K - Heritage Auction
The "evil Superman" suit from Superman III (1983) is also up for auction
How one underground comic book took over a generation – Right Livin'
And landed on lunchboxes.
USA Today and Marvel team-up for digital access on an archive of comic books – MSN USA Today
USA TODAY and Marvel Comics have partnered to provide USA TODAY’s PLAY digital entertainment hub with access to the most popular comic-book characters in the Marvel universe. PLAY will be the exclusive home for the new vertically formatted “Spider-Man TODAY” Infinity Comic series, which runs for 48 weeks beginning June 16 – with new issues dropping every Wednesday. Readers also will be able to dig into 1,000 curated archival Marvel comics ranging from old-school classics to modern favorites..."
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