I can certainly relate to this

I find it interesting that people are comparing the “Supergirl” trailer to the Black Widow spoof on SNL.

This despite the fact that the Supergirl trailer is actually evocative of the feel of the Silver Age Supergirl: the story of a young girl trying to adjust to using her powers in an environment that doesn’t know her, and figure out her place in the world. The Black Widow sketch spoofed some of that attitude, but the series is starting there and will ideally grow from it. What in the world is wrong with that? Yet some people actually seem to believe that a sketch that aired three weeks ago influenced a TV pilot that was shot three months ago.

Been there, done that. I got SO sick of people claiming that I was ripping off “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” when I was writing the Supergirl comic. People declared that Buzz was a rip off of Spike even though his creation preceded Spike in the series. One guy declared that I ripped off an episode of Buffy that had aired THAT WEEK for the first time in an issue that came out the next day. Because I had no idea what to put in that issue and, after watching Buffy, I stole the story and we got the entire book written, drawn, colored, lettered and printed in 24 hours to make shipping.

I’m sorry, the Supergirl pilot looks fun and I’m personally looking forward to it.

PAD