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For the last year or two I’ve been obsessed with the idea of ‘hypernormalization’, the way we’re all going through the motions like we always have because this is the only world we’ve ever known or can conceptualise, even though the ground is actually shifting rapidly beneath our feet. This is affecting everything around us,…

For the past 20+ years, explaining who Supergirl is has been as simple as saying “Superman’s cousin.” But that hasn’t always been the case. From before her introduction, Supergirl has suffered from the “Last Kryptonian” problem. Does it make Superman less special if there are other survivors of his doomed planet? The schools of thought…