Symbol Pending - A Power Girl Blog

Origins and Outcasts Infinity Inc #4 Cover Date:  July  1984 Released:   19th April 1984 This is still set up, this time Jade, Obsidian and Northwind, so apart from the cover Kara only get's one panel near the end. Oh, and out of interest I checked and Generations basically lasts a full year (12 issues) so I'll stop babbling on about how everything is just set up. That's 1/4 of the run of the comic, which is an impressive show of confidence from Roy. It's also most of the appearances Kara, so we're be leaving the book more or less when Kara does. The others are around Crisis which is a different kettle of fish that we'll get to when we get to it! So enough stalling onto the story! We start with Jade, Obsidian and Northwind taking Solomon Grundy somewhere in the protective bubble Jade formed the last issue. To pass the time they basically start to tell each other their backstories. Jade start off with her being a regular kid growing up in suburbia, apart from the...

Solomon Grundy Goes Hollywood Infinity Inc #3 Cover Date:  June  1984 Released: 22nd March 1984 We start we the Power Girl waking up, and for the first few pages, she really takes the lead waking up the other two (Huntress and Star-Spangled Kid), though waking them up by flying in the fresh air is a little dubious at best. As the three recover from the last issues mind whammy we get a quick summary of what happened previously. They then tell us about all the adventures in 1942, in a couple of pages, fighting the wonderfully named Lady Ultra-Humanite.   As a quick aside I find it fascinating that the original Ultra-Humanite brain transplant was into Dolores, I know it's a pulp thing but from my (limited) reading it's never made a big deal that he choose a female host. Of cause being comics no big deal is made about him choosing an ape next, but I can't help reading it with my progressive 21st-century brain. With a quick Central Park aside to show, pretty subtly for comics...

A Gauntlet Hurled Infinity Inc #2  Cover Date: May 1984 Released:   16th February 1984 Even in the second edition, we're still setting up the status quo. So our young heroes decide to get lunch at the not!McDonald's McTavish's (though weirdly Burger King gets a call out). I'm a little sad we're quite a... while from Bat Burger but you can't really blame a forty-year-old comic for missing that trick! As is natural a brawl breaks outs, after what I think are some unfortunate stereotypes try to start trouble with our heroes. It's really a chance to show off what they can do whilst they have the advantage, compared to the fights they've had, and will have before Power Girl and Huntress turn up to offer them their help.  We then cut back to the JSA where the Brainwave goes from his classic Doctor  Sivana look to the younger look he had when we first saw him in All-Stars. Turns out it's actually his son who wants to help the JSA against a potential foe, t...

Generations Infinity Inc #1  Cover Date:  March 1984 Released:   22nd December 1983 New Year, new team! Welcome to 2022 to those who are reading along live. And in my perfect timing, the book starts on Christmas Eve with a meeting of the old JSA. Not just the one I've been following in All-Star's but the classic JSAers as well, which makes sense as the point is about handing the torch over between generations. Talking of we start with the JSA having a meeting on Christmas Eve (and yes I appreciate the irony of being just a week or so out), far from the lean team from the end of All-Stars or the now gone team-up this is the full team of Gold, Silver and Bronze age characters. This will be important soon enough. It seems that some threat has bought the team together on the 24th to plan a way to stop the person involved. Into this meeting burst four new heroes, teenagers if Alan Scott's comments are anything to go with, offering to help the JSA with the current threat. Righ...