Symbol Pending - A Power Girl Blog

  Aftermath Teen Titans #14 Cover Date: Februrary 2016 Released: 2nd December 2015 ⋅ Writers:  Will Pfeifer ⋅ Pencilers:  Noel Rodriguez / Scott McDaniel ⋅  Inker:  Art Thibert / Johnny Desjardins / Paolo Pantalena ⋅ Colourists:  Tony Aviña ⋅ Letterer:   Corey Breen ⋅ Editors:   Eddie Berganza / Mike Cotton / Paul Kaminski Continued from  Teen Titans #13 Luckily the cover is a big fat lie and the issue isn't about more division among the Titans, really it's quite the opposite! We start with the team being escorted out of the prison by The Alpha Centurion and guards, as Red Robin gives us a quick update on roughly what happened. This sounds like a fairly argued intro so its ended with a bit of old-fashioned police brutality, just in case we might have any feelings that Alpha Centurian's side is roughly right! It would be a short issue if the team was just shipped off to jail, so the convoy of vehicles is attacked by some character, appa...

Rogue Targets, Part 5 Teen Titans #13 Cover Date: January 2016 Released: 11th November 2015 ⋅ Writers:  Will Pfeifer ⋅ Pencilers:  Ricken / Paolo Pantalena / Noel Rodriguez                            Scott McDaniel ⋅  Inker:  Trevor Scott / Johnny Desjardins / Paolo Pantalena ⋅ Colourists:  Tony Aviña ⋅ Editors:   Eddie Berganza / Mike Cotton / Paul Kaminski Continued from  Teen Titans #12 So half the issue is the good stuff, yes for once this is a Power Girl issue, but first, we need to clean up all the loose ends. It split over the issue but we'll clump everything together just for the ease of things. First is the prison break, though as we learn later on it's not actually a prison break at all just Dr. Psycho taking advantage of the situation to get free. First, he takes down Barricade by reprogramming his purple bricks, then he shuts down Changeling's shapeshifting ma...

Rogue Targets, Part 3 Teen Titans #11 Cover Date: October 2015 Released: 26th August 2015 ⋅ Writers:  Will Pfeifer  ⋅   ⋅ Pencilers / Inker:  Ricken  ⋅  ⋅ Colourists:  Daniel Brown  ⋅  ⋅ Letterers:  John J. Hill  ⋅ ⋅ Editors:  Eddie Berganza / Mike Cotton / Paul Kaminski  ⋅ Continued from  Teen Titans #10. This is not a Power Girl story! Yeah, yeah I know running joke and all, but Tanya is in only two panels and as of right now she's on the side of the "bad guys" neither she nor Cassie gets any real screen time. The heart of the story is that of the Teen Titans trying to find out who was really responsible for the massacre, and potentially prove Superboy innocent, so they break into the MAW prison. Robin thinks it's Despero and we get a cool full-page splash of the three-eyed one! Breaking into the prison, however, involves turning off the power dampeners so a full prison riot breaks out and half the Titans hav...

Rogue Targets, Part 2 Teen Titans #10 Cover Date: September 2015 Released: 22nd July 2015 ⋅ Writers:  Will Pfeifer  ⋅   ⋅ Pencilers:  Felipe Watanabe  ⋅  ⋅ Inker:  Trevor Scott  ⋅  ⋅ Colourists:  Daniel Brown  ⋅  ⋅ Letterers:  John J. Hill  ⋅ ⋅ Editors:  Eddie Berganza / Mike Cotton / Paul Kaminski  ⋅ Continued from  Teen Titans #9 With the Elite and the Titans staring each other down the Elite, or Cassie at least tries something unusual - she tries to solve everything peacefully! Bart, Kid Flash, still has major beef with the Titans so he goes off half-cocked and our expected fight breaks out. Or at least it tries before Gar turns into a hippo and literally sits on Kid Flash whilst he calms down. Again Cassie tries to talk things out, but when she touches Conner she's flung backward by a Kryptonians who isn't keen right now on the whole touching thing! Then he fights some of the other Elite, the ones...

Brainwave Blows Up!  All-Star Comics #59 Cover Date: April 1976 Released: 16th December 1976 ⋅ Writers:  Gerry Conway  ⋅   ⋅ Pencilers:  Ric Estrada  ⋅  ⋅ Inker:  Wally Wood  ⋅  ⋅ Editors:  Paul Levitz  ⋅ Continued from  All-Star Comics #58 . October 9th is the publication date for the original publication date for All-Star #58, hence the birthday for Power Girl. So what better time (more or less) to look back at the original comics. Obviously is not an excuse to improve on my terrible early post, really don't look, no really! When I started this I really didn't know anything about these comics and it's amazing how different looking at this comic with all the many comics between now and them. We start with Brainwave, looks remarkable like how his son will later look (without the googly eyes alas) taking down the Justice Society. Or so it seems as they begin to fade away as Brainwave celebrates his victory whilst talking ...

Rogue Targets, Part 1 Teen Titans #9 Cover Date: August 2015 Released: 24th June 2015 ⋅ Writers: Will Pfeifer ⋅   ⋅ Pencilers / Inker: Kenneth Rocafort ⋅  ⋅ Colourists: Daniel Brown  ⋅  ⋅ Letterers: John J. Hill ⋅ ⋅ Editors: Eddie Berganza / Mike Cotton / Paul Kaminski ⋅ Continued from Teen Titans Annual #1. Our Titans, after the events of the Annual, are "hiding" out in Chicago. Superboy is flying around whilst Ruth and Robin discuss about Conner's state of mind and give us a quick and dirty rundown of what happened.  Meanwhile BUnker, Raven, and Beast Boy are wandering the streets, trying to be incognito which lasts about five minutes before Raven, of all people get spotted as a member of the Titans. It probably doesn't helpGar is chatting away, even if he's disgusted (to start) as a parrot. This is also where we're reminded of Raven's connection with that band, which isn't bought up again as we get into the plot. We get a quick cut to STAR Labs...

The Source Of Mercy Teen Titans Annual Cover Date:  June 2015 Released:  1st April 2015 ⋅ Writers:   Tom King / Will Pfeifer  ⋅  ⋅ Pencilers:  Alisson Borges / Wes St. Claire  ⋅  ⋅ Inkers:  Alisson Borges / Wayne Faucher   ⋅     ⋅ Colourists:  Matt Yackey  ⋅  ⋅ Letterers:  John J. Hill   ⋅ ⋅  Editors:  Rickey Purdin / Mike Cotton / Eddie Berganza  ⋅ Continued from  Teen Titans #8 . As I've stated many times before I sometimes wished I'd planned this blog with these coincidences before I started. Because as Infinite Crisis has the death of Conner Kent, Superboy, this annual brings him back or at least to the New 52 universe. They even came out in the same month, even if they were around nine years apart. Now I know it's not perfect, this isn't even the real first return of Superboy to the New 52, just the first time that this version of the Titan's. We start with...