Symbol Pending - A Power Girl Blog

  Last Days of the Justice Society Cover Date:  July 1986 Released:  24th April 1985 In my copy of Crisis on Infinite Earths Marv Wolfman declare that he didn't kill off the JSA in the Crisis, and he's right this is the book that killed the team and boy what a crazy ride it is! But as I'm apparently still not done with getting irked at Crisis fallout we get one doozy of a retcon. For we start with the JSA gathered at the graveside of both Helena and Dick Grayson. But I hear you say, metaphorical reader, Robin survived that disaster, didn't he? Well according to this no! Even worse we don't find out how he died during the crisis, just that between the last scene we saw him in and this funeral he somehow died. Also, the funeral mentions all the other JSAers that have been lost between their start and (then) current day. We also get the obligatory info dump about Infinity Inc and the sudden influx of new members. The plot starts off simple enough, Hitler has the Spear ...

Crisis on Infinite Earths #7-12 Cover Date:  October 1985 to March 1986 Release Date:  4th July to 19th December 1985 Infinity Inc #24-25, 27 Cover Date:  March 1986 to June 1986 Release Date:  19th December 1985 to 20th March 1986 A quick apology here but this one get's a little long, and a little ranty, with issue #7 being so important it didn't seem fair to tack it onto the end of the last blog. And being the end obviously the more important stuff comes towards the end. And for the first time, of many, here I do really like this series. It's obviously flawed, and I will mention a few of the here, but overall it tells the tale it was tasked with doing competently. Crisis on Infinite Earths #7 - "Beyond the Silent Night" ( October 1985) Have you ever watched a show and suddenly an underused character gets all the action and the best lines, before being killed off? This is what happens with Supergirl here, no use burying the lead here it's probably the second...

Crisis on Infinite Earths is frustrating to talk about. Not because it’s bad, it’s a classic for a reason. Firstly it’s what I’d call a funfair comic, trying to include (and mostly succeeding) every aspect of the soon to be gone DC Universe. Also as one of the first event comics, along with Secret Wars, it ushered in a style of comics that you can say is perhaps now overused. With this rebooting the universe many better authors than me have spilled many words about the impact of Crisis on both the real and fictional universe. Finally, this Crisis doesn’t do Power Girl a service, she cameos in about half of the story but only really plays a part in the last few issues, still let’s look at the entire thing as a whole including her fleeting appearances in Infinity Inc. Crisis on Infinite Earths #1-6 Cover Date: May 1985 to September1985 Release Date: 3rd January to 6th June 1985 Infinity Inc #21-22 Cover Date: December1985 to January 1986 Release Date: 19th September 1985 to 17th October...