Symbol Pending - A Power Girl Blog

Order and Doom Doom Patrol #14 Cover Date:  November 1988 Released:  26th July 1988 ⋅ Writers:   Paul Kupperberg  ⋅ Pencilers:  Erik Larsen  ⋅  ⋅   Inkers:  Jim Sanders  ⋅   Colourists:  Michele Wolfman  ⋅ ⋅  Letterers:  John Workman   ⋅  Editors:  Robert Greenberger  ⋅ Continued from here . We open with a lovely full-page splash of a bandaged Pee Gee telling the Patrol what a massive threat Pythia is to all reality, though spoilers she never shows up in another comic! For anyone, interested Pythia was the title of the Oracle of Delphi, which is why the name will be reused later for one of the Amazon, and by later I mean this very month which might explain why the Lord of Chaos didn't return. Several of the Patrol seemed to be a little too wrapped up in their own subplots to take it seriously until Kara gets a little miffed about how they're not taking this as seriously as they should. Cliff (Robotman) being the champion that he is settles things down and takes Power Girl to

Power and Chaos Doom Patrol #13 Cover Date:  October 1988 Released:  28th June 1988 ⋅ Writers:   Paul Kupperberg  ⋅ Pencilers:  Erik Larsen  ⋅  ⋅   Inkers:  Al Gordon  ⋅   Colourists:  Michele Wolfman  ⋅ ⋅  Letterers:  John Workman   ⋅  Editors:  Robert Greenberger  ⋅ As I might have mentioned this before but the joy of a read-along like this is that it takes you places you wouldn't normally visit. Now I'm aware of the Doom Patrol, but apart from the TV show, which is amazing, and the last series, which was okay, I've not read any previous Doom Patrol. Like its spiritual cousin X-Men, which has a complicated relationship with, basically, they started with very similar teams and whilst written to close to copy each other, maybe as they artists worked in the same studio, it's very soap opera like with may subplots running through the entire issue. And into this is thrown Power Girl! Unlike the Power Girl issues, all of the characters here have the space to be themselves