Symbol Pending - A Power Girl Blog

  The Bomb-Blast Heard 'round the World Justice League of America #208 Cover Date:   November 1982 Released:   5th August 1982 We open with the best of all team up cliche's, the misunderstanding fight between the two groups of heroes. The JLA ( Aquaman,  Firestorm,  Hawkman,  Superman,  Zatanna ) newly arrived in 1942 deck it out with the All-Star Squadron ( Commander Steel,  Liberty Belle,  Johnny Quick,  Firebrand,  Robotman) from the era, who want to know what happened to the JSA. Supes eventually gets fed up enough to literally shout for everyone to stop acting like bickering kids, with Robotman agreeing with the sentiment. I know it's mostly my biases, but being used to the Doom Patrol (TV version) this reasonable version of Robotman is weird . Apparently, all it takes is for supes to mention he's from the future to make everyone cool allies, they even had a little get together to celebrate. Though I could have done without Fi...

Crisis Times Three Justice League of America #207 Cover Date:   October 1982 Released:   1st July 1982 This is the twentieth crossover between the JSA and JLA, though I've only done the last four, so we get an epic three-part series! We're still a good four years from the idea of the sprawling multi-part epic, so four issues will have to do for now. Being an anniversary issue we start with all the usual beats with the two teams being excited about the annual team-up. We quickly cover that Zatana is the chairman of the JLA, Firestorm has a thing for Power Girl and a reminder that Helena is Bruce's daughter even if Batman isn't in this one. And as seems just as traditional the beam is intercepted and they're whisked away somewhere else. We then get a lovely splash page as the JLA face the Crime Syndicate of Earth-3! Apart from the silly-looking costume of Owlman, and the obvious reason Batman and Green Lantern are elsewhere, we get a fairly good fight where the Syndic...