Symbol Pending - A Power Girl Blog

 Don't You Know There's a War On? Starman #5 Cover Date:  Holiday 1988 Released:  25th October 1988 ⋅ Writers:   Roger Stern  ⋅ Pencilers:  Tom Lyle  ⋅     ⋅   Inkers:  Bob Smith  ⋅  Colourists:  Julianna Ferriter  ⋅ ⋅  Letterers:  Bob Pinaha  ⋅  Editors:  Robert Greenberger  ⋅  Continued from Firestorm #80 (sorta). We start before the previous issue picked up with Starman having been captured by a group of government-created single-powered heroes called the Power Elite. The vaguely military supes have some very Aliens-tinged conversations where we pick up the single character trait that each of them has. Alas, the only power the only female trooper seems to have is to just be around as the token female. One of the Power Elite however is an alien shapeshifter apparently placed there before the Invasion! began. They contact the Khund commander, our aliens for the issue (apart from a one-panel appearance of the Dominators) and arrange to take our titular hero away from this ba

The Battle Joined Firestorm #80 Cover Date:  Februrary1989 Released:  11th October 1988 ⋅ Writers:   Robert Greenberger  ⋅ Pencilers:  Tom Grindberg  ⋅     ⋅   Inkers:  Sam De La Rosa  ⋅  Colourists:  Nansi Hoolahan  ⋅ ⋅  Letterers:  Duncan Andrews  ⋅  Editors:  Dennis O'Neil / Dan Raspler  ⋅  Compare to modern event comics Invasion! is a weird beast. The main comic is three oversized issues, at 81 pages, in between all the running issues pick up on various parts of the invasion. Ah yes the Invasion, basically the various aliens of the DC Universe decide that Earth's metahumans (a term used first here) are a threat so team up to invade (duh) the planet. The first episode is set up and invasion, the second part is about the heroes fighting back, and the third is about the fallout of the victory. Among the aliens are some well-known ones like the Thangarians (Hawkgirls lots) and Daxamites (Kryptonians knock-off, the real Andromeda). This issue is the one between the first and s

Journey to Eden Firestorm #77 Cover Date:  November 1988 Released:  12th July 1988 ⋅ Writers:   John Ostrander  ⋅ Pencilers:  Joe Brozowski   ⋅     ⋅   Inkers:  Sam De La Rosa  ⋅  Colourists:  Nansi Hoolahan  ⋅ ⋅  Letterers:  Duncan Andrews  ⋅  Editors:  Dennis O'Neil  ⋅  Apart from the dodgy gender politics of her early appearances Power Girl rarely gets to deal with any kind of political issues. And in case anyone is confused I mean politics as in the societal sense, the kind of things a certain type of fan decries as being shoved into modern comics when it's been a thing since Captain America punched Hitler on the cover of his first comic! Personally, I have no problems with such things in comics, I wouldn't be spending so many words on it here if I didn't, I might not want it every week but I enjoy media to sometimes challenge me to think about a subject. Which is good as Kara only appears on one page in this comic, not as Power Girl but as Karen Starr CEO of Star