Symbol Pending - A Power Girl Blog

WORLD'S END? WORLDS' FINEST #26 Published:  13th August 2014 Cover Date:  October 2014 Cover Artists:   Tyler Kirkham / Jason Wright Writer:  Paul Levitz / Scott Kolins Penciler:  Tyler Kirkham Inker:   Joe Weems Colourist:   Arif Prianto Letterer:   Travis Lanham Editors:   Eddie Berganza / Mike Cotton / Anthony Marques Introduction It seems appropriate, if I admit a tad slight, that today of all days (a leap day) we should talk about a character who if had been created during a leap year she wouldn't have made it long past her first (fourth) birthday. For the final day of Tanya month, we finally get the Tanya that everyone (who cares) would consider the "real" Tanya! Sypnosis We start on Earth 2, or Earth-2 apparently, with Pee Gee and Huntress looking upon a massive wormhole over a city. Huntress is not keep on being used as canon fodder, whilst Pee Gee seems quite keen to get into action. Especially when she sees what she assumes is Kal-El (as the cover spoile

  FAREWELLS WORLDS' FINEST #25 Published:  9th July 2014 Cover Date:  September 2014 Cover Artists:   Stephen Segovia / Michael Atiyeh Writer:  Paul Levitz Penciler:  Tyler Kirkham Inker:   Joe Weems / Art Thibert Colourist:   Arif Prianto Letterer:   Taylor Esposito Editors:   Eddie Berganza / Mike Cotton / Anthony Marques Introduction If you've been paying attention it's obvious that this comic is going through some changes, because it does something that most ongoing don't do it (spoilers) wraps up the major part of the comic, Power Girl and Huntress get to go home! Sypnosis We start with Kara returning from a night out to Helena enjoying some cupcakes, They have some banter, including Helena pinning Kara's towel (she's changed into it as they talk) to the wall with a fork, as we learn they're ready to go home and Helena isn't quite as keen on returning as Kara. It nicely sums up the more fun lovely Pee Gee compared to the more reserved, and resigned,

I MUST BE GOING, PART TWO WORLDS' FINEST #24 Published:  11th June 2014 Cover Date:  August 2014 Cover Artists:   Barry Kitson / Jason Wright Writer:  Paul Levitz Penciler:  Scott McDaniel Inker:   Scott McDaniel Colourist:   Jason Wright Letterer:   Taylor Esposito Editors:   Eddie Berganza / Mike Cotton / Anthony Marques Introduction Comics need more goofy superheroics! Personally, I feel that sometimes the desire to be more grounded and realistic denies the fun that comics can be. Not deep I know but this is a middle, and awesome middle, but really there's not much depth to discuss here! Sypnosis We open on a splash page that picks up from the last issue with the terrorist holding Tanya at gunpoint whilst Huntress, with amazing capeage, stands on summarizing the plot. Helena fakes throwing herself off the bridge so he doesn't shoot Tanya, instead hanging off the bottom of the bridge to follow them along as they hijack another car. She then, a perfectly normal human (if o

I MUST BE GOING, PART ONE WORLDS' FINEST #23 Published:  14th May 2014 Cover Date:  July 2014 Cover Artists:   Barry Kitson / Jason Wright Writer:  Paul Levitz Penciler:  R.B. Silva / Yildiray Cinar Inker:   Joe Weems / Yildiray Cinar Colourist:   Jason Wright Letterer:   Carlos M. Mangual Editors:   Mike Cotton Introduction After a brief hiatus, we're returning to Tanya, and it's a little bit of a cheat, we're looking at her first appearance in the pages of Worlds' Finest so it includes (a) Power Girl as well. And it's a fascinating look at how the character evolves and changes, even over the four issues of this comic. Synopsis After finding and being denied a way home Power Girl is having none of it so she's gathered some of the brightest minds to a Starr lab at Cambridge, Massachusetts (near MIT for non-Americans like me). From the splash page, she's pulling no punches lifting heavy machinery around to prove that she's superpowered then welding wi

  CRISIS BETWEEN TWO EARTH or APOKOLIPS NOW! JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #184 Published:   14th August 1980 Cover Date:  November 1980 Cover Artists:   George Pérez Writer:  Gerry Conway Penciler:  George Pérez Inker:   Frank McLaughlin Colourist:   Gene D'Angelo Letterer:   Ben Oda Editors:   Len Wein Introduction No little lectures or points to be made this time around, other than to say that I'm using the Apokolips Now as the title rather than its official title as it's, in my opinion. much cooler than the Crisis related title. And for context at this point, Crisis was just the name of the annual crossover between the JLA and the JSA rather than the big multiversal event that they are now. And the film Apocalypse Now was only a year old, coincidently releasing on August 15th 1979, so was relatively cool and probably still in the public consciousness. Synopsis After a glorious full-page spread that gives us the story so far, we get another one showing Darkseid in all his gl

  CRISIS ON NEW GENESIS or WHERE HAVE ALL THE NEW GODS GONE?JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #183 Published:   10th July 1980 Cover Date:  October 1980 Cover Artists:   Jim Starlin Writer:  Gerry Conway Penciler:  Dick Dillin Inker:   Frank McLaughlin Colourist:   Gene D'Angelo Letterer:   Ben Oda Editors:   Len Wein Introduction Everything these days has to be a massive crossover with the entire Multiverse in crisis, whilst in the 70s and 80s you got these (relative) low-key events where two or more teams just teamed up over both of their comics. Which I guess is weird as this involves New Genesis and Apokolips, y'know the New Gods that you'd figure would want, no need, to be in a big massive story. But somehow for me, these kinda stories have a bigger appeal, probably because right now there's a little bit of event fatigue. Synopsis We start, as with all these crossovers with the standard one-page explanation of how the JLA are from Earth-1 and the JSA on Earth-2, and becaus

Putting it Together Worlds' Finest #11 Cover Date: June 2013 Released: 3rd April 2013 ⋅ Writers:  Paul Levitz ⋅ Pencilers:  Ken Lashley / Barry Kitson / Robson Rocha ⋅  Inker:  Ken Lashley / Barry Kitson / Wayne Faucher ⋅ Colourists:  Matt Yackey / Hi-Fi Design ⋅ Letterer:   Carlos M. Mangual ⋅ Editors:   Anthony Marques / Mike Cotton / Eddie Berganza Continued from  Worlds' Finest #10 . We start by picking up on Huntress following up on the Apocalypse Weapon Pee Gee picked up on her African adventures, investigating a weapon's warehouse in Mali. She kidnaps one of those involved in the arms trade tying him up and apparently interrogating him, though we don't see any of that. Apparently, some of that stolen Wayne money has ended up here, because now we're putting all the storylines together. Kara however is in her civilian identity as Karen Starr attending a business conference in Las Vegas, along with her long-suffering assistant Somya Spears, who as normal looks

Some Things You Can Change, Some You Can't... Worlds' Finest #10 Cover Date: May 2013 Released: 6th March 2013 ⋅ Writers:  Paul Levitz ⋅ Pencilers:  Kevin Maguire ⋅  Inker:  Kevin Maguire ⋅ Colourists:  Rosemary Cheetham ⋅ Letterer:   Carlos M. Mangual ⋅ Editors:   Anthony Marques / Mike Cotton / Eddie Berganza Continued from  Worlds' Finest #9 We start with Helena investigating Michael Holt, aka Mr. Terrefic, Pee Gee is investigating one of his Silicon Valley laboratories by tunneling underneath the ground and setting up a mini earthquake. It's funny to me as I've been reading old Supergirl comics and when she was still a secret she was always tunneling underground! Being a little irked at the raid on her island she is also here to cause a lot of property damage. Kara may have been a little too keen on the Earthquake as it causes an earthquake and fissure in the nearby area. Despite the desire to cause damage, she's still a hero at heart so rescues a car that

Raid Worlds' Finest #9 Cover Date: April 2013 Released: 6th February 2013 ⋅ Writers:  Paul Levitz ⋅ Pencilers:  George Pérez / Carlos Urbano / Yildiray Cinar ⋅  Inker:  George Pérez / Carlos Urbano / Yildiray Cinar /               Phil Jimenez ⋅ Colourists:  Hi-Fi Design ⋅ Letterer:   Carlos M. Mangual ⋅ Editors:   Anthony Marques / Mike Cotton / Eddie Berganza Continued from Worlds' Finest #8 . This episode is about a raid on Starr Island, it's not really more complicated than that. Though that doesn't make it a bad comic. We literally start with our high-tech raiders breaking into Kara's island offices. Still recovering is Helana who straight away suits up to stop the attack, whilst one of her arms is still in a cast. She has some success with the raiders, taking one down straight away before hiding from their hi-tech rifles. We also get Somya, Kara's long-suffering assistant, showing up and also defend the offices from these invaders. A little less dressed

Hunt and Be Hunted Worlds' Finest #8 Cover Date: March 2013 Released: 9th January 2013 ⋅ Writers:  Paul Levitz ⋅ Pencilers:  George Pérez / Carlos Urbano / Cliff Richards ⋅  Inker:  George Pérez / Carlos Urbano / Cliff Richards ⋅ Colourists:  Hi-Fi Design / Rosemary Cheetham ⋅ Letterer:   Carlos M. Mangual ⋅ Editors:   Wil Moss Continued from  Worlds' Finest #7 . This is another two-headed issue, with half the story being about Helena and half about Kara, though the stories are linked together into a single narrative. Basically, someone has put a bounty on Huntresses, due to issues in her previous solo title, being the '10 it's also very based around a "rouge" Middle Eastern nation, this time the fictional country of Kufra. It's not the most egregious of depictions, but it's still a product of its time. And boy do I feel old talking about the 2010s being something to look back upon! We start with Huntress in New York being attacked by two assailants,

Family Matters, part 2 Worlds' Finest #7 Cover Date: February 2013 Released: 5th December 2012 ⋅ Writers:  Paul Levitz ⋅ Pencilers:  Kevin Maguire / George Pérez ⋅  Inker:  Kevin Maguire / Sandra Hope / George Pérez ⋅ Colourists:  Rosemary Cheetham / Hi-Fi Design ⋅ Letterer:   Dezi Sienty ⋅ Editors:   Wil Moss Continued from  Worlds' Finest #6 . As we in the real world meet a new Helena (In Goldern Age #1), I get to read the last one meeting our current Damian (how he remembers all this, what with hypertime and all is a question for you good reader). The conversation happened off screen and then we start with Pee Gee taking the two Waynes to investigate two sites where the possible transfers were coming from. We cut between Robin and Huntress's investigation of one site in snowy, possibly European climes, whiles Pee Gee goes off to, in an inversion of the normal a named African country (The Republic of the Congo). Even though the Congo is the B-plot we'll leave that t

Family Matters Worlds' Finest #6 Cover Date: Janurary 2013 Released: 7th November 2012 ⋅ Writers:  Paul Levitz ⋅ Pencilers:  Kevin Maguire / George Pérez ⋅  Inker:  Kevin Maguire / Sandra Hope ⋅ Colourists:  Rosemary Cheetham / Hi-Fi Design ⋅ Letterer:   Carlos M. Mangual ⋅ Editors:   Wil Moss Continued from  Worlds' Finest #5 . If you've been following me for a whilst, first thank you, but you'll know that I'm generally not a fan of overly fighty issues. Not only do I find the combats boring, however well they're drawn, but they're also really difficult to spin out into anything interesting to blog. This one, or half the issue at least, is mostly fighting but it works (for me) is because the fight is personal and has some personal history (for half of the fighters at least). Helena is in GOtham to top up the cash she needs from her not!father (Bruce Wayne), when she's interrupted by Daimen Wayne (Robin) who's been noticing money going missing from

  Three Midnights, Far From Home Worlds' Finest #5 Cover Date: December 2012 Released: 3rd October 2012 ⋅ Writers:  Paul Levitz ⋅ Pencilers:  George Pérez / Jerry Ordway / Wes Craig ⋅  Inker:  Scott Koblish / José Luis García-López /               Serge LaPointe ⋅ Colourists:  Hi-Fi Design ⋅ Letterer:   Carlos M. Mangual ⋅ Editors:   Wil Moss Continued from  Worlds' Finest #0 . We're back to Worlds' Finest in time for what amounts to a filler episode, not that it's not a problem; it's actually a nice change of pace from the continuity-heavy comics I've been neck-deep in recently. The story is told in two parts, one for Pee Gee, and the other for Huntress. First, we get a setup story with Pee Gee testing the limits of her powers on this Earth, implying the previous encounter with the radioactive villain might have had some effect on her.  We also get gratuitous costume destruction, one of two in this issue! Along with this though we get some lovely interact