Symbol Pending - A Power Girl Blog

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

Destiny Power Girl #4 Cover Date:  September 1988 Released:  7th June 1988 ⋅ Writers:   Paul Kupperberg  ⋅ Pencilers:  Rick Hoberg  ⋅  ⋅   Inkers:  Arne Starr  ⋅   Colourists:  Julianna Ferriter  ⋅ ⋅  Letterers:  Bob Pinaha   ⋅  Editors:  Robert Greenberger  ⋅  Continued from Power Girl #3 . This issue is the weird astral space trip that you'd find in a classic Doctor Strange issue, indeed we get some very Dikto-like panels. We get a few pages getting everyone up to speed and then we face the first challenge in this magical realm, a giant wall! After trying brute force and speed to get through the wall, she's helped by a small fluffy imp called Ghy, who seems to be on Kara's side despite looking all evil. They explain that the wall works on least resistance; all she needs to do is walk through the wall and she's all fine. We then go through a forest where she faces all her fears from the real world. As a reminder, we get a page from the real world where the board memb

Heritage! Power Girl #3 Cover Date:  August1988 Released:  3rd May 1988 ⋅ Writers:   Paul Kupperberg  ⋅ Pencilers:  Rick Hoberg  ⋅  ⋅   Inkers:  Arne Starr  ⋅   Colourists:  Julianna Ferriter  ⋅ ⋅  Letterers:  Bob Pinaha   ⋅  Editors:  Robert Greenberger  ⋅  We start with not!Ted Grant, who I have to try really hard not to call Kord, teaching Kara martial arts, Karate because that was the fashion of the time. Now I'm not against her learning to defend herself, I actually like when the comics (and TV show) suggest that just because  Kryptonians   (or Atlanteans, whatever!) are super strong they shouldn't learn how to fight better. But here she'd doing it because everything is spiralling out of control, and this comic, like the last continues this really passive Kara. How she doesn't break his arm of throw him into orbit as she's not paying attention I'm not sure, but luckily for him she's off her game. On the plus side something happens when she gets home,

Tapestry Power Girl #2 Cover Date:  July 1988 Released:  5th April 1988 ⋅ Writers:   Paul Kupperberg  ⋅ Pencilers:  Rick Hoberg  ⋅  ⋅   Inkers:  Arne Starr  ⋅   Colourists:  Julianna Ferriter  ⋅ ⋅  Letterers:  Bob Pinaha   ⋅  Editors:  Robert Greenberger  ⋅  After talking with the cop who arrested the bad guy last issue, enjoying a hot dog as they talk, and learning nothing Power Girl ends up fighting a liquid controlling villain Hydra. With what is a really good black and white costume. Hydra keeps Power Girl away with her liquid control power first using milk, disappointingly missing the most obvious joke, and finally gasoline setting the area on fire. Frustrating for Power Girl she doesn't manage to get a single hit on the villain despite technically being more powerful.  We then cut to the corporate drama going on with more challenges to Karen Starr's business, including that takeover bid that was set up in the previous issue. Things are going south because Kara's bee