Symbol Pending - A Power Girl Blog

The Doppelganger Gambit Justice League of America #220  Cover Date:   November 1983 Released:   4th August 1983 This is a Black Canary story! No, really there are other scene's with the JLA and JSA but this 20th-anniversary team-up issue is to "fix" Black Canary going forward. I wonder if this was an attempt to move the JLA away from the JSA, what with their comic having been cancelled almost six years before. It would make sense what with they'll decide to do in just three more years! (the shadow of Crisis seems to be following us now!). We start strong with Power Girl rushing off to battle one group of the three teams of villains. before Red Tornado stop her to suggest they split into teams and have a plan of action. She properly miffed as well looking to bust some villains heads, she's also more or less definitely flying here, which makes sense with how long she's been doing this now. Then Sargon turns up and despite being a hero we get probably the most fo...

Crisis in the Thunderbolt Dimension! Justice League of America #219  Cover Date:   October 1983 Released:   7th July 1983 Sometimes the star aligns and things work out perfectly, such as the case here where the last two JLA/JSA team-up happen to fall at the end of 2021. When I picked things back up this year I didn't expect to have such a (near) perfect run of weekly blogs running so long, and even then I didn't know this was the last crossover of the two teams. The inevitable Crisis of Infinite Earths is starting to be a looming presence over the comics, something that I'm sure that people of the time wouldn't have known back in the 80s. Even then I've a good six months or more before we get there. For fairness, there is a much reduced JSA/JLA cross over in '84, with not Power Girl, before we start to transition into JSA Detriot! I also must admit here that it's only at the end of them that I've noticed that these crossovers happened every year for the ...

Showcase #97 Cover Date: February 1978  Release Date: 15th November 1977 I don't generally comment on art in general, having no talent for it myself but the opening splash page for this image is terrible its meant to be dynamic and action pack but Power Girls position and face do not make for the best of images. Whilst it's been going back and forwards since All-Star #69 this is where I personally began to notice her scallop top with choker version of the costume. After Wally Wood departure the boob window went straight away, but the collar would fluctuate from the top to the bottom of her neck from panel to panel, which I guess is the reason for the new design. Whilst the boob window is the most iconic version of her costume, this costume is probably the one she wears for the longest, right the way to her new golden number in Justice League Europe #15 in 1990! The art somewhat settles down as Power Girl stops some goons who are stealing micro-transformers for their mysterious ...