Symbol Pending - A Power Girl Blog

  STAR SHADOWS:  STARLIGHT, STAR BRIGHT STARMAN #45 Published:  25th February 1992 Cover Date: April  1992 Cover Artists:   Mike Mignola Writer:  Len Strazewski Penciler:  John Calimee Inker:   Roy Richardson Colourist:   Tom McCraw Letterer:   Bob Pinaha Editors:   Paul Kupperberg Introduction It might be just me, and I'm not brave enough to ask those involved, but I always suspected that if it wasn't for her joining the JLE Power Girl would have been a supporting character in this book. So it seems appropriate that for the very last issue in this run, Pee Gee appears in the final issue. This issue also has a clash with Eclipso, something that will become important later in '92. Sypnosis This issue is the end of a four-parter so we start in the middle of things with Eclipso arriving via mini shuttle. They surprise Kitty Faulkner, Rampage, who Doctor Bruce Gordon (the civilian identity of Eclipso at this point). She tries to Ra...

Your Mother Should Know Starman #18 Cover Date: January 1990 Released: 28th November 1989 ⋅ Writers:  Roger Stern ⋅ Pencilers:  Tom Lyle ⋅  Inker:  Scott Hanna ⋅ Colourists:  Carl Gafford ⋅ Letterer:  Bob Pinaha ⋅ Editors:   Brian Augustyn / Katie Main   Continued from Starman #17. You can sometimes tell just how week-to-week this is by the stupid decisions that I make about how to handle the material, like how the last issue I completely skipped the soap opera parts of the story. The thing is those aspects make up some of the best parts of the story, though the superheroic aspects (and Power Girl) are incredibly solid as well. So to make amends for such an oversight I'll try to cover both halves of the story this time around. The first half of the soapy part is Starman's mom worrying about where William, Starman, is after being missing for almost half a day. His sister, Jayne, who knows about his secret, is trying to cover for him being missing...

Deadly Attraction Starman #17 Cover Date: December 1989 Released: 31st October 1989 ⋅ Writers:  Roger Stern ⋅ Pencilers:  Tom Lyle ⋅  Inker:  Scott Hanna ⋅ Colourists:  Carl Gafford ⋅ Letterer:  Tim Harkins ⋅ Editors:   Brian Augustyn What could be more appropriate as we barrel towards Christmas than a Star to light our way? We start with Power Girl at the Paris Embassy doing some heavy lifting of equipment, and a Wally that's actually okay! All friendly and nervous just trying to get along with Pee Gee for a change, it's a nice change of pace from the jerk Wally we normally get from the JLE. Well, that's enough of them as Kara jumps in a teleporter to o back to New York to catch a shower, unfortunately, the beam gets hijacked by someone nefarious! The said villain, one Doctor Polaris knocks Pee Gee out with a blast of energy, using these circumstances to his advantage, though I'm not sure why he plays the innocent bystander for almost a whole page e...

Fortunes of War Starman #6 Cover Date:  Janurary1989 Released:  29th November1988 ⋅ Writers:   Roger Stern  ⋅ Pencilers:  Tom Lyle  ⋅     ⋅   Inkers:  Bob Smith  ⋅  Colourists:  Julianna Ferriter  ⋅ ⋅  Letterers:  Bob Pinaha  ⋅  Editors:  Robert Greenberger  ⋅  Continued from Starman #6 So whilst the cover isn't a lie its tie into the Invasion! is very minimal. Blue Beetle is just there to provide a lift to bring Starman back to his hometown to carry on with his own plots. Okay, to be fair the Power Elite at the bottom are the main baddies through the back half of the story.  But a quick aside as to the weirdness that is Invasion! the whole invasion! is over by part two, the heroes win and the aliens leave Earth alone. This comic comes between part two and three and I know what you're thinking, how can there be a part three if the Invasion! is over in part two? Well as it happ...

 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 ...

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 Daxa...