Symbol Pending - A Power Girl Blog

With a Vengeance! : The Price of Our Sins? Superman / Batman #24 Cover Date:  January 2006 Released:  29th March 2006 ⋅ Writers:    ⋅  Pencilers:  Ed McGuinness    ⋅  Inkers:  Dexter Vines  ⋅   ⋅  Colourists:  Dave McCaig  ⋅  Letterers:  Richard Starkings   ⋅   ⋅  Editors:  Eddie Berganza / Tom Palmer, Jr.  ⋅ We're coming into the last two issues of a Six part series that ended up with Batman ending up in a parallel universe, remember we're still a few months from the return of the multiverse so they have to cheat a little here, as we'll find out soon enough! We start with Superman freeing Darkseid from the Souce Wall, the end of the universe that tends to trap those stupid enough to try and pass through it. Darkseid, being Darkseid has been in this kind of mess before. Also being Darkseid he rewards Superman's rescue, apparently due to the instance of Metron, by emb...

Girl Power, part 1 Supergirl (volume 5) #5 Cover Date:  October 2005 Released:  10th August 2005 ⋅ Writers:    ⋅ Pencilers:  Ian Churchill  ⋅ ⋅  Inkers:  Norm Rapmund  ⋅   Colourists:  David Moran / Beth Sotelo  ⋅ ⋅  Letterers:  Richard Starkings / Comicraft   ⋅  ⋅  Editors:  Jeanine Schaefer / Eddie Berganza  ⋅  If you wonder why the writer isn't mentioned, please read this first . This starts so well with Courtney (Stargirl) and Kara (Supergirl) talking among themselves, sounding as close to teenagers when written by middle-aged men! Meanwhile, most, of the JSA are fighting Solomon Grundy. A big deal is made about the absence of Power Girl, her lack of presence is felt strongly in this first part of the story. This is probably the last nice thing I'll say about this issue. The first cracks show when they talk about Power Girl's relationship with Kara and the rest of the Super Family. No...

Action Comics (1938-2011) #252 Cover Date: May 1959 Release Date: March 31, 1959 Before we go into the first solo(ish) Power Girl story let's take a moment to look at the story of her Earth-1 counterpart that started it all! Back in the '50 Action Comics was still an anthology comic so we get three stories in the issues, the first is the origin of the original Metallo, the second Congorilla and finally the reason we're here the origins of Supergirl. It's weird to think this was third on the billing for what is probably the most important character of the story, even a decade later she'd probably get an issue all of her own. Not normally one to talk about the covers, but how can I not mention this iconic cover? I for one have a soft spot for text boxes on covers, but it so perfectly sums up the story that you don't really need them. The story starts by very insistently insisting that yes this is a real thing that is really happening. Your classic Not a dream! N...