Symbol Pending - A Power Girl Blog

  Aftermath Teen Titans #14 Cover Date: Februrary 2016 Released: 2nd December 2015 ⋅ Writers:  Will Pfeifer ⋅ Pencilers:  Noel Rodriguez / Scott McDaniel ⋅  Inker:  Art Thibert / Johnny Desjardins / Paolo Pantalena ⋅ Colourists:  Tony Aviña ⋅ Letterer:   Corey Breen ⋅ Editors:   Eddie Berganza / Mike Cotton / Paul Kaminski Continued from  Teen Titans #13 Luckily the cover is a big fat lie and the issue isn't about more division among the Titans, really it's quite the opposite! We start with the team being escorted out of the prison by The Alpha Centurion and guards, as Red Robin gives us a quick update on roughly what happened. This sounds like a fairly argued intro so its ended with a bit of old-fashioned police brutality, just in case we might have any feelings that Alpha Centurian's side is roughly right! It would be a short issue if the team was just shipped off to jail, so the convoy of vehicles is attacked by some character, appa...

Rogue Targets, Part 5 Teen Titans #13 Cover Date: January 2016 Released: 11th November 2015 ⋅ Writers:  Will Pfeifer ⋅ Pencilers:  Ricken / Paolo Pantalena / Noel Rodriguez                            Scott McDaniel ⋅  Inker:  Trevor Scott / Johnny Desjardins / Paolo Pantalena ⋅ Colourists:  Tony Aviña ⋅ Editors:   Eddie Berganza / Mike Cotton / Paul Kaminski Continued from  Teen Titans #12 So half the issue is the good stuff, yes for once this is a Power Girl issue, but first, we need to clean up all the loose ends. It split over the issue but we'll clump everything together just for the ease of things. First is the prison break, though as we learn later on it's not actually a prison break at all just Dr. Psycho taking advantage of the situation to get free. First, he takes down Barricade by reprogramming his purple bricks, then he shuts down Changeling's shapeshifting ma...

Rogue Targets, Part 3 Teen Titans #11 Cover Date: October 2015 Released: 26th August 2015 ⋅ Writers:  Will Pfeifer  ⋅   ⋅ Pencilers / Inker:  Ricken  ⋅  ⋅ Colourists:  Daniel Brown  ⋅  ⋅ Letterers:  John J. Hill  ⋅ ⋅ Editors:  Eddie Berganza / Mike Cotton / Paul Kaminski  ⋅ Continued from  Teen Titans #10. This is not a Power Girl story! Yeah, yeah I know running joke and all, but Tanya is in only two panels and as of right now she's on the side of the "bad guys" neither she nor Cassie gets any real screen time. The heart of the story is that of the Teen Titans trying to find out who was really responsible for the massacre, and potentially prove Superboy innocent, so they break into the MAW prison. Robin thinks it's Despero and we get a cool full-page splash of the three-eyed one! Breaking into the prison, however, involves turning off the power dampeners so a full prison riot breaks out and half the Titans hav...

Rogue Targets, Part 2 Teen Titans #10 Cover Date: September 2015 Released: 22nd July 2015 ⋅ Writers:  Will Pfeifer  ⋅   ⋅ Pencilers:  Felipe Watanabe  ⋅  ⋅ Inker:  Trevor Scott  ⋅  ⋅ Colourists:  Daniel Brown  ⋅  ⋅ Letterers:  John J. Hill  ⋅ ⋅ Editors:  Eddie Berganza / Mike Cotton / Paul Kaminski  ⋅ Continued from  Teen Titans #9 With the Elite and the Titans staring each other down the Elite, or Cassie at least tries something unusual - she tries to solve everything peacefully! Bart, Kid Flash, still has major beef with the Titans so he goes off half-cocked and our expected fight breaks out. Or at least it tries before Gar turns into a hippo and literally sits on Kid Flash whilst he calms down. Again Cassie tries to talk things out, but when she touches Conner she's flung backward by a Kryptonians who isn't keen right now on the whole touching thing! Then he fights some of the other Elite, the ones...

Rogue Targets, Part 1 Teen Titans #9 Cover Date: August 2015 Released: 24th June 2015 ⋅ Writers: Will Pfeifer ⋅   ⋅ Pencilers / Inker: Kenneth Rocafort ⋅  ⋅ Colourists: Daniel Brown  ⋅  ⋅ Letterers: John J. Hill ⋅ ⋅ Editors: Eddie Berganza / Mike Cotton / Paul Kaminski ⋅ Continued from Teen Titans Annual #1. Our Titans, after the events of the Annual, are "hiding" out in Chicago. Superboy is flying around whilst Ruth and Robin discuss about Conner's state of mind and give us a quick and dirty rundown of what happened.  Meanwhile BUnker, Raven, and Beast Boy are wandering the streets, trying to be incognito which lasts about five minutes before Raven, of all people get spotted as a member of the Titans. It probably doesn't helpGar is chatting away, even if he's disgusted (to start) as a parrot. This is also where we're reminded of Raven's connection with that band, which isn't bought up again as we get into the plot. We get a quick cut to STAR Labs...

The Source Of Mercy Teen Titans Annual Cover Date:  June 2015 Released:  1st April 2015 ⋅ Writers:   Tom King / Will Pfeifer  ⋅  ⋅ Pencilers:  Alisson Borges / Wes St. Claire  ⋅  ⋅ Inkers:  Alisson Borges / Wayne Faucher   ⋅     ⋅ Colourists:  Matt Yackey  ⋅  ⋅ Letterers:  John J. Hill   ⋅ ⋅  Editors:  Rickey Purdin / Mike Cotton / Eddie Berganza  ⋅ Continued from  Teen Titans #8 . As I've stated many times before I sometimes wished I'd planned this blog with these coincidences before I started. Because as Infinite Crisis has the death of Conner Kent, Superboy, this annual brings him back or at least to the New 52 universe. They even came out in the same month, even if they were around nine years apart. Now I know it's not perfect, this isn't even the real first return of Superboy to the New 52, just the first time that this version of the Titan's. We start with...

  One Brief, Shining Moment, part 2 Teen Titans #8 Cover Date:  May  2015 Released:  18th March 2015 I hesitate to use the term filler, all the subplots are being moved along nicely, but nothing major happens in the comic. If I was going to borrow a term from television it feels like a breather episode, where the show gives a light episode between two major plots. And having peeked ahead a little I can confirm that we're moving into a new plot. And just how the cover show thing, Tanya really isn't a major player in a story of subplots, right now her story revolves around the shadowy plotting of STAR Labs and Manchester Black. We open with the Teen Titans enjoying the adulation of having saved the city from the Eraser last issue, all the while Red Robin is being seriously mistrusting of Manchester Black, worrying about what worse toys that were mentioned. Everyone else seems to just be enjoying the moment, and in a "subtle" moment we close on someone being beaten up o...

One Brief, Shining Moment, part 1 Teen Titans #7 Cover Date:  April  2015 Released:  18th February 2015 Confusingly this is really the third part of the story, I assume it had something to do with the pace of the story but it still seems a little sketchy. We'll see if part two makes more sense as a follow on, or is really part four.  We start with the Titan's getting together and rushing to the island to help, it makes a big deal (rightly so) of both Beast Boy and Raven are willing to risk themselves to help the janitors from the last issue. I'm used to a slightly more selfish Beast Boy, so it's nice to see him be more caring, though he's still the wise-ass we know and love. We also have the first appearance of Tanya's Power Girl costume, and it's the first time I've realised that the golden oval on her chest is a... homage to Kara's famous boob window, the artist here even adds shadows to make it even more obvious. We have a moment, and just a momen...

Human Resources, part 2 Teen Titans #6 Cover Date:  March  2015 Released:  21st January 2015 We start where we left off with Tanya holding up the truck and the Titan's seem suitably impressed with her sudden appearance. She then get's to show her strength by punching out the other side hulking powerhouse, still playing, on the whole, her being underestimated. With a whole page splash panel to boot. The fight is then quickly finished off and the Titans, plus Tanya, teleport to Beast Boy's and Bunker's apartment the Titans's not having a suitably themed headquarters yet. Here we get Tanya telling her backstory, about how this version of Power Girl granted her some of her powers before leaving for Earth-2. but not before totally legitimately passing on the legal name of Power Girl, apparently with the proper paperwork and everything. We get also get that she worked for Kara's company Starr Industries, with an aside to make them distinctive from STAR Labs. And that ...

Human Resources Teen Titans #5 Cover Date:  February 2015 Released:  17th December 2014 The one good thing about being on a more regular schedule is that I can actually plan things out a little bit more. And one of those things is to celebrate certain important events throughout the year, so to start we're celebrating Black History Month with the other Power Girl Tanya Spears. And as the US and UK have different Black History Month 's I plan it as a twice-yearly  thing, with some now and more in October. And no Infinity Inc didn't break me so badly that I had to retreat to something more modern! (though even this is seven years old at this point). Whilst I could have started with Tanya's first appearance in World Finest #23 I plan to cover those, eventually, when I get to nu52's Power Girl. So instead we'll go with her first post Kara appearance, and as it seems anyone who's called Power Girl can't appear in a book that isn't a team-based we're ...