Symbol Pending - A Power Girl Blog

Brainwave Blows Up All-Star Comics #59 Cover Dated : March / April 1976 Released : 16th December 1975 Previously: Whilst dealing with standard end of the world shenanigans the JSA come across three heroes who are helping out. Including, importantly to this blog, the new character of Power Girl. The plot whittled three groups down to two and then one as all the heroes new and old join up in space to defeat Brainwaves plan to help an old friend regain his former powers... and oh blow up the Earth. Really half the book is the heroes trying and failing to fight Brainwave, until Power Girl follows that Kryptonian tradition of throwing thing into the sun. Or at least pretending to. As any armchair expert will tell you, and I guess that includes me now, balancing a super team so everyone is difficult. So this issue they don't try and instead focus on the new character, Robin gets to do some detectering, Star Spangled Kid is again pretty dull, but the main focus is, thankfully f...

Beginnings are always a difficult thing, where do you start? Maybe you start with the place in history or its location in the fictional world. So I might say that All-Star Comics #58 was released in October 1975, but cover-dated Jan/Feb 1976 (and obviously thank Mikes Amazing World of Comics). Or mention that the comic isn't set in DC main universe, it's Earth-1 if you will, but Earth-2 where its Golden Age heroes still fought in the Silver Age. I may even make a joke about how the editors thought that this is too confusing, even though it's clearly explained on the splash page. Then mention how this leads to one of the greatest even of the '80s, maybe a faint hint of event fatigue, and how I'll get to it eventually... Or maybe the character herself, the thing is she's not in two-thirds of the comics. First, we have an older Robin, which proves that an adult really shouldn't wear the Robin Costume. And he's very Dick Grayson in nature. Actually, he...

I like Power Girl, and not for the two most obvious reasons! I was lucky enough to originally read the '09 version of the character and fell in love with Kara, I've tried to keep up with her through the years both good and not quite so good. With her Earth-1 counterpart getting much more success nowadays I wanted to celebrate her counterpart from the very beginning. I can't promise any deep inciteful insights into the character but I want to celebrate everything that's great, and not so great, about this version of the Girl of Steel!