Symbol Pending - A Power Girl Blog

  TEAMWORK JUSTICE LEAGUE SPECTACULAR Published:  25th February 1992 Cover Date:  April  1992 Cover Artists:   Dan Jurgens Writer:  Dan Jurgens Penciler:  Dan Jurgens / Ron Randall Inker:   Rick Burchett / Randy Elliott Colourist:   Gene D'Angelo Letterer:   Bob Pinaha Editors:   Brian Augustyn Introduction This is the real start of the post-Giffin / DeMatteis JLA/JLE run, and yet it doesn't as this is a completely disposable issue that you don't need to read if you're just following the issues (that as is the fashion of the time continuing the numbering). Stuff happens but nothing that can't be discovered in the issues themselves. I guess I'm not really selling this well, and to spoil things it's not bad, just forgettable. Sypnosis Back from their own mini Ralph and Sue are visiting a theme park in Florida, obviously not that one but it is full of cuddle animal mascots. Though obviously not that different as we visit the, copyright...

  Armageddon: Inferno #2 Sea of Troubles May 1992 Again another cameo, and this time not quite so impressive, and if we're being generous a little Easter egg about the two characters. Wrong Flash, but Barry meeting Jay kicked off the multiverse, something at this point DC is still scrabbling to make everything fit into just one universe. And Power Girl worked alongside Jay on the JSA on Earth-2. Or y'know cute little scene of two characters talking and I'm reading too much into this... 

  Armageddon: Inferno #1 Seeds of Doom April 1992 Alas, not that old Doctor Who episode, either of them, but a fairly standard four-part mini playing off of the bungled event that was Armageddon 2001! The plot is unimportant as the only appearance of Power Girl is about her on a team that fights the big bad of the mini (Abraxas) in a possible future. It's a lovely full-page splash, and it's nice that Pee Gee gets name-checked among DC's heavy hitters, but it's so inconsequential DC hasn't yet bothered to put on Infinity!

  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...

Flash #61 That Old Wedding Dodge April 1992 It's a well known fact that in this era Wally in his comic is a different character that he was in the JLA/JLE, and this comics shows that it also works in reverse when it comes to the rest of the team. Wally's mom is getting married and it seems that his invited all of his work collies, with most of the JLA/JLE (pre Breakdown breakup) in attendance. None speak, except for Kara here how offers to collect the cake for Mary West. It's one panel, we don't see her in action, and nothing is mentioned of it again, but it's sweet considering the antagonistic behavior between the two we've seen in the JLE.

BREAKDOWNS: POSTSCRIPT JUSTICE LEAGUE EUROPE #36 Published: 4th February 1992 Cover Date:  March 1992 Cover Artists:   Kevin Maguire / Karl Kesel Writer:   Penciler:  Chris Wozniak Inker:   Robert Campanella Colourist:   Gene D'Angelo Letterer:   Willie Schubert Editors:   Brian Augustyn Introduction The New Year is always a time to look forward to beginnings, so obviously I've chosen to look at the end (or a tacked-on bit at least) of the Giffin / DeMatteis JLI/JLE run. Partly it's my way to celebrate Shag's podcast meeting this bitter-sweet moment, and just because he was crazy enough to let be on an episode, but also as we enter five years of this blog (some better than others) I thought it was a good time to tackle a big blank spot in my comic knowledge... the 90s! Synopsis All good, or at least competent, comic book writers carefully put back all the toys in the box, so the oncoming team has the choice to pick things up and start from there. ...

WHEN FALL THE MIGHTY ALL-STAR COMICS #62 Published: 24 th June 1976 Cover Date:  October 1976 Cover Artists:   Ernie Chan / Tatjana Wood Writer:   Gerry Conway / Paul Levitz Penciler:  Keith Giffen / Wally Wood Inker:   Wally Wood Colourist:   Carl Gafford Letterer:   Ben Oda Editors:   Gerry Conway Introduction Not much to say here except to say that for the rest of the year we'll be looking at the classic All-Star Comic run as I try to get back into the flow of this blog again.  Synopsis We start with an amazing full page of a Kirby-like machine that is keeping Doctor Fate alive! Or at least Kent Nelson, as he starts off out of costume with the helmet off. The fancy machine, as well as showing his vitals also shows the symbol of the Ankh, as pointed out an Egyptian symbol of life (and divinity). In a nice touch, it's Hawkman, and Green Lantern for some reason, explaining to the alien Pee Gee what the symbol signifies. We also get a quick re...