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  THE FALL JLA: CREATED EQUAL #1 Published:   19th January 2000 Cover Date:  March 2000 Cover Artists:   Kevin Maguire / Joe Rubinstein / Dave Stewart Writer:  Fabian Nicieza Penciler:  Kevin Maguire Inker:   Joe Rubinstein Colourist:   Gloria Vasquez / Digital Chameleon Letterer:   Bob Lappan Editors:   Andrew Helfer / Jim Higgins Introduction So we start the new millennium of this reboot by covering my first-ever Elseworlds, if you ignore Tangent and Bombshells! And it's kinda sad that some of the points bought up in this mini, especially the second part (which we'll get to eventually) still have some resonance in 2023! And obviously, this blog being what it is we start with an Elseworld that probably no one has given any thought to since it first came out almost twenty years ago! Synopsis We open with a character we'll meet again later Maria Contranetti, a struggling comedian putting up a flyer, only for her coffee to be spilled by a rushing through Kyle Rayner, our curr

  YOU OUGHTTA BE IN PICTURES JUSTICE LEAGUE EUROPE #14 Published:   3rd April 1990 Cover Date:  May 1990 Cover Artists:   Bart Sears Writer:  Keith Giffen Penciler:  Linda Medley Inker:   José Marzan, Jr. Colourist:   Gene D'Angelo Letterer:   Albert DeGuzman Editors:   Kevin Dooley / Andrew Helfer Introduction In one of those strange coincidences we're picking up with the JLE more or less where I left off last time, though to be fair I've been skipping things for a little while. Truth be told the handling of Pee Gee isn't one of my favourites and having seen them covered recently I've held back a little so I could get a little distance for a relatively fresh look at the book (hopefully). Sypnosis Seven years ago we have a relatively geeky person with his high-tech device of a video cassette recorder! When he's struck by electricity or lighting, lightning is all good for this in the DC Universe, his consciousness is somehow stuck in the device! But in a piece of

Adventures of Superman #463 Speed Kills! February 1990 It's one of the classic Superman vs. Flash races, though this time it's caused by the efforts of one Mister Mxyzptlk. During the race we see various people reacting to the race. One of those is the current JLE, who at this time includes Pee Gee, she's less than keen on Wally Flash winning, which makes total sense considering how much of a pillock he is in the then-current JLE comic.  

  CRISIS ON NEW GENESIS or WHERE HAVE ALL THE NEW GODS GONE?JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #183 Published:   10th July 1980 Cover Date:  October 1980 Cover Artists:   Jim Starlin Writer:  Gerry Conway Penciler:  Dick Dillin Inker:   Frank McLaughlin Colourist:   Gene D'Angelo Letterer:   Ben Oda Editors:   Len Wein Introduction Everything these days has to be a massive crossover with the entire Multiverse in crisis, whilst in the 70s and 80s you got these (relative) low-key events where two or more teams just teamed up over both of their comics. Which I guess is weird as this involves New Genesis and Apokolips, y'know the New Gods that you'd figure would want, no need, to be in a big massive story. But somehow for me, these kinda stories have a bigger appeal, probably because right now there's a little bit of event fatigue. Synopsis We start, as with all these crossovers with the standard one-page explanation of how the JLA are from Earth-1 and the JSA on Earth-2, and becaus

POWER GIRL* SHOWCASE #97 *The issue's story is unnamed. Published: 15th November 1977 Cover Date: February 1978 Cover Artists: Joe Staton / Joe Orlando Writer: Paul Levitz Penciler: Joe Staton Inker: Joe Orlando Colourist: Jerry Serpe Letterer: Ben Oda Editors:   Joe Orlando Introduction So this is a little bit of a soft reboot, a DC tradition in itself, I wanted a chance to cover some of the original comics (my original content being terrible) as well as look at a wider range of comics. It's a chance to catch some of those comics in a blank spot I have in the mid-90s. But where to start? I've covered her original appearance in All-Star Comic #58 several times already, so we're best than the comics that told Power Girls' origins, only two years after she was first introduced. And as is appropriate to my soft reboot Showcase is also a soft reboot of Power Girl, making her if not softer at least a more rounded character. It's also more relevant than ever, in m

These kinds of posts all worry me, normally with The End plastered over everything! So we'll go for the much clearer we're moving. After some of the trouble, I had trouble getting a blogger to do some of what I wanted I've decided to set up a WordPress site that allows me a little more control, even allowing just the look I've been looking for all this time! So come join me at symbol-pending.com !

The Past Because Pee Gee has had so few costumes it is very simple to tell when an event is meant to have happened. This is exactly what we got this year in The Golden Years and boy what a costume they choose! Boob-windowless costume As has been told many times the story of Wally Wood and the every-growing boobs is a myth (though he did obviously create her busty to start with) but he did make the boob window grow slightly each time, something that the editors realized by All-Stars #64 (the cover obviously had to be quickly covered up).  The costume only lasted five issues and was in this weird place where Pee Gee was still pretty grumpy and angry, as can be seen in the comic, not long after she get's her scalloped topped costume she spends her mini-series chilling out ready for her meeting of Huntress, but hey we've covered all this before! The only weird part of this costume used in the issue is that the villain they faced, Vulcan (who I will never not be amused by the fact t