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Jul 19, 2024
I dont get why this is review bombed for not being a replica of the past telling of Power Girl. I like re invented characters. That being said this issue is good but not great. I like where this is going !
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Oct 25, 2023
An improvement from issue 1 but still has way too much fluff for what is basically Karen's first comic in a very long time (I refuse to call her Paige). Amalak being taken hostage by an alien or virus was a turn of events I wasn't expecting but now that he's out of the way, and Karen has finally put on her pants it time she goes virus busting, right? RIGHT?
I still can't adjust to this "omg we r besties!" thing with Omen, which I'm trying my best to ignore, but the art and coloring are definitely a highlight in a comic. If the comic continues to improve from hear, I may even give Leah Williams a passing grade.
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Nov 01, 2023
I feel like this issue is fine, but if we are going this route with Power Girl, we really need to emphasize and explain her personality change of old. Like Leah has the skills to do this. She hints that she was really traumatized by her experience/capture by her old 'pod'. Use that to explain her imposter syndrome, shaken confidence and panicky decision making. Leah is putting all the needed parts in the plot, but she has to tie them together otherwise it is just me giving her the benefit of the doubt.
I will say that Amalak 'twist' was quite welcome and I enjoyed that writing.
This book isnt the best, and I am still rather upset with how Power Girl is portrayed personality wise. Additionally her Paige Alter ego is so dumb. That bein
g said, it could all be put in a reasonable context of trauma and have her grow back into the old Power Girl that we all know and love. If Leah can pull that off, this will be a great'ish' book. If not it will meander and probably get cancelled.
Like I said in the first issue, I believe Leah has talent that is just crushed by poor and incompetent editorial. She did write a good Amazing Mary Jane book. She shows signs of good idea but no one to help her foster them. Shame really. more
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Oct 24, 2023
Leah Williams tries to put Power Girl on a larger pedestal after a disastrous debut issue that reduced the character to a paranoid superhero, but fails in a different fashion in the second issue of this new series. Williams does give Power Girl more of a direct focus, and we start to explore her imposter syndrome and wonder whether or not the identity issues she’s facing are real or part of the problem she’s been tasked with fixing. My biggest issue w/ Williams’ story so far is how much our interpretation of Power Girl is based on other characters. In the last issue, we say Superman laying it on thick, and this issue it’s Lois Lane’s turn to try and tell Power Girl what/who she should be. It creates a wall between readers and Powe
r Girl, making it extremely hard to connect with the titular character. Omen’s role as the comedic BFF feels misguided and is deployed at inconvenient times. Instead of adding a layer of levity to the situation, it comes off tone-deaf and annoying. While there were some minor improvements, at best this series is failing to elevate Power Girl beyond a bit-part Action Comics character, and worst sabotaging the character into an insecure and insulated presence. more
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Oct 24, 2023
Just when you thought Leah Williams writing for Power Girl couldn’t get worse, it most certainly does. Williams has damaged the character of Power Girl severely, making her a clueless mediocre shell of a character she once was. Power Girl use to be a successful confident business owner with strong ties to the super hero community, Williams destroys all of that by making Power Girl an antisocial awkward insecure employee of the Daily Planet, that relies too much on Omen and Lois Lane.
Omen the Titans resident precog / telepath is extremely annoying here. Williams is trying to force the character of Omen into Power Girl’s life and it’s just not working at all, and neglects Omen’s character in the process. An example of this from t
his issue is Power Girl being ignorant to Earth, fearing that she isn’t a real woman since she was raised in bioship. Omen calls Power Girl her “alien bestie†and teaches her how to hug.. it’s Disney Channel level comedy and character development which is a pain to read.
Fans of Power Girl don’t care about Omen, she’s not her best friend or a member of her supporting cast no matter how hard Williams’ tries.
Amalak does nothing out of the ordinary here, it’s a basic rehash of their fight from the first issue. Power Girl #2 has the goal of trying to explore PG’s new civilian life. The action is severely lacking despite the amazing cover by Gary Frank, his covers should be used on a better series. Pansica’s art is okay here, nothing to write home about. Guess that’s what happen when you have such a terrible script to work with.
This is the main problem with this series, it’s not who Power Girl actually is as a character. It’s Leah Williams skimming a wikipedia page and cherry picking things from Power Girl’s old pre-crisis history and trying to reinvent it so she can make Power Girl an insecure weirdo. This as much as Hawkgirl, is a waste of the characters title, they deserve better. more
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