| Power Girl |  | Authors: Geoff Johns, Paul Levitz, Paul Kupperberg
Creator: Various
Publisher: DC Comics
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Pages: 176
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Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 6.6 x 0.4
ISBN: 1401209688
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9781401209681
ASIN: 1401209688
Publication Date: June 7, 2006
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 This Is a defineing origin May 2, 2010
Jordan Sprnger-rogers
This a good origin story to the character it's also a prelude to Infinite Crisis.As we go there her past who was,how she came to be,And how she is now.Any one who wants to read the current Power Girl series must read this and if your going to read the Infinite Crisis story this is a must read first.
A must own book for Power Girl fans and comic historians April 19, 2010
Tell It Like It Is (Planet Earth)
I just added a comment to another reviewer's post and said the following: "Most of the stories are reprints from an era when comics were drawn pretty simple and had few backgrounds. Many of these comics had been printed on old fashioned newsprint. This book is important as a historical reference to the Power Girl character. I believe your review judges it much too harshly. If you look back at the first ever issue of Action Comics featuring Superman, its even more simple and crude, yet it just sold for 1.5 million dollars. If nothing else, this proves you can't judge a book by its cover".
The fact is, the vintage reprints are not on newsprint and so they have that super-bright, solid color that occurs when vintage comics get reprinted on the semi-glossy paper used in comics today and in graphic novels. The art was typical of its day and Power Girl was an idea that hadn't quite been worked out yet. I thought it was interesting to see PG in all these different incarnations. I actually like her first costume and her "flipped back" hair style shown in the first few stories. Certainly, Amanda Conner is THE Power Girl artist as far as I'm concerned.
Perhaps you wouldn't be getting this book for the art. Its still an important book for your library if you are really interested in the DCU history or just in Power Girl's. I enjoyed this book very much and so did my daughter.
A good overview of the history of Power Girl in DC comics December 18, 2009
Robert Moore (Chicago, IL USA)
I think some of the unjustified and horrible reviews of this book are based on misunderstandings of what it is. I believe they expected a self-contained story, but what this actually is, is an anthology of comics from a variety of sources that shows the rather complex and often internally inconsistent and misguided history of Power Girl. As the comics here show, she started off as Superman's cousin, which is what she has returned to being today. But along the way it was suggested that she was actually of Terran orgin, a child of Atlantis. Some of the later comics have a lot of fun with all of this, emphasizing how messy and inconsistent her story had been. A lot of this has maintained the self-parody that seems inherent in Power Girl, from the complexity of her various origins stories to her audacious uniform. Regarding her outfit, I did very much like the bit where she tells Superman that the large and extremely revealing bare spot on her chest was that way because she did not feel justified in placing a symbol like that of Superman's. I don't quite buy it as an adequate explanation, but that didn't keep it from being a nice moment. Power Girl's ample bosom has remained an ongoing source of humor and the basis of much of her claim to fame as a post-feminist hero. She is on the one hand thoroughly self-assured, confident, assertive, and self-empowered, and on the other hand an almost aggressive piece of eye candy. Her physical form seems to say, "Ogle me," while her attitude says, "Ogle me and I'll kick your butt." This inherent tension in her character has also resulted in her being perhaps the most delightfully playful of all the DC superheroes. Most of the DC superheroes are dark and somewhat tragic. The current Power Girl series, however, is fun and funny. She is a delightful contrast and counterbalance to Batman and the Green Lantern.
I definitely recommend this to anyone who is interested in the current incarnations of Power Girl, but who doesn't understand everything in her previous comic incarnations (I am currently following her in the JSA comics, where she and Magog are leading the reorganized JSA in a more militaristic version, and in her own comic, which is one of my favorite currently running comics). But I want to be clear that while I think this is good background reading, the current Power Girl comic is far more interesting. Definitely go read it.
What guy wouldn't go for a girl like Power Girl? November 9, 2009
Raisuli the Magnificent (SF Bay Area, CA United States)
Poor Power Girl. She's the bastard child at the DCU Family reunion. The relative nobody wants to admit to. In her original incarnation she was Earth-2's Supergirl. Then she had her history revamped, again, and again, and again. But, she still remains Power Girl, and even though she's gone through several back story revamps, she still wears her white leotard and red cape.
In spite of her background tweaks she's still a staple of the Detective Comic's pantheon. In fact, in spite of all of her historical recreation, she's actually one of the more stable characters in terms of personality. She is in deed, form and essence, unflappable.
The final story in this collection pushes Power Girl to her psychological limits, but she remains pliable and defiant all at once, and comes out on top in the end like all good heroes. Power Girl has always been a sort of no nonsense kind of heroine, though not always as confident and cocky as in the final story, which to this reader finally gives her a real depth and humor about herself. This is in contrast to her Earth-1 counterpart who is modeled after the proverbial girl-next-door who's made good.
Power Girl, in this sense, is her own woman. She's not trying to live up to a pedigree name-brand like Supergirl of Earth-1. She hasn't taken her Kryptonian's cousin trade-mark and try to feminize it. No. Her costume is basic, but so is she. True, she is a bit more buxom than the rest of them, and her costume would appear to have been made to accentuate her physicality, but it's part of who she is. Her best improvement is that she's lost her Doris Day perm in favor of a new contemporary do that I think most red blooded males would nod in approval. I know I do.
In terms of the book itself, it's a tough recommendation. Her early appearances from the 70s and 80s with the former Earth-2 crew are a bit of a nostalgia blast. In fact I remember a couple of the All-Star covers provided in this book, and as a kid frowning on the notion of buying a "Power Girl" comic. My youthful logic was that this woman had no real costume. She was a vanilla flavored superhero. A female Superman knockoff with no trademark of her own. And after reading the first couple of stories some 20 to 30 years later, my boyhood concerns have been confirmed.
But the last story takes this plane Jane heroine out of the run-in-the-mill show-room, and into the real "Showcase" (so to speak) of personae dramaticus as she fights a foe who forces her to fight herself. Power Girl comes out on top with more than just her usual attitude and style. And that's what makes this book worth reading, if not buying. Give it a chance.
A busty blonde with lots of self confidence? What guy wouldn't go for a girl like Power Girl?
 Horrible!! September 30, 2008
Bradley M. Cook (Suitland, MD)
0 out of 33 found this review helpful
This comic book stinks it has a great cover and thats it the artwork inside the comic book is infantile at best I was very disappointed when I received this item I threw it in the trash should have burned it don't make my mistake don't buy it.
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