Power Girl Appreciation 2024

[Will Evans]

Regardless of what you can say about the quality of this run, calling Power Girl a self insert for Leah Williams is a pretty baseless accusation. Nothing I've seen of Williams suggests her personality resembles Karen in this book at all.

I’ll give you Karen, but what if her personality resembles Paige Stetler.
Heh

[Overhazard]

I've managed to introduce a female friend of mine to the Connor/Palmiotti run and she enjoyed it so much she is officially a fan of Power Girl now.

I've also told her about whats happening in Leah Williams run of the character and she describes it as the Webtoonification of women.

So it is a modern trend thats been going on with characters due to certain writers, the infantilization of media and all that. She made fun of how it basically infantilizes the characters into a total caricature buuuut "she wears pants now that's totally less sexist".

Webtoonification, is a good way to describe it, one could argue that this stuff started with Tumblr (where creativity goes to die), and it probably goes back further than that. The revisionist history, the presentism, covering up all the female characters, unless they're muscular, because objectifying muscular women is progressive, somehow.

[Celgress]

Webtoonification, is a good way to describe it, one could argue that this stuff started with Tumblr (where creativity goes to die), and it probably goes back further than that. The revisionist history, the presentism, covering up all the female characters, unless they're muscular, because objectifying muscular women is progressive, somehow.

please delete

[juan678]

https://www.cbr.com/line-it-is-drawn...nes-day-cards/

[Celgress]

https://www.cbr.com/line-it-is-drawn...nes-day-cards/

hahaha, cute

[marhawkman]

Webtoonification, is a good way to describe it, one could argue that this stuff started with Tumblr (where creativity goes to die), and it probably goes back further than that. The revisionist history, the presentism, covering up all the female characters, unless they're muscular, because objectifying muscular women is progressive, somehow.

It's like people want to change the concept of female beauty...

[juan678]

On May 28, Power Girl comes out to play in Power Girl #9, a “House of Brainiac” tie-in issue. With the Czarnians seizing control of Power Girl’s Metropolis neighborhood, Crush offers herself up as a diplomat to reason with her unreasonable relatives. But these aliens are as corrupt as they are crude and decide they’ll just add Crush their growing number of hostages. Can Power Girl save the day solo, or will she fall prey to Goblin and intergalactic biker gang? Find out in this issue. Written by Leah Williams with art by Eduardo Pansica and Julio Ferreira, with a main cover by Yanick Paquette, plus variant covers by Tony S. Daniel and David Talaski.

[achilles]

On May 28, Power Girl comes out to play in Power Girl #9, a “House of Brainiac” tie-in issue. With the Czarnians seizing control of Power Girl’s Metropolis neighborhood, Crush offers herself up as a diplomat to reason with her unreasonable relatives. But these aliens are as corrupt as they are crude and decide they’ll just add Crush their growing number of hostages. Can Power Girl save the day solo, or will she fall prey to Goblin and intergalactic biker gang? Find out in this issue. Written by Leah Williams with art by Eduardo Pansica and Julio Ferreira, with a main cover by Yanick Paquette, plus variant covers by Tony S. Daniel and David Talaski.

I like the last one best. The others just don't look very good to me.

[The Frog Bros]

On May 28, Power Girl comes out to play in Power Girl #9, a “House of Brainiac” tie-in issue. With the Czarnians seizing control of Power Girl’s Metropolis neighborhood, Crush offers herself up as a diplomat to reason with her unreasonable relatives. But these aliens are as corrupt as they are crude and decide they’ll just add Crush their growing number of hostages. Can Power Girl save the day solo, or will she fall prey to Goblin and intergalactic biker gang? Find out in this issue. Written by Leah Williams with art by Eduardo Pansica and Julio Ferreira, with a main cover by Yanick Paquette, plus variant covers by Tony S. Daniel and David Talaski.

I dropped this book a while ago. Guess I’m 50/50 on picking up this issue based on how the Brainiac event goes and how invested I am at that point in seeing “Power Girl save the day.”

[The Frog Bros]

I like the last one best. The others just don't look very good to me.

Streaky in space!

[PrydefulHunts]

On May 28, Power Girl comes out to play in Power Girl #9, a “House of Brainiac” tie-in issue. With the Czarnians seizing control of Power Girl’s Metropolis neighborhood, Crush offers herself up as a diplomat to reason with her unreasonable relatives. But these aliens are as corrupt as they are crude and decide they’ll just add Crush their growing number of hostages. Can Power Girl save the day solo, or will she fall prey to Goblin and intergalactic biker gang? Find out in this issue. Written by Leah Williams with art by Eduardo Pansica and Julio Ferreira, with a main cover by Yanick Paquette, plus variant covers by Tony S. Daniel and David Talaski.

The Covers by Yanick Paquette and Tony S. Daniel are great. Hopefully Leah Williams can write Crush well in this tie-in, I lost all interest for her version of Power Girl.

[Thor-Ul]

I like the last one best. The others just don't look very good to me.

It is the opposite for me. The last cover represents exactly what PG has been transformed into: a substitute Supergirl.

[achilles]

It is the opposite for me. The last cover represents exactly what PG has been transformed into: a substitute Supergirl.

I meant the art itself, not the composition. The face on the second one for example just seemed a bit off, and her head was at an odd angle. And I personally don't subscribe to the bodybuilder aesthetic of the first one.

As for what PG's become, I don't blame the art, I blame the writing.

[Celgress]

It is the opposite for me. The last cover represents exactly what PG has been transformed into: a substitute Supergirl.

Agreed , although the quality of the artwork is nice.

[marhawkman]

I meant the art itself, not the composition. The face on the second one for example just seemed a bit off, and her head was at an odd angle. And I personally don't subscribe to the bodybuilder aesthetic of the first one.

As for what PG's become, I don't blame the art, I blame the writing.

I like the buff version of PG