My concern is that DC thinks this is the Power Girl readers want so they end up keeping the Paige Stetler, fish out of water, self pitying version of Power Girl instead of Karen Starr.
My concern is that DC thinks this is the Power Girl readers want so they end up keeping the Paige Stetler, fish out of water, self pitying version of Power Girl instead of Karen Starr.
How can a single image capture the true spirit of Power Girl better than the entire run of the current comic book series? This Power Girl is playful, strong, and beautiful. She exudes confidence and competency.
I wish this was the PG we got in the current run not the insecure neurotic mess of a pale Supergirl imitation....
"So you've come to the end now alive but dead inside."
There's an irony here that Williams editor is also a woman, so this is a case of a female character being seriously handled by women.
Honestly Williams whole plan here was very misguided. She clearly wanted to write a fish out of water character, which wouldn't work for either PG or Kara because both women have been on Earth for some time now. Having them have to relearn everything again would have been disrespectful to both characters.
Would have been better off just creating an OC and do the whole fish out of water plotline with her while have PG taking care of her.
Here is one of the erased moments that makes me smile to this day.
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It just baffles me that we’ve gone from Powergirl being one of the senior and lynchpin superheroines of the DC universe while mentoring teens like Atlee and Stargirl, to being inexperienced and being mentored herself by a former Teen Titan Omen, who was none of those things.
Especially since if she wanted to tell such a story, (sans Omen), she could easily have set it in the past, when Kara/KAREN first arrived on her Earth. An arc would have sufficed before moving to present day. Or, better still, she could have not done that and instead carried on shorty after the end of her pre Flashpoint monthly. I hate it when writers on long existing IPs feel the need to "put their own stamp" on it, and change nearly everything. There's usually a reason why such IPs survive for so long, and it's unlikely a new writer on the character will do better by changing everything.