Okay, so you have two young women who have just been through a shattering experience together which involved the older one saving the life of the younger one. Oh, and I should have mentioned that the younger one has a crush on the older one, shouldn't I? Well, anyway, they're in the process of regaining balance after the excitement, and they've done something faintly mind-altering and are now in a very deep and intimate conversation and the subject of the feelings for one another has come up. An...

As far as I'm concerned, Power Girl is the Goldilocks of comic book characters. This volume is a prime example. It's funny without being absurd, self-aware without being overly meta, action-packed without being too mindless, sexy without being too gratuitous, and compelling without being overly dramatic. Everything comes together just right.I'm not saying A New Beginning is perfect. In fact, the book's finely balanced approach might be what keeps it from being great. Sometimes the porridge needs...

I've heard a lot of praise for this run on Power Girl and after reading it myself, I'd say it was definitely warranted. Gray and Palmiotti really know how to show a comics fan a good time. Gone is the nitty, gritty, anti-heroism that is so prevalent in so many of today's superhero comics. In its place is just a ton of super powered fun. In this first volume we see Power Girl take on Ultra Humanite (an albino gorilla with an evil genius' brain transplanted into it), a big DND geek/radical environ...

Collecting issues #1-6 of Power Girl's solo series, Power Girl: A New Beginning finds Superman's buxom alternate-earth cousin Kara Zor-L, now unable to return to her own dimension, trying to start a new life in this earth, which includes starting up a bio-tech firm, finding an apartment and maintaining a secret identity (which I think would be kind of hard since she doesn't even wear a mask. Is that the purpose of the peek-a-boo cleavage cut out in her uniform, to distract observers from identif...

So finally finished this one. Not that I didn't like it but just hadn't gotten chance to come back to it after reading first two issues for about two weeks. Now that you know about my personal life and don't care, let's move on to the review! Power Girl is doing a best to keeping her city safe. As a big bust version of Supergirl with a charming personally she's about to take on a great evil mad scientist sexist gorilla. Then, after that, she tries to take down a visitor from space, a sexy group

The first 1/3 of this TPB was excellent, but the remaining 2/3 was average. The entire creative team (which includes a married couple) at the start do an excellent job of inserting humor into the tale and character playing off of her hit first attitude, and obvious buxomisness.

I generally don't read DC comics except for the occasional Batman (and even less occasionally, Superman) stories but after all the hype I've heard online about Power Girl and the current creative team I thought I would check it out.The hype was pretty much spot on. A brief 5 panel backstory recap tells you everything you need to know and from that point on it's all refreshingly simple and self contained.Power Girl is a funny and very likeable character and she has a nice supporting cast set up,

When it comes to superheroes, I tend to prefer the lower end of the power spectrum (e.g., The Punisher and Batman vs. Superman and the Silver Surfer), but I checked this series out because I'd heard good things about Power Girl and the artwork appealed. I'm glad I did, because it's been a lot of fun so far. Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray have delivered an extremely likeable character who remains surprisingly human and fallible despite powers that put her on a par with her cousin Superman. Amand...

It's so sad that a book that I was so looking forward to reading could be so bad.

Bullet Review:This was a LOT of fun to read. Power Girl is just such an upbeat superhero! Yes, there's the boob window mess, but I can ignore that when the character is not CONSTANTLY being objectified for her huge...tracts of land. (Though I thought the alternate cover art in the back of the book was rather ugly. And overly sexualized. So a double-whammy there.) I also loved how she interacted with females like Terra, and then while she did punch a lot of crap, she also was compassionate and lo...

I'm gradually expanding into the worlds of more characters other than just Green Lantern. For some reason, or maybe two, I was drawn to Power Girl. She has the powers of superman, but is much more vulnerable. I also wanted a fun story, something that isn't as interested in complex emotional mythologies. Power Girl herself has a very complex background. It involves surviving Krypton's destruction, traveling to another dimension before reaching our Earth. Luckily, this new beginning glosses over a...

I found the writing of this book very uneven, especially in the first arc (issues #1-3) which has way too much fighting and a mysterious character named Terra showing up out of nowhere with no explanation. Things improve from there. There's some nice characterization, some nice laughing at itself and some great humor, but the action adventure never manages to shine.

Fun, amusing and doesn't take itself so friggin seriously. Wait, did I say that about another Power Girl comic already? The writing is excellent, but this book wouldn't be half as much fun without Amanda Conner's deft flair for slight exaggeration. PG's facial expressions alone are worth reading this book.I love the inside joke eye-rolling between characters, and G/P make for some fun interactions between characters. There's more than a slight hint of Atomic Robo here in the writing and the art,...

I haven't completely worked out what I thought about this volume, but it's definitely an excellent comic. I had somehow gotten the impression that this series was on the fluffy side, but it's not that at all.

Fun! Action-packed! Remarkably non-objectifying! Part of the point of Power Girl as a character is that she plays off the stereotype of the over-developed, scantily-clad superheroine who seems to exist for no other reason than the fulfillment of male fantasies. Power Girl IS absurdly buxom and curvaceous, but the writers acknowledge that, and that she's well past feeling sick of being ogled and just regards it all with a weary resignation. And really, if we're willing to buy that Superman is the...

I've read a 'Power Girl' comic before from my local library. While I really liked the superheroine herself, what I mostly got was a character who was brought back from the old and destroyed DC universe of Earth-2 after the whole 'Infinite Crisis' event, and who keeps being left to writers who have no idea what to do with her. Origin changes and sticking-ideas-to-walls-and-seeing-what-falls aplenty. I was frustrated, unimpressed. But I saw potential in Power Girl, which was why I picked up 'A New...

Initially I had just written Power Girl off as a sexual comic book fantasy with gigantic boobs, obviously catering to a male-only audience. Okay, so there's some obvious fanservice at work here, but once I read this I couldn't help help but like her. She's actually pretty empowering, and she's got plenty of attitude and a great sense of humor. This is a really entertaining, funny volume in a sea of dark comics that take themselves rather seriously at times. It reminded me of Dan Slott's run on S...

Lighthearted superheroics in exactly the charming vein DC have since decided to mercilessly purge from their output. Features a grumpy cat and a sexist gorilla getting repeatedly punched.

I can't believe this got such good reviews, and was so strongly suggested to me. This was the most trite, simplistic and horribly sexist comic I've ever read. I'm not sure what people were thinking, but this is a classic example of DC's worst. I'm just glad I didn't buy this but borrowed it.Awful.

Ridiculous, fun superhero storytelling that never takes itself too seriously.