Power Girl Vol. 2: Aliens & Apes - Softcover

Palmiotti, Jimmy; Gray, Justin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1401229107 ISBN 13: 9781401229108

Publisher: DC Comics, 2010

Synopsis

SC, TPB, in cello, New, Written by JUSTIN GRAY and JIMMY PALMIOTTI. Art and cover by AMANDA CONNER. Published in October of 2010, Softcover, 144 pages, full color. Cover price $17.99.

About this title

About the Author:

Justin Gray is a hot writing talent whose work includes Batman, Birds of Prey, Monolith and Punisher. Jimmy Palmiotti is a prolific writer-artist who worked on Batman, Fables, Hellblazer, and many DC and Marvel comics. Amanda Conner's credits include Birds of Prey, Preacher and The Pro.

From Publishers Weekly:

Endowed with the same Kryptonian abilities as her cousin-from-an-alternate-universe, Superman, Kara Zor-L, aka Power Girl, is essentially Superwoman with an attitude problem and a famously exaggerated cup size. Saddled with too-familiar powers, a hopelessly convoluted backstory, and a tiny costume that flirts with self-parody, the character is always perilously close to being a one-note bore. Luckily, Gray and Palmiotti mitigate these handicaps with a generous dose of humor and a knowing wink at the genre's excesses. Over the six issues collected in this volume, our heroine wards off the unwanted advances of Vartox the Hyper-Man, has her secret identity uncovered by a blackmailing 14-year-old, and faces off against old foes Satanna and the Ultra-Humanite. Vartox, a super-powered blowhard who refers to himself in the third person, is an especially entertaining addition--a comic foil in the tradition of testosterone-addled DC "heroes" like Lobo and Guy Gardner. Conner's crisp, cartoon-inspired illustrations are perfectly suited to the title's abundant humor and its wild menagerie of mutant pachyderms, superintelligent badgers, and self-replicating space monsters. Perhaps in spite of herself, Power Girl is a powerful reminder of just how much fun superhero comics can be. (Oct.)
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About this edition

• Publisher: DC Comics
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1401229107
• ISBN 13: 9781401229108
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144
• Illustrator: Conner Amanda