Burning Questions
Worlds’ Finest (volume 1) #16
Cover Date: December 2013
Released: 9th October 2013
- Writers: Paul Levitz
- Pencilers: R.B. Silva / Scott McDaniel
- Inker: Joe Weems
- Colourists: Jason Wright
- Letterer: Carlos M. Mangual
- Editors: Eddie Berganza / Mike Cotton / Anthony Marques
After all that drama with DeSaad we go into new story thats sort of a breather, we’re still dealing with the fallout from the story, but the whole Apokolips and getting home part are for now sidelined.
Instead we have two stories running alongside each other, Helena gets to investigate an arsonist saving people from a fashion show. A good chunk of the issue is her either saving people from the fire or tracking down this villain who’s got this whole Ventress thing going on! She also has some kind of vague object creation / telekinesis thing going on but it’s never really explained fully.
Meanwhile Kara is dealing with the fact that her powers are on the fritz, alongside that she’s also trying to get het company back after the disappearance of faux Holt. It’s enough that she looses her temper at a meeting, lifting her lawyer off his feet. She also trying to plan her comeback at Fashion Week, whilst feeling (rightly) sorry for herself. When Helena show up asking for help for her case Pee Gee leaps into action with only minimum complaining.
Indeed her power seem to be okay as she shows her intelligence and freezes water from a nearby lake to dump it on the fire, much to the chagrin of Huntress who is inside the building helping people and again trying to track the arsonist. Still on aa role power wise Pee Gee flys in to try and take down the fleeing foe, only to be taken down but some sort of darkness/water, it’s never made clear, dragon construct.
We end as we start with Kara feeling sorry for herself, which is very out of character (as Helena mentions), normally she’d be bloody furious at being taken down so easily.
Look there are so many ways to say this is competently told but slight, it rumbles along and tell the tale compently. I’m engaged enough to want to follow the story and the interactions of the two characters is as always great, it’s probably that compared to the villain, who to keep the mystery is kept at arms length and we have no real knowledge of why she’s doing what she doing. Still a decent enough start of the next chapter of this story.