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Couple Bickerin’ – All-Star Comics #59

Brainwave Blows Up

All-Star Comics #59
Cover Dated : March / April 1976
Released : 16th December 1975

Previously: Whilst dealing with standard end of the world shenanigans the JSA come across three heroes who are helping out. Including, importantly to this blog, the new character of Power Girl.

The plot whittled three groups down to two and then one as all the heroes new and old join up in space to defeat Brainwaves plan to help an old friend regain his former powers… and oh blow up the Earth. Really half the book is the heroes trying and failing to fight Brainwave, until Power Girl follows that Kryptonian tradition of throwing thing into the sun. Or at least pretending to.

As any armchair expert will tell you, and I guess that includes me now, balancing a super team so everyone is difficult. So this issue they don’t try and instead focus on the new character, Robin gets to do some detectering, Star Spangled Kid is again pretty dull, but the main focus is, thankfully for this blog, on Power Girl. 

As well as the punching and sun tossing, though it a bluff in this case, Power Girl get the most interactions with some of the other characters and boy is it a dozy. From the very first panel they’re in Power Girl and Wildcat do not get on at all, they bicker and fight including Power Girl insisting she not a broad. It’s very sitcom couple stuff, but at least it gives a little character to the two at least until the punching starts.

And when the trouble starts Power girl just keeps throwing herself at the foes, despite being bounced around quite a bit, and she smart enough to ask the right questions including a comment that help cook up a plan to stop Brainwave. The aforementioned tossing his station in the sun. In the fight we’re carefully told that she not as strong as Supes, but is still ten times as strong as the average man, and Supergirl could have pushed the station much easier than she does initially.
Whilst I’m not really a fan of all the punchy, punchy, the bickering is apparently right up my street and I’m looking forward to how things progress next issue!