 Published 18th October 1994 Cover Date December 1994 Penciler Chuck Wojtkiewicz Inker Bob Dvorak Colorist Gene D’Angelo Letterers Clem Robins Editors Brian Augustyn / Ruben Diaz |
Introduction
Post Infinite Crisis everything that happens here, along with the whole baby fiasco.
Arion at this point knows that Power Girl isn’t Atlantian, has always she wasn’t, but still acts as though she was for whatever the whole baby plot was about
Plot Sypnosis
Talking off, we start with Arion explaining about Atlantis, the high-magic past that seems to have been attacked by someone or something with high-tech power armour!
Here he reinforces that she was sent to the present to protect humanity, a rare mention of her Atlantian origins, but it also tied into the baby!
They carefully sidestep the ideas that the baby was put there by Arion, instead suggesting that it’s some kind of weird magical effect from a magical prophecy!
Scarabus and Arion fight for a few panels before the baby takes matters into his own chubby little hands and fire a pink mental blast at Scarabus!
Then finally the League turns up to fight this two-parter big bad, playing up that this demon isn’t human just pure evil! Everyone gets a panel or two to show their stuff, with late-arriving Wonder Woman getting a couple of pages, again getting a weirdly brutal takedown.
Finally Power Girl, who’s spent most of this story cowering in fear from the beast, realises that this demon is trying to kill her baby. This finally causes her to spring into action, punching the demon enough to make it worried, though apparently it’s all thanks to the baby’s influence!
She forms this weird armour as she continues to pummel the demon,as Arion does his magical mojo which between them finally banishes the demon. Everyone then bonds as a team and we have Kara make a comment about found family.
Also Maxwell Lord is again dying, this time from a brain tumor, and a mysterious person stops some arsonists with ice based powers…
Final Thoughts
It’s a fighty fight comic, where the others are quickly taken down, including again brutalizing Wonder Woman, so that Power Girl can have her moment of awesome. Oh and show the weird powers of the baby!
The problem is that to do this they spent the last issue making her completely useless, it’s not like she’s lost her (still at a nebulous level) powers. Instead, she’s obsessed with protecting her baby, but not to the point of actually using her powers. If this had come out today people would complain, among other things, just how out of character Kara is here.
And to be honest they’d be right, but we’re still not done yet…