Super Power
Supergirl (volume 6) #20
Cover Date: July 2013
Released: 15th May 2013
- Writers: Michael Alan Nelson
- Pencilers: Mahmud Asrar
- Inker: Mahmud Asrar
- Colourists: Dave McCaig
- Letterer: Rob Leigh
- Editors: Eddie Berganza / Rickey Purdin
For the two of you reading along live please don’t think it’s because I hated this comic, because quite the opposite. And as a bonus we actually have Power Girl on the cover, so people won’t forget why we’re here!
We start as we mean to go on as Supergirl apologies for calling Pee Gee old, explaining how sometime when she’s frustrated says stupid things, and when Pee Gee says she used to do the same, Supergirl says she’d be lucky to grow into half the woman Pee Gee was! Just look how great it is when there two are written by writers who actually like the characters they’re writing for!
Sanctuary however spoils the moment by saying that Supergirl not Pee Gee is the clone, being the younger of the two. Pee Gee is having none of it trying to talk Sanctuary down, but Supergirl has a moment of feeling sorry for her self, though even then the two are pretty civil to each other. I will stop gushing about just how nice this is in a moment honest!
They continue discussing thing out, occasionally telling Sanctuary to shut up, until the base gets fed up and create a robots to force the issue. The robot attacks what it calls Not-Kara, whilst the two of them try and put the robot down, forcing the robot to eject Pee Gee from the base entirely. This is after Pee Gee try’s to logic the base into shutting down, as she’s to it the real deal, until the bot just says no.
We then get a few pages of Supergirl and Sanctuary talk about the situation, whilst the base is trying to kill her. As they do it gives Kara a chance to figure out some of the issues she’s faced over the last two dozen issues, which is a nice way to soft reboot the violent and abrasive characters she’d been when she first (re)appeared.
Whoever built Sanctuary gave them quite the sense of deadpan humour, with several cute like moments. Including when it accidently makes Pee Gee run out of air (for speaking, her being a Kryptonian and all). Being smart, something often forgotten, Pee Gee flies up and freezes a big chunk of ocean causing a vortex, that will come crashing down on sanctuary. Supergirl then rapidally superheats things causing the base to explode.
Fishing Supergirl out of the now open ocean we get just a moment of Pee Gee worrying that she’s dead, until Supergirl making a joke that she still things Pee Gee is to old to wear her current costume! Though I think its a good a time as any to mention that those weird boots Supergirl wears, with the cute out knee’s, is probably one of the most stupid looks she’s ever worn. And this includes the many, many weird costume she wore in the 70s!
We end with the two in orbit sharing a moment about the lost of Krypton, including Pee Gee commiserating Supergirl for the lost of her home (we’ll skip for now the fact that right now she’s lost two homes). Ending with the two of them watching the sunrise in a lovely full page spread, good enough to forgive it for comprising of butt shots, including Pee Gee positioned to show both her butt and her most famous assets!
Okay actually we have a final page of Sanctuary bot reforming to continue it’s hunt for Not-Kara, but it has much less butt shots for obviously isn’t quite as important!
In case it’s not clear I’m a fan of Pee Gee and Supergirl just being nice to each other, something that’s astonishingly rare! It perfectly paced with just, for me, the right amount of plot to punching. It’s a well worn cliché but it more difficult to say more about something that you love than hate, so I can’t add much more than I’m glad I got to read these versions of Supergirl and Pee Gee, I don’t think we’ll get anything like this (so far as I know) pass this point!