Worlds’ Finest Huntress and Power Girl #15

Worlds’ Finest Huntress and Power Girl #15 – really this whole Dessad thing was just a lead up for a Forever Evil Tie in?  That is seriously disappointing.  I was thinking this story was getting better until the “cliffhanger” ending.   I have made no secret that I am unhappy with how DC Comics and this creative team have treated these two strong female characters that are the stars of this comic.  I do not like how suddenly as if by magic they cannot win any situation; their base of operations, their friends dying with no second thought by the creative team to how this will end.  Well now we know why the creative team was happy to ruin a really good comic.  They had to set things up for a mega-cross-over comic event.  Lame.

Worlds' Finest Huntress and Power Girl #14

Worlds’ Finest Huntress and Power Girl #14 continues the downward spiral of a once really clever and interesting storyline.  Once Desaad entered the picture this comic just turned into a pile of stupid.  Suddenly the strong confident women who are the star of the comic devolved into incompetence.  They are unable to fix, stop or figure out what is going on around them.  Yet for five years they were on their way to running the biggest most technologically advanced company in the world.  The comic really feels like someone at the DC office decided oh we can’t have women doing well without a man to save them.  Disappointing.

Worlds' Finest Huntress and Power Girl #13

Worlds’ Finest Huntress and Power Girl #13 where what was once an interesting and entertaining comic book degrades into just another cheesecake and hitting things comic.  Having Desaad suddenly show up and be able to totally ruin the ladies lives and business, killing their friends in the process is just horrible sloppy writing.  Not to mention there is no way that our worlds Justice League or Justice League America would not notice these fights and show up.  Taking out islands, taking out buildings and part of cities you just don’t ignore those things.  I am so very disappointed.

Worlds' Finest Huntress and Power Gril #12

Worlds’ Finest Huntress and Power Girl #12 was very disappointing.   Having Desaad show up pretending to be Mister Miracle was an inspired plot twist.  But for whatever reason making it so that no one but Power Girl or the Huntress could see his true form or the fight was lame and a sure sign of sloppy lazy writing.  Then having Power Girls Tony Stark like Business Empire magically crumble with no way to stop it was well copying 30 year old Iron Man stories.  Then having Desaad attack and kill off the normal people that worked for Power Girl and helped to make the story interesting makes me less likely to buy future issues.  I had enjoyed Worlds’ Finest current incarnation because it was based in the current Batman New52 world and lived by those rules.  But now Desaad can just summon tanks and armies to crush unpowered normal people and no one in the world notices; not the Justice League, not the Justice League of America (they were formed to stop this crap) no one in the world notices.  It is just breaking from the already established continuity of the comic.  Disappointing.

Worlds Finest Huntress and Power Girl #11

Worlds Finest Huntress and Power Girl #11 was interesting.  Huntress did the sneaky spy thing looking for clues about who was interfering with Power Girls research.  They both end up at a party and find that Michael Hold (Mister Miracle) was still alive, but in a twist it turns out it was actually Desaad somehow.  So anyway while well written with a good flashback story it all hung on the cliff hanger ending and I was starting to think we might actually get something better from the creative team behind this comic.

Ame-Comi Girls #1 !!!

Ame-Comi Girls #1 (the series) is actually just a continuation of the previous series that introduced the reader to all the nice ladies.  While the previous issues had some handy dialog and story building up this issue just had a big fight with Wonder Woman yelling about stabbing or smashing things.  The defeat of Supergirl was very anti-climactic and disappointing.  At least Powergirl has something happening at the center of the Earth that turns out to be a giant computer.  It is strange that no one noticed the lack of a molten iron core at the center of the Earth before this moment.  While the art work was not that great especially the fight scenes at least the entire issue was more than a giant slice of fan service.

World's Finest #10 !!!

World’s Finest Huntress and Power Girl #10 was actually three separate stories.  None of these stories were very satisfying.  First we have some fist pounding destruction of property in revenge for the attack on Power Girl’s island base.  Then there is a quick homage to the passing of Robin which also gives the comic a chance to have Batman make an appearance.  While not a bad issue it could have been better if one or two of the stories had been given more time to develop.  Which leaves me to my biggest complaint of DC comics the last month – there have been this stupid channel 52 two page story cutting into my comics and now there is a many page story in the back of every DC comic which is an advertisement for a new comic book DC will be putting out soon.  I really do not appreciate paying good money only to be shorted pages for advertisement for comics or items I am not interested in buying.  Now that those advertisement have reduced my enjoyment of many comic books I will make a point to not buy what has been advertise.  If these advertisements had lowered the cost of a comic book I would have been fine with losing story, but these comics are the regular price.

Ame-Comi Girls #5

Ame-Comi Girls #5 Featuring Supergirl.  Was kind of disappointing, while we see some of Supergirl’s backstory it is not complete and nowhere near the detail given to Superman’s backstory.   The writers seemed much more interesting in placing the female characters into positions the reveal their crotches and breasts than advancing a story.  At least this is the issue where yes Brainiac reveals her plan to destroy the world and she has been preparing to fight Supergirl.  I gather there is some backstory as to how or why Braniac knew there were Kryptonians on Earth but as the story is told it is a weak story.  At least we now have all the main and some of the second string supers assembled for the big old invade Earth fight.  Oh well. 

Ame-Comi Power Girl!

Ame-Comi Girls #4: Power Girl is introduced and she is a Kryptonian.  The story and art seem mostly set to show off Kara’s breasts and navel.  I saw joking about the Power Girl outfit online and was amused, but unfortunately it was all true this is an issue written by men with art by guys and it shows they need to get outside more and talk to real women.  It all takes away from what could have been an interesting story with xenophobic villains, the arrival of Super Girl and the Manhunters Mech-Police from OA.  Then the creators remember this was a tie in and mentioned Brainiac.

Worlds' Finest!

Worlds’ Finest Huntress and Power Girl number eight was kind of interesting.  But did we need another comic book that has Batman and Alfred?  Would Batman not be tired at this point?  The story itself is entertaining and it is nice to see Power Girl Strut her stuff, but I think the low profile thing might be blown after this issue.

Comcis! DC Comics!

I am finally getting to some of last week’s comic books.  DC Comics Earth 2 started out great, but the current issue (number seven) had a noticeable lack of super heroes or action.  If the comic continues this slide in to X-men like whiny talking between the Hero and Villain (we know he is the villain from issue zero) I am going to drop this book.  It is a shame because I have so far really liked the different “wonders” and how different they are from what the Heroes are like in the main line DC Universe.

Worlds’ Finest Huntress / Power Girl number seven is entertaining.  This series has been good from issue one (even if a bit disjointed).  I really like the current story with the Robin (Damian Wayne) the interaction with the Huntress’s other world family could have been sappier and I am glad it was not.  It will be interesting to see if our worlds Batman has noticed or figured all this out yet.  I am kind of interested how Batman and Huntress meeting would be handled by the writer.