Powergirl 21 Review

Time to dip into the Random Comic Book Box of Doom and pull out another comic book for consumption. This time, we head to 2011 for the wonderful world of DC Comics with some Power Girl. In this issue, Power Girl tries to get Batman and others to remember the circumstances involving the death of Ted Korrd and how Maxwell Lord was involved. Let us dive right into Power Girl Issue 21.

Power Girl Issue 21 Review.

Power Girl Issue 21 was written with a cover date of April 2011 and published by DC Comics, written by Judd Winick.

Continuity can be a tangled and muddled mess as far as the DC Comics universe is concerned. Which is one of the prime reasons why the reboot that took place later in 2011 was rather necessarily. Power Girl starts this issue, reflecting on some mistakes. They start rather mundane, but they end with the beating up of Captain Atom after being put under mind control by Maxwell Lord.

Maxwell Lord, who was a good guy for years, but suddenly turned evil and used his mind control powers on people. Also killed the second Blue Beetle, Ted Korrd. He was died, brought back to life in Blackest Night, wiped a bunch of people's minds in his past wrong doings.

Power Girl on the other hand, her backstory is one that I have no idea what it is supposed to be any given week. Alternate and more mature(a-hem) version of Supergirl from another earth seemed to be the go to point. And there were times where her origin seemed to be that she did not have any origin at all.

I did realize one thing when reading this issue, and that being the fact that there was a lot of Crisis events in DC. And about the only one that I think was halfway decent was the first one, Crisis on Infinite Earths because it was the first and new. When the word Crisis is put in the title these days, it rarely lives up to the height.

The crux of this issue is Power Girl trying to convey to Batman that Maxwell Lord has caused the death of Ted Korrd when he altered the memories of others to reveal that Korrd shot himself instead of the fact that he was murdered.

We get two Batmans(or is it Batmen), for the price of one in this issue with Dick Grayson and Bruce Wayne. Bruce remembers Maxwell Lord and what happened, so they try to peace it together. Sounding much like some discussions that I have heard about the Kennedy Assassination mind you.

Issue was fine, but really like many modern comic books, it just really leaves me with a feeling that I was handed a small piece of the puzzle. That is why many people would prefer to pick up the trade of any given storyline.

Power Girl Issue 21 from DC Comics was a perfectly acceptable read but not a must buy. That's my final thought on that.