It will be some time before such a determination can be made, but if the book continues in the direction Winick and Basri have been taking it straight up well look back on issue 21 as the moment this title grew the metaphorical beard. Read Full Review

Winick's takeover of this title was abrupt and brusque as heck, and really rankled me as a reader when it wiped out everything that Amanda, Justin and Jimmy set up, but it has become clear that this was an intentional effect, to show how sudden and dangerous having Maxwell Lord target you can be. I'm still not entirely cool with Starrware being dismantled, but this issue shows that it's an ongoing process, and that perhaps things are not beyond repair. The art in this issue is quite good, as Sami Basri acheives a subtlety that reminds me of both Frasier Irving and Daniel Acuna, making Power Girl both muscular and feminine, and even delineating between two guys in identical bat-cowls with subtleties of facial shape and expression. Nice work, under a simply beautiful and understated cover. I'm really glad that I stayed with Power Girl's book after the change in creatorship, but I'm still a bit miffed at how long it took to get to the bloody point about what's really going on. All in all, Read Full Review