A very solid outing from start to finish, and another chapter in a series that's shaping up to be a great one. Read Full Review

Power Girl #2 takes a sizable step back from the first issue when Leah Williams injects a lot of slice-of-life fluff, weird character personality shifts, and random plot developments for a disappointing issue. Read Full Review

With the depiction of Power Girl as insecure, dependent upon Superman and Super-family, inexperienced living on Earth, it's probably OK to refer to her as Paige, as she's absolutely nothing like the Karen Starr Power Girl we know and love or the one we've seen before. You might be able to enjoy some of the art in this issue, but it's a real struggle to connect with this iteration of the character. Read Full Review

So it isn't working as a Power Girl book or a 'new character' book.  I'll stick around a little longer. But in the meantime, I'll pull the Conner/Palmiotti Power Girl trade off my bookshelf. Read Full Review

I feel like this issue is fine, but if we are going this route with Power Girl, we really need to emphasize and explain her personality change of old. Like Leah has the skills to do this. She hints that she was really traumatized by her experience/capture by her old 'pod'. Use that to explain her imposter syndrome, shaken confidence and panicky decision making. Leah is putting all the needed parts in the plot, but she has to tie them together otherwise it is just me giving her the benefit of the doubt.

I will say that Amalak 'twist' was quite welcome and I enjoyed that writing.

This book isnt the best, and I am still rather upset with how Power Girl is portrayed personality wise. Additionally her Paige Alter ego is so dumb. That being said, it could all be put in a reasonable context of trauma and have her grow back into the old Power Girl that we all know and love. If Leah can pull that off, this will be a great'ish' book. If not it will meander and probably get cancelled.

Like I said in the first issue, I believe Leah has talent that is just crushed by poor and incompetent editorial. She did write a good Amazing Mary Jane book. She shows signs of good idea but no one to help her foster them. Shame really. more

An improvement from issue 1 but still has way too much fluff for what is basically Karen's first comic in a very long time (I refuse to call her Paige). Amalak being taken hostage by an alien or virus was a turn of events I wasn't expecting but now that he's out of the way, and Karen has finally put on her pants it time she goes virus busting, right? RIGHT?

I still can't adjust to this "omg we r besties!" thing with Omen, which I'm trying my best to ignore, but the art and coloring are definitely a highlight in a comic. If the comic continues to improve from hear, I may even give Leah Williams a passing grade.

Leah Williams tries to put Power Girl on a larger pedestal after a disastrous debut issue that reduced the character to a paranoid superhero, but fails in a different fashion in the second issue of this new series. Williams does give Power Girl more of a direct focus, and we start to explore her imposter syndrome and wonder whether or not the identity issues she’s facing are real or part of the problem she’s been tasked with fixing. My biggest issue w/ Williams’ story so far is how much our interpretation of Power Girl is based on other characters. In the last issue, we say Superman laying it on thick, and this issue it’s Lois Lane’s turn to try and tell Power Girl what/who she should be. It creates a wall between readers and Power Girl, making it extremely hard to connect with the titular character. Omen’s role as the comedic BFF feels misguided and is deployed at inconvenient times. Instead of adding a layer of levity to the situation, it comes off tone-deaf and annoying. While there were some minor improvements, at best this series is failing to elevate Power Girl beyond a bit-part Action Comics character, and worst sabotaging the character into an insecure and insulated presence. more

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Softboy - Oct 24, 2023

@derbycomics Honestly, Omen didn’t need to be carried over from the psychic backups in Action Comics. The friendship with Power Girl is forced and both of them don’t even act like each other. Power Girl is confident and brash, with Omen shes whiney and insecure. Omen is calmly composed, and serene. But she’s made annoying in an attempt of comedy. Easily my least favorite part of the series is when those two interact.

derbycomics - Oct 25, 2023

It would make more sense if somehow Omen was involved in the larger plot, but the interaction feels like filler right now and not the good kind.

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Just when you thought Leah Williams writing for Power Girl couldn’t get worse, it most certainly does. Williams has damaged the character of Power Girl severely, making her a clueless mediocre shell of a character she once was. Power Girl use to be a successful confident business owner with strong ties to the super hero community, Williams destroys all of that by making Power Girl an antisocial awkward insecure employee of the Daily Planet, that relies too much on Omen and Lois Lane.

Omen the Titans resident precog / telepath is extremely annoying here. Williams is trying to force the character of Omen into Power Girl’s life and it’s just not working at all, and neglects Omen’s character in the process. An example of this from this issue is Power Girl being ignorant to Earth, fearing that she isn’t a real woman since she was raised in bioship. Omen calls Power Girl her “alien bestie” and teaches her how to hug.. it’s Disney Channel level comedy and character development which is a pain to read.
Fans of Power Girl don’t care about Omen, she’s not her best friend or a member of her supporting cast no matter how hard Williams’ tries.

Amalak does nothing out of the ordinary here, it’s a basic rehash of their fight from the first issue. Power Girl #2 has the goal of trying to explore PG’s new civilian life. The action is severely lacking despite the amazing cover by Gary Frank, his covers should be used on a better series. Pansica’s art is okay here, nothing to write home about. Guess that’s what happen when you have such a terrible script to work with.

This is the main problem with this series, it’s not who Power Girl actually is as a character. It’s Leah Williams skimming a wikipedia page and cherry picking things from Power Girl’s old pre-crisis history and trying to reinvent it so she can make Power Girl an insecure weirdo. This as much as Hawkgirl, is a waste of the characters title, they deserve better. more