Monthly Archives: September 2010

Credits: Written by Judd Winick; art by Sami Basri; coloured by Sunny Gho and Jessica Kholinne; lettered by John J. Hill;  edited by Rachel  Gluckstern (associate) and Mike Carlin; cover by Basri and Gho.

Synopsis “Snow Job Part One”: Power Girl faces the fallout for forcing Karen Starr’s employee, Nicholas “Nicco” Cho, to help her during Crash’s rampage. It wasn’t hard for Nicco to figure out that Starr and Power Girl were the same person and he confronts her about it. Nicco is angry that his boss appears to be “fraud” who disappears when her company was in dire straights. On this issue, Power Girl approaches the Batman (Dick Grayson) about tracing Donna Anderson – the accountant who disappeared with the contents of her company’s bank accounts. He traces Donna to Thailand, but by the time PG arrives Donna is dead from an apparent heroin overdose. She doesn’t believe that Donna would have stolen the money or killed herself and suspects that somebody is still playing with her. At Donna’s funeral Karen approaches Nicco and recruits him to a secret computer lab built by the Batman. He will be her secret weapon in tracking down the villain responsible for targeting her and her company. Batman’s own investigation had found that Karen’s money had been filtered through a series of shell companies before getting lost overseas. The only concrete lead was that part of the money had been used to purchase thermal generators for use in the Arctic. It is that route which leads Power Girl to a fight in the snow against a masked opponent.

Continuity: The Bat Bunker scene between Power Girl and Batman takes place nearly simultaneously with a scene in Justice League: Generation Lost #10. The Gen Lost scene involves PGs arrival and their discussion about Maxwell Lord. Max’s post-hypnotic suggestion means that they lose their train of thought and drift on to the discussion about Donna shown in this issue.

Opinion: Four issues in and Winick and Basi’s run on Power Girl continues to keep a high-standard. Judd Winick continues to surprise me with his use of pacing. Sometimes he’ll spend pages and pages on the most inane fights and then at other times the scripts will thunder through various jumps and revelations in the matter of a few pages. I can’t quite work out if I like it or not.  The disappearance of Donna and – the dramatic cover image – is wrapped up very quickly, but the two-page sequence from the PG discovering the body to her standing at Donna’s funeral is beautifully drawn and coloured.  The tie-ins with Generation Lost remain interesting and you have to wonder if the Artic facility is one of those unearthed by Skeets.