You're a shaved head away from being Lex Luthor.
It’s a guaranteed chance that we’ve all been in the wrong place at the wrong time and as
a result have been branded something that you’re not at some point in our lives. Some times they’re small occurrences that are merely awkward situations, others far more serious. One of the ones that comes to mind with me is back when I was 12 and my friends had decided to throw mud-balls at the cars that were parked next to my school. The school security cameras had caught them doing it, and because I was with the guys I got into trouble with them. I ended up getting out of it in the end, but like I was saying we’ve all been in those types of situations. So who finds themselves in the wrong place that the wrong time in this issue? Let’s pick up Power Girl #24 and find out.
So despite saying that someone finds themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time I’m not going to give much of it away due to the content of the issue, but suffice to say when Rayahan Mazin finds himself trying to stop a bad situation from getting worse his actions get misinterpreted for something far more sinister and evil than they actually are. Meanwhile Karen
Starr has hit the top of the news in the DC-verse after making more charitable business deals and buying her own 24 hour news channel, but in doing so (as well as what happened in previous issues) is now being followed around by the National Security Agency. So who dose Karen turn to for some advice on being the new publicly presented CEO of her company? I’ll give you a clue he’s a playboy known for living in a cave and throwing strangely flying-rodent shaped boomerangs. So if you’d like to know a little more about what’s going on, pick up Power Girl #24.
Judd Winick knows how to write a good story as he’s previously
shown us with his long tie-in story with JL Generation lost (issues #13-21) as well as his fun two part story involving dinosaurs and magic. This time he’s showing us his writing ability by writing a story around a simple “wrong time, wrong place” premise which doesn’t fail to pull you in. Winicks’ main focus on this issue (despite the main story) is the development of Karen Starr as a business woman and public figure, after her public revile (with her new appearance) in last months issue and having her interact with other characters who share the same public situation as her. Art wise, despite working on the cover Sami Basri is not the main illustrator for this issue, instead we have the beautiful work of Hendry Prasetya who’s style is almost identical to that of Basris’ except when it comes to Karnes’ face (which isn’t a bad thing), and also you can look at Karen star, and then Power Girl and not connect the two together.
Overall I award Power Girl #24 a 4/5. The story is simple, yet effective and the art fantastic. It’s an easy read for both veteran fans of the series as well as newcomers and new readers. With Karen taking a new step in her life it seems like the perfect opportunity to jump aboard the series. So finally, Power Girl #24 gets a:-
4/5
