This wasn't a comic laughing AT Power Girl, it was a comic that, as a lot of people have tried for years to do with Power Girl, gave her the upper hand embracing her appearance, intellect and, yes, sexuality on her own terms.
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To play devil's advocate, and, honestly, to reflect the tone of the comics I'm pretty sure only I read, the series was almost a sitcom in which PG was presented as an uber-capable, confident, and casually aware that she was attractive and wasn't ashamed of her femininity. The alternative cover to Power Girl #1 by Adam Hughes I think in the pre-New 52 relaunch, in particular, DC tried with Power Girl, knowing they had something complicated on their hands. Yes, if you have the typical Adam Hughes cheesecake cover, you've got yourself a bit of grade-A cheesecake on your hands. I'd point out that Image #2, the one with PG astride a shooting star, was drawn by Amanda Conner, who redesigned Power Girl's costume for that era, and, it seems, she herself is no stranger to being a lady. We're getting into slippery slope territory dictating what is and is not okay for women to wear. The design in the first image does accomplish the goal of covering the heroine, and that satisfies the desire to tell the fan-boy audience* that women can be strong individuals and not just objects to be gazed upon and a faculty member somewhere can call it mission accomplished. I know that's a little harsh, but stick with me. We can chalk it up as a victory for folks who have a problem with Power Girl and they can feel that a cartoon drawing's modesty has been preserved. What I would pause to consider is if covering Power Girl in multiple layers, as if she's walking around Boston in December, is accomplishing anything other than drawing attention to how many layers we've managed to put her in. So, let's not beat around the bush on that count. There's no question in my mind that the second image up there is intended to be sexy and provocative. PG has been redesigned almost as often as Iron Man). But in the current title, World's Finest (the former Superman/ Batman team-up title), Power Girl looked like she'd been designed by committee, formed from pieces pulled from other characters and intended to look like something fresh - but, really, sort of like a failed costume concept from the mid-00's.Ībout a month ago, images started leaking out that the redesign was getting scrapped and we were coming back to the Power Girl look that we all knew from most of the character's existence (more or less. It sort of all fits and isn't the ridiculous belly-shirt look given to her by Jim Lee (now publisher and chief designer for DC). She's got her colors right, the iconography is all in place, she's a rooftop, back-alley detective sort. The costume you see directly above was considered a failure more or less from the arrival of the solicitation art. Seen with her pal Huntress in "World's Finest"
Don't ask) in a redesigned costume that was meant to keep her character intact but not have the immediate effect of the character be that PG exists simply as an object of lurid interest, as is often the initial reaction. well, I think this design is actually pretty bad, but we can talk about that later.īy the way, DC just spent a year with Peej (Power Girl. In comparison to Power Girl's traditional costume, he redesign certainly seems less aimed at appealing to the male gaze and creating a look that still honors the original. I'll take a poke at the Power Girl costume because the original is one of the most discussed costumes in comics and, short of Vampira, the one most likely to raise questions and hackles. One of our own posted a link to Twitter to a page showing redesigns of popular female characters in comics (in particular, DC Comics characters) in outfits that are not the white one-piece peek-a-book of Power Girl or the familiar star spangled corset and shorts of the Wonder Woman costume.
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