scans_daily: Power Girl vs Power Girl

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@ 2011-07-26 07:05 pm UTC

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char: atom/al pratt, char: brainwave/henry king jr., char: dr. mid-nite/pieter cross, char: dr. midnight/beth chapel, char: flash/jay garrick, char: fury/lyta trevor-hall, char: green lantern/alan scott/sentinel, char: hawkgirl/shiera sanders, char: hawkman/carter hall, char: huntress/robin/helena wayne, char: jade/jennifer-lynn hayden, char: nuklon/atom smasher/al rothstein, char: obsidian/todd rice, char: power girl/kara zor-l/karen starr, char: robin/nightwing/dick grayson, char: silver scarab/dr. fate/hector hall, char: skyman/sylvester pemberton, creator: jerry ordway, title: justice society of america

Power Girl vs Power Girl

Continued from the JSA Annual I posted a while back, only with more clusterfuckery abound.

Picking up where the last story left off, Huntress realises she's been telling her life's story to a Power Girl, but not her Power Girl. Needless to say both she and Power Girl 2.0 are not happy campfire girls.

The rest of this clusterfuck begins with Power Girl 2.0 raging over the idea of an "imposter" trying to take her place, as well as her obsession with finding the whereabouts of *her* long lost Superman/Kal-L. She then gets the entire JSI to initiate a witch hunt for the real Power Girl, thinking she has all the answers.

From JSA #20: 7 out of 22 pages.

At this point Power Girl is fully aware now that the Earth-2 she just landed on isn't her Earth-Two, and manages to find her way back to the main Earth with a little help from that Earth's Michael Holt. Unfortunately, with the entire JSI hot on her tail, she isn't safe for very long as Power Girl 2.0 and the gang catch up to her to bring her back to Earth-2 for interrogation.

Power Girl tries pleading with Huntress, but to no avail. Feeling angry and confused, Huntress pulls out her father's kryptonite ring to subdue her, while sporting a very Helena Bertinelli-like glare. Poor girl. :(

Back on Earth-2, things don't fare well for Power Girl as she finds herself strapped inside the Batcave.

I can't tell you how satisfying it was to see Power Girl put her Earth-2 counterpart in her place after having to put up with her BS for most of this story. But then I got sad for her when she looked at this version of Helena Wayne and remembered that her Huntress is dead and gone. -sniffle- :'(

(Also, as much as I love Helena Wayne like I love chocolate, it always bothers me how none of her inner conflicts ever get properly addressed or resolved before being retconned in a reboot).

Anyway, the story ends with Power Girl being shortly rescued by her own JSA team, and Starman explaining to the JSI members that two Power Girls exist because the multiverse exists, etc etc. Kara also returns home with a better sense of purpose and closure.

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	no subject pyrotwilight 2011-07-27 06:03 am UTC (link)
	I'm still wondering who the mysterious Hourgirl/woman was that appeared later in the JSI team portrait, glad to know an E-2 survives out there somewhere. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject apexpredator 2011-07-28 01:09 am UTC (link)
	There was mention of a Rebecca Tyler or so. In my personal canon? Its Bethany. But, I aint right. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject blackruzsa 2011-07-27 06:05 am UTC (link)
	Oh cool beans, a crossover with two earths.... this was nice. (Reply to this)

	no subject thormonger 2011-07-27 06:44 am UTC (link)
	With Didio's talk of "resting" the JSA, I hope that they return after Grant Morrison finally does Multiversity. I'd be OK with the JSA being on another Earth, and having multiversal crossovers like in the good old days the DC higher-ups seem intent on restoring. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 2 comments) (Show 2 comments)

	no subject eyz 2011-07-27 09:16 am UTC (link)
	If it would mean keeping the JSA, I'm all for it! (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject junipepper 2011-07-27 07:23 pm UTC (link)
	Absolutely! (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject icon_uk 2011-07-27 07:28 am UTC (link)
	Out of curiosity, did we find out why the other Helena was so paranoid and avoiding her big brother? (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 10 comments) (Show 10 comments)

	no subject kusonaga 2011-07-27 08:32 am UTC (link)
	Wasn't she in love with him? (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 5 comments) (Show 5 comments)

	no subject icon_uk 2011-07-27 08:44 am UTC (link)
	Possibly. I remember that being hinted at in one scene in the old Huntress series in the 1970's or 80's, though then it was a mutual "moment" between them that left them both slightly disturbed. Never a fan of it myself. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 4 comments) (Show 4 comments)

	no subject kusonaga 2011-07-27 11:11 am UTC (link)
	Not a fan either. I think that's what the heart to heart in this issue (or the annual) is about though, as I vaguely recall. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 2 comments) (Show 2 comments)

	no subject kusonaga 2011-07-27 11:11 am UTC (link)
	And why I do remember something about mind control? (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject kusonaga 2011-07-27 11:12 am UTC (link)
	Wait, wasn't that it? She had feelings for him and he came onto her real creepy while he was under mind control? (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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wizardru
2011-07-27 11:56 am UTC (link)

Based on the first part of this, shown here:
http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/3101538.html?#cutid1

I thought the point was that she's always been in love with Dick (hmm...could have phrased that better), but she was dating someone named Harry Sims, the DA of Gotham. The Joker attempts to use Sims to create a new Two-Face, but only ends up horribly injuring him, instead. This happens right after Sims proposes to Helena, but before she can say 'No'....because she loves Dick (no really, need a better way to say that).

However, now that Harry is in a coma and horribly disfigured, she feels that she CAN'T just drop him....and meanwhile she thinks she can't tell Robin about her feelings, for fear he'd drop everything to be with her, maybe? But she's so lonely that she can't bear to near him, so she's blocking him out, I guess.

Regrettably, on Earth-2, Alfred's gone...or he'd sort this shit out RIGHT QUICK.

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	no subject q99 2011-07-27 10:10 am UTC (link)
	I do remember a reason was given, but I'd have to do a re-read to check what it is. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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aeka
2011-07-27 02:29 pm UTC (link)

In the JSA Annual she confirmed she was in love with Dick but couldn't be with him because (a) her boyfriend, Harry Sims, was horribly scarred by the Joker and couldn't leave him as he was, and (b) she worried that if he let him get too close to her, he would be an easy target for all of her enemies who want to get to her through him. It was also implied that on this Earth-2 her foes figured out Huntress is Batman's daughter, which only increases the risks even more.

Whether or not this E-2 Dick also harbours sexual feelings for her like his Pre-Crisis counterpart did is unknown, but it might explain her constantly not wanting him to touch her.

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	no subject kamino_neko 2011-07-28 07:06 am UTC (link)
	she worried that if he let him get too close to her, he would be an easy target for all of her enemies who want to get to her through him. And Robin doesn't have enemies of his own? (Like, a good 20 years MORE worth of enemies? OK, a bunch of them have passed on at this point, but still.) (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

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aeka
2011-07-28 02:31 pm UTC (link)

True, but if I was an enemy of Batman and I discovered that he has a kid running around as a crossbow-wielding vigilante vs his his former ward carrying on his work, which of the two sounds like a most likely target for getting back at an old foe? Certainly not someone who doesn't have the status of being Batman's biological child, which was kind of the point of the story that preceded this one.

Helena made it clear in the last story that her status as Batman's daughter has endangered the lives of the people most important to her, and that her father's previous foes have gotten more twisted with age once they started noticing each other die. As a result, she became more withdrawn from the people closest to her, including Dick. Not that Dick isn't a more than capable fighter, but Helena isn't thinking straight by this point, and even less so since the Joker almost succeeded in driving her to kill him.

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