Too much Power (girl)

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Since it was announced by absence that Power Girl would be absent from the first 52 DC books in the 90s relaunch, I've been thinking a lot about how she could be included in the reboot. I'm at least glad that she isn't going to be in the new JLA, as I've already got Ms. Marvel as a character who's gone from having her own quite good solo series to having to live on little cameos in the premier team book.

To that end, I've had a flick back through some of the Palmiotti/Gray/Conner series and re-read the first issue of the Winnick/Basri run. Power Girl is quite fortunate to have had two sets of creators present a consistent run on the book, doing the story that they want to tell and then leaving when they want. Compare that to the directionless creative mishmash that Supergirl's gone through since her title debuted and you could probably say that she's had one of her best runs.

Here's three pages of her revised origin from Power Girl #13





I've also been scouring Project Rooftop and Deviantart for other versions of Power Girl. As far as I can manage, I'm going to credit the original artist for everything.


A Minimalist Power Girl, by glsolo


Project Rooftop called this Karen's space outfit. It's designed by Paul Conrad, who did design work for Up, a film that is guaranteed to make me cry. I think that this is a great redesign.


A psuedo-Victorian Power Girl by shoot-o. I do like the look of this. I'm not sure how it would work with flying around, or being athletic and hard-hitting.


Keeping with the retro theme is a 20s-esque design by perpetual insomniac

By Adam Hughes. I don't see Power Girl being the gushing type, and certainly not for Super-Girl.


This is cool, though I do wish that artists would cut the bottom of her suit a bit lower. And not sway the hips all of the time.


By Michael Lopez. Have we seen Power Girl doing much in the way of space-faring, apart from Zardoz recently?


By More979. I think that this one is modelled on the Timm style for the DCAU. This would make for a really smart design for an all ages book.


by jordanmead


by taguiar. I like the way that this Power Girl actually looks confident and strong


by Joel R Carroll, comes sketches without the boob window/windscreen, no gloves, lots of piping and pointy sleeves.


Hipster Karen and Diana by callmepo



by thebit07. It looks a lot like Questionable Content. It isn't though.


Replacing the exposed cleavage with exposed arms and keeping the overall colour scheme intact. I'm not sure that I like the more angular design on her chest.


Apart from the massively swayed hip, I quite like this. The arms give Power Girl a fairly powerful stance. By Mayeko.



by jetjaquar


By didism. You can't imagine that a white outfit would be particularly easy to keep clean, and a cape that long is not could to stay out of muck and stoor.

The next few are largely out of the realm of redesigns and are just cool fanart.

By kit_kit_kit. This Power Girl just looks excited and eager. You would be too if you could fly and were superstrong.


By artnerdem.


By marciotakara


by Paul Sizer. This looks like it's come from Invincible.


By Mbirkhofer

And finally, a massive wardrobe mixup

by xhathaway


I've also got some pictures that would make this post need a nudity advisory. If there's a demand for these, I'll post them at some point in the morning.

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She's also Buffy the Vampire Slayer's. Canon! ^^