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It used to be that when DC solicits came out, I checked immediately if Ex Machina was out that month. It never was.

Now the first thing that I do is check the Power Girl solicit, to see who is starring in her book.

This time, I am sad
POWER GIRL #27
Written by matthew sturges • Art by HENDRY PRASETYA (but I assume that they mean Prasetyo
Cover by WARREN LOUW

Power Girl has 20 seconds to save the day – three times over! But who set up this dangerous game? Can Power Girl find a way to overcome not one but three disasters and track down the statistically-minded villain behind it all?
On sale AUGUST 17 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T

No guest stars but more importantly, NO SAMI BASRI!

Yes, it's a pretty cover, if very dull. Hopefully, this will just be a short break for Basri.

In fact, when I pick up Power Girl on Wednesday, I'm going to send DC an email saying that I really want Basri to stay on the book.

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I'm really surprised and impressed he was able to as many consecutive issues as he did. That's not a common ability at all in this day and age of regular fill-ins.

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greenmask

And to think I thought that Power Girl couldn't really get any more "here are my body parts". Golly.

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stubbleupdate

At least we know that there is a wax strong enough to deal with Kryptonian pubic hair

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blackruzsa

Her face is almost, almost pretty enough to keep notice from her boobs.
But that's a no go.

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nightauditguy

You know, I'm betting that most guys and probably even women want to motoboat Power Girl

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misterbug

Probably as much as they'd like to motorboat two grapefruits made out of solid marble, I'd presume.

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auggie18

That'd lead to a crushed skull and an intensely awkward funeral.

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ian_karkull

Oooh, is Sturges taking over regular writing duties? I mean I like Basri a great deal, but with Matt at the helm, the book might actually be good again.

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darkknightjrk

I think Sturges said that he was doing two issues worth, so this thing and the Power Girl Convention issue will be it, for the moment.

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keeva

That cover is really icky.

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greenmask

I hope no-one was planning to read it on the bus.

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auggie18

You can kinda see through the top part of her costume and that's really not okay. It sucks, because if it was a bit more modest, this would be a really cool shot of the character. As it is, kinda creepy.

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sigmund_droid

Kinda see through?

SHE HAS A GIANT BREAST HOLE!

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nezchan

"RATED T"

Except the cover, of course.

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icon_uk

Which is rated Triple D

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jarodrussell

For the record, this is not what I had in mind when I equated Power Girl to the show In Plain Sight, okay.

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arbre_rieur

An awful cover, but I do like how her belt buckle has two bars that make it look like a power button.

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kamino_neko

It actually looks like a pause button, now. It used to look like a power button (with a circle intersected by a vertical bar)...now...pause.

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midnightvoyager

First glance: Oh, that's a very pretty Peeg-

*scroll*

AAAAAUGHWTF

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baxter2814

Exactly my reaction. There's cheesecake, and then there's "No way am I ever gonna read this issue in a public place".

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kamino_neko

I'm not (likely*) going to miss Basri on PG. His art is pretty, yes, but his style just isn't suited to Power Girl. He's be better on Supergirl. The delicate prettiness would better suit that Kara than this.

* Depends what the other art looks like, of course.

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*He'd be better on Supergirl. Confusing typo.

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harpers_child

i don't think her boobs are attached to her chest. i'm fairly busty and well, boobs don't work that way. if her boobs are actually that big then the skin above her cleavage wouldn't be that exposed.

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feyandstrange

Sadly, fake boobs can achieve this look. I think. The perspective is odd.

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IN THIS ISSUE: a desperately lonely Power Girl has 20 seconds to slap on some scene makeup, retailor her costume from "daring" to "illegal within the state of Iowa," and shoot her profile pics for OkCupid! But how can she succeed when Red Kryptonite has caused her breasts to absorb most of her muscle mass?

STAY TUNED READERS

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Hahahahaha!!!

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tsunamiwombat

For some reason, to me her face looks alot more porny then her porny physique. Something about her eyes and lips. I'm almost certain that was lifted from a model.

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greenmask

I got a very come hither-ish vibe from the face too; I was ready to scroll down and be all well I guess that that was just a quirk of the art, I am sure that the rest of her body will be in an in-your-face semi-aggressive 'don't even try it' pose like Power Girl usually is. I was NOT expecting..

..what I got.

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nezchan

Hold on...let me get my head around this...

THIS is the issue immediately following his "female empowerment" story? Really?

You're trying to hurt my brain, aren't you DC?

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stubbleupdate

I think that the choice of a pin up cover like this is an editorial one and not an authorial choice.

It's a pretty poor one, considering that I can envision a lot of new fans turning off this book very quickly with covers like these.

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mullon

Is she made of ceramic or something?

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fifthie

Remember when Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti were doing this comic?

DC sure doesn't :(

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philippos42

"check the Power Girl solicit, to see who is starring in her book."

i see what you did there

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wizardru

See DC, here's the thing: I like Power Girl. Really, I do. And when Jimmy Palmiotti was doing the title with Amanda Conner doing the art....well, sure it was cheesecakey at points, but it was adorable. I could point my wife towards the clever writing and even the occasional beefcake moment (played for laughs though it may have been).

This...this feels like it's sliding towards straight-up porn, with the picture's exact center being Karen's shiny-shiny boobs and a line in her costume making a mock camel-toe while showcasing that her costume appears to be something that you'd wear on a Rio beach, not fighting crime. Seriously, if I can tell that a character has waxed her pubes...maybe you needed to rework that image.

See, I have access to the internet. If I want straight-up porn fantasy, I can get the REAL THING. It's not 1972 anymore. I don't have to dumpster dive at the drug-store to get thrown out copies of playboy or the like. So how's about instead of presenting us with a Power Girl cover that doesn't look like a porn parody, giving us an actual, honest to goodness superheroine.

Then maybe I'll come back and buy the title again, like I was prior to issue 13. Thanks.

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baxter2814

I so, so agree. I'm a girl, I love Power Girl, and I don't mind mild, tasteful cheesecake at all since I ogle beefcake all the time and refuse to be hypocritical.

The problem is that there is a huge, HUGE difference between drawing a curvaceous, attractive woman whose assets aren't hidden from the readers, and drawing her with her ass sticking out and her boobs shoved forward and angled or centered on the page so that it is impossible to pretend she isn't blatantly posing for the readers.

It's just as stupid as those scenes of male characters flexing and striking ridiculously blatant manly macho poses: no matter how good they look doing it, the action makes them seem ridiculous and breaks my suspension of disbelief. Even stupider in fact, because at least superheroing has something to do with strength, while sexiness is supposed to be just a nice bonus. It's especially true when it's supposed to be in the middle of a serious scene, but a cover is supposed to give you an idea of what the comic offers, and I'm really not going to pick up a comic offering porn.

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Shouldn't the title of this post be "Boobs. Boooooooobs" ?

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FEMALE EMPOWERMENT!

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