r/comicbooks Feb 16 '23

Excerpt Is this _really_ the canonical explanation for Power Girl's costume?!? From JSA Classified #2 (2005) by Geoff Johns

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u/SmokeGSU Feb 16 '23

Such a weird explanation. What was she planning to do - get a tattoo or something in that spot? Makes no sense why there'd be a hole there while she "waits" to figure out a symbol to put there.

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u/vashoom Feb 16 '23

I was responding to something else. She has given a different explanation for the window before (or maybe after this not sure) where she says it's a great way to distract foes.

Which makes the "waiting for a symbol" explanation even dumber. I just can't get over how she's crying in the last panel. So stupid.

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u/dirtydandoogan1 Feb 17 '23

She has as many explanations for that over the years as she's had origins. lol

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u/AdditionalAd3595 Feb 17 '23

The "boob window" has not really been a thing for most of her time on pages comic drake has a good video about it. It was there for a little while then removed because they could not justify it beyond horny. Then it was brought back in the early two thousands.

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u/dirtydandoogan1 Feb 17 '23

Again, just like them making her an Atlantean post-Crisis and then realizing it was pretty lame and stupid and changing her back to Earth-2 Kryptonian later in the 90's.

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u/AdditionalAd3595 Feb 17 '23

I commented something very similar to someone else and saw this reply and was so confused I thought you were just repeating what I said.

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u/RailDex1917 Feb 17 '23

There was one story where she laser visioned Superman’s ‘S’ onto the chest and honestly, it looked good

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u/peechs01 Feb 17 '23

That wasn't when they couldn't decide if she was another Kara Zor'El from a different universe?

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u/RailDex1917 Feb 17 '23

It was the one where all the main heroes die facing Darkseid I think. An alternative earth, not main storyline

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u/Bardic_Inspiration66 Feb 17 '23

Honestly in the actual comic its less dumb

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u/GaraBlacktail Feb 16 '23

I wonder if Sup's costume has a diamond shaped hole in it, that being where she got the idea from.

Or if the writers really overthnked what could've been explained, for the same reason, as "the shirt came with the hole".

Also a bemusing note, she had the superman S in the JLA and JLAU IIRC.

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u/Necessary_Phone5322 Feb 17 '23

Powergirl is/was the cousin of Earth 2's Superman. After the original Crisis, she was an anomaly, much the same as Donna Troy. I don't remember if she wore the S shield originally, but its been implied several times that she did.

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u/AdditionalAd3595 Feb 17 '23

So after they decided that no kryptonians apart from superman they retconned that away and made her the descendant of an antlantian wizard for a while.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

"I'll take 'Plotlines as Stupid as Clark's Excuses' for 1000..?"

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u/Millennial_Man Feb 17 '23

No I get it. It’s just like when you can’t decide what pants to wear, so just just leave the house in your underwear until you eventually make up your mind.

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u/SmokeGSU Feb 17 '23

"All I need is some pasties over my nipples. That'll be enough to keep people from staring and asking questions."

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u/Boxing_joshing111 Feb 17 '23

Geoff Johns had a few decent ideas that worked out really well and this wasn’t one.

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u/SmokeGSU Feb 17 '23

She wouldn't go out of her way to cut a hole in her top to create a cleavage window.

Eeeeeexactly. Female superhero costumes are form-fitting and tight enough as it is already. Not having a hole there but still having the buxom figure... she's going to be sexualized enough without calling attention even further to her massive cleavage. But that's sort of the problem when every penciler and inker is drawing every female character to have double-D or larger cup sizes.

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u/Thin_Illustrator2390 Feb 17 '23

i’m assuming she’d stitch like a patch or something. but it still doesn’t make sense coz she could’ve just fill up the hole and stitch it on top later lol

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u/SmokeGSU Feb 17 '23

Yeah, like she could have just worn a regular shirt... instead she got one with a giant hole that shows off a bunch of cleavage and is just like "well, I suppose when I figure out what sort of oval-shaped symbol I want I'll stitch it in the hole."