Review: Power Girl Vol. 3: The Star trade paperback (DC Comics)
I started to write that, with Power Girl Vol. 3: The Star, Leah Williams' series ended better than it began. But that’s not quite true. When it was good in the beginning — Power Girl comforting an alien lion in its death — it was good, and equally here at the end, with Power Girl’s quirky found family, it is also good. Perhaps it is just that, with the ending status quo, this finally begins to feel more like a Power Girl book than any part so far, perhaps even answering the question of what a Power Girl book is.
The series still has significant problems panel to panel, which are no less prevalent here. One among many examples: Power Girl, Steel Natasha Irons, and others are trapped within a giant pink force field. Steel John Henry Irons tries to get them out. Later, the force field finally comes down, as depicted by artist David Baldeon with an interlocking triangle pattern. From this, Williams has John Henry say, “Magic? It was made of magic? Tch, I knew Natasha was hanging with the wrong crowd.”
