Review by Jay Ferguson

Working out the kinks of a character with as many different origins as Power Girl is a task that isn't easy. Geoff Johns manages to do it in this series though, and really explores how her own uncertainty about her origins explains a lot of the character's many quirks. The story starts with Power Girl's arrival on Earth in a Kryptonian spaceship. Then we see her meeting Superman the first time, while she explains that she doesn't know why she was sent there, because tests by Batman and Doctor Mid-Nite proved that she wasn't Kryptonian. This shifts into a sequence where she's undergoing tests and it appears that her powers are flucuating, and no one knows why, and no one's really sure at all what her origin is. She discusses how she hasn't worn anything but the costume in three months and hasn't had a day job in six. As she discusses her relationship with the Kents, she suddenly hears a voice, and then she can see through the walls fifty blocks a way. She saves a window washer who's about to fall. Then she gets attacked by Garn Daanuth, the brother of Arion, the Atlantean sorceror that was once thought to be her father. She keeps fighting him and he's taunting her, and then suddenly we can see that Power Girl is alone in the middle of the street that she's just wrecked, fighting a villain that's only in her head. The JSA find her and offer to help, but she says that she used to be Superman's cousin, and anything else is a dissapointment. Psycho-Pirate is revealed to be the one who is creating all these illusions, which continue such as the Crime Syndicate and the Legion of Super-Heroes. She confronts him and he tells her real origin as the Supergirl of Earth-Two. She returns home with the knowledge, and then goes home. Ted Grant talks to her, but then he is revealed to be Clayface, which leads into Infinite Crisis #2. This is a great little arc to my mind. But then I love Power Girl. If you are at all interested in the character, either as a new reader or a longtime fan, there will be something here for you. The art is amazing, and the writing is even better. The epilogue with Clayface is a bit much, but that's okay. This arc helps clean up her origins, and explain many things such as the cutout on her outfit in ways that make her character more compelling and rounded...not that way! Shame on you! Anyway, if this character interests you at all, its a great read with gorgeous art that just might change how you think about Power Girl.