Power Girl #2 explores some of the mysteries of the alien Amalak, a Kryptonian virus, and balancing her life as reporter and roommate! Re:cap - Power Girl #1; Power Girl’s new identity, Dr. Paige Stetler, attends a charity event on a yacht with her fellow hero, Lilith Clay, who has mental powers of her own. She meets Axel Gruff who works for a mysterious organization. The party is interrupted by Amalak who is searching for alien auction items. There is a battle between Amalak and Power Girl, also Lilith as Omen, helps evacuate civilians. Amalak manages to escape,and Power Girl detects a bomb.
In an impressive large panel, she shatters several levels to reach it and in another large panel, astral-punches it to the Mariana Trench, the deepest place on Earth! This is a new power that she gained during the Lazarus Planet event. They return to their apartment, great closeups of Paige and Lillith’s faces looking at Superman holding Streaky the Super Cat! He flies with Power Girl and explains that the bomb at the Mariana Trench increased tensions with the Atlanteans. Superman tells her that there has been deaths in the Tropics from a Kryptonian virus! He wants her to stay at the Fortress of Solitude in Bermuda.
He says S.T.A.R. Labs has found that the virus came from her Krypton in Earth-Two! “Work Trip” is by Leah Williams and Eduardo Pansica. The regular cover by Gary Frank has Power Girl and Amalak about to trade punches over beach goers! Amalak’s ship is in space when one of his crew tells him about Noa, a Karnan buyer. Amalak says that the Karnans are extinct, but agrees to a sale of the artifacts that they took from the charity. He checks the strange, orange item that had a reaction to Paige. In closeups, we see the thing has sliced into Amalak! Blood splatters around his tensed clawed hand.
He falls to his knees and there is a death rattle! Gruesome. He gives a scream that brings other members of his crew. Still, they find Amalak standing and he says that it is not his blood. He orders a return to Earth and we see the pedestal no longer has the object. At the Daily Planet, Paige walks with Mariposa Lujah, an intern who is also attending Metropolis University. She mentions that she gave Alexel Gust her number. Paige’s thoughts revealed that she had heat visioned his business card. She asks about Mariposa’s thesis, but she nervously walks away. Love the supporting cast! She returns to say that the boss wanted to see her.
She meets with Lois Lane, editor-in-chief and of course wife to Superman. Lois tells Paige to go easy on Mariposa because she looks up her. She expected Power Girl to have left and Paige says that she has finish her investigation on the virus, but can’t contact the coroner. Lois tells her that she will have to see him in person. She says that the Fortress of Solitude can be a base of operations for her. Before she leaves, Lois notes that her column is due in the morning. At her desk, Paige gets a text from Omen about making cupcakes. She thinks about her column about machine learning, we get the beginnings of it, as Paige works into the night.
A series of panels shows the recent events where the symbioship that took her to Earth had trapped her. The ship’s artificial intelligence put in false memories of Kara Zor-L growing up on Krypton. Then, pursued her so she is very familiar with the dangers of A.I. We see Paige’s worried face at her computer in red color. Paige finishes getting a text from Axel. He is checking up on her having lost her in the battle. Paige passes protestors of aliens on the street. Axel’s next text is again an attempt to recruit her, but she still wonders about his employer. She makes a call to Axel, we see him in closeup while she gets a hot dog from a vendor.
Then, we see he is a secret agent having passed a grid of lasers and taking out a guard with a tranquilizer dart. I do like that he uses a non-lethal weapon to take out enemies. Finding alien technology? In the Supergirl tv series, Kara worked for the Department of Extra-Normal Operations (DEO). Paige jokes that she doesn’t want to use her powers for evil. Then, we see Axel looking at an artifact as he finishes the call. She returns to her apartment, great look to the angry Streaky who crushes the last cupcake! Paige crashes on the couch as Lilith plays OviPositor Simulator. Then, she goes to pack for her mission, we see Streaky on her suitcase as he is smacked by her bra, funny!
Lillith shows her concern and in the background, Streaky blasts the bra with heat vision, too funny!
Paige drops her suitcase at the Fortress of Solitude and thinks that she wanted to keep the mission secret from Lilith to protct her. Kelex introduces himself; the hovering robot has a scanner head and coil arms. The Bahamas Fortress is still icy. He shows her the animal sanctuary which has a lion creature that Kelex says is at the end of his life, the last Kryptonian lion. Kelex leaves and Paige looks at the angry beast that soon lies down with its two tails.
At night, she arrives at the island in the Tropics, lashed by a storm. She goes to the house of the coroner, but gets the door slammed in her face. The houses’s roof is blown off and Power Girl lifts it up, dramatically backlit by lighting. Then, sets it down on the house sealing it with supe breath. Power Girl knocks again to ask about the Kryptonian disease. It is almost a Terminator-like order of Amalak who rips up a palm tree which Power Girl shatters with a punch. Amalak roars in a computer-like voice! The return of the symbioship?, was the artifact a surviving part of it synthesizing the disease? Power Girl #2 has some great character moments, action, a bit of horror and Super sections!
Five Eyeglasses out of Five!
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