Knowing that DC Comic's grand relaunch arrives in just a few scant weeks, it's hard not to see certain titles as just marking time for their rebirths or cancellations. Judd Winick's
Power Girl: Bomb Squad is ostensibly a tie-in to Winick's
Justice League: Generation Lost; the ties here are better than in that series' other companion,
Booster Gold: Past Imperfect, but still I'm skeptical how much
Power Girl adds.
Bomb Squad's approach is more to my liking than Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray's previous take on
Power Girl, but the plot's both thin and decompressed, hence the sense that this is mostly filler until the end.
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Palmiotti, Gray, and artist Amanda Connor's much-acclaimed
Power Girl stories can best be described as "fun loving"; there was superhero action, but also a bunch of Power Girl Kara Zor-L hanging out with friend Terra and helping a high school loner make some friends -- not silly, necessarily, but with a humorous bent. Winick's Power Girl is still sarcastic, and her banter makes up much of the humor of the book, but Winick approaches things much more straightforward -- her villains are certainly tougher, with no sense Kara will sweetly turn enemies into allies as she did at the end of Palmiotti and Gray's stories.