It was announced at the New York Comic Con today that Power Girl, the brick house of the DC Universe, will be getting her own ongoing series starting later this year.
Newsarama has an interview with the writers, Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti:
Newsarama: Obviously, and as you briefly mentioned, with Power Girl, there's the cheesecake factor that's been a part of her character since it was created. Geoff and others have taken steps to work her appearance and costume into her character, but what view of it do you two have of it?
Justin Gray: This book isn’t going to be our platform for some kind of new age feminist commentary; it is a superhero comic book, an escapist fantasy starring a buxom blonde bombshell who can kick your ass into outer space. Some people are going to find fault with it just because of the costume and the bra size of the heroine and those people can bitch about it on the Google machine if they like because this is America baby! Home of the free!
Jimmy Palmiotti: I love the fact that Kara is larger than life visually and what Amanda Conner did when redesigning the costume for the JSA Classified series played on that exactly like I think it should have and I expect some more changes along the way. This is who she is, this is how she is built and God bless Gerry Conway, Ric Estrada and Wally Wood for such a cool design. Why fight the obvious? Amanda is going to do what she does best and draw the shit out of this book.
(Remind me to go through the user list and see if Justin Gray is an Amaz0ns member.)
The other really good news is that Amanda Conner is drawing it, and she did such an amazing job the last time she was the artist on a Power Girl arc.
I am very happy today.
