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This issue opens and we see the Thunderbolts have Deadpool trussed up. Norman Osbourne is irritated that 1. Deadpool is still alive, and 2. he no longer has the teleporter on him. 
 Norman goes off on The Headsman to the point where the Headsman picks up his axe to cut off Deadpools head. Before he has a chance though, another Deadpool shows up and stops him. 
  Norman orders the Thunderbolts  to kill them both. This prompts the Black Widow to immediately attack the Deadpool who had just escaped from his restraints. ( he is known as Deadpool 1) The two of them fight, and he quickly dispatches her, and turns his attention to the Headsman. 
  After a quick beatdown given to the Headsman, the story cuts to Ant Man who is in a panic now after watching his colleagues fall.  Deadpool 2 tries to shoot him, but Ant Man crawls into his costume.  Annoyed Deadpool 2 begins to shoot himself trying to take Ant Man out. Unfortunately he only takes himself out. 
  In the middle of the fight Norman Osbourne gets into a jet, and begins to take off. Deadpool 2, already healed up teleports into the plane, while Black Widow hooks a line up to it, and begins to be pulled behind the Jet. 
  Inside the Jet Deadpool 2 holds a gun to Norman Osbournes head and says that Norman owes him. This angers Norman to no end, and he attacks Deadpool and beats him to a pulp. Forgetting that he should have been flying the plane. 
  As the door to the plane opens, Black Widow jumps in yelling for Osbourne to get down as she shoots Deadpool in the chest. Osbourne orders her to cut off his head, but before she does that The Headsmans Axe falls across Deadpools neck. 
 
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   I love the cover. The almost realistic painting, the way Deadpools mouth looks. It is quite a cool shot. On the inside the art is almost too simplistic. Cartoonish if you will. I guess it fits, at least to a point. The story and dialogue really skirt the border between Cartoonish and regular comic book drama. 
 
 It is mostly a fight, wih The Taskmaster and Deadpool ( both dressed as Deadpool ) vs. members of The Thunderbolts.  Taskmaster easily shows why he can take on the Avengers, and the dialogue at the end between Taskmaster and Deadpool certainly is a contender for best friendship ending since Casablanca.

  I was not a big fan of the layout. It seemed the panels were purposely made biger, and we are given less substance. However, what is there is fun and funny in a way that earlyissues of Deadpools regular title promised to be at the beginning of its run.     Good times are to be had in thi book. Check it out. Or get the TPB. It's probably out by now.

 Okay ladies and Gentlemen what we have here is an issue of Deadpool that is actually as funny as the series promised it would be in the first couple of issues. Especially with the interplay between him and the Black Widow. Or him and the taskaster. Either way it is some funny dialogue put to action that would otherwise look just like any issue of any other comic book. That of course is the weakness of the book. Not a huge weakness. I enjoyed the book, ad I can easily recommend it. Although since it is one part of  a larger story, maybe picking it up in TPB form is the wiser decission.
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   What she doesn't know but soon finds out is, that the This issue begins with Deadpool having asked The Black Widow if she had a boyfriend.  The response is less than what Deadpool was hoping for, as the Black Widow takes her anger out on his man parts.  
  Or at leat she would have if he wasn't packing a gun in his jock. They continue their flirting until the Paladin shows up and starts gunning for Deadpool wh quickly teleports away.  
  Deadpool is back at his hideout  talking to the Taskmaster, the two of them exchange witty banter as they prepare for the next attack. Something involving both of them being dressed the same. 
  We then cut to the Black Widow who is sittng barefoot at a table in the Thunderbolt headquarters. Paladin confronts her on what she is doing, she tells him she is researching Deadpool to come up with a plan to capture him.  
   His escape is one thing that Norman Osbourne is chastising the team about. When the quesion of how they are going to recapture him, Norman simply suggests they read the number of of the banner being dragged by an airplane. 
  Black Widow calls the number and understands that Deadpool is most likely tracing the phone call.   
call is just a diversion, and Deadpool attacks her team outside their headquarters.  He teleports into the Thunderbolt headquarters where he and Black Widow fight. A fight that ends with Deadpool giving her a big kiss.  
  Before he can find out where that might lead him, the Thunderbolts call on the radio saying they are on their way back up, and Deadpool teleports back to his headquarters. 
  There he reconviens with Taskmaster and the two set out to make their final run against the Thnderbolts. One on the ground, fighting the team, and one on the roof with Black Widow. The Widow does her flirting and offers to fly Deadpool away, but when he gets on th plane, he finds that he is trapped.

This issue opens with Power Girl flying to her office in New York City. he is running late for a meeting at her software firm due to a court appointment. When she arrives she finds outthat her partner has been talking to outside parties about a buy out. 
  This throws her into a tizzy and has her thinking of her own identity. How she thought she was a cousin of Superman, but found out that she was in fact the Granddaughter of Arion, an Atlantean mystic who lived 45,000 years ago.  
  After work she is on the subway when there is a traffic accident caused by an out of control motorcyclist. When she finally stops him, he has no recollection of how he got to where he was. 
  She is talking about the incident with the onsight police when one of them goes to the trunk of their squad car to ge a lock for the motorcycle. As soon as the trunk is open, a supervillain named FORCE jumps out of it seeking to hurt Power Girl. 
  The two of themfight all over New York, and Power Girl makes it a point to mention each landmark as they get to it. We find that sosmeone is pulling FORCEs strings. At the end of the book we find that it is one of Arions old foes who is beginning to cause trouble for Power Girl.  
 I I don't think we are ever going to find someone who argues that this is the best comic ever. As a matter of fact, anything above amazingly average . The art is boring, with some of the worst styles fromthe 80's adorning our heroine and her supporting cast.

 The writing is barey even worth mentioning, except for the fact that it is oe of the two most important factors of a comic, therefore it is one of the two biggest fumbles. It is obvious that DC had een less of an idea on what to do with this character back then , than they do now.

  The Arion connection is an embarrasment, and should be seen as such.  Everything says hat she has nearly the exact origin as Superman, just she  is now from the distant past, instead of a distant panet. There is absolutetly nothing here that will make me want to continue with this story.

The book opens with Terra and Power Girl sitting in a movie theater watching previews. After a couple of stupid trailers and one poorly executed pass by some random guy their movie begins. We find that Terra is no real fan of horror films.

As they are enjoying the movie a monster comes to shore Godzilla style. I mean Mathew Broderick Godzilla style. Right out of the water and over the bus, all we see are the feet. The two women come out of the theater and hear the commotion.

Ready to battle Power Girl begins to get out of her street clothes, only to find out that Terra did not wear her costume under her street clothes. Not to worry, or be out done Terra strips down to her underwear, and off to battle she goes.

When they get to the Brooklyn Bridge they see a blonde on an Ogre. She calls herself Zoraida, and she has come to liberate the city for the plants and animals, and return the city to the green. Of course Power Girl is having none of it and rushes in to shut her down.

It does not take long for Power Girl to realize that the book her young blonde adversary is using is the source of her power. So Power Girl simply takes the book and slaps her. Even with a last ditch use of Manga monsters, the young environmentalist has no chance of winning.

Instead of having the young lady arrested she admires her enthusiasm for helping the planet, and offers her a job. At the end of the book we see Kara touring her companies R & D section and seeing where possible cash flow can come from. She needs an apartment soon, and as she is apartment hunting while she is touring a seemingly perfect place, her and her real estate agent see something fall out of the sky near by, thus setting up issue # 5. 
  
This is the issue where the book has started to find its humor. It has tried humor in the previous issues but I really thought it was forced and not really a part of the story. Here thugh, it flowed pretty well and came naturally from the characters, not because the script called for it. The story was pretty thin however, just your basic beat em up. Also they seem to be fighting one imaginitive villain that has no chance of eing a recurring problem. 
 
   Especially since Power Girl not only lets her go after she trashes the Brooklyn Bridge, but even gives her a job. This does not surprise me at all, " at least her heart is in the right place" God help us. Next thing you know someone is going to defend a tax cheat and make them the countries secretary of treasure.  
 
  I did really like Terra in the book, especially the attempt to make a costume out of her t-shirt and underwear. Just a subtle little joke to make all things better. She really does add a lot of personality to the proceeds, which makes me wonder if the writer would prefer a book starring her rather than Power Girl since Power Girl is written with little personality at all.  
 
 So while I have decided to give the book a few more issues of a chance, it is hanging by a thread. I just think there should be a bit more to it. If anything, I think we need a heroine that the writer has confidence in to make her the star, and not the Ultra Humanite or Terra, as it has been with the first 4 issues of the book.
 

This issue begins with the Ultra Humanite giving Power Girl a brat down. At the same time he begins to dialogue and tell her his motivations for what he is doing. His big plan is to place his mind into Power Girls body, and he had to use the entire island of Manhatten as hostages to get her to surrender it. During there fight Power Girl taunts the Humanite, and he ends up revealing his origin.

Before he tells it, we see the supporting players at Power Girls new Environmental company, and how they are dealing with their city being lifted off the ground.. They all agree that the best thing to do is to sit tight, but then they notice people are jumping off the roof to save themselves.

On street level, the JSA is fighting the Humanites robots, all the while there conversation they are having over the sound of punching metal just so happens to be about Power Girl. As we cut back to Power Girl and Ultra Humanite we see that he has her strapped to some sort of device. As he is preparing for the mind transfer, he tells her why she can not break her bonds, and then tells his story.

As a child named Gerard he had cancer. Instead of laying in a hospital bed, he decides to go back to college and find a cure for himself. Unfortunately for him, the college found his expirement to transfer the mind of a human into an animal to be cruel and expensive and they kick him off campus along with his assistant Satanna.

They found a home in the African Jungle where a revolution is taking place. In a desperate attempt to keep Gerard alive, his assistant Satanna suggests putting his mind into the body of a great white ape. Of course we know the operation is a success. What we didn’t know is after he gets the ape body he takes out a regiment of soldiers and then gets to do the bad thing with his assistant Satanna.

After he tells his story, he decides that the sight of blood on Kara is sign enough that the transfer should begin.

I have to admit, I did not like the first issue all that much. I mean it was okay, but it did not inspire me. I only picked this issue up out of loyalty to the character. I am glad I did. This issue picked up quite a bit. Now, I do not care for the way he "told" his story. I would rather the set up be a thought of his, rather than a "now Power Girl I will tell you how I came to be" it just did not seem to be in character. Also I am not sure about the motives behind telling it.

Did he think that Power Girl would sympathize and just give in? Still, it did make for a good story, no matter what kind of awkward way in which it was told. Much like the art at the beginning of the last run of She Hulk, the look of this book is going to take some time to get used to. Also    There issome serious work needing to be done on her supporting players. They are not given anything to do in this issue. So even though this issue is a great step forward. I also hink there is much to be done.

  I wanted to like this book a bit more than I did.  While there was not much hereto keep me coming back, there were some things good enough to mention. My favorite thing would have to be the way Stephanie deals wth the dual lives. I could actually get into the book more if that continues to be the focus of the story. 
 Unfortunately, as it happens with all books that start that way, I have no faith it will stay that way. The rest of the book was just ... void. There were words and pictures, but it really did nothing for me. Here is hoping that issue two picks up. I just don't know if i want tostick around and find out myself.