Possible Gail sighting in Power Girl #1?

**Weetomuncher** · 05-07-2009, 08:53 AM

I was looking at the previews of Power Girl #1 on the DC website earlier and I noticed that the red haired lady in the picture has an uncanny resemblance to a certain YABS moderator and well known comic writer.

Is it really Gail? (Page 4, which is the 5th down because of the two covers)

http://www.dccomics.com/media/excerpts/11701_x.pdf

**Samurai** · 05-07-2009, 08:57 AM

Originally Posted by Weetomuncher

I was looking at the previews of Power Girl #1 on the DC website earlier and I noticed that the red haired lady in the picture has an uncanny resemblance to a certain YABS moderator and well known comic writer.

Is it really Gail?

http://www.dccomics.com/media/excerpts/11701_x.pdf

Are you sure she's not the woman clawing the guy's eyes out a couple pages later...?

I hear tell she did that to a man once, just to watch him die...

**Charles RB** · 05-07-2009, 08:59 AM

Originally Posted by Weetomuncher

http://www.dccomics.com/media/excerpts/11701_x.pdf

I like the guy who, as his possible last words on Earth, yells "Screw you, robot!".

**KevinTBrown** · 05-07-2009, 09:04 AM

Originally Posted by Weetomuncher

I was looking at the previews of Power Girl #1 on the DC website earlier and I noticed that the red haired lady in the picture has an uncanny resemblance to a certain YABS moderator and well known comic writer.

Is it really Gail?

http://www.dccomics.com/media/excerpts/11701_x.pdf

No, I don't think so.

If that is supposed to be Gail, it's a badly drawn representation of her, as well as making her look a lot older than she is.

**Solaris** · 05-07-2009, 10:27 AM

Originally Posted by KevinTBrown

No, I don't think so.

If that is supposed to be Gail, it's a badly drawn representation of her, as well as making her look a lot older than she is.

Me too. Gail's a LOT prettier than that---I know, I've met her. The drawing is positively *jowly*---and Gail is NOT jowly. Plus, the glasses are wrong, and she looks a LOT younger than that image.

Nope. It's not Gail. (And if it's supposed to be, there's an artist out there I need to go punch in the kneecap.)

**Stressfactor** · 05-07-2009, 10:41 AM

The artist in question here is the sweet, amazingly talented and tactful Amanda Connor. She generally doesn't do "likenesses" in her comics and if she did there would be no question who the people were.

This is just "random New Yorker Lady here.

Also, PLEASE don't kneecap Amanda Connor -- I love her work too much.

**KevinTBrown** · 05-07-2009, 10:42 AM

Originally Posted by Stressfactor

The artist in question here is the sweet, amazingly talented and tactful Amanda Connor. She generally doesn't do "likenesses" in her comics and if she did there would be no question who the people were.

This is just "random New Yorker Lady here.

Also, PLEASE don't kneecap Amanda Connor -- I love her work too much.

She draws with her hands, not kneecaps.

She'll be fine.

**Nick Soapdish** · 05-07-2009, 11:10 AM

I'm not sure if the tearing-your-shirt-off-to-reveal-the-costume-beneath has quite the same classic pose if there's a big hole in your costume.

It's sort of reminiscent of a different classic pose.

**Stressfactor** · 05-07-2009, 11:10 AM

Originally Posted by KevinTBrown

She draws with her hands, not kneecaps.

She'll be fine.

But she could end up in hospital and then we'd get..... *gasp* a FILL IN ARTIST!

**Weetomuncher** · 05-07-2009, 11:48 AM

Originally Posted by Stressfactor

But she could end up in hospital and then we'd get..... *gasp* a FILL IN ARTIST!

Amanda Conner is a totally unique artist and filling in for her would be a hard task, at least if you try to copy her fantastic cartoony style.

I love her work and her artwork when she has drawn Power Girl in the past has been amazing and one of the main reasons I am so enthusiastic about the new Power Girl series.

It is not before time that Power Girl has been given an ongoing title as the character needs her own book to establish herself as anything other than a generic heroine with big knockers which is how many comic fans tend to see her, which is quite sad as I've liked her in the JSA books for years.

**Eliseu Gouveia** · 05-07-2009, 12:13 PM

So many Big Daddies!

I wanna see Karen squash them:

"- Mr. B, noooo!"

**Stressfactor** · 05-07-2009, 12:34 PM

Originally Posted by Nick Soapdish

I'm not sure if the tearing-your-shirt-off-to-reveal-the-costume-beneath has quite the same classic pose if there's a big hole in your costume.

It's sort of reminiscent of a different classic pose.

That was kind of the idea -- it's both a spoof and a throwback to some of Powergirl's early appearances and Geoff Johns's mini-series.

In one of PG's earliest Bronze Age appearances Star Spangled Kid (Sylvester Pemberton) presents PG with an emblem to wear on her costume. She finds it too much like her "cousin" Superman's emblem and reads Sly the riot act about how she's her own person and not just a copy of her cousin.

And then you had Geoff Johns' reinterpretation in the JSA: Classified miniseries in which PG says that she left the space open on her costume until she could figure out who she really was since she found out she didn't belong to Superman (on that Earth) after all.

**Weetomuncher** · 05-07-2009, 12:45 PM

Originally Posted by Stressfactor

That was kind of the idea -- it's both a spoof and a throwback to some of Powergirl's early appearances and Geoff Johns's mini-series.

In one of PG's earliest Bronze Age appearances Star Spangled Kid (Sylvester Pemberton) presents PG with an emblem to wear on her costume. She finds it too much like her "cousin" Superman's emblem and reads Sly the riot act about how she's her own person and not just a copy of her cousin.

And then you had Geoff Johns' reinterpretation in the JSA: Classified miniseries in which PG says that she left the space open on her costume until she could figure out who she really was since she found out she didn't belong to Superman (on that Earth) after all.

I love that window, it has a fantastic view!