Levitz Explores Bat Sibling Rivalry In "Worlds' Finest"

[CBR News]

"Worlds' Finest" writer Paul Levitz compares and contrasts the New 52 Robin, Damian, and Earth 2's Helena, as well as looks to the future of the title.


Full article here.

[kisstour03]

I LOVE this title. The art the colors the story all keep me interested every issue. I really hope it's around for the long haul and the team creating it stays onboard.

[Harbinger of Apocalypse]

Oooh. I like the added reasoning for Power Girl to get back and never thought of it that way. That she feels that Earth-2 has no big superhero and wants to continue her cousins role as being defender of the planet so she feels Earth-2 needs her whilst Helena feels she can make a difference wherever she is. I always thought it was because she rejected nu52 Earth and wanted to get back home but this gives perhaps a more selfless reason for returning. Kind of like it.

[Rakzo]

Seriously, why is this guy still on this title? This is probably the most uneventful book that any publisher is releasing.

I really hope it's around for the long haul and the team creating it stays onboard.

Dear God, NO!

[gwydion]

I thought from the start that was the reason PG wanted back. She had no family left there, and there were no other major heroes that we know of, while she didn't know that the Darkseid thing was over--naturally she'd want back to protect them. Still, interesting to see it confirmed that's the reason. Wonder how she feels when they eventually go back only to find the JSA waiting. Also how they react. And Mr. Terrific.

Other than the general spoilers of what's happening the next issue, there's not much spoilerish in that interview, but it does provide some insight into the thinking of Levitz. Pretty sure I know which panels he's talking about having bought off Maguire!

My hopes for this series are two: First that they start getting more important villains and better integration into the main DCNU. Second, that PG gets a costume change back to her old number or a reasonable variant thereof. I think by now the cat's out of the bag about her being Kryptonian what with the very public display of powers in front of like a million people, some of whom must have videoed it. By now, Bats and Superman must have seen that on video, plus probably SG.

Also, I'm a bit confused about how PG could notice SG, but apparently SG was a bit blind and deaf to PG's presence last issue...

Might have been interesting to have made PG the daughter of the Earth 2 Superman and WW instead of just his cousin, and it would have served to differentiate her more from SG...but though I can see how it still could be worked into the book, I don't think DC would go there.

[FHIZ]

Dear God, NO!

Yeah, that. The book is awfully boring and dull. I'm out with next issue.

[Sentinel Supreme]

Seriously, why is this guy still on this title? This is probably the most uneventful book that any publisher is releasing.

Dear God, NO!

QFT. This book has a nice, light tone but it is so freaking dull! The plot is moving at a snail's pace, and this book's handling of Power Girl has been so wrong.

[charlesjbaserap]

When I reviewed issue #5, I wrote the following:

"It’s sad, though perhaps fitting, that Earth 2’s companion title, Worlds’ Finest, falls quite flat this week. Years ago, Earth 2’s Supergirl and Robin fell through a boomtube into our world and are now Power Girl and Huntress, righting wrongs but also seeking a way back. They’re great characters and there’s a lot of potential here. However, Power Girl comes off as a vacuous tramp, hooking up with anything that moves and using her good looks to get what she wants at every turn of the page. She’s supposed to be a strong, independent woman, and she is. She’s also brilliant and powerful. But she’s not likeable and comes off as a jerk most of the time. Huntress usually comes off as a bit better, but her bit in this issue presents her as woefully misandric as she battles a stereotypical male sniper taking potshots at a march for women for absolutely zero discernible reason other than he’s a man, all while she narrates in her head about how evil men are on any world. There are ways to address social issues in comic books, but this? It wasn’t one of them."

http://www.nerdtopiacast.com/2012/10...-day-issue-10/

It's not a bad book, and the last issue was a lot better, but overall, the two leads are just so unlikeable to me. I love that PG is so smart and not a bimbo, but she comes off like a female Gambit, and the Huntress can't seem to go through an issue without lamenting the evils of men. It seems like a forced attempt at female empowerment but comes out as off putting. Just because they're strong females doesn't mean they have to be on extreme ends. It makes them just flat. I like the strong females over in Batwoman, Birds of Prey, and Captain Marvel much more so. PG and Huntress are like the female version of a team up of the womanizing Gambit and the misogynist USAgent.

I'm not sure how sales have been on the book, but I know that Legion of Super-Heroes, which I also get, is sinking hard and a lot I feel is due to the pacing and it feeling like we've had one long 14 issue arc that has no ending in sight. I don't want that to happen here.

[ussescort]

I agree. I want to love this book, I really do, but it just seems to ramble along with none of the characteristics that I adored in the real PG and Helena Wayne Huntress. Of course, I could not even bring myself to read the atrocity that is "Earth2", and no, it is not because of what they did to Alan Scott. It is because they took a venerable part of DC Comics history and have squandered it for some ridiculous joke of the JSA. Robinson could have done so much with that book, so much that it could have made "World's Finest" a must-read companion book. Instead, I care little about "Earth 2" and am beginning to care less and less about the one character that I have dedicated my art collection to for years.

[gwydion]

I agree. I want to love this book, I really do, but it just seems to ramble along with none of the characteristics that I adored in the real PG and Helena Wayne Huntress. Of course, I could not even bring myself to read the atrocity that is "Earth2", and no, it is not because of what they did to Alan Scott. It is because they took a venerable part of DC Comics history and have squandered it for some ridiculous joke of the JSA. Robinson could have done so much with that book, so much that it could have made "World's Finest" a must-read companion book. Instead, I care little about "Earth 2" and am beginning to care less and less about the one character that I have dedicated my art collection to for years.

What character was that?

[Sillia]

I agree. I want to love this book, I really do, but it just seems to ramble along with none of the characteristics that I adored in the real PG and Helena Wayne Huntress. Of course, I could not even bring myself to read the atrocity that is "Earth2", and no, it is not because of what they did to Alan Scott. It is because they took a venerable part of DC Comics history and have squandered it for some ridiculous joke of the JSA. Robinson could have done so much with that book, so much that it could have made "World's Finest" a must-read companion book. Instead, I care little about "Earth 2" and am beginning to care less and less about the one character that I have dedicated my art collection to for years.

I wanted to like it too, but they just seem to be spinning their wheels and not going anywhere. PG and Huntress are in this earth and not earth 2. They want to go home. They fought Hakkou, and then they... investigate? Steal some money? Try to find out where to go? It's been 5 issues plus #0, and I feel like they still haven't made any progress toward anything. I don't even understand why Helena has to steal more money from Batman - isn't Kara super rich and stuff? She's got her own businesses and researchers and assistants.

The pump is primed and I keep hoping something interesting will happen, but... it hasn't. So far the stories just seem like filler episodes, but the main plot hasn't even started yet. It's just unsatisfying.

[Talisman]

As a HUGE Helena Wayne Huntress fan, I must say LOVING this book. And is Barry Kitson coming on as a artist for the title? I must say not mad at it.

[MajorHoy]

Seriously, why is this guy still on this title? This is probably the most uneventful book that any publisher is releasing.

And I much prefer the Levitz-written version of Damian Wayne so far to the miserable job Tomasi has done in Batman and Robin.

Different strokes for different folks, I guess.

[Rakzo]

And I much prefer the Levitz-written version of Damian Wayne so far to the miserable job Tomasi has done in Batman and Robin.

Different strokes for different folks, I guess.

Your strokes are bad and you should feel bad.

[Talisman]

Your strokes are bad and you should feel bad.

I actually agree with him. WF is leagues better than B&R.