Writer: Geoff Johns (JSA Classified), Paul Levitz (Showcase)Artist: Amanda Conner (JSA Classified), Joe Staton (Showcase)
Cover Artist: Adam Hughes
Publisher: DC Comics (June 7, 2006)
Price: $14.99 (Softcover)
Format: TPB
Includes: JSA (1999) #32, #39, JSA: Classified (2005) #1-4, Secret Origins (1986) #11, and Showcase (1956) #97-#99
This trade paperback is exactly the right way to handle mixing the new with the old. It is a CHARACTER driven trade paperback not a series based one. I don't know who is responsible, more then likely Paul Levitz, but I LOVE this kind of trade paperback. Here is why...
It doesn't just give us the typical collection, it gives us more to chew on, bits and pieces of history. It's a collection that is well thought out, from Adam Hughes amazing cover to Geoff Johns continuity saving story.
It starts us off at the beginning with the Pre-Crisis Showcase appearances. Then leads us to a post-Crisis origin story and tops it all off with the JSA: Classified story; which thankfully wipes away all the crap in between and brings us back to the beginning of who Power Girl is and should be...the cousin of Earth 2's Superman. A thumbs up to Geoff John for steering this ship back on course and a finger to those who F'd it up.
My only real negative comment is that it's not for the casual Border's reader. But to quote Ray Liotta as Shoeless Joe Jackson in Field of Dreams, "...so we told him to stick it!"
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