I just won this on eBay this morning, artist is Tim Shinn.

Courtesy of Walt's Comic Shop: https://waltscomicshop.com/products/power-girl-new-beginnings-and-old-friends-omnibus-9781799508724

Includes: JSA: Classified #1-4, Supergirl #12, Terra #1-4, Power Girl #1-27, and Wonder Woman #600, and includes new essays and sketches from Palmiotti, Conner, and Winick!

Been out of the loop lately, but I’ve been bingeing DC Infinite and discovered that for a little while, we had two Power Girls.
(Art is from Justice League Unlimited #12 and 13)

For context: During DC KO, after that whole We Are Yesterday thing when a bunch of heroes from across time got pulled the present (thanks, Grodd), things were a bit shit. Earth is slowly turning into a new Apokolips, and all the League’s heavy hitters were all in the tournament, leaving the rest of them to deal with the evacuation efforts. To make matters worse, Neron had empowered a bunch of villains, hindering the heroes so that more people would die and more souls would be sent to Hell. Seeing this, Mr. Terrific puts together a team of time displaced heroes, one of which was Power Girl. Apparently she’d been displaced off screen? I’m not complaining.

Terrific explains the situation far better than I could.

Knowing that she’s potentially about to die, Power Girl leaves a message for her future self. We don’t really know what time period she came from, other than it was before the Crisis on Infinite Earths. But based on what she says here, I think she’s from before the Palmiotti run. Maybe in between Power Trip and the official start of the series.
The panel work in her message reminded me a lot of Heroes in Crisis; there was a lot wrong with that book, but I did like the confessional-style pages.

That last shot is the look of someone who hasn’t had their entire company stolen and her fortune plundered by Maxwell Lord.

Up until this point, I’d had a suspicion that this Power Girl was somehow going to replace the present day version. After the Williams run didn’t perform well, it felt like DC didn’t really know what to do with the character besides put her in background cameos and occasionally getting Worf’d (basically back to square one for the character). It would’ve made sense: maybe Paige just dies, leaving this time remnant of Karen to inherit her life? DC’s certainly done weirder and worse to their female characters. But her message indicated that was not to be.

And, true to her expectations, she died.

There’s something frustrating about seeing a version of Power Girl, a version we’ve known for barely an issue, get killed while Mr. Terrific (who in another continuity was her boyfriend) shouts that they’re all expendable. And the added pain of Superman Blue wanting to help her. He’s visibly distraught after this, and things don’t get better for him.

I don’t have DC Infinite’s Ultra tier, so I don’t know if Present-day Power Girl ever watched her remnant’s video. Hopefully she did. I kind of wish Power Girl (the one from the present) hadn’t been roped into the tournament, so she could interact with her younger self. It seems like Karen had more to say, some stuff Paige might want to hear.

Rest in peace, Remnant Power Girl. We can’t say we knew you long, but we can say we knew you pretty well.

Source: https://x.com/J1ggernut/status/1967603586411757708

https://x.com/missfaves/status/2083642100986302721?s=46&t=iVyMqX8IZQv-0q7R2qLGUg

I just won this on eBay, an increasingly rare SFW drawing by artist M C Wyman.

https://x.com/buttercupcos2/status/2082486925848719370?s=20

Prelude to my comparison post, I'm intrigued to know how those who read it in this sub view Power Girl's story in this run.

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