World's Finest: Huntress and Power Girl # 2 (The New 52)

 By Mark Rodriguez

Formerly known as the Supergirl and Robin of Earth 2, both women founds themselves blasted into the main DC Earth. After years of adapting to their new world, they renamed themselves to Power Girl and The Huntress. Karen (Power Girl) bought a power plant in Tokyo, hoping to use its Quantum Tunneler to somehow send them back home…. When this villain named Hakkou the Irradiated Man blew it up. Now the women want payback.

‘Rebirth II’ starts with Hakkou attacking the women. He tosses a huge chunk of steel that Power Girl swats away like nothing. Since the Quantum Tunneler is damaged, Power Girl has no problem wrecking her lab further as long as it takes this guy down. However, once she finally lays a punch on the guy, the radiation is severely painful to the Kryptonian.

Hakkou grabs Power Girl’s wrists and burns her alive. Huntress shoots an arrow into the man’s ear. Screaming in pain, he runs through a wall and gets away. Huntress makes sure her friend is alright, and Power Girl mentions the pain she felt hurt as much as the force that knocked them to this world. Huntress asks if his radiation might be related to Kryptonite, but Power Girl says it might be from Apokolips. Plus he mentioned ‘ he’s beyond this world’ so he might be from Earth 2.

We go back five years as the women come to terms with the deaths of Superman and Batman, as well as being trapped in this world. Helen confirms that the Bruce of Earth 2 was her father. Karen says she’s still invulnerable but her body feels different. Helena says all they can do is make a life in their new world. 58 months back, the girls find out about the Justice League and their battle with Darkseid (from JL # 1-6). Karen is convinced this is the same Darkseid they know and that if he can arrive here, they can also go back home.  They found some kind of indestructible fabric, which might be from Apokolips as well. Karen says that when they got blasted to this world, she can’t remember what… or who she saw in the shadows.

A few week ago in Micronesia, Karen takes a break from her business deals and goes for some precious and rare minerals. She strips to her 2-piece swimsuit and dives to the bottom of the ocean to find a huge chunk of a rare rock called Dysprosium. 

Back to the present, Power Girl carries Huntress as she uses a machine to try to locate Hakkou based on his radiation. She asks if Hakkou might be a Fukushima mutation, but Karen says nuclear radiation can’t hurt her the way Hakkou did. She thinks he’s related to whoever followed them to this world. 

Just then they dodge flying radiated rocks. Meanwhile in Gotham City… one of the guys at the Gotham National Bank is starting to get suspicious of all the major money transfers Helena has been doing. Back to our team, Power Girl uses her x-ray vision to locate Hakkou, but he is too close to irradiated rods to attack without spreading radiation to more of the city. Huntress fires some arrows at him to get him to move away from them.

Hakkou swats away Huntress’ arrows until Power Girl smashes him into the ground and starts punching him like crazy. She’s still pissed about the Quantum Tunneler, which Hakkou calls ‘the gateway’. He blasts her with radiation and send her flying back. As she drops to the ground, unconscious, Hakkou prepares to finish her off. Huntress steps up and says ‘over my dead body’, and Hakkou is more than eager to comply.

My opinions-

 This is an interesting story and I can’t wait to see what happens next. It does seem that Hakkou is a villain from Earth 2… and if he isn’t… then who did follow them? I am concerned about Huntress though. She did land a nasty shot into Hakkou’s ear, but she still has to do her best to keep her distance from a villain even Power Girl can’t touch. It's implied her outfit is made of the same indestructible stuff that Power Girl's outfit is made of, but her face is still exposed.

There’s also a weird possible typo when Huntress says ‘can’t Hakkou mean radiation in Japanese?’ did they mean to make her say ‘DOESN’T Hakkou mean radiation in Japanese?’ but then again, who am I to talk about typos….

And with Helena proving to indeed be Bruce Wayne’s daughter (from Earth 2 anyway) I am very eager to see what happens if she ever meets Damian. Or Batman. Or Catwoman. And whenever Power Girl runs into Super Girl, who isn't as nice as the pre-Flashpoint version. 

Good story, can't wait to see what happens next. It's kinda funny knowing that shortly after the Justice League came together to fight Darkseid in the New 52 version of events, Karen and Helena saw their fight on a laptop. Like they were already running around during these events. I wonder what they were even doing during the events of Forever Evil?

Love all the icons on the left side. I know some people do that, but I prefer my icons on the bottom of the screen.