My God. That’s just disgusting. I’m speechless. Shame on you Rags. Shame, shame, shame.
How is her stomach supporting those things?
Mmmmmm, tasty.
She looks like your average pro bodybuilder to me. 
Atlantean magic? Kryptonian (or Daxamite?) physique? No…no, those can’t be it…
Maybe she can localise her ability to fly to specific bodyparts!
Aaaactually, thinking about it…
At least once (in Birds of Prey, the arc where Joker threatened to nuke New York), she displayed the ability to grant other characters (Black Canary, in this case) the ability to fly. Given this, the ability to restrict her flight to one body part (well…two. >>) isn’t that entirely unlikely. >>
OK, to the OP:
Never take an Amanda Conner rendition of a mainstream character as definitive. Personally, I think PG looks like a woman in those shots, but I know some pretty square-jawed women. It’s an ethnic thing (& it’s pretty normal for Amanda Conner art).
Is Peege a big, burly, busty, broad? Yep! You want *all *superchicks to look scrawny & wee? Maybe you’ve been reading stuff by Silvestri imitators too long, friend.
Unfortunately most comic book artist have no idea how to draw a decent woman. I expect super heroes to have a hyper figure but Power Girl just looks ridiculous in most of those links. She looks great in the JL Unlimited 'toon but then I guess she’s just Supergirl with short hair in that one.
Marc
So is the first word on the next page “…basketballs!”?
I was gone from reading DC comics for many years. I didn’t see Power Girl until I read Kingdom Come. When I got saw Power Girl myy first reaction was “Whoo the Hell is That?” She was with the Old Guard, so ashe had to be canonical, not one of the new cereatures they cookerd up for the series, but for the life of me I couldn’t figure out who or what she was supposed to be. Liked the peek-a-boo cleavage, though.
Nah, female pro bodybuilders NEVER have tits that big. EVER. The 'roids shrink 'em down to a couple of raisins sittin on pancakes.
Most of them have implants.
Marc
Dawn Whitham.
Apparently you aren’t the only one. I remember reading somewhere that Ross rejuvanated the PG concept with Kingdom Come even though she had a relatively small role. She was Supes’s cousin at one point, so she wasn’t always a second stringer.
On preview: I googled Dawn Whitman and she does indeed look like PG from the Rags’s links. Ew (some of the links aren’t work-safe). If I had my way she would look like a more musclar version of her, a woman with huge boobs and a body to hold them. Ross (picture #4 in my original link) has come closest to that. A lot of people, to steal a phrase from Wonk, draw her like an anexoric with an ill-advised boob job.
The woman in your picture, Toccara Jones, is a gorgeous (IMO) “full-figured” model, which means she has a beautiful, curvy, voluptuous, soft body with big soft natural breasts. I’ve never really though of Power Girl as being built like that, since I’m most used to Bart Sears drawing her – he draws everyone very lithe and muscular. She is known as a strong and muscular character who just happens to be busty and sexy, much like Marvel’s She-Hulk (and DC’s Barda to a lesser extent, although I think of Barda as “softer” than Power Girl). I think artists get Power Girl wrong most often because they aren’t good at finding a middle-ground between musclebound/strong/sexy and shapely/feminine/curvy, and then her trademark ample chest looks out of place most of the time.
Same deal with me, I had no idea who she was when I read KC. But she wasn’t the only one, I didn’t know several of them. I never even heard of The Martian Manhunter until around that time, not sure how I missed that dude. I guess my superhero comics reading was really spotty when I was a kid. I tended to get humor stuff like MAD.
The character in Kingdom Come is a somewhat older version (it being set in the future and all), now calling herself Power Woman.
In the Revelations supplement to Kingdom Come, Alex Ross has this to say about her:
I have the feeling that more recent artists have taken their cue from this and drawn Power Girl as a bodybuilder type too – whether or not it’s appropriate for the younger version.
Yes, but Bart Sears was drawing her as a busty bodybuilder back in 1989.
Wow. A comic-book superheroine with huge breasts.
Stop the presses!
:rolleyes:
Richard Corbin is the godfather of large-breasted comic book women. Mainly, in the Den stories he did for Heavy Metal. Since the people Den hung around with thought clothing was ridiculous, hooters dominated every panel.
There was one scene I remember where Den was rescuing some princess who was manacled to the side of a rock. As he’s fighting the bad guy, he gets knocked up against her, bounces off her gigantic boobs, and winds up doing a spring attack on the bad guy.
There were female characters with absurdly huge boobs long before Corbin or Heavy Metal. Bill Ward’s women (who appeared not only in adultr publications, but in more mainstrean comics as well) are ridiculous. Large-breasted women appear in Mad and Playboy in the 1950s.