Another incredible issue in this fantastic series. Geoff Johns and Alex Ross are doing a brilliant job of constructing this story, and handling the interaction between all of these characters. They make a fantastic team. The main opponent in this series is Karen Star, Power Girl. She's on from Earth 2 and a member of Justice Society Infinity. Picture the JSA and the original Infinity Inc merged together. Anyways, she's frustrated because Kara, the Power Girl from our Earth, has recently traveled there and Karen believes that she has something to do with her cousin Kal-L's disappearance. As we progress through this story, you can just feel her frustration and anger permeating off of the pages. Which is a talent Geoff and Alex both have with their characters. We don't make a whole lot of progress with the Gog story here . . eventually both set of characters are returned to their respective Earths. But they both feel losses because each Earth has things that the other has already lost . . . parents, children, team-mates . . they're each reminded of what they once had. We also find out that Starman's uniform is actually a map to the multiverse. Something that he wasn't aware of until he was sane enough to tell the rest of the team. "My ability to increase gravity and even manifest miniature black holes allows me to not only travel through time, but to other parallel worlds. My uniform is my guide . . the the new multiverse . . ." In the end I think Kara knows that she's home, because she's with the people that care about here. I thought this was a great book by Geoff, Alex, Dale Eaglesham and Jerry Ordway. But, before you read the next issue of JSA, you're supposed to read Kingdom Come Superman #1, Magog #1, and the Kingdom #1. That's a lot of reading before you can pick up issue #21. But, if the same creative team is involved with all or them . . it'll be nothing short of fantastic.
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