Powerpuff Girls

• Title: Powerpuff Girls #4 (of 6)
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• Writer: Troy Little
• Artist: Troy Little

Although things start off well-enough for our pint-sized heroes with working with the various former villains to keep the city safe, the second-half of the six-issue mini-series begins a big shift in the story. The new-found peace and happiness of Townsville is threatened when HIM decides to lessen his control over the city’s super-villains allowing each of them to begin to revert back to form.

Powerpuff Girls #4 has some fun moments (one of my favorite being Bubbles‘ picnic with Fuzzy Lumpkins which is captured so beautifully on the variant cover by artist Agnes Garbowska I just had to snatch it up). Buttercup and and Blossom also have issues when their newly-reformed friends “accidentally” put the pair in danger. And it appears the transformation of Mojo Jojo back into plain old Jojo wasn’t such a permanent thing after all.

With the various villains all now up to no good I’d expect quite a bit of action in the final two issues of this enjoyable mini-series from writer/artist Troy Little. Worth a look.

[IDW, $3.99]

• Title: Powerpuff Girls #3 (of 6)
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• Writer: Troy Little
• Artist: Troy Little

Townsville is certainly a strange place these days. Mojo Jojo has given up mental enhancements and gone back to the simple life of Professor Utonium‘s impossible to control lab monkey and now all of the city’s villains have given up their wicked ways and are working to protect and improve the city.

Although Bubbles and Blossom are willing to give their former adversaries a second-chance, Buttercup finds the entire situation impossible to accept. And behind in all lurks HIM who has caused the change in the minds of Townsville’s villains for his own nefarious purposes.

Writer/artist Troy Little delivers another fun issue with the bizarre situation of turning the town’s baddies into well-respected members of the community (even building a statue of the Powerpuff Girls) and a big action sequence as our heroines work with the former villains to stop an attack by a giant octopus (also under HIM’s influence) forcing even Buttercup to accept their new outlook on life. Worth a look.

[IDW, $3.99]

• Title: Powerpuff Girls #2 (of 6)
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• Writer: Troy Little
• Artist: Troy Little

Professor Utonium agrees to Mojo Jojo‘s request of wanting to return to life as a simple monkey rather than face any more crushing defeats at the hands of the Powerpuff Girls. Once exposed to Antidote X, Mojo Jojo looses his mojo and his intellect and returns to the Utonium’s simple lab monkey Jojo.

Although Bubbles is happy at the prospect of having a pet monkey and Blossom believes Jojo deserves a second chance, Buttercup isn’t happy with the news that their former archnemesis is returning home with them. The monkey quickly makes a mess of the house and the lab, but Jojo does so without any evil intent of the old Mojo Jojo. The same can’t be said for Him who decides to use his mind control for an odd purpose: to make all the other villains of Townsville as helpful as possible and teach the Powerpuff Girls a lesson about second chances.

The issue does a great job with Mojo Jojo’s transformation and fallout, and the introduction of Him’s odd new scheme seems to spell trouble for the Girls for the next few issues. Worth a look.

[IDW, $3.99]

• Title: Powerpuff Girls #1 (of 6)
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• Writer: Troy Little
• Artist: Troy Little

The Powerpuff Girls get new life in the first issue of IDW’s new six-issue mini-series. Powerpuff Girls #1 features Townsville’s pint-sized heroes (Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup) saving the day from both Mojo Jojo‘s latest attack and a swamp monster causing havoc on the city’s golf course.

Fans of the show should enjoy themselves here, although I will note writer/artist Troy Little does have trouble getting Mojo Jojo speech right as it’s much more straightforward in the comic than the more byzantine and circular restating of facts fans of the character have come to know and love.

The issue comes with an amazing array of variant covers (several only available from select vendors) and sets up what will apparently be the mini-series’ big plot development as an incarcerated Mojo Jojo, tired loosing to the Powerpuff Girls, decides his big brain has been nothing but trouble and reaches out to the one man who might be able turn him back into a happy monkey – Professor Utonium. Say it ain’t so, Mojo! Worth a look.

[IDW, $3.99]