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Powers Book One

Powers Book One

by Brian Michael Bendis
Paperback
Publication Date: 27/11/2018

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In a world where heroes soar through the sky on bolts of lightning and fire, detectives Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim deal with special cases that include…powers. But what is a cop’s job like in a world where powers are par for the course? Find out in this new re-cut edition of the now-classic Powers series in Powers Book One!

The shocking murder of America's sweetheart, Retro Girl has the world in mourning. Christian Walker is paired with rookie detective Deena Pilgrim, and the murder investigation takes them from the seediest underbelly a city has to offer, to the gleaming towers that are home to immortal beings. As shocking, hidden truths about Retro Girl come to light, Walker finds that to solve this crime, he might have to reveal his own dark secret.

From the Eisner award winning team of Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming, comes a superhero noir crime drama set in a world where superheroes are real! Power: Book One re-collects issues #1-20 of the original ground breaking series.

Brian Michael Bendis's critically acclaimed Jinxworld library now comes to DC! These classic, award-winning graphic novels, including Jinx, Torso, Powers, Goldfish, Brilliant, Takio and Scarlet among others, will now be re-released under the DC banner alongside other seminal books such as Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen.

These beloved, hard-to-find Jinxworld titles will be accompanied by new stories from continuing series like Powers, Scarlet and The United States of Murder Inc., as well as new series such as Pearl and Cover. Catch up with the vast library of graphic novels from one of the greatest comics creators ever with Jinxworld!

ISBN:
9781401287450
9781401287450
Category:
Graphic Novels
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
27-11-2018
Publisher:
DC Comics
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
464
Dimensions (mm):
259x168mm
Weight:
0.37kg
Brian Michael Bendis

Award-winning comic-book creator Brian Michael Bendis is one of the most successful writers working in mainstream comics today. He has helmed a renaissance for Marvel's popular Avengers franchise, writing every issue of New Avengers and launching Avengers, Mighty Avengers and Dark Avengers. He has also written the event projects House of M, Secret War, Secret Invasion and Siege. Bendis is one of the architects of Marvel's Ultimate line of comics, having written every issue of Ultimate Spider-Man since its launch in 1999, as well as Ultimate Fantastic Four, Ultimate X-Men, Ultimate Marvel Team-Up, Ultimate Origin, Ultimate Six and the Ultimate Enemy trilogy.

The introduction of multiracial Ultimate Spider-Man Miles Morales made USA Today's front page and went on to become a hotbed topic on Fox News, CNN, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Howard Stern Show and more. Bendis' creator-owned projects include Scarlet with Alex Maleev, Brilliant with Mark Bagley, the Eisner Award-winning Powers with Mike Oeming and the Hollywood tell-all Fortune and Glory. Bendis is also the creator of Image Comics' Jinx line of crime comics, which has spawned the graphic novels Goldfish, Fire, Jinx and Torso with Marc Andreyko, and Total Sell Out.

Sony and FX have completed principal photography on the pilot for Powers with Bendis as executive producer, and he's adapting Fire for Universal Pictures as a starring vehicle for Zac Efron. Bendis is also a writer and consulting producer for the Disney XD series Ultimate Spider-Man. As a member of Marvel Studios' Creative Committee, he has consulted on the films Iron Man and Iron Man 2, Captain America: The First Avenger, Thor, and Marvel's The Avengers. He is head writer of the massive multiplayer online game Marvel Universe for Marvel and Gazillion games.

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