by Ice Cream Jonsey » Sun Dec 04, 2005 2:10 am
ChainGangGuy wrote:Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Powers: Always fun.
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Powers is a comic about two cops (who we first think are just normal people, but then later are revealed to be much, much more) who exist in a world where there are super-powered good guys and bad guys causing havoc, destroying Israel, commiting murder... that sort of thing.
The last one I remember getting dealt with a cop who took a super artifact from evidence. He realized his number was up so he went out and killed as many bad guys as he could before our protagonists could catch him. He has a great speech at the end of the issue to the effect of, "And you know what happened when I killed the first one? Nothing! The world didn't end, the earth didn't split in two..." I'm really doing his actual words injustice. It's written very well and it's the most consistent comic I get (the artist is a co-creator, thus making it unlikely that he'll be shit-canned anytime soon). I don't know how easy it is for a new reader to pick up, but if you get a chance why not drop three bucks on it? There is an actual letters page that extended the read beyond your standard 10 minutes for an average comic. *
*Though I find that the best way to enjoy them is to get a whole bunch and, sure, you read them when they come out, but then you put your sleeves up, dig in deep and read like 30 of them in one sitting three years after you got them. THAT is when the medium truly kicks ass. It's a slow time coming, almost preposterously so, but very entertaining when done like that. I'm flying home, where all my comics are, in a few weeks and I hope to rip off a hundred issues of Spider-Man or the Avengers when I'm back. Actually, I'm just hoping the sump pump doesn't go and they are not all waterlogged, but secondly, that.
[quote="ChainGangGuy"][quote="Ice Cream Jonsey"]Powers: Always fun.[/quote]
Tell me more![/quote]
Powers is a comic about two cops (who we first think are just normal people, but then later are revealed to be much, much more) who exist in a world where there are super-powered good guys and bad guys causing havoc, destroying Israel, commiting murder... that sort of thing.
The last one I remember getting dealt with a cop who took a super artifact from evidence. He realized his number was up so he went out and killed as many bad guys as he could before our protagonists could catch him. He has a great speech at the end of the issue to the effect of, "And you know what happened when I killed the first one? Nothing! The world didn't end, the earth didn't split in two..." I'm really doing his actual words injustice. It's written very well and it's the most consistent comic I get (the artist is a co-creator, thus making it unlikely that he'll be shit-canned anytime soon). I don't know how easy it is for a new reader to pick up, but if you get a chance why not drop three bucks on it? There is an actual letters page that extended the read beyond your standard 10 minutes for an average comic. *
*Though I find that the best way to enjoy them is to get a whole bunch and, sure, you read them when they come out, but then you put your sleeves up, dig in deep and read like 30 of them in one sitting three years after you got them. THAT is when the medium truly kicks ass. It's a slow time coming, almost preposterously so, but very entertaining when done like that. I'm flying home, where all my comics are, in a few weeks and I hope to rip off a hundred issues of Spider-Man or the Avengers when I'm back. Actually, I'm just hoping the sump pump doesn't go and they are not all waterlogged, but secondly, that.