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Powers: Bureau, Vol. 1: Undercover
by Brian Michael Bendis, Michael Avon Oeming
I am an unabashed fan of the Powers series, which I felt was getting a bit off track and was following the plot of the Ultimate Marvel storyline a little too closely for my taste.
With this iteration, though, Bendis and Oeming have rebooted the series by federalizing all powers cases and recruiting both Pilgrim and Walker into the FBI. It's very much a back-to-basics story in the vein of the original Powers series which also acknowledges what went before. The world the characters live in continues on the same course, but the story of the main characters themselves has been reset... which, now that I think about it, is pretty much what Bendis did with Ultimate Spider-Man.
So there goes that theory.
Anyway, this had all the hallmarks of a great Powers story: intrigue and machinations, organized crime and rogue superbeings, as much sex and violence as you would find in an HBO series, Deena dropping the F-bomb at least a hundred times. I'm on board for more adventures anyway, but I'm curious to see where this takes us, since making Walker an FBI agent can only mean really explosive things are to come.
Here's hoping we don't have to wait as long for the next volume. It felt like waiting on a George R.R. Martin novel. (There's that HBO connection again. HBO should really adapt this to series. I know FX tried a couple years ago, but the F-bombs alone disqualify this for anything other than pay cable.)
Fun factoid: did you know you can't use "F.B.I." in your title unless it's approved by the government? That's why this is called "Powers: Bureau" instead of "Powers: FBI." That's what I hear, anyway.
With this iteration, though, Bendis and Oeming have rebooted the series by federalizing all powers cases and recruiting both Pilgrim and Walker into the FBI. It's very much a back-to-basics story in the vein of the original Powers series which also acknowledges what went before. The world the characters live in continues on the same course, but the story of the main characters themselves has been reset... which, now that I think about it, is pretty much what Bendis did with Ultimate Spider-Man.
So there goes that theory.
Anyway, this had all the hallmarks of a great Powers story: intrigue and machinations, organized crime and rogue superbeings, as much sex and violence as you would find in an HBO series, Deena dropping the F-bomb at least a hundred times. I'm on board for more adventures anyway, but I'm curious to see where this takes us, since making Walker an FBI agent can only mean really explosive things are to come.
Here's hoping we don't have to wait as long for the next volume. It felt like waiting on a George R.R. Martin novel. (There's that HBO connection again. HBO should really adapt this to series. I know FX tried a couple years ago, but the F-bombs alone disqualify this for anything other than pay cable.)
Fun factoid: did you know you can't use "F.B.I." in your title unless it's approved by the government? That's why this is called "Powers: Bureau" instead of "Powers: FBI." That's what I hear, anyway.