― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 17:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 17:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 17:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 17:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 17:59 (nineteen years ago) link
also, jesus
― tom west (thomp), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 18:20 (nineteen years ago) link
Replying to this thread (What's so special about POWERS?) a bit as well, but it seemed to veer away so I'm posting here.
Vermont Girl, posting almost exactly a year ago, is insanely wrong wrt Retro Girl. It always makes me misty at the end. This is not easy to do. My heart's in my throat now just thinking about it. "Don't be sad, Walker..."
i coulda sworn he said at some point he lost his power while flying in the middle of something or other and - i think - retro girl saved him
He talks about a big boom while he was fighting zzaxx in the middle of the Johnny Royale warehouse blowout, and about Retro Girl having to save his suddenly-powerless ass. This could be explained away since it's Walker's first-person account and he's clearly not always that forthcoming about his past, and sometimes deliberately misleading. And he may have reason to not want to share his history with Teh Wolf, or what he remembers of it.
Speaking of which, if anyone has any idea what, specifically, the "full story" is that it turns out Walker didn't tell at the end of Supergroup... well, if it's as simple as he/zora/rg were a thing I've got it, but it still seems rather cryptic.
Come to think, Zora's last line in Supergroup also makes me misty every time I read it. "You know I'd do anything for you..."
forever is one that probably reads alot better in trade than in the issues, where your patience was more likely to get tested
There was a real pleasure in picking up that monkey issue though, and being all WTF?!?! and having to wait six weeks for the... Conan issue? And being all "I think I see where this is going but WTF?!" etc. It really took advantage of the episodic format and made the wait exquisite - ooh ooh when/where will the next one be set?
...
At the time, Anarchy seemed like a pretty weak arc. Turns out to be a very nice plant that pays off in Sellouts. See, the thing is, what Supershock's going to prove... Harvey's right.
I wouldn't want a Powers illustrated by anyone other than Oeming. The style he uses may be "cartoony," but the underpinning layouts deliver really strong storytelling. Cinematic in the Miller mold. Plus the "cartoony" style is what lets them get away with teh monkeysex and the watersports and the exploding bodies and etc. etc. I wouldn't want that to feel anymore real. Though now that I think about it it would be a hoot to get my hands on the Bizarro-world Powers as brought to you by Bendis and Liefeld.
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 1 September 2005 00:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Laura H. (laurah), Thursday, 1 September 2005 22:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 2 September 2005 07:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 2 September 2005 13:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 2 September 2005 13:47 (eighteen years ago) link
Monkey ballin' takes timeTo feel when you're balling so much&c.
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 2 September 2005 13:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to thwart the revolution (chap), Monday, 5 September 2005 12:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 5 September 2005 14:18 (eighteen years ago) link
i am finding lotsa stuff after the "cosmic" bits kinda meh: when deena wakes up and powers are illegal and this is A Big Deal, why is the current storyline so seen-it-before? i think maybe i am disappointed bcz i thought powers-are-illegal was going to lead to police state moral hand-wringing storylines and instead it seems to mostly be connected to the deena-kills-somebody story.
― tom west (thomp), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 23:22 (eighteen years ago) link
(Though yes, 12 issues in it still feels like the same very slow arc, dragging on. Deena's sitch should be b-story, but we care too much about her and too little about the cases and the stupid power gem for that to work.)
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 01:28 (eighteen years ago) link
oh lord do you think the big arc is Deena Is Actually A Serial Killer?
― tom west (thomp), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 01:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 03:09 (eighteen years ago) link
Dear Mr. Bendis: if you wanted to regain my faltering confidence and return to me That Feeling, four pages of stand up was not the way to go, asshole.
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Saturday, 5 November 2005 02:32 (eighteen years ago) link
At least something happened this ish though. I'm giving the benefit of the doubt that the stand-up shit will pay off, cause the monkey sex did, but it would help if it could be, y'know, funny.
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 5 November 2005 05:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― dave k, Saturday, 5 November 2005 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link
the gratuitous boobs on page 15 were nice though...
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Sunday, 11 December 2005 12:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Sunday, 11 December 2005 17:41 (eighteen years ago) link
the standup is pretty lame, tho
― tom west (thomp), Sunday, 11 December 2005 21:16 (eighteen years ago) link
However: I heart Zora.
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:47 (eighteen years ago) link
yes argh the standup it's only four pages there are eighteen whole others
― tom west (thomp), Monday, 12 December 2005 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Monday, 12 December 2005 16:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― scamperingalpaca (Chris Hill), Monday, 12 December 2005 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Laura H. (laurah), Monday, 12 December 2005 21:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― scamperingalpaca (Chris Hill), Monday, 12 December 2005 22:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 12 December 2005 22:53 (eighteen years ago) link
Sadly, it's not nearly as clear-cut as that. I'm just always happy to see her. Fuck Boogie Girl.
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 00:09 (eighteen years ago) link
Soooo apparently this getting restarted again soon? Which is kinda awesome.
― Mordy, Saturday, 12 September 2009 07:15 (fourteen years ago) link
it stopped?
― thomp, Saturday, 12 September 2009 08:31 (fourteen years ago) link
I think #30 was the last issue.
― Mordy, Saturday, 12 September 2009 08:37 (fourteen years ago) link
oh.
i wonder how much i missed.
― thomp, Saturday, 12 September 2009 10:34 (fourteen years ago) link
I've now read the whole run of Powers upto v.3 #5 (current issue) minus the Icon Annual and the Powers Encylopedia. I liked it but was kind of on the fence, but the last arc of v.2 and where it is going in v.3 has been really excellent. I think over all, while a couple of arcs are better than others, Powers has generally improved quite a bit over the whole run. Oeming's artwork has definitely gained some refinement and some of the action scenes in the last couple of arcs were great.
― earlnash, Saturday, 3 July 2010 00:27 (thirteen years ago) link
I wonder whether I need to get back into this. I started to lose interest when the main characters got powers/were revealed to be ancient supermen, and then it started appearing very infrequently.
― Attention please, a child has been lost in the tunnel of goats. (James Morrison), Saturday, 3 July 2010 08:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Dind't get past vol 1, which I found distinctly so-so.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Saturday, 3 July 2010 13:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Kinda digging the new volume.
― Mordy, Friday, 23 July 2010 11:42 (thirteen years ago) link
yes, good stuff
― Grisly Addams (WmC), Friday, 23 July 2010 13:41 (thirteen years ago) link
FX has ordered a pilot.
― WmC, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 03:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I hope Mr. Bendis makes so much money that he never needs to write another comic book again. Mr. Oeming may continue to draw if he so desires.
― Matt M., Tuesday, 1 March 2011 15:10 (thirteen years ago) link
[mice templar image here]
― thomp, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean, is this still going?
Yeah, in fits and starts. V.3 is supposed to wrap up sometime this year iirc.
― WmC, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Kyle Chandler "courted" - http://www.deadline.com/2011/03/kyle-chandler-courted-for-fxs-powers/
I try not to get excited about Ain't It Cool type rumors/possibilities/etc, but I do like the idea of Coach Taylor as Walker.
― Bill, Thursday, 31 March 2011 14:37 (thirteen years ago) link
is this still still going?
― thomp, Thursday, 31 March 2011 14:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah -- reduced schedule since both Bendis and Oeming have so many other projects, but v3 #7 came out a couple of weeks ago.
― The Louvin Spoonful (WmC), Thursday, 31 March 2011 14:43 (thirteen years ago) link
anyone watching? is there a thread?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt2znyyXt3g
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 12 March 2015 06:16 (nine years ago) link
Thanks for reminding me that I didn't watch the last two eps. Not sure I can muster the enthusiasm.
― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Thursday, 7 May 2015 07:02 (nine years ago) link
ep9 is bendis-scripted. SPOILER it still sucks.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 7 May 2015 17:17 (nine years ago) link