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October 18 2009

Is that Joss Whedon? A familiar face makes a guest appearance in the first issue of Bendis' and Oeming's relaunched series POWERS.

daylight | General | 12:06 CET | 37 comments total | tags: comics, brian michael bendis, mike avon oeming, powers

That's full of Whedony goodness.

didifallasleep | October 18, 12:13 CET

Awesome. Totesome, even. Dig the vest. I love the fourth panel. I think we've all seen him make that expression.

[ edited by The One True b!X on 2009-10-18 21:25 ]

@theonetruebix | October 18, 12:30 CET

I wonder what his powers are.

Simon | October 18, 12:40 CET

I assume the girl is a Fox exec?

zz9 | October 18, 12:41 CET

He has fists of power.

Kiba | October 18, 12:42 CET

Fists of glowy blue power. It looks like he can maybe kinda fly with it too? Or fall with style anyway.

Sunfire | October 18, 12:48 CET

This reminds me of when Warren Ellis turned up in Powers.

Simon | October 18, 12:49 CET

I want a Joss comic! The Dark Avenger...hang on, that's already been done!

bubblecat | October 18, 12:49 CET

Well of course he has fists of power. He's a writer! This is excellent. Is the comic out now?

Lioness | October 18, 12:55 CET

Joss... The Man...The Superhero!

Little Green Kid | October 18, 12:57 CET

As per here, the comic comes out in November.

@theonetruebix | October 18, 13:00 CET

Two by two, hands of blue.

Anonymous1 | October 18, 13:06 CET

Thanks, zz9, for stealing my joke.
Personally, let's see SuperJoss take on Captain Hammer, with Dr. Horrible sitting in the sidelines, eating popcorn.
ETA: come to think of it, could SuperJoss be related to Gwen Raiden?

[ edited by impalergeneral on 2009-10-18 22:09 ]

impalergeneral | October 18, 13:11 CET

Imperialgeneral, I always go for the cheap, obvious, gag. :)

zz9 | October 18, 13:23 CET

Actually, it's impalergeneral, and the obvious gag is always the best, especially when it's true.
And that goes for anyone who decides to create Super Tim Minear, too.

impalergeneral | October 18, 13:30 CET

Joss... The Man...The Superhero!

Looks more like a Supervillain to me. He is fighting a cop.

BTW, Oeming was asked who he would like to star in the planned Powers TV show and he mentioned Nathan Fillion as Walker and Katee Sackhoff as Deena. Too bad both are on other shows right now.

Michael | October 18, 13:43 CET

Kneel ! Kneel before Joss and his Power Hands of Doom™ !

Heh, like it. Also, is it just me or does his costume look a bit, well, purple ?

Saje | October 18, 13:51 CET

Panel 1: "I ARREST YOU FOR THE MURDER OF JENNY CALENDAR, TARA MACLAY AND PENNY . . . PUREGOOD OR WHATEVER!"

Panel 2: "BY THE BELT OF MARTI NOXON, I SHALL WRITE THE SAME ENDTO YOU WITH MY HANDS OF DOOM™!"

Panel 3: "BUT WAIT: NO ONE'S HAD THE TIME TO GROW ATTACHED TO YOU YET. FOLLOW ME AS I LEAD YOU UP, UP AND AWAY ON A MAGNIFICENT STORY ARC!"

Panel 4: Thought balloon: "OOF. FIVE-POINT LANDING."

Panel 5: Thought balloon: "I REALLY SHOULD HAVE EXPECTED HIM TO DO THAT."

Panel 6: Thought balloon: "DANG, NOW I'M CHASING A WHOLE NOTHER DUDE."

Panel 7: BLAM!

Panel 8: "HEY! OVER HERE! BEHOLD THE AWESOME TWISTY-TURNY POWER OF . . . DOCTOR SCRIPT!"

[ edited by Pointy on 2009-10-19 06:05 ]

[ edited by Pointy on 2009-10-20 00:35 ]

Pointy | October 18, 14:39 CET

Heh, Pointy :).

Sooo, Powers, eh? Been hearing good buzz for, well, quite some time now. Should I buy and read (I'm assuming the first bit's out in TPB)?

GVH | October 18, 16:25 CET

With a little help from Saje. ;-)

Pointy | October 18, 16:32 CET

neat!

haha pointy & saje, very good.

asterizk | October 18, 16:58 CET

GVH:

You can also read Powers for free LEGALLY on Bendis's site.

marvelknight616 | October 18, 17:45 CET

I meant to check out Powers back during an early Bendis phase when I had read the TPBs for Goldfish, Jinx, and Torso (and probably considered it again when the Marvel comic Alias was loaned to me), but never got around to it. I'm surprised and happy to see it's still going, I thought it had been canceled a while back, after numerous reprintings and whatnot from two or three different publishers (it used to be at Image, then it was Marvel, no?). Still haven't gotten to Bendis' superhero stuff, aside from Alias.

Kris | October 18, 17:46 CET

I wonder if now he's going to dress this way for Halloween.

@theonetruebix | October 18, 17:59 CET

No one needs to CREATE a Super Tim Minear. He already exists, under the name, Tim Minear. :)

And no, his powers are not those of cancellation, but rather he's more of a Phoenix, rising again and so on.

kungfubear | October 18, 18:44 CET

In my mind, he's playing the same person he played on Veronica Mars.

Riker | October 18, 19:15 CET

With a little help from Saje. ;-)

More like a nano help I think. Nice one Pointy ;-).

Saje | October 18, 22:12 CET

I want that vest. Who sells it?

mangydog | October 19, 03:08 CET

Power Hands of Doom™? A phrase like that demonstrates in-depth knowledge of the sequential graphic arts, Saje!

[ edited by Pointy on 2009-10-19 13:32 ]

Pointy | October 19, 03:09 CET

Thanks for the tip, marvelknight616! :) I do prefer holding a TPB to reading it from my screen, but this is a great way to see if I want to buy this comic :).

GVH | October 19, 04:44 CET

Powers is Bendis' second best series of all time, IMO. (Of course, the first being Alias--with the original and very fictional Purple Man.) Highly recommended.

If you start from the beginning, you'll see a rich tapestry of story telling that spans amazing locations (including outer space) and awesome, gritty noir dialog. This is not your father's crime procedural.

alexreager | October 19, 06:51 CET

Unless your father's Brian Bendis (averaged out over the entire population of the world it's almost exactly true though ;). And yep, happy to also wave the flag for 'Alias', brilliant comic. Small but perfectly formed.

A phrase like that demonstrates in-depth knowledge of the sequential graphic arts...

Or hands at least (of which i've long felt I have an intuitive grasp).

Saje | October 19, 07:06 CET

Well, we already know that Joss haunts the net at night in a purple cape.

Satai (with Punsch) | October 19, 07:21 CET

GVH, I think the previous Powers series are available in their entirety as TPBs. They also started releasing the series in an oversized hardcover format. Two hardcovers are already available and I think the third one should be released around the same time as the new issue. Unfortunately the second HC has a printing error. One of the text pages was printed twice. The missing page is available as a pdf somewhere on Bendis' site.

Michael | October 19, 07:56 CET

Shouldn't it be glowy purple power?

And where's his superheroic pink backpack?

[ edited by Arsenal on 2009-10-19 19:52 ]

Arsenal | October 19, 10:54 CET

I assume the backpack is waiting in an alley with his civilian clothes in it.

@theonetruebix | October 19, 10:56 CET

Yeah fortunately it's only a text page that got misprinted rather than an art page, you can just print out the PDF and slot it in and it looks fine...

daylight | October 19, 12:54 CET

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