From New York Times bestselling writer Brian Michael Bendis (Superman, Ultimate Spider-Man, Jessica Jones) and artist Michael Avon Oeming (Cave Carson Has a Cybernetic Eye, Blue Book), comes this new collection of the Eisner award-winning series Powers.
In a world where superheroes soar through the sky, homicide detectives Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim travel the dirty city streets below doing their grueling work. Assigned to the special "powers" cases, they face the worst their city has to offer.
When the power who murdered Hitler is found dead, it is up to detectives Walker and Sunrise to dig into the secret history of powers’ past to find the killer. A past that includes the untold tale of Walker’s life before he became one of the world’s greatest superheroes.
Then, Walker and Sunrise must investigate the murder of a group of powers that claim to be gods—and the result is disastrous. Plus, the return of Deena Pilgrim! Find out what's going on in this cops-and-capes drama that has no rules.
Collects Powers series III issues #1–#11 and behind-the-scenes content from the making of this superhero noir classic.
Brian Michael Bendis is an American comic book writer and artist. He has won five Eisner Awards for both his creator-owned work and his work on various Marvel Comics books. Starting with crime and noir comics, Bendis eventually moved to mainstream superhero work. With Bill Jemas and Mark Millar, Bendis was the primary architect of the Ultimate Marvel Universe, launching Ultimate Spider-Man in 2000. He relaunched the Avengers franchise with New Avengers in 2004, and has also written the Marvel "event" storylines "Secret War" (2004–2005), "House of M" (2005), "Secret Invasion" (2008), "Siege" (2010) and "Age of Ultron" (2013). In addition to writing comics, Brendis has worked in television, video games and film. He has also taught courses on Graphic Novels at University of Oregon and Portland State University. In 2014, Bendis wrote Words for Pictures: The Art and Business of Writing Comics and Graphic Novels, a book about comics published by Random House.
From New York Times bestselling writer Brian Michael Bendis (Superman, Ultimate Spider-Man, Jessica Jones) and artist Michael Avon Oeming (Cave Carson Has a Cybernetic Eye, Blue Book), comes this new collection of the Eisner award-winning series Powers.
In a world where superheroes soar through the sky, homicide detectives Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim travel the dirty city streets below doing their grueling work. Assigned to the special "powers" cases, they face the worst their city has to offer.
When the power who murdered Hitler is found dead, it is up to detectives Walker and Sunrise to dig into the secret history of powers’ past to find the killer. A past that includes the untold tale of Walker’s life before he became one of the world’s greatest superheroes.
Then, Walker and Sunrise must investigate the murder of a group of powers that claim to be gods—and the result is disastrous. Plus, the return of Deena Pilgrim! Find out what's going on in this cops-and-capes drama that has no rules.
Collects Powers series III issues #1–#11 and behind-the-scenes content from the making of this superhero noir classic.
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Brian Michael Bendis is an American comic book writer and artist. He has won five Eisner Awards for both his creator-owned work and his work on various Marvel Comics books. Starting with crime and noir comics, Bendis eventually moved to mainstream superhero work. With Bill Jemas and Mark Millar, Bendis was the primary architect of the Ultimate Marvel Universe, launching Ultimate Spider-Man in 2000. He relaunched the Avengers franchise with New Avengers in 2004, and has also written the Marvel "event" storylines "Secret War" (2004–2005), "House of M" (2005), "Secret Invasion" (2008), "Siege" (2010) and "Age of Ultron" (2013). In addition to writing comics, Brendis has worked in television, video games and film. He has also taught courses on Graphic Novels at University of Oregon and Portland State University. In 2014, Bendis wrote Words for Pictures: The Art and Business of Writing Comics and Graphic Novels, a book about comics published by Random House.
