Just finished reading Powers Vol I and vol II. I don't mind the art, which is strongly reminiscent of the Batman animated series. The pulp-meets-manga works for me. I don't mind the weirdly Top Ten like-ness of it (no idea which came first). I don't mind the weird moments that don't work, like when a 3-d character shows up, or Warren Ellis does a ride-along.
In fact, I quite like it. The stories are mostly tightly paced and interesting, the world is well thought out, and the characters are straight out of hill street blues. We've been down this path before, with Watchman and Authority, but that doesn't make it a path not worth treading. In many ways, it's more successful than Top Ten in capturing the grittiness of a police station trying to deal with people who teleport to escape questioning, leaving an arm behind. Perhaps I'm the audience, the one who can't get enough watchman-authority-batman-law-n-order. Perhaps that's okay.
Recommended.
Posted by christina at August 12, 2004 02:20 AM | TrackBack