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Oct. 15th, 2006 07:40 pm
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_Powers: Roleplay_, Brian Michael Bendis
_Powers: Little Deaths_, Brian Michael Bendis
The Musashi Flex, Steve Perry

Volumes two and three of _Powers_, a police procedural set in a superhero universe. In fact, it's a lot like Law and Order with supervillain perps, right down to witty banter between the exPower detective and his snarky normal female partner.

Perry's been working on this universe for about 10 books now, ever since _The Man Who Never Missed_ in 1985. The first line of each book starts off "Death came for..." and begins a fight scene of some sort. If he weren't so good at the plotting, action and general storytelling, one might find it unforgivable that he favors gratuitously explicit sex scenes and child abuse as the all-purpose villain motivator. His writing was never bad, but this book is especially well-written for him. Contains odd Tuckerizing of a resident of rec.knives.

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Date: 2006-10-16 04:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] n5red.livejournal.com
I haven't heard of the Powers books, I'll have to look for them. I've enjoyed all of the Perry books including "The Omega Cage" which is set in the same universe. A few of the books only rated "ok" by my standards, but most of them have been a lot of fun to read. Not great literature and the books aren't all that long, so they are perfect for some relaxing reading.

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Date: 2006-10-23 04:50 pm (UTC)
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I don't think it's entirely obvious from the review: Powers is a graphic novel. (More precisely, it's a series of collections of the comic books.) One of the best comics around nowadays, IMO -- a deep, messy, dark exploration of what real everyday life might be like in a world that has a non-trivial number of super-people in it. But I will warn that it gradually becomes quite a bit less like an episodic police procedural as it goes along -- this story has a lot of depth of arc to it...
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