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Story by Brian Michael Bendis
Art by Michael Avon Oeming
Colors by Peter Pantazis
Letters by Ken Bruzenak

Published by Marvel Comics/Icon | $2.95

This was sort of rock and a hard place week here at the New York offices of iFanboy. With such a light week for comics, the Pick of the Week basically came down to the next installment of the new Robin saga (which I fear is pleasing the hell out of me and me alone), which was last week’s POW, or the perennial POW, Powers.

We might have to change this section to: Brian Michael Bendis presents The Pick of the Week.

You’d think the man would have burnt out by now. Not only was Powers #1 excellent, but Ultimate Spider-Man #62 was a close third for that shocking cliff hanger alone.

This is the first issue of Powers that is being published by Marvel Comics‘s creator owned imprint Icon. Being the first issue at a new company (and a brand new #1 issue), it’s a good jumping on point for new readers. And there are a lot of potential new readers for Powers out there, judging by previous sales figures.

After the events of the massive storyline that wrapped up Powers‘s run at Image Comics, the government has declared all use of super powers to be illegal and Detectives Walker and Pilgrim are back on the job, investigating murders that involve “powers.” Boy, do they have their hands full. With the government’s new declaration on the legality of the use of super powers, all the good heroes listened to the government and stopped using their powers. But the bad guys didn’t. So now the only thing holding the line between the supervillains and the people are the cops. And the cops are getting killed. As a result of the lawlessness, supervillain crime families have started to pop up and take control of parts of the city, engaging in the kind of turf wars that cause a lot of collateral property damage.

Honestly, how could this book not be the Pick of the Week?

If you’re looking for a smart comic book that straddles the line between crime comics and superhero comics, this is the cream of the crop.

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