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Fourteen Thoughts About Fourteen Comics – Manhattan Projects, Morning Glories, Todd The Ugliest Kid On Earth, The End Times Of Bram And Ben, Wolverine & The X-Men, Cable & X-Force, Batgirl, Katana, Powers, Avengers Assemble, Fury, Buffy, Avengers Arena, Ghostbusters

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Rich Johnston

This is the Albert Einstein we always deserved and yet, until Manhattan Projects we never got a whiff of until now. I’m so glad we got Manhattan Projects. Morning Glories does the hideous trick of applying a child’s logic to …

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Powers TV Lives On With Charlie Huston Writing A New Pilot (And Word Of Del Toro’s The Strain, Too)

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Brendon Connelly

Another trip back to the well, this time with a new bucket.

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Updated: Brian Michael Bendis Busts Rumours Of Powers Pilot In Trouble

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Brendon Connelly

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.

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FX Still Haven’t Ditched Plans For A Powers Show, They Just Need To Start All Over

Posted on July 24, 2012 by Brendon Connelly

Sooner or later, it seems, FX are going to get a TV version of Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming‘s cops-n-capes comic series Powers up and running. They just need to scrap what they’ve made and go back and …

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Powers: FBI Becomes Powers: Bureau

Posted on June 10, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Looks like someone rather high up may have objected. Now Powers: FBI from Bendis and Oeming is to be retitledPowers: Bureau. Clearly it has changed from a comic about the superpowered police in the FBI, to a book where they …

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Bendis And Oeming Relaunch Powers As “Powers FBI”

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Rich Johnston

This is the year that saw Brian Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming’s Powers return after a bit of a TV-imposed sabbatical. But with the future of the television version slightly up in the air, it’s time to focus attention back …

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The Powers TV Show May Live On Despite Lucy Punch Dropping Out

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Hannah Shaw-Williams

Lucy Punch is … not Deena Pilgrim. At least not any more, as according to Deadline the actress has left the TV adaptation of Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming‘s comic series Powers in order to join the cast …

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Powers Pilot Getting Reworked

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Brendon Connelly

The TV version of Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming’s comic series Powers has been called in for a pit stop. As already shot, the pilot was based on a script by Charles Eglee and starred Jason Patrick and …

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Five Misfits “Power Up” London Tube Ads

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Rich Johnston

Misfits comes back to E4 this Sunday. I’ve seen the first episode and it’s aces. And there’s plenty of publicity around the place, cinema ads, bus sides and these funny moving London tube ads… but which powers will the returning …

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Does Ultimate Spider-Man Preview Reveal New Powers?

Posted on August 24, 2011 by Rich Johnston

From the preview of Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #2 shipping in October, with art from Sara Pichelli, we see what appear to be at least two new powers from Miles Morales, the new Ultimate Spider-Man. We know strength, agility and spider-sense …

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Officer Downe Joins CLiNT #10 – Will He Book Them For Lateness?

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Rich Johnston

CLiNT #10 is the first issue in CLiNT‘s new rejigged six-weekly schedule, out on August 18th in the UK. Except it’s coming out seven weeks after the previous issue. Maybe Joe Casey and Chris Burnham’s Officer Downe, debuting in this …

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Michael Avon Oeming Sketches The Filming Of Powers

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Rich Johnston

Powers, the comic by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming, has been filming its pilot episode. And artist Van Oeming, has been sketching the scenes being filmed, images then tweeted by Bendis. Comic-to-film-back-to-comic again?

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Jason Patric And Lucy Punch Win Lead Roles In Powers

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Brendon Connelly

We have our Christian Walker and our Deena Pilgrim. Jason Patric and Lucy Punch have been cast in the lead roles of the FX TV pilot based upon Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming’s comic. Jason Patric’s last two …

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Hey Chicago, Who Wants To Be A Policeman In Powers?

Posted on June 18, 2011 by Rich Johnston

FX are going to be filming the pilot of Powers, based on the Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming comic book, in Chicago between July 12th and the 30th. And they need people to play policemen. We will need …

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Casting Lockdowns Begin For Powers – Charles Dutton Is Captain Cross

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Brendon Connelly

FX are chugging ahead with their TV series based on Powers, the Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming comics about cops in a world where superpowers are real. While some casting had been kicked around, most notably (not to …

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Kyle Chandler Sought For Starring Role In Powers

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Brendon Connelly

How do you spell “No Braner”? With an “i” what? Friday Night Lights star Kyle Chandler is FX’s pick to star in Powers, their new police procedural with superpowers, based on the comics by Bran Michael Bendis* and Michael Avon Oeming. …

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Bendis Confirms Powers TV Rumors — Walking Dead TV Writer On Board

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Mark Seifert

NY Mag’s Vulture put together the pieces of the puzzle and Bendis just confirmed it on twitter — veteran tv writer and executive producer Charles H. Eglee is taking on Powers next, based on the comic by Bendis and artist …

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