{"id":2138,"date":"2010-07-25T10:11:37","date_gmt":"2010-07-25T16:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=2138"},"modified":"2010-07-25T10:11:37","modified_gmt":"2010-07-25T16:11:37","slug":"powers-roleplay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=2138","title":{"rendered":"Powers: Roleplay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The upside of the second Powers book is that I&#8217;m continuing to enjoy the slow reveal of Bendis&#8217; created superhero world, which is chock full of history, dark secrets from the past, and ongoing plots that are heating up in the background toward what I trust will be a violent boil. The downside of\u00a0<a title=\"Powers Vol. 2: Roleplay by Brian Michael Bendis, at Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Powers-Vol-Brian-Michael-Bendis\/dp\/1582406952\/\" target=\"_blank\">Roleplay<\/a> is that its plot, in which a number of college students in illegal superhero costumes run afoul of the law and a powerful supervillain, was slightly easier to wrap up than any given episode of Law and Order, and mildly disinteresting besides.<\/p>\n<p>Which is not to say the book was bad: all the bits that aren&#8217;t essential to this particular current plot were, as I said, fascinating. It just concerns me that if the story arc and history mines are ever played out, what is left will be a disappointment, and it concerns me more that an overly slow reveal of those elements might make equally iffy immediate plots become intolerable before I reach that other point.<\/p>\n<p>All that said, I&#8217;m glad I read the first of these books before I read <a title=\"My review of Astro City: Life in the Big City\" href=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=2023\" target=\"_blank\">Astro<\/a> <a title=\"My review of Astro City: Family Album\" href=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=2029\" target=\"_blank\">City<\/a>. Because Bendis&#8217; created superhero world\u00a0<em>is<\/em> good, but it wouldn&#8217;t stand up very well if I&#8217;d had to compare it from the start, and then I&#8217;d be depriving myself of what I still assume will be a good story.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The upside of the second Powers book is that I&#8217;m continuing to enjoy the slow reveal of Bendis&#8217; created superhero world, which is chock full of history, dark secrets from the past, and ongoing plots that are heating up in the background toward what I trust will be a violent boil. The downside of\u00a0Roleplay is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,708,22],"class_list":["post-2138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-graphic-novel","tag-mystery","tag-superheroes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}