{"id":3076,"date":"2011-08-14T11:15:12","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T17:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=3076"},"modified":"2011-10-02T09:17:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-02T15:17:53","slug":"powers-anarchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=3076","title":{"rendered":"Powers: Anarchy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The thing that is sad about my review of <a title=\"Powers Vol. 5: Anarchy  by Brian Michael Bendis, at Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Powers-Vol-Brian-Michael-Bendis\/dp\/1582403317\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anarchy<\/a> is that it will sound like I didn&#8217;t like it, when the worst I have to say about it is that I didn&#8217;t love it. The characters are still top-notch, or I should probably pass that through my filter of liking things too strongly and say instead that I continue to find them compelling. But the plot of this particular issue was really just forgettable. It was tasty forgettable, don&#8217;t get me wrong, but like when you eat light popcorn and then later you suddenly want actual food? It&#8217;s like that. I know that there were some superhero murders that tied back into the comic&#8217;s earlier days and that may well become very important later for that matter, but in the moment, it was just a glimpse of places we&#8217;d been before with people I&#8217;m happy to accompany, sure; and restoring the status quo (which had been really strongly upset by the end of <a title=\"My review of Powers: Supergroup\" href=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=2714\" target=\"_blank\">the last book<\/a>) was probably a good idea, but I could wish it had been more exciting to get there.<\/p>\n<p>On the bright side, the book isn&#8217;t a thousand pages long and I didn&#8217;t have to wait two or more years to read it, so the standard complaints really don&#8217;t apply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The thing that is sad about my review of Anarchy is that it will sound like I didn&#8217;t like it, when the worst I have to say about it is that I didn&#8217;t love it. The characters are still top-notch, or I should probably pass that through my filter of liking things too strongly and [&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-3076","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\/3076","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=3076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}