{"id":3299,"date":"2011-12-12T17:16:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T23:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=3299"},"modified":"2015-05-29T21:44:19","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T03:44:19","slug":"powers-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=3299","title":{"rendered":"Powers: Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/81rp8fcRC7L.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5073\" src=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/81rp8fcRC7L-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"81rp8fcRC7L\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/81rp8fcRC7L-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/81rp8fcRC7L-669x1024.jpg 669w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/81rp8fcRC7L-624x955.jpg 624w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/81rp8fcRC7L.jpg 1176w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a>If I remember correctly, <a title=\"My review of Powers: Sellouts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=3166\" target=\"_blank\">the previous volume of Powers<\/a> marked a major shift in the way things work, with said Powers being basically outlawed altogether. (Which only makes a limited kind of sense in a world with supervillains, but roll with it.) Naturally, therefore, <a title=\"Powers Vol. 7: Forever\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Powers-Vol-Brian-Michael-Bendis\/dp\/0785116567\/\" target=\"_blank\">Forever<\/a> picks up&#8230; at the beginning of time. What?!<\/p>\n<p>No, actually, it&#8217;s pretty cool. If you&#8217;ve ever wondered about the origins of superheroism in the world, or also about the secret history of now-police detective Christian Walker, and if you haven&#8217;t wondered about that last bit by now we aren&#8217;t reading the same books, then this is a can&#8217;t miss entry in the series.[1] Except to warn you that it&#8217;s a historical interlude with no apparent bearing on the future, there&#8217;s almost nothing else I can say. No, not true, I can say that it&#8217;s good. And that it has really unexpected monkey vagina. (Is there another kind? &#8230;if you&#8217;re not a monkey?)<\/p>\n<p>[1] Someday, I will probably still not understand people being <em>able<\/em> to skip a book in a series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I remember correctly, the previous volume of Powers marked a major shift in the way things work, with said Powers being basically outlawed altogether. (Which only makes a limited kind of sense in a world with supervillains, but roll with it.) Naturally, therefore, Forever picks up&#8230; at the beginning of time. What?! No, actually, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,708,22],"class_list":["post-3299","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\/3299","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=3299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5074,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions\/5074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}