{"id":5612,"date":"2016-08-05T09:19:50","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T15:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=5612"},"modified":"2016-09-18T16:25:22","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T22:25:22","slug":"powers-the-25-coolest-dead-superheroes-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=5612","title":{"rendered":"Powers: The 25 Coolest Dead Superheroes of All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"My review of Powers: Secret Identity\" href=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=5062\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5613\" src=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/51MZiHDIU8L-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"51MZiHDIU8L\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/51MZiHDIU8L-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/51MZiHDIU8L.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/>The last Powers book<\/a> had a giant cliffhanger, right? Well, the 100% randomly named <a title=\"Powers Vol. 12: The 25 Coolest Dead Superheroes of All Time by Brian Michael Bendis, at Amazon\" href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/Powers-Vol-12-Coolest-Superheroes\/dp\/0785122621\/\" target=\"_blank\">The 25\u00a0Coolest Dead Superheroes of All Time<\/a> starts a year later. Some cliffhanger, guys! Aside from that letdown and the complete incongruity of the name compared to anything that happens[1], though, the plot was perfectly cromulent and pushed things a lot further forward than I would have guessed.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8230; thought I&#8217;d have more to say, but then I realized a laundry list of plot elements being resolved is kind of massively spoilerish, so I won&#8217;t be doing that. But still, pretty much every outstanding thread has been resolved, in ways that I was entirely satisfied by. That said: not loving Christian Walker&#8217;s new partner. Maybe next book? Because to be fair, she was set up as a bit of an antagonist from the first page, this time out.<\/p>\n<p>[1] It was a line from the book, during a schoolyard conversation. But still completely detached from any plot point or theme I could detect. I think someone was just proud of the line. That said: man, a lot of superheroes die in this world. Not like Marvel at all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last Powers book had a giant cliffhanger, right? Well, the 100% randomly named The 25\u00a0Coolest Dead Superheroes of All Time starts a year later. Some cliffhanger, guys! Aside from that letdown and the complete incongruity of the name compared to anything that happens[1], though, the plot was perfectly cromulent and pushed things a lot [&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":[17,22],"class_list":["post-5612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-graphic-novel","tag-superheroes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5612","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=5612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5614,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5612\/revisions\/5614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}