The Comic Book ‘Powers’ Is Being Adapted Again, This Time As A Cartoon

“Powers,” the long-running superhero crime drama by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Oeming, is coming to television…again. After a live-action adaptation of this comic failed to gain traction ten years ago, B & O are willing to give it another shot…this time in animated form.

If you don’t recall “Powers” ever being a show before, there’s a reason for that. Back in 2015, when the market for streaming television was first opening up, one of the early participants was…Playstation 3. The misguided idea was that if you owned a PS3 you could not just play video games, but see exclusive scripted content, because this was back when console makers believed consumers wanted a video game machine to do everything but play games.

But it turned out people WEREN’T looking to the PS3 for TV shows, and the few projects they had going were ignored and were eventually all cancelled. “Powers” was one of the few that made it out, and it actually got to two seasons.

“Powers” is about Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim, two Chicago cops who take on cases involving people with superpowers. The series has been running off and on for 25 years now, starting in 2000 at Image, moving to Marvel, and currently published through Dark Horse.

Bendis is writing the scripts for the animated “Powers” series, with Oeming handling visual development. The series is now in pre-production at Netflix; no one knows yet when it will see release or if it will at all.