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Tim Daniel, The Man to Blame

The P!Online, POWERS fan site comes right from the pages of the Trade Paperback "Sellouts". Throughout the course of the story a spoof of the E! Entertainment Channel website introduces or closes each story segment. This is a great motif for a story (especially for "Sellouts"). At the time I was new to POWERS, having randomly picked up a single issue after Mr. Oeming's art caught my eye. Shortly thereafter, I began to devour every trade paperback while snapping up all the current and back issues available...

Now, step back another 2 years with me if you will. From this returning reader/collector/fan's perspective, the comicbook industry is still brimming with creativity, but sometimes slow to satisfy it's mature (and ever maturing) readership.

Admittedly, it is all a matter of economics, but would not the following additions really help extend the world of any title and juice-up the industry as well:

Trailers.

Soundtracks.

Creator Podcasts and/or blogs.

Extended storylines or alternate endings.

Alternate point-of-view arcs occuring simultaneously.

Books in digital download format.

Multi-rating versions(Mature Reader, Teen, Child) of the same book.

Reader remixes and/or reader created arcs.

Expanded Universes on the web.

Add to this the offerings found in an average POWERS trade paperback:

Sketchbooks

Cover galleries

Concept Art

Interviews

"Making-Of" and "How-To" Features

Scripts

These opportunities and others exist because books like POWERS exist, and because mature readers with a different and evolving set of expectations exist. There are currently examples of many of the aforementioned items listed above, but instead I would say that movies, video games, toys and apparel drive the comics industry and while this must also be a matter of economics once again, none of those items do much to further STORY, and STORY is king of the industry. Without the myth-making and myth-growing there can be none of these things.

...and so back to POWERS. The book does not get a lot of attention for a Top 100 title through the book's very own lengthy letters column, and neither does it really receive much space on the web. I greatly respect the title's creators, their work, as well as their web sites, and P!Online is simply a tribute and show of appreciation for POWERS.

P!Online is built to grow, and as the series continues, this site will add new content as well as continue to expand upon the already established sections of the site. In particular, the site is in need of the following: News Desk Columnists Fan Media (art, fiction, movies) Individual Issue Synopsis Interviews Podcasts Pollsters Supporting Character Bios Keep only a couple of items in mind; we'll accept all forms of contributions listed (and not listed), and anyone deciding to tackle an assignment simply must follow through! Contribute to P! today: Click Here