The rookie detective packs a punch in both her striking physicality and her sometimes brutal investigatory techniques. Pilgrim is equally at home in a mid-drift baring t-shirt and high tops or violently forcing confessions out of uncooperative suspects. Lacking the affiliations Walker utilizes, Pilgrim relies on her guts and guile, courage and sometimes temper to succeed in situations wherein she is often overmatched. Many of the incidents that have befallen the duo have proved particularly costly to Pilgrim and as a result, may finally be taking their toll on her. Deena Pilgrim now harbors a secret far more dangerous to herself and those around her than Walker ever did.

One half of the investigative team charged with solving homicides involving POWERS, which is super hero murders. At the time the chronology begins, Walker is a veteran cop teamed with recent detective rookie Deena Pilgrim. Their first case is the murder of the beloved icon Retro Girl. Walker’s incredible physical stature belies a cool and quite exterior. He is often the more composed and poised of the duo, yet this may be due to his preoccupation with a secret he harbors concerning his past and ultimately a history that may stretch back to the beginning of humankind. As Pilgrim soon discovers, Walker’s murky past often puts him at odds with the often grisly reality of his professional duties, and the many, victims, suspects, and sometimes perpetrators of the crimes they must investigate are close friends, former associates, and even arch rivals.

Brian Michael Bendis, Writer: Scripts, Co-Creator

From His Official Website Bio:

Brian Michael Bendis is an award winning comics creator and one of the most successful writers working in mainstream comics. For the last five years, Brian’s books (including ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN, AVENGERS, DAREDEVIL, ULTIMATE X-MEN, ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR, ALIAS, THE PULSE, POWERS) have consistently sat in the top five best sellers on the nationwide comic sales chart.

Brian is one of the premiere architects of Marvel comic’s Ultimate line of comics. A line of comics specifically created for the new generation of comics reader. He has written every issue of Ultimate Spider-man since it’s best selling launch, and has also written Ultimate Fantastic Four, Ultimate X-men, Ultimate Marvel Team Up, and Ultimate Six.

Brian has won five prestigious EISNER awards, including ‘Best Writer of the year’ two years in a row.

He is creator of the JINX line of crime comics published by image comics. This line has spawned the graphic novels GOLDFISH, FIRE, JINX, TORSO (w/ Marc Andreyko) and TOTAL SELL OUT.

Brian’s recent projects include the Harvey, Eisner, and Eagle award nominated “POWERS” (w/Mike Oeming) from Marvel’s new creator owned imprint ICON, and the Hollywood tell all “FORTUNE AND GLORY’ from ONI press, which Entertainment Weekly gave an “A.”

Brian is writing the film version of Jinx for Universal Pictures with Oscar winner Charleze Theron attached to star and produce. Powers is in active development at Sony as a feature film, TORSO is set up with Todd McFarlane productions, and Brian was the co-executive producer and series pilot writer for MTV’s recent CGI animated Spider-man show.

Brian is the recipient of the Cleveland Press ‘Excellence in Journalism’ Award was named “Best

Writer of the Year.” by Wizard Magazine and, Comic Buyer’s Guide for the last three consecutive years.

He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife Alisa, his gorgeous daughter Olivia and his dogs Shroeder and Buster.

Michael Avon Oeming, Artist: Pencils, Inks, Covers, Co-Creator

Mike began his comics career at the age of 14, breaking in as an inker. From inker to pencillng/inking to writing, Mike has spread his creative wings in both indie and mainstream comics. Growing up in a small town, Mike found tutelage under Neil Vokes and Adam Hughes, while corresponding with Nexus creators Steve Rude and Mike Baron. Dedicated to his craft, Mike was eventually kicked out of highschool for skipping class-to stay home and draw. Still in his teens, he languished in the indie field for some years.

His first big break was as an inker on Daredevil, and shortly after as penciller/inker on DC's version of Judge Dredd, then Foot Soldiers at Dark Horse Comics. During the mid-90s comics crash, Mike moved back into indie comics, which started his path on creator owned comics with Ship of Fools, co-created with collaborator Bryan J.L. GLass. While drawing Ship of Fools, Mike continued with paying work such as inking Neil Vokes on Ninjack and drawing Bulletproof Monk, later turned into a John Woo film. Business was slow, so when Mikes first child was born, he got a "real job" working as a security guard—where he drew on the job, of course. This was when Mike developed a new simpler style as well as several projects including the Mice Templar, Hammer of the Gods, Quixote, and what would become Powers with Brian Michael Bendis. Mike and Brian had met several years earlier, knowing they would soon work together.

Powers became the dream project Mike and Brian had worked so hard for—a creator owned project they could live on. Powers has been nominated for a Harvey Award and won an Eisner. Mike was nominated for his work on Powers for an Eisner. With Powers ongoing, Mike has tackled several other projects including Hammer of the Gods, Bastard Samurai, Bluntman and Chronic, Parliament of Justice, Hellboy, Catwoman, 86 Voltz, The Dead Girl, The Goon, Quixote, Blood River, Six, What If?, Magician: Apprentice (with Bryan J.L. Glass) and has begun writing for Marvel Comics. His writing stint on the final run of Thor has been widely acclaimed as well as Thor: Blood Oath. Beta Ray Bill and Ares are amongst his writing chores along with writing the monthly Red Sonja series.

Currently he is busy with Powers, Mice Templar and the up coming Rapture mini series with creator Taki Soma... even as you read this.