The Power Fantasy Volume 1: The Superpowers

Taschenbuch

Sprache: Inglés

Veröffentlicht von Image.

ISBN:: 978-1-5343-9556-5

It’s 1999. Six indescribably powerful people each have the destructive capability of America’s nuclear arsenal.

If they come into conflict, the world ends.

The Power Fantasy is a pop culture-infused, superpowered, Cold War thriller about the spying, scheming, and violence these people will do to avoid coming into open conflict.

Come dance to the ticking of the doomsday clock with KIERON GILLEN (The Wicked + The Divine, DIE) and CASPAR WIJNGAARD (Homesick Pilots, All Against All).

The eternal fight against fighting starts now.

Collects issues #1-5.

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Barbarius hat The Power Fantasy Volume 1: The Superpowers von Kieron Gillen besprochen (The Power Fantasy, #1)

If mutually assured destruction were people

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I had no idea what this was about when I started reading this, but I really enjoyed it.

It's probably easiest to consider the idea of mutually assured destruction: the idea that because a bunch of countries have nukes and could destroy each other, so therefore no one uses nukes. This only exists however due to a delicate balance that needs to be maintained constantly. Now imagine that that destructive power resides in people. People, with all their emotions, flaws, ego, and issues... And still that delicate balance needs to be maintained... along with all their emotions, flaws, ego, and issues...

So then, who gets to make the rules and maintain the balance?

I had no idea what this was about when I started reading this, but I really enjoyed it.

It's probably easiest to consider the idea of mutually assured destruction: the idea that because a bunch of countries have nukes and could destroy each other, so therefore no one uses nukes. This only exists however due to a delicate balance that needs to be maintained constantly. Now imagine that that destructive power resides in people. People, with all their emotions, flaws, ego, and issues... And still that delicate balance needs to be maintained... along with all their emotions, flaws, ego, and issues...

So then, who gets to make the rules and maintain the balance?