Video Game Cops: Powers Picked Up By Playstation Network

Here at Crisis On Infinite Midlives, we are on the fence as to what next gen gaming console we will eventually and inevitably purchase. We have been XBox people since the first generation of that console – a first-gen XBox is still jacked into the big TV tube upstairs, just in case I get the urge to widen my point of view on the undead apocalypse by playing Stubbs The Zombie (although given a couple of the prices for that game I’ve seen on eBay, I can be persuaded to abandon my philosophical pursuits) – so we are leaning toward picking up an XBox One. Especially considering that I’ve got me a hankering for some Titanfall.

With that said, I have certain reservations about purchasing a console that, by all initial reports, has a camera with which to watch me and a microphone with which to listen to me, no matter what I’m doing on my living room couch. I’m the kinda guy who sticks a piece of electrical tape over his Webcam when he’s not using it, and if a grown taxpaying man gets the occasional urge to watch childrens’ cartoons while in a state of undress outside of societal norms while scratching himself like an ape in a cage, it ain’t nobody’s business, and it certainly isn’t Bill Gates’s business.

So I have been toying with unilaterally buying a Playstation 4, because not only have I long wanted to play some Nathan Drake Uncharted games, but it seems less likely to take photos of me that will be laughed at in Sony’s customer service department. And there is now another possible reason to lean toward the Sony side: the television adaptation of Brian Michael Bendis’s and Michael Avon Oeming’s Powers has been picked up for broadcast on the Playstation Network.

There’s no word yet as to when the show will air or who will star in it. All we really know is that Sony Pictures has ordered up about 10 episodes, and that Charlie Huston will be writing the pilot and co-running the show with Remi Aubuchon, who did work on Falling Skies.

Powers has been in the works as a TV series for a while, and got to the point of a pilot shot for FX with Lucy Punch and Jason Patric, but the network initially passed on the show years ago, although they spent some time and money tweaking the project to see if it would work. So at this point, there’s no word as to whether Patric will still be part of the show (Punch had to leave the project after the initial pilot was rejected by FX), or much of any other kind of details about the project.

So the other big question is: is there gonna be any way for us to see this thing if we decide that playing the next Halo game is worth the risk that pictures of my scrotum might appear on the Internet? Well, why don’t we check in with Powers co-creator and the show’s Executive Producer Brian Michael Bendis and see if there are any details?

lots and lots of questions about this.

all of this will be revealed at sony’s discretion. it is not my department.  when we come closer to air date, believe me i will tell you every single way you can see the show.  promise.

meanwhile THANK YOU, all of you, for your loud enthusiasm towards this project.  we can’t believe it either.

Of course, if the show is released in the same way the comic book is, we’ll get four episodes released at once, followed by an 18-month hiatus, with another episode released, followed by four months with no word, followed by a network and a title change…