, the creator-owned comic book series from Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming, has been published by Image Comics and Marvel Comics over the years. Now, Dark Horse Deluxe, an imprint of Dark Horse Comics, will undertake a line of Powers merchandise.Upcoming merchandise includes a limited edition statue of Retro Girl and a boxed set of vinyl figures based on the series’s principal cast.Powers follows the lives and cases of two homicide detectives, Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim, assigned to investigate cases involving people with superhuman abilities, who are referred to as “powers.” The series has been optioned for a TV pilot, which is currently in limbo at FX. Recently, the Marvel Comics were relaunched as Powers: FBI.”We have been very particular about merchandising Powers over the years, because I wanted to make sure it was the highest-quality merchandise we could offer,” said Bendis. “I am a giant fan of Dark Horse and the care they give their merchandising. I am very excited about this partnership.””We feel that Powers is one of the best graphic-story treatments of the modern era,” Dark Horse Product Development Vice President David Scroggy said. “We are delighted to bring these characters forward. Brian Bendis is a master of story construction and dialogue, making him one of today’s most widely read comics writers, and Michael Oeming’s unique art style is one of the most individual in the field. Capturing their creative vision is a challenge we appreciate, and we couldn’t be more excited to work directly with these two talents in making that happen.”The Retro Girl statue will be sculpted by Tony Cipriano based on an original design by Oeming. The boxed set of four-to-five-inch vinyl figures will include protagonists Walker and Pilgrim as centerpieces of the ensemble.Both projects are slated for release in the fourth quarter of 2013 and the prototypes will debut at the Dark Horse booth at San Diego Comic-Con.
