WALKING DEAD's Chic Eglee Set To Head POWERS

With Friday night's showing of the final of the exceptional The Walking Dead, what better time to return to a little bit of news linked to the show that broke last week involving former executive producer/writer Charles "Chic" Eglee, who was rumoured to have been culled from the staff as part of Frank Darabont's alleged decision to head into season two without a writing team.

But the news isn't all bad for Eglee. In one of those pinch-me-it's-real moments, Brian Michael Bendis confirmed via Twitter that the veteran of The Shield and Dexter- is in talks to join the ridiculously exciting, forthcoming TV adaptation of his Powers comic:

OK, I rarely do this, but the Powers TV rumor that hit the net today... confirmed as fact!

Eglee is now in talks with FX and Sony Pictures Television to executive produce and write the new show which will be adapted from the long-running, post-superhero noir comic by Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming. Excellent choice to make it a TV show, and not a film, by the way, and hopefully they'll ignore the low-point genesis story of Forever (the stories work best when they are simple noirish detective tales).

The blood-thirsty comic (Bendis has previously expressed his happiness with being able to kill anybody off) focuses on two detectives Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim (despite the names, it's not deeply religious), who work in the Powers division of the police force, investigating crimes involving superheros and villains in an alternative reality where they are accepted- though policed- parts of normal society. Sort of like a procedural set in a universe like the one Tony Stark envisaged for the post-Civil War future, then.

Oh, and it's just about the greatest comic property to have been written in the past ten years.

Thanks to Bloody-Disgusting for the heads up.