COMICS: First Look At Jonathan Ross And Bryan Hitch's AMERICA'S GOT POWERS #3

COMICS: First Look At Jonathan Ross And Bryan Hitch's AMERICA'S GOT POWERS #3

Issue #2 of America's Got Powers was released all the way back in May, and now the third issue is finally set to go on sale next week. Hit the jump for a first look at the latest instalment from the superstar creative team of Jonathan Ross (Turf) and Bryan Hitch (The Ultimates).

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By JoshWilding - Aug 17, 2012 02:08 PM EST
Filed Under: Comics
Source: Comic Book Resources

From zero to unlikely hero, Tommy Watts is the new face of America's Got Powers, the most-watched TV show on the planet! Behind the girls, glamour and glory though, there are hard personal truths to face ? and when he does face them, Tommy might just break the world.


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AMERICA'S GOT POWERS #3
Written by JONATHAN ROSS
Pencils & Cover by BRYAN HITCH


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TruthJusticeSuperman
TruthJusticeSuperman - 8/17/2012, 3:13 PM
Hunger games rip off with superheroes
ekrolo2
ekrolo2 - 8/17/2012, 3:15 PM
@TruthJusticeSuperman

Okay by that definition Hunger Games is a rip off of Battle Royale, which is probably a rip off of something else. Everythings a rip off of something these days, whats your point?
TruthJusticeSuperman
TruthJusticeSuperman - 8/17/2012, 3:20 PM
Hunger games is not a rip off of battle royal they are two complete differnt things hung games sure the fact they are about kids killing each other against thier will is the same for both. Yet Hunger Games is more build up to a revolution against the government on depending on this girl, you see here thoughts and fears and emotions and her relationships more than you do in Battle Royal.
SoFresh
SoFresh - 8/17/2012, 3:26 PM
In Battle Royale it also ended up with a revolution against the established order,soooo yeah don´t come here screaming rip-off when hunger games also ripped off of BR.
TruthJusticeSuperman
TruthJusticeSuperman - 8/17/2012, 3:49 PM
Did it focus on the pressure of being the sole person to save the people did it involve the story of her and a little girl and her dying in the end so no it is different read the books saw battle royal read the novel that it's on their are two complete different things just based on the same premise.
Optimus83
Optimus83 - 8/17/2012, 4:02 PM
superheroes in reality show???
SoFresh
SoFresh - 8/17/2012, 4:24 PM
They´re not based on the same premise, one ripped the other premise, and because they´re not stupid enough to want to get sued they focused on a different theme, it´s still a rip off.

It´s like if I decided to make a movie about a race of sentient robots that transform into automobiles aeroplanes,toasters?, vibrating dildos... and they have defend themselves from the evil BackStabbericons(who was the smartass that thought that the DECEPTIcons could be reasoned with), the main character Jesus Prime is part of the Mechanobots, but here he has a potential love interest, and in this storywhere where going to see him deal with being in love with Killer-bee and the descrimination that homosexual Mechanobtos face...
SoFresh
SoFresh - 8/17/2012, 4:27 PM
@Optimus

OH SHIT!!!
I´m sorry Optimus i wasn´t trying to make fun of YOU, such a thing would be blasphemy, for YOU are our one and only LORD.
SoFresh
SoFresh - 8/17/2012, 4:40 PM
@earzmundo
I know that, that´s why I told him that Hunger Games also ripped-off another property, he´s the one who dismissed it as being a rip-off.
Oxbow
Oxbow - 8/17/2012, 4:47 PM
yes we all know you have dozens of original, non-ripped-off ideas in your back pocket. You should totally go work on those, and stop wasting time on a silly internet discussion board with us non-original people.

There are no original ideas. deal with it.
SoFresh
SoFresh - 8/17/2012, 4:50 PM
@oxbowArcher
I didn´t say that, I was saying the contrary...
Oxbow
Oxbow - 8/17/2012, 5:04 PM
Hey, I wasn't talking to you but @TruthJusticeSuperman. His position is completely untenable.

Superman is Apollo with a cape.
Joker is based off "the man who laughs"
batman is the Scarlet Pimpernel.
I could do this for hours....but let's just say that Ideas are recycled continuously and leave it at that
TruthJusticeSuperman
TruthJusticeSuperman - 8/17/2012, 5:21 PM
You can't call it a rip off, I mean a complete rip off is like what you said about transformers It's on the same idea about kids killing each other out their free will. If you read them maybe you could understand the fact is is that this feels like a rip off from the hunger games because its based on kids being watched on TV killing each other. A way of looking at the violence in TV and movies and how we accept as entertainment. This is doing the same exact way bu they sugar coat it and make it more about superhero kids fighting each other. Yeah oxbowarcher your right things are inspired from other things in creativity. Especially in comic books. You could say that Batman is just Sherlock Holmes without the cape. Oh that's a total ripoff. Except their is a long running history of that character that makes him original. Take elements form different books or movies etc.. You have to make it new and original to separate it from the things it's ripoff as you say. That is what hunger games did it took an unoriginal concept from a Battle royal but while battle royal focused more on the fighting the hunger games focuses more on the character structure and relationships of each kid. Making it harder for each one to possibly kill the other each is given at least some kind of background. Thais what makes the hunger games not a ripoff of Battle Royal read the book of the Hunger Games or the movie and see Battle Royal and read the novel they are not the same thing just on the same premise.
Oxbow
Oxbow - 8/17/2012, 5:54 PM
@TruthJusticeSuperman: by your logic, America's Got Powers IS new and original. It focuses on superheroes turned into slaves, guinea pigs and objects for entertainment. Hunger Games focused on a post-apocalyptic society where the Hunger Games are instituted as a punishment/entertainment on the "districts" each year. WTF is up with that? At least the premise makes some sense in this story!

Both are talking about competition and violence in media, but from different perspectives. AGP could be said to be a metaphor for ALL superhero comic books and cbm's. Each month, the stable of characters (which are owned by the big two companies, just like slaves) are brought out and made to fight each other in life or death situations for our viewing pleasure. They breed them, mix their powers and give their powers to other characters in order to provide more and more superhero entertainment. DID I JUST BLOW YOUR MIND!!!! LOL

"You could say that Batman is just Sherlock Holmes without the cape. Oh that's a total ripoff. Except their is a long running history of that character that makes him original."

There isn;t any history because this is the third issue...By that reasoning, if there was more issues of AGP out, there would be more character development and stories, and more original history. I have read the first 2 issues of AGP and while it's not the best series, there's some interesting and unique stuff in there. I think this series has the potential to use the "Battle Royale" premise better than BR or even HG. Don't be so quick to disregard it, my friend...
nickyb034
nickyb034 - 8/17/2012, 6:04 PM
The bottom line is @TruthJusticeSuperman is clearly a Hunger Games fanboy and is gonna stand by what he thinks.
But the fact is BR was good... Hunger Games I thought was fantastic and AGP is an awesome read dispite having only two issues. All good ideas will be repeated, it's how the writer makes us care about the story that matters not weither or not the concept has been done before.
TruthJusticeSuperman
TruthJusticeSuperman - 8/17/2012, 6:21 PM
Hunger Games FanGirl actually and dont go oh it's another dumb bitch or something
TruthJusticeSuperman
TruthJusticeSuperman - 8/17/2012, 6:52 PM
I knew that some jerk off was gonna say it who probably doesn't have a girlfriend and jerking off to porn all day yep that damntree.
StSharp
StSharp - 8/17/2012, 7:45 PM
This book is awesome! Doesnt matter if it has the same premise as another story, EVERY story feeds off another. Truth.
Matman3099
Matman3099 - 8/17/2012, 9:57 PM
By the way, I used to decorate cakes! Now I'm an expert at camouflage. ;)
Oxbow
Oxbow - 8/17/2012, 10:37 PM
hunger games is a good book series. I don't think i'll be watching the rest of the movies though...something about watching 14 year olds killing 12 year olds on-screen that is just really distasteful...
DiLusso
DiLusso - 8/18/2012, 5:08 AM
there all a rip off of the running man
lol
LEOSTRATOR
LEOSTRATOR - 8/18/2012, 6:56 AM
Only in a world of reality tv would something so unoriginal and dull like hunger games, is considered a great book. Not only was it a rip off it was so toned down it made the book boring. If any one actually read BR you would see that HG even ripped off the danger zone concept from BR the kids starting a revolution, and past contestants returning. Reality tv is ruining the creativity, not to say that I keep my face in the books. But to compare what are the top sellers or even the box office movies, story telling has mimic reality tv because of its popularity. All the top books and movies are now just bland and dreadful.
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