Powers, Vol. 1: Who Killed Retro Girl?

Above the city, heroes cross the sky on lightning and flame, and alien beings fight across the night. Down on the ground, Homicide Detective Christian Walker works the streets, where super-powered spectacle is just the backdrop to his caseload.

His newest case is the murder of Retro Girl, one of the most popular super-heroes the world has known. Walker is paired with Deena Pilgrim, an energetic rookie detective, and the two start working the case from the bottom up.

The investigation pulls them between two worlds: the seediest corners of the city and the shining towers where immortal beings live. Along the way, buried facts about the murdered hero start to surface.

The superhero setting is handled as a police procedural, seen from the viewpoint of the cops who clean up after the powered. For Walker, solving the crime may mean exposing a dark secret of his own.