2025 NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST NEW COMICS FOR ADULTS "A rich and rewarding story about existential questions when super-powered gods walk amongst us." —AIPT It’s 1999. Six indescribably powerful people each have the destructive capability of America’s nuclear arsenal. If they come into conflict, the world ends. The Power Fantasy is a pop culture-infused, superpowered, Cold War thriller about the spying, scheming, and violence these people will do to avoid coming into open conflict. Come dance to the ticking of the doomsday clock with KIERON GILLEN ( The Wicked + The Divine, DIE ) and CASPAR WIJNGAARD ( Homesick Pilots, All Against All ). The eternal fight against fighting starts now. Collects issues #1-5. IGN, Best Comics of 2024 NEWSARAMA, Best Comics of 2024 REDDIT r/comics , Best Ongoing Series of 2024 THE BEAT , Best 50 Comics of 2024 "There's a thing when someone kicks open a door, the way Alan Moore did with Watchmen . People kind of stand in the doorway, and then people go through...and the latest one to do that is. . . [the] Power Fantasy." -- Patton Oswalt "A brilliant redefinition of the concept of 'superpowers' that illuminate how precarious great-power competition renders our lives. Watch a masterpiece take form." -- Spencer Ackerman (Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, writer of Iron Man ) “A perfect debut issue.” ― Graphic Policy "A rich and rewarding story about existential questions when super-powered gods walk amongst us... In a world where nuclear war is still possible and war rages overseas, The Power Fantasy feels well-timed and apt." ― AIPT "Thought-provoking and dynamic in equal measures, with outstanding art. 10/10" ― ComiCon.com "If you like your comics full of big ideas, laced with dark humor and the unnerving sense that the end of the world is just one family squabble away, this one's for you." ― GamesRadar “It's intense, yet understated, and gripping. Ripe with the potential for drama, intrigue, nuance, depth, and meaning, The Power Fantasy is primed to explode superhero comics.” ― ComicBook.com "An absolute must-read comic by two of the absolute best in the business." -- James Tynion IV, The Departmen “A book constructed with artfulness and nuance and a care that borders on being obsessive. This is a good one, folks, and it has my highest recommendation.” -- Jonathan Hickman, X-Men, The B Kieron Gillen first came to attention as a comic writer with his 2006's Phonogram , with Jamie McKelvie. They continued to work together across the next fifteen year, culminating with smash hit The Wicked + the Divine . Since then he's had the pleasure of creating stories with other artists such as Stephanie Hans ( DIE, We Called Them Giants) and Caspar Wijngaard (the current sensation, The Power Fantasy ). He has worked on Marvel Comics biggest books, such as Immortal X-men, Young Avengers, Thor, Iron Man, Star Wars, Eternals and Darth Vader , (where he co-created Doctor Aphra). In a previous life he was an award-winning pop-culture critic. In his current life, he tries to sleep more. He lives in Bath, UK. Caspar Wijngaard is an award winning comic artist from the U.K. He is Co-Creator of the IMAGE series HOME SICK PILOTS, ALL AGAINST ALL, LIMBO and ANGELIC and has worked on titles such as Marvel Star Wars, Batman Detective Comics and DC's Knight.