It's not often that we are graced with a piece of graphic literature that doesn't make your palms hit your head of embarrassment over the contents of said graphic novel. As it's become increasingly popular to want to cash in on a good hit comic, like say the Movie 300 has done, or the Dark Knight, The Hulk, Spider-man and so on. Although the movie left fans disappointed its good to know that the comic is still there, now compiled into a graphic novel for 19.99 it's a damn good buy indeed.The story here is quite amusing actually, as soon as I heard the first line being read out by my girlfriend at the store I chuckled and decided to pick it up. The story begins with a young guy called Wesley, he's somewhere in his early 20s and life is pretty shit for him. He works at a boring office job with a bitch of a boss. His best friend is banging his girlfriend behind his back and Wes is too spineless to confront them about it. So life goes on until one day at his usual sandwich stop, a woman comes up to him and says that this is his lucky day and to come with her. He hesitates and the girl loses her cool and shoots everyone in the store and asks Wes one last to come with her. On their way to their destination she lets him know that her old man is dead and that he was the greatest assassin the world had ever known.
In a world where superheroes no longer exist, earth is ruled by super villains who decided to team up and once and for all destroy the heroes and protectors of the world. Wes was the lucky bastard who was about to inherit all the money his father - the greatest assassin there ever was - had made over his career. And so Wesley embarks on a mission to become the next great killer and leave his spineless gutless old self behind, because thats all his father ever wanted.
With one of the most surprising and disturbing ending I have ever seen, this book will leave you feeling like you just read one hell of a story. Most likely unlike any you have ever read of before or will again for a long time. Until the day that someone has the balls to write something like this again, go enjoy WANTED, and do yourself a favor and skip the movie.
3 comments:
Didn't agree with a lot of what you said.
Nothing special. This comic was just messed up. The writer is probably a piece of shit who thinks that he is creative or innovative because he can throw down some insult in comic form. there isn't much here. Maybe a few laughs, but overall this was a bit of a joke. Definitely disagreed with you on this thing.
Fair enough Nauman, I do agree though that Mark Millar is somewhat of an arrogant douche bag who thinks he's the best thing to happen to the world since sliced bread. Hopefully I'l be taking a look at something more to your liking in the future. If you have any suggestions just let me know. =)
I don't know. You seem to be quite skeptical towards comics. For some reason you hated Two Face from The Dark Knight... I highly recommend you get a hold of some of the darker batman graphic novels. It's very easy to disagree with comic book movies because they don't follow the story line or the character history or whatever, but it's even easier to agree with a comic book movie.. so I guess I see why you might not have liked it. But still, read some more batman and find out why the villains were so awesome in The Dark Knight. Sign up on goodreads.com
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