by J.G. Jones, Mark Millar, Brian K. Vaughan
This comic collection, reissued and amended, tells us about Wesley, leading a humdrum and unhappy existence, until he is taken into hand by the Fraternity and trained to be a killer supervillain. Adapted and changed completely into a film with Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy, the series is nicely pl...
Mark Millar deserves some credit for telling a story with a villain character who starts out troubled and conflicted but ends up becoming completely evil rather than some sort of reluctant anti-hero. Wanted clearly began life as a Secret Society of Super-Villains elseworlds story in which the son o...
Far, far superior to the film, which changes the premise in an entirely bad way. Gibson doesn't join a fraternity of assassins, but a society of super-villains that run the world after killing off every superhero in 1986 then convincing the world that they never existed in the first place. Genius....
I gave it the five stars for that twist at the end. As the introduction suggested, I found myself smiling a bit at the end of the story. If you have not read it, I won't say more. If you have read it, then you may know what I mean. The story uses a very nice premise: what if the supervillains won an...
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