Wanted
by:
Mark Millar (author)
J.G. Jones (author)
Wesley Gibson is one of life's losers. His job sucks; his girlfriend's cheating on him; his life's going nowhere. Then he finds out everything he believed about his life was a lie.
Wesley Gibson is one of life's losers. His job sucks; his girlfriend's cheating on him; his life's going nowhere. Then he finds out everything he believed about his life was a lie.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781845769086 (1845769082)
Publish date: 2008
Publisher: Titan
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
Media Tie In,
Movies,
American,
Mystery,
Crime,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Graphic Novels Comics,
Comic Book,
Superheroes
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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