Wanted (Assassin's Edition)

Wanted (Assassin's Edition)
by Mark Millar, J. G. Jones

Wanted (Assassin's Edition)
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Author: J. G. Jones, Mark Millar
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-04-09
ISBN: 1582409331
Number of pages: 208
Publisher: Top Cow Productions/Image Comics

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Book Review: Lazy, Exploitative, Fanboy Nonsense
Summary: 1 Stars

Life, apparently, is unfair to Wesley Gibson. Oppressed by his wimmenfolk and talked down to by his various minorities, he dresses like a tool and feels sorry for himself. Then, kazam. He turns out to be a supervillain.

Wesley reacts to his new powers by raping and murdering his way to the top of his supervillain game without a single hesitation. I think there may have a moment or two where he stopped and tried to generate some empathy, but I probably blinked and missed them. Fortunately, he's surrounded by a cast of equally vapid monsters, with nary a bit of depth between them.

Wesley is a dweeb as a mundane human, but as a supervillain he's actually one of the most genuinely unlikeable characters in comic history. I imagine that I've missed the post-modern/ironic twist, but I wasn't going to go rooting through it in this pile of nihilistic fanboy trash.

Summary of Wanted (Assassin's Edition)

The smash limited series by Mark Millar (Civil War, The Ultimates), JG Jones (Final Crisis, 52), and Paul Mounts (The Ultimates) is now available in a deluxe "Director's Cut" hardcover edition! Everyman Wesley Gibson just discovered that his father has been killed and that he is next in line to take his place in a secret fraternity of super villains. And Wesley's life will never be the same! This edition features the complete limited series, plus the Wanted Dossier, excerpts of Millar's script, interviews, and behind-the-scenes developmental art.

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