Product Description: What if everything in your life was out of your hands and those around you propelled your fate? Your girlfriend left you for your best friend; your boss gave your job to someone better. What if then, after all this, someone gave you back total control? What if he revealed you were the next in line to join a secret society of super-villians that controlled the entire planet? Mark Millar and J.G. Jones provide a look at one man who goes from being the world's biggest loser to the deadliest assassin alive.
Might I suggest... As a kid I loved comics and to me it was more than a hobby. As an adult I find my affinity for them is just as strong. After reading "WANTED" I'm forced to admit that I was disappointed.
As a male, I'm natually drawn to graphic and senseless violence (fictional violence, not the real stuff), which the author/artists do a great job of providing. I would NOT show this book to a child, and TBH I wouldn't show it to a teenager either, but maybe thats just the Liberal-Conservative in me. Anyways..... The artwork is beautiful, as is the binding and dust jacket (which doubles as a poster). The artwork is not the really awesome CGI stuff thats been hitting the market, its the oldfashioned style of comic making.
Those being the positives, here's the negative from my perspective. The story line, is utterly boring. The story does have a well thought out twist which gives u some excitement at the end. The beginning is also pretty cool (seeing a layman become a super villian), but the middle part..... Well... I would have enjoyed it more having read the beginning, then the end, and just browsed the middle.
If your wanting good artwork, showing what few have been able to produce (without censorship), then this is your book. If your looking at the book purely from a story telling aspect.... Continue browsing (might I suggest "Red Son"??).
Nothing is perfect The book "WANTED" is a lovely book, fantastic graphics and real action story; it's a must particularly after watching the movie But- nothing is perfect the book binding is very poor, after reading the first 10 pages the papers started to get loose and now I have a wonderful binder with lots of loose leafs Hisham Bassyouny
Very very very good read but the book is not the movie Wanted was an amazing read! I will warn though that the content is very graphic and mature; this includes language, violence (gore.), and sexual content. The book is so different from the movie that you will be either pleasantly surprised or horribly shocked because the language and violence is about 10 ten times worse. I recommend this book for comic book fans who want something more gritty and dark, people who don't like standard happy endings, and fans of the Anti Hero.
If you like Watchmen, Evil Dead (and the sequels), Fight Club (and anything else by Chuck Palahniuk); you will enjoy Wanted (The graphic novel).
pleased I was very pleased with the product and the amount of time it took to arrive.
Morally Repugnant The trade is introduced by Brian Vaughan, ironically he says "At their worst, superhero stories are just dopey male power fantasies, but at their best, these myths don't just entertain, they work as powerful allegories that help us understand who we are." In my opinion "Wanted" falls firmly in the former category... or it would except 'dopey' implies a level of harmlessness that "Wanted" lacks.
This is the story of a thoroughly unlikable loser who gets the sort of life he couldn't even dream about before by picking up a gun and killing everyone he dislikes or who got in his way. Plus some random by-standards just for the heck of it. It's a book about killing lots of people while looking cool and feeling no remorse. It's a glorification of the sort of thinking that leads to high school shootings.
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