Violent and satirical, Pat Mills and Kevin O'Neil's Marshall Law provides lots of over-the-top fun, with weird plot-twists and an insane amount of action. Highly recommended.

I remember reading part of this collection when it was released in it's various forms over the years as one shots and in Toxic! I wish they could have included the Hellraiser cross-over, of which i only ever had the first issue. I never saw how that turned out. I love Kev O'Neill's art, ever since the days of Nemesis the Warlock. There is always so much going on, lots of little details and jokes he includes. The stories are a lot of fun but it's mostly the art i want this for. I had pre-ordered

Definitely five stars.This is dark and funny and looks at heros in a completely different way. I remember this when it first came out and it was a delight to read then. The irreverence and the adult nature of the humour were and still are a delight.The art for the comic as well suits it perfectly. Idiosyncratic, chaotic but bright and primary. It looks great and the details are always worth checking out for the touches added by the artist and the graffiti.This is an excellent edition with all th...

The first three arcs--Marshal Law, Marshal Law Takes Manhattan, and Kingdom of the Blind--are brilliant, layered satire: they lampoon (at times barely masked--no pun intended) Big Two superhero tropes and even the heroes themselves while a thread of scathing, biting political and social commentary runs throughout. Mills and O'Neill are so very well in sync, as O'Neill's art not only conveys Mills's ideas perfectly, it enhances them with O'Neill's own satire, most notably in the chatty, irreveren...

What can I say. Its Marshall Law! The most anti-superhero hero ever made. As typical for something that was hatched out of the 80's, it interesting to look back at the cold war politics of the day as compared to our current struggles. However, the ideas and anti-establishment thoughts transcend the time they were made and still make a lot of impact today.And it's really really violent, which is always fun.

One of the most hostile comics to take aim at the super-hero genre, sort of a one trick pony, but not without its allure. If Watchmen is the high water mark for capes criticism, then Marshal Law falls somewhere between Brat Pack and The Boys for its hostility beyond any plain deconstruction of the super-hero form. Writer Pat Mills doesn't want the Marshal to break down or analyze the hero, or to place them in some new canon of the gods, no he just wants to see them all dead. There's also a story...

Before reading this I'd never heard of Marshal Law, so I did a little research on the character to see why DC decided to give the series the deluxe treatment. Largely what I found was a lot of stuff about how this series was way ahead of its time (having come out in the late 1980s) and approached satire of superheroes in a way that nobody had ever done before. And, I get that. I haven't read many other books from that era with a tone like this one, but that doesn't mean it's GOOD. It hasn't aged...

I have been hyped up to read this book for a long while, and god DAMN it doesn't disappoint. Mills gets super nasty, his hate for mythic heroes shines as bright as headlights on every page of this. He doesn't hold back anything, giving us superheroes who are rich asshole celebrities who have no idea what it's like to be human anymore. O'Neill's art is also incredible nasty. He draws all these "heroes" with absolute contempt. Their bodies are weird and misshapen. The only person both Mills and O'...

Still enjoy re-reading this - the are is packed full of little gems in the images, and the stories and pulling apart of superheroes is a hoot. My only criticism is that the zombie story line seems a little disjointed - its not clear how much time has passed, so it seems like things jump a bit. But still worth reading.

Wonderful, violent comics that take apart American superheroes and blows them away. Loved the analogues to the most popular heroes. Each was sent in a different demented direction by Mills and O'Neill nails their appearances.

Anti-superhero hero.Not a comic for kids, those easily offended or live in a fantasy world.Artwork is exaggerated but full of detail. The story, well, better to read it than have me explain in a very poor way that will in no way do it justice.I was expecting to get the first graphic novel of the series when I bought this. A bit pricey, but still cheaper than trying to find a copy off the internet for sale. But, I got a HUGE surprise. ALL the graphic novels were in this! So for a bit less than th...

This DELUXE edition contains the original 6 part series that rocked the 80's with its graphic portrayal of a bleak future and a hero hunter named Marshal Law. I loved it back then and I love it now. It is a series, I think, every comic lover should have in their collection. Kevin O'Neill's visuals are crammed to the gill with detail - but he is enough of a craftsman the story is clear no matter how busy the panels get. And Pat Mills' cynical look at how hypocritical these "heroes" are is still a...

"I'm a hero hunter. I hunt heroes." Cue sound of a skull splitting open violently. "Haven't found any."A loving fuck you to mainstream superhero comics, the super team of Mills and O'Neil distorts, subverts, then destroys our favorite heroes. They're a bunch of sick bastards and I love them for it. So Doctor Shocc begins churning out superheroes with his super genetic therapy for a overseas war. When the war's done with, the city of SF is left with insane superpowered freaks. And to boot it's al...

"I'm a hero hunter. I hunt heroes. I still haven't found any. "Awesome stuff from the late 80s. Brought back lots of happy comic book memories and Kevin O'Neill is still one of my all time favourite artists.

Just as relevant now as it was in the 1980s, with our heroes being shown to have feet of clay and skeletons in cupboards. As Jonathan Ross warns at the start, this is darkly outrageous. The drawing is shocking yet so detailed and worth taking time over every frame.

Not a light read, incredibly dense and excessive superhero-satire, in some ways even more so than Rick Veitch's Brat Pack and Maximortal. I appreciated it but it's really hard to recommend it to anyone who doesn't hate superheroes like Pat Mills does or appreciates genre deconstruction to such an extreme degree.

Dark. Violent. Relevant. Repetitive. Over-long

I’ve been a fan of Pat Mills for a while now, and i would like to think that I was familiar now with his witty, satire and politics laden writing. However, nothing would prepare me for the shock (or should that be Shocc?) I received when I read Marshal Law for the first time. It was like nothing I had read before; sure the deconstruction of the super hero in comics had been tackled before, the most notable example being Alan Moore’s Watchmen, but Marshal Law is a whole different beast altogether...

Looking For More but Found nothing yet...Too bad, Epic Comics went out. But still, Marshal Law will always remain with me. Still hates heroes, and heroines, one can expect a lot of chaos from him. Not only satirical, but funny as hell in some scenes. If any reader has outgrown superheroes, Marshal Law is definitely for you, but turned off by violence. Oh well..

Originally published in the late eighties through early nineties, the Marshal Law series is a precursor to The Boys with a much darker dystopian backdrop. Titular character Marshal Law hunts superheroes, and he enjoys hating them. The entries in this series include parodies of popular mainstream superheroes including Superman, Batman, Fantastic Four, and so on, and displays a perhaps more realistic view of how wrong things could go if the real world became mired in actual superhero worship. The