“Maybe this 'being evil all the time' crap’s just starting to feel a little forced.” –Wesley.A kind of alternative, inverse history of superheroes from the perspective of multiple super-villains, and in particular, one all-time loser turned bad-ass guy named Wesley, whose Dad, The Killer died and left him his super-villain legacy. I don't usually like comics with covers that look like this, and with some tasteless minor characters called Shithead, and so on, but there's a point to that, they are...

This is another clear example of why you shouldn't listen to most criticisms about a novel/graphic novel that you're interested in. I bought this without knowing that most of my friends hated this, and that there was a movie made already. I just read the short synopsis at the back because the cover looked fucking great. Months later, I ended up picking this up from the top of my bookshelf, and managed to enjoy the hell out of it.This is not one of those cheap crime shit that you get most of the

The front cover of this book is a picture from the film, which I think is Millar's big f*** you to the film, because it was not the original cover! I loved it. It's so un PC it's unreal, I think that's why I like it. Cop killing, hero killing, Radom killing, living shit and lots of sex! Nothing gets more in your face than this comic. This could never be made into a real film. I'm happy the film sucked balls!

I usually like Mark Millar (The Ultimates is absolutely epic) but Wanted is really bad. A friend of mine often says if you want your protagonist to be a villain, he's got to somehow charm the audience. So even when he's on a murder spree, readers will be like, "Oh, but he's so dashing!"Wesley Gibson has the personality of a sulky thirteen year old. The sort of kid that shoots up his high school. Wow, how interesting. He's so anti-establishment, he says "fuck" in every panel. Hey wait: does that

So here are some of the things I found in this comic : 1.The main protagonist Wesley Gibson behaves like a teenager on the worst day of his mood swing and uses the ‘f’ word on every alternate panel that he appears in.2.A sort of ultraviolent legion of supervillains (who are not as timid as their DC counterparts) kills people by the hundreds and never gets noticed by anyone.3.If you are a much bullied and harangued individual then you should break free and kill everyone who ever irked you.4.The d...

So. Eminem is a supervillain.Ok, so you know the movie with James McAvoy & Angelina Jolie filled with physics-defying car chases, nonsensical things like curving the bullet, and Morgan Freeman fucking with some ancient loom of destiny? Well, if you think that's what you'll be getting here, you'll be sorely disappointed. Because as retarded as the plot sounded, there was a hefty dose of entertainment value there.Nope. This is an entirely different story altogether.ENTIRELY DIFFERENT.In fact, the

Mark Millar has made a career in comic books and movies creating stories where the bad guys win, and win big. I may have not read his complete bibliography, but his stories like, Nemesis, Old Man Logan, Jupiter's Legacy, and even his first arc on Ultimate X-Men where he had Magneto publicly humiliate George W. on the White House lawn. It all started with Wanted.Wanted is set in a world where the super-villains got organized and overpowered the superheroes and established a new world order. With

One of the worst comic books I've ever read. Wanted is a book that has violence just for the sake of violence, and claims to be a satire, while really being a piss poor attempt to do so. At least the art is decent.

I feel like a lot of people misinterpret this story. While it's meant to be wildly entertaining on a superficial level (and succeeds) it's also a sort of satire.Grant Morrison, who knows Millar, expressed this same point about Wanted in his book Supergods.I don't think it's a shallow dark tale like everyone is saying. The last line of comic that solidified my opinion on this, albeit in a very crass way, reads, "This is my face while I'm fucking you in the ass!"It feels like the point of this was...

A good story. (I'd expect no less from Millar, who is a great writer.) It's tight and well-contained. A stand alone story that is dense without being too busy.That said, there's some pretty toxic stuff in here. There's a lot of lot of equally good comics out there that I'd recommend before this one, as they don't reinforce/glamorize some of our culture's darkest tendencies, and this one does.

I'm relieved to hear the upcoming movie, Wanted, is only "loosely" based on this comic - that gives it at least a chance to not suck completely.Wanted, the comic, does suck completely. That's not a particularly nuanced assertion, but it's true. Almost all of it is plagiarized from other sources, not even subtly. Its most notable unplagiarized theme is the completely unexplainable racism that runs through it. The point of the comic is that supervillains make up a secret society running the world....

"Only difference between a nightmare and a dream is how big your balls are, b****." —The Fox, "Wanted" comic by Mark Miller, JG Jones, Paul MountsI always love strong females that have potty mouths, aren't too cliché, and don't care what others think of them. Owning your personal power is a theme I love to see written about.Wow. This grew & grew on me! I was so excited when my fiancés' friend heard I liked the movie and thought I'd maybe enjoy the comic. Well, I did! "Wanted" was graphic, action...

Lame. The main character (with a stupidly striking resemblance to that most hardcore of rappers, Eminem! *dies*) goes from being the world's biggest loser to...the world's biggest loser! I was captivated, but what I was captivated by was my intense desire to kick Not!Eminem in the balls, shoot him in the face, and be done with the damn thing. I have no problem liking characters who are frankly irredeemable, murderous bastards, I'll excuse a lot for said characters, and I love an excessively viol...

Collects Wanted #1-6, in which Mark Millar presents with artwork by J.G. Jones, a dystopia where the super villains have already wiped out all superheroes and changed reality and history to cover up both of their existences.The world most deadliest killer is assassinated; his unknowing son is dragged out of his rubbish life, and dragged into the world of the Fraternity, a world itself that is also tethering on the brink because of internal strife. An earlier piece of work from Millar from which

A friend of mine recently told me that the movie (with Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman) was better than this book. I had liked the movie, but I was skeptical, because how often does a movie version improve things? By my count, only twice so far (that would be The Prestige and The Children of Men). When I picked this up from the library, I briefly flipped through it and noticed that the Angelina Jolie character is actually black in the book. Oh Hollywood, I thought, you are so white and offensi...

Millar wrote his crude, violent anti-hero romp twenty years too late. While grittiness is still prized in 'grown up' comics, Millar has apparently mistaken 'mature content' for 'maturity'. Of course, he's not the first to fall into this trap. We've all seen television, movies, and books that place a premium on sex and blood, but presented with all the sophistication of a sniggering teen.Millar does not have the wit to present these issues seriously, nor are his plotting or characterization stron...

It's hard to imagine a more UnPC book then this. It has a super villain made entirely of shit, the line "I Don't Fuck Goats I Make Love To Them." and ends with the novel literally sodomizing you, the person who shelled out money for it. It's like Bret Easton Ellis and Chuck Palinuik collaborated on a "superhero" book and kept trying to one up eachother. It's pretty fucking awesome and I had a blast.

A henchman with Down Syndrome??? 😳That's a plus, being that I have ADD and am double-jointed due to trauma.The graphic novel takes on a totally different direction than the movie. Plus, Wesley, who resembles Eminem, references(narrates) 1980s action flicks in the climax. Hey, I used to play a song repeatedly in my head whenever biking circa a decade ago! Did I mention Fox resembles Halle Berry?

This was fucking amazing! Super ultra violent and offensive. I really think this comic, which was published in 2004, would really run into problems with the pc police today. I loved the movie, but his was in some ways better. The plot is way more complicated, with alternate realities and a world-wide hypnosis that happened in 1986 and made us all forget that there had ever been superheroes, all of whom are now dead or slaving away in menial jobs to the satisfaction of all the super villains, who...

Pulling back the curtain to reveal the ugly truth(s) behind the charade, Watchmen poignantly deconstructed comics as the puerile, spandex laden fantasies they always were. And since imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Mark Miller decided to do his own take on Moore’s sacred tome. Heavily inverted and saturated with edginess, this ostensible tribute comes across as an insult more than anything. Light-years from the stellar quality of Watchmen, Miller’s work wanes pathetically in comparis...