The Marshal Law books are a blast! What I love so much about this story of a cop who hunts rogue meta-humans is the genuine contempt for super heroes that Pat Mills and Kevin O'Neill inject into the series. It seems like it was a huge influence on Garth Ennis' new comic, The Boys, which isn't quite as sharp.

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Best case against vigilantism. Kurtzman is alive!

Pat Mills is, was and will forever remain a genius in my mind. Marshal Law is just the tip of the iceberg as far as proof goes.Between Mills' writing and Kevin O'Neill's outstanding artwork, Marshal Law stands heads above the rest of the superhero disembowelment movement.

3.5 stars. I really struggled between 3 and 4 stars on this one and ended up right in the middle at 3.5. My struggle was based in large part between admiration of the talent involved in the story (which was superior) and enjoyment of the story itself (which at the end of the day was "middle of the road").The story itself, as the introduction to the work makes clear, is really a deconstruction of the super hero genre. It is not an attack on the genre itself but rather on the way heroes have been

Satire of gritty nihilist superhero deconstructions, which were already one level of irony up.Or wait: it’s not satirising Moore or Miller; Ennis’ The Boys is exactly the same as this.

What a horrible, noxious apocalyptic world these two have created, rife with vein-popping, phallic-oozing, Christ-themed sociopathic “superheroes” originally created for work in the Nam-like Zone, and the bondage-geared, morally superior but goonish Judge Dredd knockoff Marshall Law set to rid San Futuro of its most undesirable, deranged “superhero” elements. Drink deep the putrid aroma of every saturated, over-detailed panel, and revel in the rape and destruction of superhero creeps like Sleepm...

Great takedown of the superhero mythos. Recommended for fans of and The Boys. Not recommended for people easily offended.

I have owned a few copies of this and lend it up and keep re-buying it. The witting and art are a powerful examination dissection and eventual destruction of the comic stereotype.

Fear and Loathing. Gosh I love reading Marshal Law. He is the ultimate Badass Anti-Hero.

Marshal Law is a high-octane black comedy, a satire on superheroism which tackles many of the same themes as its contemporary, Moore's much-lauded 'Watchmen'. But while Moore takes a serious, realistic tack in his deconstruction, Mills' satire is much more overt and over-the-top.Like Moore, Mills is showing how ridiculous it is to take superheroism at face value, and trying to show what people would really be like if they had superpowers: naive, amoral rockstars bent on attacking anyone who does...

This series is as bad ass as comics come. Marshall Law has fascinating characters, an original plot, and amazing artwork. At first I found the world this takes place in to be hard to understand—chaos for the sake of chaos—but as I got further into the plot, I began to appreciate what was laid out before me. Once I had a firm understanding of who each character was and what they wanted, this story became nearly impossible to put down. The art reminds me of old Frank Miller and the plot feels a bi...

In hindsight, Marshal Law is what would happen if Alan Moore and Evan Dorkin has a love child and abandoned it in a dumpster. Not only do I mean that as a compliment, but that's also, in a way, what happened. Marshal Law came out in the late eighties, when comic books were reaching a larger readership than ever that included an increasingly adult audience, yet mainstream America was still treating comic books as childish escapism, as was demonstrated by whatever the hell Tim Burton's Batman was

The "death" of the super hero told in the bleakest way possible. Pat Mills and Kevin O'neill created was of the most thought provoking (and sadly underrated) deconstructive stories ever made. This is what The Boys wishes it could be.

Marshal Law stood out from the many nihilistic characters crowding the pages of late 80s comics. Literally an anti-hero, Law hates and even actively hunts superheroes. Set in San Futuro, a near-future version of San Francisco, Marshal Law: Fear and Loathing collects the first over-the-top storyline (originally published as six issues) of this scathing indictment on religion, establishment politics, war, bigotry, and hypocrisy all wrapped in the cape of super-heroics. Writer Mills, founder and lo...

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This book collects the six issue mini-series that was published in the late eighties by epic and was written by Pat Mills with art by Kevin O'Neill. The pair are both alumni of the British comic 2000AD and collaborated previously on the fantastic Nemesis the Warlock. Mills has written a number of other series for 2000AD including sword and sorcery epic Slaine and ABC Warriors. O'Neill is probably best known these days for his work on The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.Published just after Wat...

Entertaining enough. It was written by Pat Mills, who was always very sceptical about those in authority from what I remember in 2000AD. For instance, right now, I doubt he'd be saying, 'The government is doing their best it can over this coronavirus pandemic. Sure, it would have been better if they had announced the lockdown a week earlier, but they had contradictory scientific advice, and they did not want to crash the economy." I would be surprised if Pat Mills took that point of view. In thi...

Great drawing. Great narrative. It offended me at the same time amazed me. One of the most incredible comics I've ever read. Genius sutff here.WARRANT: this is NOT for everyone. A lot of graphic (physical and moral) violence.

This was published in 1987?!Can you believe that one year after Watchmen and Batman: The Dark Knight Returns changed the world of comics forevermore Pat Mills and Kevin O'Neil predicted, lampooned, and castrated the very worse aspects and excesses of that very change they ushered in, years before those aspects and excesses became widely apparent in the early nineties!? I speak, of course, of the Dark Age of Comics, which, a few would argue, still hasn't ended.Mills and O'Neill go beyond refusing...