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Wanted by: Mark Millar, J.G. Jones List Price: £9.99 Childrens Toy Shop Price: £5.99 You Save: £4.00 (40%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9781845769086 ISBN: 1845769082 Label: Titan Books Ltd Manufacturer: Titan Books Ltd Number Of Pages: 192 Publication Date: May 27, 2008 Publisher: Titan Books Ltd Studio: Titan Books Ltd Sales Rank: 6126 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Synopsis: Wesley Gibson is one of life's losers. His job sucks; his girlfriend's cheating on him; his life's going nowhere. Then he finds out everything he believed about his life was a lie...For Wesley is actually the son of the Killer, the world's most deadly assassin! Now the Fox - his father's former lover - offers to train Wesley as the new Killer and bring him into a powerful society of super-villains. But does Wesley really have what it takes? And can he avoid his father's fate when a coup inside the society puts him in the firing line?Superstar creators Mark Millar ("The Authority") and J. G. Jones (cover artist for 52) present an explosive tale of action, villainy, and good old-fashioned sex and violence! Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Desperate, masturbatory nonsenseI was extremely disappointed with this twaddle. Perhaps if I was 12 years old I would have enjoyed it. Its not the pornographic nature of the story and senseless violence - I'm definitely no prude, but all the characters were zero dimensional. I didn't care what happened to them. Shame, as I heard a lot of good things about Mark Millar. (I hope) this was an attempt by him to write something mass market - clearly successfully, but at the expense of a story, taste, interesting characters, exciting fight scenes - and an all important decent ending. I found absolutely no re-read potential in this whatsoever. This was probably a short story at best. Rating:  - DisappointingI was looking forward to reading this and I haven't yet seen the film but I was left very let down. The story is intriguing and the artwork is excellent and I get the point of the story ( wishing you were someone else/somewhere else etc ) but at the end of the story the characters are very one-dimensional, you don't really care for them and whether they succeed or fail. The story is pretty hollow and it just never really goes anywhere. Shame. Rating:  - Above standard artwork .... Sub-par and weak storylineThe book comes as a bit of a surprise as it's the artwork that is exceptional and the story is what lets it down. Additionally the book or rather the story finishes 3/4 of the way through. The rest of the book is editors commentary , artwork, snapshots, synopsis of various things. In other words it's bulked out :( Rating:  - how to be a super villainA collected edition of a comic mini series [telling a complete story over six issues] about wesley gibson. an average man leading a downtrodden life wesley thinks he should be doing far more. his life is turned upside down one day when a lady reveals to him that he is the son of a supervillain, and that a group of them secretly rule the world. Wesley gets the chance to follow in his late father's footsteps and become far more in control of his life than before. but will other supervillains let him live happily ever after? And just who did kill his father? This comic is strictly for adults only, language violence and the like making it such. And as a result it is not for the easily offended. But it's never ... Read More: Rating: - All the elements of a classicSome people are never pleased and they always point out some kind of flaw and this book does have a couple. But for me it's all about suspending disbelief for a while and wishing you were somewhere else and someone else. Surely as comic book readers we all wished our parents had super powers and had passed them onto us. Surely we all wish that we could escape the mundane 9 to 5 routine...and this book tells that story with a good measure of hero double crossing and novel concepts thrown in. The plot is solid and keeps you gripped until the end. Not my chosen style of art work but good enough and more than compensated, as I say, by the plot. Definitely worth purchasing. Enjoy |
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