Wanted (comic)

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Wanted is a six-part comic miniseries by British author Mark Millar and illustrator JG Jones , which was published by Top Cow / Image Comics between 2003 and 2005 . It's about a young man named Wesley Gibson, who grows up as a ducky loser in a dystopia in which super villains have defeated all superheroes and taken over the world. Gibson learns that he is the son of a super villain himself and becomes the greatest criminal in the world himself. In 2008, the miniseries was made into a movie of the same name , starring Angelina Jolie , James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman, among others .

background

Millar invented the series after an idea he had as a child. He invented a world in which all superheroes had been killed in a war by the super villains. As the ultimate vengeance, the villains rewritten history and humanity forgot there had ever been heroes. Millar was inspired by Peter Parker / Spider-Man and came up with a main character named Wesley Gibson, who was a complete loser and learned that he was actually the most exciting and dangerous man in the world: "It's about a man who worst job, worst girlfriend and worst boss in the world, but then like Spider-Man suddenly becomes the most exciting man in the world ... only that instead of doing good, he does bad and kills everyone he hates. "

With the character design, cartoonist JG Jones at Gibson was based on rapper Eminem , and his colleague The Fox is based on Halle Berry .

action

The story takes place after a great war in which the super villains (organized in The Fraternity ) defeated the superheroes and made them forget and humanity forgot that heroes ever existed. Wesley Gibson is a spineless loser who is bullied by his boss and cheated on by his girlfriend. One day he learns that he is the son of the super villain The Killer and that he has inherited his perfect weapon mastery. After the seductive villain The Fox introduces him to the Fraternity, Wesley is indoctrinated and learns among other things. a. Hedonism , racism and rape as means on the way to the perfect criminal. He becomes the bodyguard of Fraternity member Professor Seltzer and has to watch as Seltzer falls victim to an assassination attempt by his colleague Mr. Rictus and Fox and himself are about to be killed. On the run, Gibson unexpectedly meets his father, who explains how proud he is of his son and wants to be killed by him because he is tired of life. Wesley reluctantly obeyed and took bloody revenge on the Fraternity. After the extremely violent ending, Wesley breaks through the Fourth Wall and mocks the reader as a coward if he is concerned about Gibson's many murders.

Release history

  • Bring on the Bad Guys : December 2003
  • Fuck You : February 2004
  • Super gangbang : April 2004
  • Crime Pays : June 2004
  • The Shit List : October 2004
  • Dead or Alive : February 2005

main characters

The protagonist of the story is Wesley Gibson , a cowardly loser who accidentally discovers his superpowers and takes bloody revenge on all his enemies as The Killer , the ultimate murderer. His colleague is The Fox , a black femme fatale in the style of Catwoman . Wesley is the illegitimate child of the Original Killer , the deadliest hit man of his time.

The villains are organized in the so-called fraternity , which ruled the world and divided it up among themselves. Almost all of these criminals are pastiches by villains from DC Comics . They are led by the super-intelligent Professor Seltzer (a parody of Lex Luthor from Superman ) and his arch-rival, the macabre Mr. Rictus (model: Joker from Batman ). Other members are the infantile-sadistic technical genius Doll-Master (template: Toyman from Superman ), bioterrorist Deadly Nightshade (template: Poison Ivy from Batman ), the dumb clone Fuckwit (template: Bizarro from Superman ), the parasitic sucker (template: Parasite from Superman ), Shithead (Clayface from Batman ) and the reality-distorting dwarf Imp (template: Mr. Mxyzptlk from Superman )

Awards

Wanted was nominated for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Award in 2005.

credentials

  1. ^ Mark Millar, Wanted (hardcover), (Canada: Top Cow, 2005), p 140.
  2. ↑ Mark Millar Wanted Interview Original quote: "It's about an ordinary guy in his early 20s who… got the worst job in the world, the worst girlfriend in the world, he's got the worst boss in the world… So it's about the guy who's the most boring guy in the world suddenly getting the chance to become the most exciting guy in the world… it's kind of like Spider-Man… except it's not good stuff, its bad stuff. He sorts out his life, kills the girlfriend he doesn ' t like, kills his boss. "
  3. ^ E. Favata's Comic Book Movies. Wanted. May 4, 2004, archived from the original on October 6, 2008 ; accessed on November 23, 2013 (English): "As opposed to Eminem, who JG Jones was instructed to model Wesley on, [...]"
  4. ↑ Wanted introduction by G. Lavagna & M. Ricompensa, page 10; on Dark Side n.21 - December 2006, Panini Editore

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