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WildC.A.T.s I #6

by Alan Moore, Travist Charest (Illustrator), Kevin Maguire (Illustrator)

Komiks jednoho z nejuznávanějších autorů tohoto žánru. Slavný tým zmizel kdesi ve vesmíru a je nutné okamžitě sehnat náhradu. Jakýmkoliv způsobem – lhaní, vydírání či vymývání mozku je povoleno. Je jasné, že takový superhrdinský tým nebude úplně nejnormálnější a že se v něm budou potkávat nájemní zabijáci s nebezpečnými manipulátory a psychopatickými vrahy… Mezitím se původní členové WildC.A.T.s střetávají se svým vlastním peklem.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Superheroes, Fiction, Science Fiction, Comics Manga, Graphic Novels Comics

208 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Alan Moore is an English writer most famous for his influential work in comics, including the acclaimed graphic novels Watchmen, V for Vendetta and From Hell. He has also written a novel, Voice of the Fire, and performs "workings" (one-off performance art/spoken word pieces) with The Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels, some of which have been released on CD.

As a comics writer, Moore is notable for being one of the first writers to apply literary and formalist sensibilities to the mainstream of the medium. As well as including challenging subject matter and adult themes, he brings a wide range of influences to his work, from the literary–authors such as William S. Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, Robert Anton Wilson and Iain Sinclair; New Wave science fiction writers such as Michael Moorcock; horror writers such as Clive Barker; to the cinematic–filmmakers such as Nicolas Roeg. Influences within comics include Will Eisner, Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Kirby and Bryan Talbot.

Reviews

[47Time · Rating 4 out of 5]

The story broaches on issues of race, political intrigue and fragile friendships. It's not really a page turner, but it's a welcome change from the mainstream superhero style used before it. The team had a hard time finding its roots, but now it threatebs to dismantle completely because of something that basically removes the purpose of its existence.

Savant is building a new team together with Majestic, Condition Red, Tao and Maxine Manchester. The latter is a homicidal android who first goes through some mental conditioning customized by the genius Tao. With a full roster, Savant's team start their crimefighting on a bad note and have to adapt along the way. They upset some powerful people, so this looks like it's heading for something fun.

Unknown to the new Wildcats, the original team are on the Kherubim homeplanet which looks like a utopia, but has its own issues that pose challenges even for the welcome visitors.

The politics of Khera threaten to break the friendship between Zealot and Jacob who are desirable by the two opposing parties, the Pantheon and the Coda. Voodoo's Daemonite half marks her as a second-class citizen, but allows her to find out before any of the others that the Daemonites have already lost the war with the Kherubim centuries before. Nobody has sent this information to Earth. The indigenous Kherans, the Titanothropes, are purple-skinned like Maul. They are also treated as inferior and are segregated by the ruling Kherubim who colonized the planet a long time before.

Voodoo, Void, Maul and Warblade try to reach out to Jacob who only worries about the Pantheon's political points and Zealot who turns them away in favor of the Coda order. Hadrian discovers that the Coda are planning something nefarious at the coming Senate hearing - to kill Jacob and blame the Titanothropes to gain a majority in the Senate. The Wildcats manage to prevent Jacob's murder and the event convinces Jacob to leave the dirty Kheran politics behind. The Wildcats are heading home to Earth.

[Jason Tanner · Rating 3 out of 5]

I don't really know anything about the Wild CATs or the greater Wildstorm mythos. I picked this up because of Alan Moore. It weighs out to be a slightly above average superhero comic.

[Yafu · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cómo levanta la serie con tan poco...

[MvK · Rating 2 out of 5]

Irgendwie bin ich mit der Geschichte nicht warm geworden. Ist für meinen Geschmack zu viel Superheldengedönszeugs.

[Poly Ranca · Rating 4 out of 5]

Probablemente último TP publicado con el sello Image.

[Lee Battersby · Rating 2 out of 5]

Like many of the Image superhero comics, WildCATS always felt like pale rewrites of the major company products that the Image creators walked away from when forming the company. Here, you can see Moore trying to stretch the books obvious limitations, but he is too constrained by their lack of any real originality, and even those elements we come to to expect from the best Moore work-- the consipracies, the betrayals, the characters who are more than they seem-- come across as obvious, and lacking in any real energy. And the book suffers from all those elements that make big-team superhero books struggle for literary merit: 2D throwaway supporting characters; new members who are obviously only created to provide contract/reinforcement of the major characters personalities, or worse, who are a collection of plot-necessary powers with no real personality to wrap around them; plotlines that serve only to take the team to a point of separation from which they can then be regathered once more as a team.

I read this in sequence with 'Gang War' as one storyline, and by the end was left with no sense of surprise or sensawunda, and found far too many references to previously read team stories-- in particular, Secret Wars and the events leading up to the original X-Factor, to be excited, which was not at all helped by the Liefeld-homage artwork. It's competent, journeyman work, but I expect better from Moore.

[Fugo Feedback · Rating 3 out of 5]

Una historia bastante bien llevada de unos personajes de los que no leí mucho pero que me caen relativamente bien. Sin duda este no es el mejor trabajo de Moore -quizás por desgano, quizás por mandatos editoriales-, pero sin duda es mucho mejor que la mayoría de comics que rateo con tres estrellitas, y sin duda alguna mejor que los comics de la época. El motivo por el que no llega a cuatro (pero que conste que las araña) es por cierta falta de redondez en la historia. Me gusta el recurso de narrar qué pasa en la tierra y qué pasa en el espacio en paralelo, y las ideas que plasma en ambos entornos son muy interesantes, pero se cierra todo tan a las apuradas que mucho del potencial despliegue que podrían haber tenido estas historias quedan en el camino. Supongo que esto habrá sido a la fuerza, debido a que el crossover "Fire From Heaven" se les venía encima, pero es el resultado final el que se ve perjudicado, y por eso su mecha en el puntaje. Además, el modo en el que cierra la runfla política espacial es un tanto cliché y poco profundo, no cae en el lugar común pero sí en el baldío de al lado. En cuanto a los dibujos: en algunos casos están muy buenos, y en otros gracias si son cumplidores, pero nada a resaltar demasiado.
Cuando pueda me leo el "segundo tomo" con las revistas sueltas que conseguí, esperemos que ahí pueda redondear para arriba.

[Nicolas · Rating 1 out of 5]

Il me semble que j'avais bien aimé les premières histoires des Wildcats. Mais là, ce premier tome est bouffi d'intrigues parasites et du questionnement des "anciens" qui se retrouvent pris dans les complots de leur planète d'origine. Du coup, c'est pas fameux. En bonus, les dessinateurs abusent du dimorphisme sexuel typique des histoires de surhommes : chaque femme, même la cyborg, est guaulée comme un top-modèle. Et c'est franchement pénible.
Ce qui pousse évidement cette oeuvre sur la pile à revendre.

[Tabby · Rating 2 out of 5]

It wasn't bad, just not really my cup of tea. Very 90s grim-and-gritty fights and tights. Moore plays with some interesting themes, but the plot and characters are kinda meh. The art seems rather dated these days.

[Shannon Appelcline · Rating 5 out of 5]

A brilliant deconstruction of the WIldCATs, plus a great, early look at proactive heroism.

[Chris Maurer · Rating 2 out of 5]

so much better in my memory, at least there's some pretty art to look at and it only cost me two bucks

[Dony Grayman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tomo 1 de dos de los que cubren la etapa de Moore en la serie regular de WildCATs. Contó con varias reediciones distintas y debo tener más de un número suelto en revistas.