Executive Assistant: Iris Volume 2 TP [Paperback] [2012] (Author) David Wohl, Ryan Odagawa, Eduardo Francisco

Executive Assistant Iris (Collected editions) #2

by David Wohl

Iris is back! The thrilling second volume to the critically acclaimed series Executive Iris is available now in one action-packed collection! Following the death of her master Mr. Ching, Iris is nowhere to be found. Yet, the industry of EA's presses on without her under the corporate domination of a new threat to world security - the billionaire entrepreneur Duncan Villone. His strategy for control of not only the Executive Assistant's bodies, but also their minds sends ripples across multiple continents in this unrelenting tale of espionage and global conspiracy! Featuring appearances by popular EA's Rose, Lily, Lotus, Orchid and Violet, this is one trade paperback fans of EA, and new readers looking to join the fold, will not want to miss!

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics, Comic Book

Paperback

First published October 2, 2012

About the author

David Wohl is an American comic book writer and editor.
(source: Wikipedia)

Reviews

[47Time · Rating 3 out of 5]

The story is a lot weaker this time around. Even with the unexpected but welcome kills, it's too fast for it's own good. The artwork is also inferior to the first volume, but the story bothers me more. It feels like I missed some events between the two volumes because it's hard to see much of a connection between them. All in all, there are a few twists that I found enjoyable, but nothing award-winning.

Diane Coverdale is a successful entrepreneur who, after a failed attempt on her life, buys the services of Acteia, one of a new generation of executive assistants. Iris is the better assistant, though, and kidnaps the less experienced Acteia.

Acteia is taken to the island home of Duncan Villone, a businessman with his own executive assistant, Juniper. He also has Iris and Rose in his employ. He implants a chip in the back of Acteia's neck, enabling him to control her. Duncan demands that Diane give him control over her company, but she refuses when she also learns that Duncan had her husband killed. In an unexpectedly fast-paced scene, he orders Acteia to kill Diane, which she reluctantly does, given the chip in her neck, then orders Iris to kill Acteia.

Iris slowly realises that her own chip might be malfunctioning as she doubts Duncan's actions. Rose and Juniper are ordered to dispose of Iris during a mission against a company Duncan intends to buy after causing its stock to drop. Iris takes advantage of her environment and attacks, but her chip still works enough for Rose to get her to stop fighting and stay in the building as it blows up. Lotus and Violet save Iris at the last second.

With her chip reprogramed, Iris leads a team of executive assistants working under MI6 to Duncan's island home. They get captured by guards, but this works to their advantage. Killing Duncan only raises more questions about his goal and his employer.

[Keith Irwin · Rating 1 out of 5]

In this volume, instead of being enslaved by her conditioning, now Iris is enslaved by a mind-control chip. In the conclusion of the last volume, Iris had finally freed herself from her life of enslavement by making the choice to leave and then fighting her former "employer". So I was looking forward to at least seeing what she did now that she was making her own choices. I was befuddled when the story then was all about someone else. At least this second Executive Assistant was working for a woman CEO and not being her sex slave, so it felt initially less sexist than the first volume.

But then eventually we find out what's going on and we find out that Iris is now enslaved by a computer chip and that the new character is being enslaved as well. And then they kill off the two characters that we spent the whole of the first two issues focussing on. I suspect that this is supposed to feel shocking, but instead it just feels irritating.

So, once more, if the idea of a mind-controlled sexy asian assassin appeals to you and you aren't old enough to read actual pornography, then this is probably the book for you. If that doesn't describe you, I would not recommend reading this.

[Lady Entropy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Bought and finished today.

Art is ... bland. Story is silly, badly written, and it kinda opens itself to a lot of contradiction and plotholes.

I liked Iris 1. This one feels like wasted money, and I probably won't bother with the series again. I'm still checking the Hit List mini series and see if it's worth to check Assassins or not.