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Wanted
Wanted #1
Bring on the Bad Guys.
Get ready for superheroes as you've never seen them before. Forget The Authority. Forget The Ultimates. Mark Millar has taken the genre to a whole new level with his first American creator-owned book. Find out what happens when white-collar worker Wesley Gibson discovers the truth behind his origins and who's REALLY been running organized crime since 1986, in a story that takes place in the world outside your own window. Described by the London Sunday Times as "Watchmen for super-villains", WANTED is Millar's finest work to date with astonishing pencils and inks by artist JG Jones (Black Widow) and colors by Paul Mounts (The Ultimates). Sex. Money. Super-powers. Costume. You know you want it.
Get ready for superheroes as you've never seen them before. Forget The Authority. Forget The Ultimates. Mark Millar has taken the genre to a whole new level with his first American creator-owned book. Find out what happens when white-collar worker Wesley Gibson discovers the truth behind his origins and who's REALLY been running organized crime since 1986, in a story that takes place in the world outside your own window. Described by the London Sunday Times as "Watchmen for super-villains", WANTED is Millar's finest work to date with astonishing pencils and inks by artist JG Jones (Black Widow) and colors by Paul Mounts (The Ultimates). Sex. Money. Super-powers. Costume. You know you want it.
25 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 10, 2003
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About the author
Mark Millar
1,521 books2,570 followersMark Millar is the New York Times best-selling writer of Wanted, the Kick-Ass series, The Secret Service, Jupiter’s Legacy, Jupiter’s Circle, Nemesis, Superior, Super Crooks, American Jesus, MPH, Starlight, and Chrononauts. Wanted, Kick-Ass, Kick-Ass 2, and The Secret Service (as Kingsman: The Secret Service) have been adapted into feature films, and Nemesis, Superior, Starlight, War Heroes, Jupiter’s Legacy and Chrononauts are in development at major studios.
His DC Comics work includes the seminal Superman: Red Son, and at Marvel Comics he created The Ultimates – selected by Time magazine as the comic book of the decade, Wolverine: Old Man Logan, and Civil War – the industry’s biggest-selling superhero series in almost two decades.
Mark has been an Executive Producer on all his movie adaptations and is currently creative consultant to Fox Studios on their Marvel slate of movies.
His DC Comics work includes the seminal Superman: Red Son, and at Marvel Comics he created The Ultimates – selected by Time magazine as the comic book of the decade, Wolverine: Old Man Logan, and Civil War – the industry’s biggest-selling superhero series in almost two decades.
Mark has been an Executive Producer on all his movie adaptations and is currently creative consultant to Fox Studios on their Marvel slate of movies.
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May 25, 2024
(B+) 77% | Good
Notes: Read in trade paperback. Collective review for issues #1-6 can be found here: Wanted.
Notes: Read in trade paperback. Collective review for issues #1-6 can be found here: Wanted.
August 31, 2023
I read the 20th anniversary edition and it was a lot of fun!
I enjoyed the film but I get the feeling it diverted a little from the story here.
The set up here is great and I really wanted to know more, so I hope they reprint the full series now! It's an easy read and there are plenty of interesting things happening so I'd be curious to read the rest.
Artwork is interesting and easy enough to follow most of the time, though some action scenes were a bit messy.
Great open to the series though, this would have been a thrill to read as singles!
I enjoyed the film but I get the feeling it diverted a little from the story here.
The set up here is great and I really wanted to know more, so I hope they reprint the full series now! It's an easy read and there are plenty of interesting things happening so I'd be curious to read the rest.
Artwork is interesting and easy enough to follow most of the time, though some action scenes were a bit messy.
Great open to the series though, this would have been a thrill to read as singles!
June 10, 2022
Issue 1 of Wanted by Mark Millar was my first and last of this 6 issues story. It tries too hard to be edgy and trivialises all kinds of violence. The male gaze, writing and drawing is telling. Definitely not for me.
September 15, 2017
Ugh, no. So, I saw the movie (which to say to the least, was not good), so I was not in a rush to read this. But, assuming it would be way better than the movie (because that's usually how it goes), I gave it a try. So, aside from the misogyny and racism ... wait, nope, not going to move past those.
November 28, 2024
Another supervillain story from Mark Millar.
Didn’t know there was a movie adaptation, but the first issue sets up the premise really nicely: Wesley Gibson, a fucking nobody in a dogshit world, discovers he’s actually the son of the world’s greatest supervillain— and has inherited his fortune, and more importantly, his thirst for blood.
Typical Millar style: crass, over-the-top violent, and all the rest of that bad stuff. For a set-up issue it was alright, but I want to see Wesley really step into the shoes of his father in the rest of the issues.
Didn’t know there was a movie adaptation, but the first issue sets up the premise really nicely: Wesley Gibson, a fucking nobody in a dogshit world, discovers he’s actually the son of the world’s greatest supervillain— and has inherited his fortune, and more importantly, his thirst for blood.
Typical Millar style: crass, over-the-top violent, and all the rest of that bad stuff. For a set-up issue it was alright, but I want to see Wesley really step into the shoes of his father in the rest of the issues.
January 7, 2023
The movie adaptation and the original work stand alone on their merits. Providing you treat it as the works they are and based one original thought twisting reality to degrees. Recommended as this was an original idea and enjoy.
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April 19, 2021Nothing like the movie. A violent, anti superhero story. I loved it.
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