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Hit-Girl, Vol. 6: Hit-Girl in India
HIT-GIRL'S IN MUMBAI.
Mindy lands in India looking for a new mission, and uncovers mutilated children forced to beg in the streets. Time for Hit-Girl to track down their gang master and serve justice. A riot of colour and bloodshed from your favorite tween superhero in the heart of India.
Collects HIT-GIRL SEASON TWO issues 9-12.
Mindy lands in India looking for a new mission, and uncovers mutilated children forced to beg in the streets. Time for Hit-Girl to track down their gang master and serve justice. A riot of colour and bloodshed from your favorite tween superhero in the heart of India.
Collects HIT-GIRL SEASON TWO issues 9-12.
104 pages, Paperback
First published February 19, 2020
About the author
Peter Milligan
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There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name
Peter Milligan is a British writer, best known for his work on X-Force / X-Statix, the X-Men, & the Vertigo series Human Target. He is also a scriptwriter.
He has been writing comics for some time and he has somewhat of a reputation for writing material that is highly outlandish, bizarre and/or absurd.
His highest profile projects to date include a run on X-Men, and his X-Force revamp that relaunched as X-Statix.
Many of Milligan's best works have been from DC Vertigo. These include: The Extremist (4 issues with artist Ted McKeever) The Minx (8 issues with artist Sean Phillips) Face (Prestige one-shot with artist Duncan Fegredo) The Eaters (Prestige one-shot with artist Dean Ormston) Vertigo Pop London (4 issues with artist Philip Bond) Enigma (8 issues with artist Duncan Fegredo) and Girl (3 issues with artist Duncan Fegredo).
Series:
* Human Target
* Greek Street
* X-Force / X-Statix
There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name
Peter Milligan is a British writer, best known for his work on X-Force / X-Statix, the X-Men, & the Vertigo series Human Target. He is also a scriptwriter.
He has been writing comics for some time and he has somewhat of a reputation for writing material that is highly outlandish, bizarre and/or absurd.
His highest profile projects to date include a run on X-Men, and his X-Force revamp that relaunched as X-Statix.
Many of Milligan's best works have been from DC Vertigo. These include: The Extremist (4 issues with artist Ted McKeever) The Minx (8 issues with artist Sean Phillips) Face (Prestige one-shot with artist Duncan Fegredo) The Eaters (Prestige one-shot with artist Dean Ormston) Vertigo Pop London (4 issues with artist Philip Bond) Enigma (8 issues with artist Duncan Fegredo) and Girl (3 issues with artist Duncan Fegredo).
Series:
* Human Target
* Greek Street
* X-Force / X-Statix
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August 26, 2024
(C+) 65% | Almost Satisfactory
Notes: So desert-dry it stupefies, such preachy advocating, like breathing smog, and art's a slog, just thoroughly suffocating.
*Progress updates: Preamble ◦ Issues #9-10 ◦ Issues #11-12
Notes: So desert-dry it stupefies, such preachy advocating, like breathing smog, and art's a slog, just thoroughly suffocating.
*Progress updates: Preamble ◦ Issues #9-10 ◦ Issues #11-12
April 1, 2020
Hit-Girl lands in Mumbai to halfheartedly attempt to give us a social commentary. Milligan approaches things though as if we grew up in India and have any context of what he's talking about. I felt preached at and confused for a majority of the story. The art was overly busy and the coloring drab and flat.
August 13, 2023
Maybe it was the heavy amount of dialogue or maybe this story was just too played out already, but I just couldn’t get into this one. I’m kinda glad this series is over now.
September 25, 2020
Racist as fuck! Mumbai indians are either living in slums, gangsters, Bollywood stars or members of LGBT communities. Everyone is either worshipping lord Ganesha or invoking Sachin Tendulkar in their curses. But then, the comic is about a 11 yr old, psychopathic serial killer in the vein of Dexter. Why am i surprised?
August 20, 2020
The revenge/murder porn takes a backseat to the pro-mental-illness propaganda.
December 22, 2021
Hit-Girl violent comic series which fits right in.
Mindy travels to Mumbai and gets involved with the beggar industry and with the Hijra. As expected, there’s a high body count but also a lively educational introduction to the world of beggars in India and the Hijra. I’m not enamoured of the artwork but it’s effective & colourful. I received a copy of this in exchange for an honest review.
Mindy travels to Mumbai and gets involved with the beggar industry and with the Hijra. As expected, there’s a high body count but also a lively educational introduction to the world of beggars in India and the Hijra. I’m not enamoured of the artwork but it’s effective & colourful. I received a copy of this in exchange for an honest review.
March 23, 2024
"You know what these Brahmins are like."
"He puts the fear of Kali into them."
"I feel connected to them. But while I put on a costume to hide my identity, they (the hijra) dress up to reveal their true selves."
"Typical English, meddling in things you don't understand, thinking you can run our fucking lives for us."
Slumdog Millionaire themes + white savior complex + an Indiana Jones-level understanding of Hindu cultural references + comic book tropes.
About as nuanced as you expect from two middle-aged white guys telling a crime story set in Mumbai with a superficial understanding of the society. All the usual recycled tropes: the Indian characters are a mix of your usual spirituality-spouting types, humble salt-of-the-earth lambs, or twisted and chilling villains (including one apparently inspired by Mukesh Ambani), while Indian society is exotic and Dickensian. Why is Hit-Girl in India, other than because some Image Comics executive thought it might be a good way to break into the Indian market? Unclear.
Entertaining and provocative, but don't expect any insights about modern India. The audience is clearly meant to be Americans operating on outdated stereotypes about India, not Indians.
"He puts the fear of Kali into them."
"I feel connected to them. But while I put on a costume to hide my identity, they (the hijra) dress up to reveal their true selves."
"Typical English, meddling in things you don't understand, thinking you can run our fucking lives for us."
Slumdog Millionaire themes + white savior complex + an Indiana Jones-level understanding of Hindu cultural references + comic book tropes.
About as nuanced as you expect from two middle-aged white guys telling a crime story set in Mumbai with a superficial understanding of the society. All the usual recycled tropes: the Indian characters are a mix of your usual spirituality-spouting types, humble salt-of-the-earth lambs, or twisted and chilling villains (including one apparently inspired by Mukesh Ambani), while Indian society is exotic and Dickensian. Why is Hit-Girl in India, other than because some Image Comics executive thought it might be a good way to break into the Indian market? Unclear.
Entertaining and provocative, but don't expect any insights about modern India. The audience is clearly meant to be Americans operating on outdated stereotypes about India, not Indians.
October 8, 2020
Story was meh at best and the art was all over the place with no consistency. Many times the character model for Hit Girl would be different from page to page and side characters were almost impossible to tell apart until their name was said.
February 14, 2021
#RetoComicólogo2021
Categoría: Hulkling & Wiccan
El último volumen de la serie regular de Hit-Girl ve el final de su gira mundial visitando la India. Lo incluyo en la categoría de comics con representación de la comunidad LGBT+ ya que en él juegan un papel importante las hijras, que son oficialmente reconocidas como el tercer género en dicho país (y en Pakistán) e incluyen principalmente a mujeres trans e intersexuales.
Mindy llega al subcontinente asiático a impartir su tipo de justicia, enfrentando al crimen organizado local, atacando a productores de cine corruptos, liberando a un grupo de niños limosneros tullidos de su explotador (quien los deformó para que den más lástima y obtengan mayores ganancias) y a un grupo de hijras que son coercidas a ejercer labores de prostitución y asesinato.
Peter Milligan, veterano escritor británico, hace un sutil comentario sobre el imperialismo, la idiosincracia india, la influencia inglesa, la corrupción y la doble moral de los medios, pero resulta un poco densa la trama y el final es innecesariamente desproporcionado. Siento que los escritores invitados usan más a Hit-Girl como vehículo para ventilar sus frustraciones que como un personaje al que realmente intentan desarrollar.
El arte, a cargo de Alison Sampson, deja mucho que desear. Es en general realista, pero su atención al detalle y a la perspectiva falla las más de las veces en un intento de hacer algo impresionista pero que termina sintiéndose apresurado y mal hecho.
Me hubiera gustado más que terminaran el título con la historia anterior, ya que esta no aporta nada al personaje y no es para nada la mejor. Tampoco es mala, pero dudo volver a leerla en el futuro.
3/5
Categoría: Hulkling & Wiccan
El último volumen de la serie regular de Hit-Girl ve el final de su gira mundial visitando la India. Lo incluyo en la categoría de comics con representación de la comunidad LGBT+ ya que en él juegan un papel importante las hijras, que son oficialmente reconocidas como el tercer género en dicho país (y en Pakistán) e incluyen principalmente a mujeres trans e intersexuales.
Mindy llega al subcontinente asiático a impartir su tipo de justicia, enfrentando al crimen organizado local, atacando a productores de cine corruptos, liberando a un grupo de niños limosneros tullidos de su explotador (quien los deformó para que den más lástima y obtengan mayores ganancias) y a un grupo de hijras que son coercidas a ejercer labores de prostitución y asesinato.
Peter Milligan, veterano escritor británico, hace un sutil comentario sobre el imperialismo, la idiosincracia india, la influencia inglesa, la corrupción y la doble moral de los medios, pero resulta un poco densa la trama y el final es innecesariamente desproporcionado. Siento que los escritores invitados usan más a Hit-Girl como vehículo para ventilar sus frustraciones que como un personaje al que realmente intentan desarrollar.
El arte, a cargo de Alison Sampson, deja mucho que desear. Es en general realista, pero su atención al detalle y a la perspectiva falla las más de las veces en un intento de hacer algo impresionista pero que termina sintiéndose apresurado y mal hecho.
Me hubiera gustado más que terminaran el título con la historia anterior, ya que esta no aporta nada al personaje y no es para nada la mejor. Tampoco es mala, pero dudo volver a leerla en el futuro.
3/5
March 27, 2022
Hit-Girl visits Mumbai for the only misfire of the series so far. The horrors she encounters (the mistreatment of children and hijra) are all a bit too realistic for the story to be really enjoyed, and there's too little action, and what action there is, is quite hard to follow.
The morality gets weird at one point, where she shoots one chap for a punch he gave his partner - what she does to him is obviously much worse than what he did. But would I have blinked at that scene if the partner being hit had been female rather than male? I don't know.
Also quite weird for the comic to feature a BBC employee calling the BBC fascists and his BBC bosses saying a bunch of terrible and bigoted stuff. If I were the BBC, I'd be a bit miffed at Netflix for putting that in their comics.
The morality gets weird at one point, where she shoots one chap for a punch he gave his partner - what she does to him is obviously much worse than what he did. But would I have blinked at that scene if the partner being hit had been female rather than male? I don't know.
Also quite weird for the comic to feature a BBC employee calling the BBC fascists and his BBC bosses saying a bunch of terrible and bigoted stuff. If I were the BBC, I'd be a bit miffed at Netflix for putting that in their comics.
July 7, 2022
Next stop on the WORLD TOUR...India!
Hit-Girl brings her brand of justice to the caste system in Mumbai. She's surely 'got a shot' at it.
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The reality-meter swings hard towards reality in this arc. We've had almost cartoon violence portrayed before and no real message being delivered. Here, they've gone the other direction. It feels like we're trying to get a lesson on the history of India and gender identity. Throw in a brief bit on the negatives of imperialism, and...
Meh. Not the place to get a proper education.
Bonus: Is it that hard to ammo up in India? She's grabbed guns in every other country
Bonus Bonus: Nobody mentions she's now thirteen in this arc. She's just "a girl"
Hit-Girl brings her brand of justice to the caste system in Mumbai. She's surely 'got a shot' at it.
-----
The reality-meter swings hard towards reality in this arc. We've had almost cartoon violence portrayed before and no real message being delivered. Here, they've gone the other direction. It feels like we're trying to get a lesson on the history of India and gender identity. Throw in a brief bit on the negatives of imperialism, and...
Meh. Not the place to get a proper education.
Bonus: Is it that hard to ammo up in India? She's grabbed guns in every other country
Bonus Bonus: Nobody mentions she's now thirteen in this arc. She's just "a girl"
April 15, 2024
This is the finest of the Hit-Girl volumes.
Peter Milligan immerses Mindy and the reader into a world that is unfamiliar and gritty. The stakes seem real and not cartoony. Alison Sampson’s art is an entirely different take on Hit-Girl, and this story is elevated by it. Props to colorist Tríona Farrell for making the world come alive.
I was truly surprised to see this volume have a low star count as I found it the most intriguing story arc in the whole series. To each there own, but this series ended on quite the high note by my view.
Peter Milligan immerses Mindy and the reader into a world that is unfamiliar and gritty. The stakes seem real and not cartoony. Alison Sampson’s art is an entirely different take on Hit-Girl, and this story is elevated by it. Props to colorist Tríona Farrell for making the world come alive.
I was truly surprised to see this volume have a low star count as I found it the most intriguing story arc in the whole series. To each there own, but this series ended on quite the high note by my view.
November 3, 2026
Peter Milligan in Hit-Girl, Vol. 6: Hit-Girl in India argues that most of what we call "talent" is really just a ridiculous amount of boring repetition. I felt like it was half-baked in a few places, since some of the research gets stretched further than it should. But the chapter about the kid who practiced the same three chords for a year got me thinking about everything I quit the second it got hard. You won't buy every claim, but it definitely forces you to rethink the whole "naturally gifted" idea.
March 24, 2020
Good action packed story, but I really didn't care for the art. Hit girl meets the Beggarman, a criminal who tortures and mutilates children so that they can properly beg for money which finds its way into his pockets.
October 26, 2020
Meh
Found the story boring and the narration didn't fit well for Hitgirl. Artwork was just ok overall, with a few bad spots. I really liked the last volume, but this one was a different approach that just didn't do it for me.
Found the story boring and the narration didn't fit well for Hitgirl. Artwork was just ok overall, with a few bad spots. I really liked the last volume, but this one was a different approach that just didn't do it for me.
March 9, 2020
Feels like a retread of the previous volume with some social commentary thrown in. Artwork is good, but out of place for this kind of story.
May 15, 2020
One of the better volumes in the latest run of Hit-Girl, but it looks like it could be the last.
August 29, 2020
Cultural differences come into play and cause some difficulties but eventually problems are solved.
November 22, 2020
Decent story and excellent coloring and inking, really captured an India feel.
September 8, 2021
Very boring
August 13, 2022
Probably the most literate and ambitious of the Hit-Girl arcs. I also really liked the art.
March 17, 2023
The story was interesting enough, but the the artwork was terrible. The action scenes were incomprehensible, and the characters barely resembled themselves from panel to panel.
May 20, 2023
Tanto la historia como las ilustraciones me parecieron planas y nada atractivas, se nota mas luego de un buen desempeño en anteriores comics.
June 24, 2024
I did like the more colorful art here more than some of what's been in previous volumes.
October 25, 2024
A lackluster and talky final volume.
March 4, 2025
So, this is the way this Girl ends? Not with a Hit-bang but a clunker-whimper...
December 15, 2022
If you want a crash-course in Indian culture, this book's your thing. If you want an interesting comic, maybe look elsewhere. About the best thing that can be said about the art is that it's very colorful.
May 17, 2022
The art is stunning. Everything is so busy and detailed - Alison Sampson's backgrounds in particular invite exploration. The colour is so bright and vibrant. The whole thing looks to me like a pretty authentic version of India, although never having been perhaps I wouldn't know.
Everything tied up very neatly. The ending of the journalist character's arc felt very sudden and not entirely earned or fair. The street children get an unrealistic ending in a book that otherwise seemed to be trying to portray a convincing and recognisable real world India.
I enjoyed this more than I thought I'd enjoy a Hit Girl title, but I probably won't seek out any more.
Everything tied up very neatly. The ending of the journalist character's arc felt very sudden and not entirely earned or fair. The street children get an unrealistic ending in a book that otherwise seemed to be trying to portray a convincing and recognisable real world India.
I enjoyed this more than I thought I'd enjoy a Hit Girl title, but I probably won't seek out any more.
January 6, 2024
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