Mark Millar - Wanted

图书介绍

Wanted is a creator-owned comic book miniseries, consisting of six issues written by Mark Millar with art by J. G. Jones and published by Top Cow in 2003 and 2004 as part of Millarworld. It features an amoral protagonist who discovers he is the heir to a career as a super-villainous assassin in a world where such villains have secretly taken control of the planet.



The series is very adult in nature, similar to more grown-up 'super-hero' titles such as The Authority. The series also bears resemblance to the 1999 films Fight Club and The Matrix as it is about a despondent man in an unfulfilling white-collar job who finds a new lease on life but becomes extremely violent and marked as outside of 'normal' society.



The premise of Wanted is that all the world's super-villains decided to band together in 1986 and use their vast collective powers ? including mad science, magic and mind control ? to eliminate all the world's superheroes and rewrite reality in their own dark image; in essence an in-story retcon. Prior to this the world was a brighter, more hopeful place (a clear reference to the end of the Silver Age). Superheroes are remembered as fiction (as they are in the real world), and behind the scenes a cabal of the leading super-villains run the entire world.



Mama's boy Wesley Gibson discovers that his recently-assassinated father was a super-criminal called The Killer, and that Wesley has inherited his both his skills, his fortune, and also his enemies.



Torrent contains the complete six issue miniseries and the sourcebook.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanted_%28comics%29