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Brian K. Vaughan Goodreads Author Introduction. What if everything in your life was out of your hands and those around you propelled your fate? Your girlfriend left you for your best friend; your boss gave your job to someone better. What if then, after all this, someone gave you back total control? What if he revealed you were the next in line to join a secret society of super-villains that controlled the entire planet What if everything in your life was out of your hands and those around you propelled your fate?

What if he revealed you were the next in line to join a secret society of super-villains that controlled the entire planet?

Mark Millar and J. Jones provide a look at one man who goes from being the world's biggest loser to the deadliest assassin alive. Get A Copy. Paperback , pages. Published November 27th by Image Comics first published January 1st More Details Original Title. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.

To ask other readers questions about Wanted , please sign up. What was that green thing given as a gift by professor? It looked like a cape? Emily The "radioactive condom" probably contains Kryptonite.

Calling any tight stretchy container a condom is fairly common slang. Opening a box with glow …more The "radioactive condom" probably contains Kryptonite. Opening a box with glowing green Kryptonite to subdue him was extremely common back in the Golden Age.

On second thought, it may also contain Green Lantern's ring As for the cape, that was instantly recognizable See 1 question about Wanted…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters.

Sort order. Start your review of Wanted. Sep 29, Anne rated it liked it Shelves: read-in , hoopla , graphic-novels. Eminem is a supervillain. Well, if you think that's what you'll be getting here, you'll be sorely disappointed.

Because as retarded as the plot sounded, there was a hefty dose of entertainment value there. This is an entirely different story altogether. In fact, the So. In fact, the only things that even remotely resemble the movie are the beginning bit and the names. And I can see why! Would you have gone to the theater to see Wesley gleefully rape and murder everyone in his path once he found out that he was a supervillain legacy? I'm going to go ahead and say no.

This would have made a terrible movie. But as a comic? If you know what you're getting into, it's kind of palatable. Perhaps, even fun? Here's the thing, I thought this was going to be horrible. And maybe if I'd gone into it expecting something that made me feel warm and fuzzy inside, I would have hated Wanted.

So know this: Wesley is not a redeemable anti-hero. For the most part, I enjoyed this weird alternate-Earth reality that Millar created, and I liked the little nods to our classic superheroes and to the wider multiverse.

It's your basic What If the Villains Won? And while I can't exactly say I loved it, if you are a fan of Mark Millar, you might find this worth checking out.

View all 28 comments. Oct 05, Patrick rated it really liked it. A good story. I'd expect no less from Millar, who is a great writer. It's tight and well-contained. A stand alone story that is dense without being too busy. That said, there's some pretty toxic stuff in here. View all 3 comments.

Mar 28, Will M. I bought this without knowing that most of my friends hated this, and that there was a movie made already. I just read the short synopsis at the back because the cover looked fucking great. Months later, I ended up picking this up from the top of my bookshelf, and managed to enjoy the hell out of it.

This is not one of those cheap crime shit that you get most of the time. I really enjoyed the story, and the plot developed extremely well. I liked how the author portrayed the main character at first. He was this weak pussy who didn't really know how to live his life the right way. He was being messed around like he's some kind of slave.

I never want to be what he was before he became the badass killer. I don't want to be that guy who lives as if he is paying paid to be boring. I hate routine shit, because life is an adventure, and you shouldn't be ordering the same fucking sandwich for 18 months straight.

It was a bit unrealistic how he became this batshit crazy good assassin all of a sudden, but like the author said, the answer lies on his genes. I liked the major plot twist Millar thrown in the end. I didn't see it coming at all because I was fixated on a lot of other things. This is a good example of a crime story. Something to make your mouth drop in the end. I am so fed up of reading about how superheroes save the day.

This is the graphic novel to read if you want your villains to shine. I've always been a fan of villains, so that's another plus point for this. Another thing that I really enjoyed here was the brutal factor. I like my crime novels as brutal as possible, and this didn't disappoint in that aspect. The artwork was fantastic. The sketches were spot on, and the characters didn't look like cheap garbage. Aside from that, the quality of the paper and the print was great.

It wasn't cheap stuff, reminds me a bit of Saga's paper quality but a bit better. They obviously didn't hold back in terms of that. One of my favorite graphic novels ever.

I'll surely read this again in the future. Highly recommended for those who are fans of crime and brutality. I can't wait to watch the movie soon.

View all 9 comments. Apr 30, Baba rated it liked it Shelves: dystopia. Collects Wanted , in which Mark Millar presents with artwork by J. Jones, a dystopia where the super villains have already wiped out all superheroes and changed reality and history to cover up both of their existences.

The world most deadliest killer is assassinated; his unknowing son is dragged out of his rubbish life, and dragged into the world of the Fraternity, a world itself that is also tethering on the brink because of internal strife. An earlier piece of work from Millar from which the successful Hollywood movie was drawn from. Gotta say it though, the 'white man living in a shitty world' narrative of the main protagonist leading him to be casually racist and misogynous, and the anti-comic book reader slant of the protagonist are kind of irksome.

Apr 28, Dave Schaafsma rated it really liked it Shelves: gn-superhero-scifi-fantasy. A kind of alternative, inverse history of superheroes from the perspective of multiple super-villains, and in particular, one all-time loser turned bad-ass guy named Wesley, whose Dad, The Killer died and left him his super-villain legacy.

I don't usually like comics with covers that look like this, and with some tasteless minor characters called Shithead, and so on, but there's a point to that, they are tasteless super-villains. But Millar enjoys creating these bad guys, he says bring 'em on!

Wesley has a terrible abusive boss in a terrible job, and a terrible cheating girlfriend, but he basically becomes strong and powerful and evil and thus exacts a kind of revenge for his miserable life. Some superheroes are nerds that get sand kicked in their faces and this is a twist on that, I guess. Maybe three stars. But the last two pages of the comic are terrific, they make the whole experience worth it; that particular twist is a pretty good joke, a kind of punchline for the book, which is complete in this one volume.

The last two pages are worth at least a star. View all 18 comments. Jun 17, Ali rated it did not like it Recommends it for: nobody. Shelves: , graphic-novels-comics , waste-of-time.

I'm relieved to hear the upcoming movie, Wanted, is only "loosely" based on this comic - that gives it at least a chance to not suck completely. Wanted, the comic, does suck completely. That's not a particularly nuanced assertion, but it's true. Almost all of it is plagiarized from other sources, not even subtly. Its most notable unplagiarized theme is the completely unexplainable racism that runs through it. The point of the comic is that supervillains make up a secret society running the world.

It glorifies rape and casual murder, and every character is a sociopath - simply because they can get away with it. This might be an interesting premise in the hands of a good writer, someone who could create interesting characters with depth and an intriguing storyline.

But Wanted lacks both of those necessary elements. The characters are shallow and even worse, they're boring. The protagonist is explicitly modeled on Eminem, and his eventual girlfriend literally is Halle Berry. The protagonist's motivations are badly plagiarized, too - from "Fight Club". For an interesting take on modern masculinity, secret conspiracies and a culture of unrestrained violence, just read "Fight Club".

For the life of Eminem, watch "8 Mile". For supervillains Give this a pass. View 1 comment. Sep 30, Brooke rated it did not like it Shelves: graphic-novels-read. A friend of mine recently told me that the movie with Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman was better than this book.

I had liked the movie, but I was skeptical, because how often does a movie version improve things? When I picked this up from the library, I briefly flipped through it and noticed that the Angelina Jolie character is actually black in the book. Oh Hollywood, I thought, you are so white and offensi A friend of mine recently told me that the movie with Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman was better than this book.

Then I read the book, and I thought, well, maybe I should revise my opinion on how Hollywood dealt with this one. The whole book is just this mad mess. The main character is purposely drawn to look like Eminem , for God's sake. There are elements that are shakey and undeveloped - what was up with the brief mentions of the alternate universes that they could travel to?

And the supervillains are free to do what they want because they got rid of the superheroes, but they can't do whatever they want because superheroes from other universes might cross over and stop them? And according to the author, he only intended to have the supervillains in their costumes for one panel, but then he forgot and they ended up being in their costumes for the whole book.

He forgot? How much attention was he really giving this thing? I feel like there's probably something to analyze in here, but it's just out of reach in the mess. View all 5 comments. Sep 03, J. Keely rated it did not like it Shelves: comics , reviewed , capes. Millar wrote his crude, violent anti-hero romp twenty years too late. While grittiness is still prized in 'grown up' comics, Millar has apparently mistaken 'mature content' for 'maturity'.

Of course, he's not the first to fall into this trap. We've all seen television, movies, and books that place a premium on sex and blood, but presented with all the sophistication of a sniggering teen. Millar does not have the wit to present these issues seriously, nor are his plotting or characterization stron Millar wrote his crude, violent anti-hero romp twenty years too late. Millar does not have the wit to present these issues seriously, nor are his plotting or characterization strong enough to save this book.

Millar decided to base his assassin anti-hero on rapper Eminem, which is a cute enough idea, but it also gives us a good sense of Millar's sophistication. While many enjoy Eminem for his catchy, highly-produced songs and natural affinity for scansion and rhythm, only frat boys and OG wannabes find him an able role model. Millar seems to take the rapper's message of misanthropic misogyny at face value, instead of laughing at Eminem's battle-rap fronting.

This is even more inexplicable because Eminem himself often makes light of the 'hard' persona inherited from gangster rappers. It's not hard to imagine Millar putting on a mix of Marshall's most lewd, angry odes to wife killing each time he sat down to plot out this series. It focuses on Wesley Gibson as an assassin heir to the legacy of his father.

It also features several supervillan-assassins taking control of the Earth. Wesley Gibson is a loner cubicle employee who is abused by almost everyone in his life, including his female African-American boss Janice , a local Latino gang, his adulterous ex-girlfriend, and his best friend with whom his girlfriend is having an affair.

Wesley was raised by his pacifist mother after they were abandoned by his father, causing him to grow up into a wimp. All this changes when he is visited by the Fox , an assassin who shoots everyone in a grocery store before revealing herself to be a member of the Fraternity, a powerful organization of supervillains that rules the world.

So long as they maintain secrecy, they are able to commit any crime without any consequences. The Fraternity wishes to recruit Wesley to replace his father, a supervillain known as the Killer, who was killed by an unknown assassin.

The Professor helps Wesley realize his powers by provoking him into shooting the wings off flies. The Professor explains that a long time ago, the world was overrun by both superheroes and supervillains. Tired of being repeatedly defeated and jailed, the supervillains joined together and staged a revolution that Wesley's father was a part of.

After a long, bloody war, the superheroes were defeated. Using magic and advanced technology, the newly formed Fraternity was able to erase the world's memories of superheroes and supervillains. All that remained were faint, inaccurate memories, which were the cause of superhero comic books and other media. Many of the surviving heroes now believed themselves to be actors who had played superheroes.

The Professor also explains to Wesley that Fox and his father had once worked for Mr. Rictus, who controlled the Australian chapter of the Fraternity.

When Rictus visits the Professor's headquarters, Fox implies that she and the Killer left Rictus' chapter because he had been harming children.

Wesley simply grins and kills Shithead using nothing but cleansing fluid commonly used to clean toilet bowls. After this, he and Fox suit up to get ready to kill the other members of the Fraternity who are after them.

The next day Fox and Wesley go around the city killing as many super villains as they can find. Even the super powered villains are found to be helpless as Wesley simply guns them down with single shots to the head. They find themselves overpowered by Sucker who had previously stolen Fuckwit's powers thus making him invulnerable to bullets. However Wesley calmly explains that the time limit to keep those powers has expired causing him to lose his ability of flight and to die as he hits the ground.

Wesley and Fox then head to the Professor's base in an attempt to reach Mister Rictus. They slaughter many super villains on their way in until they find themselves ambushed and surrounded by an army of super villains and Mister Rictus just as they enter the main room. Wesley panics but Fox assures him that real killer can take them out on his own. The super villains begin to fire and Wesley quickly avoids the attack and flips around shooting and killing all of them instantly.

The only one left standing alive is Mr. Rictus who is amazed at Wesley's performance but predicts that Wesley is now out of bullets. Overconfident, Mr. Rictus fires at Wesley but Wesley is able to knock the bullet back using nothing but his knife. The bullet reflects and hits a surprised Mr. Rictus in the neck. Afterwards, Wesley found his father alive, smoking a cigarette in the corner secretly observing the battle the whole time.

His dad tells his son that his mother was originally a super villain just like him but when Wesley was born his mother decided that she never wanted him to be like his father so she encouraged him to never fight and avoid all conflict. His father tells him that all his life he has been secretly.

The Killer wanted Wesley to be a man, so he faked his death to make him join the Fraternity. Fearing his old age and decline of his powers he asked Wesley to kill him, explaining that he fears one day he will no longer be able to defend himself and that his enemies will actually manage to succeed in killing him. This is something he cannot accept. He can only accept death at the hands of his own son as he knows that he will carry the mantle of The Killer wisely.

Wesley is at first reluctant, thinking his father is joking. When Wesley realizes he's not joking, he pleads with his father not to make him do this. Wesley's father tells him to be a man in which Wesley finally agrees with his last word to his father "I love you dad" before pressing the trigger. Tears roll down Wesley's cheek. After Wesley kills his father he tells Fox that he is going back to his dull, boring existence.