Wanted
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend 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? Mark Millar and… Product details and pricing info |
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82 Customer Reviews Posted
- Just sad
- I don't know how old Mr. Miller was when he wrote this thing, but if it was over 14, then the book goes from being laughable to just plain pathetic. The whole idea of a cubicle-working, spineless wimp finding a way to stand up in the world by way of flipping the bird and mindless gun-play is juvenile to say the least. I kept waiting for the book to show its hand as satire, but it held on to its disgruntled seventh-grader sincerity to the last page. The art was never a problem, other than the obvious dream-casting of known celebrities, but it's damn near unreadable.
- 2008-03-06, 0 of 6 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- A great read
- Having run across a reference to the graphic novel I picked this up. The artwork is incredible and the story line is well done. The anti-hero theme is one that's been done before but they managed to make a great new version that's not overly mythical or buried in mysticism or philosophy.
- 2008-02-26, 0 of 2 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Wanted (paperback)
- My son saw the movie preview, and thought the book would be something cool to have. I ordered it for him for Christmas and was very disappointed with it. It's contents are vulgar and discusting.I would not recommend this for an adult, let alone a teenager. However, I have had great customer service on my return of this book with Oxworth books.
- 2008-02-19, 7 of 13 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Not so Wanted
- Jones' art is great and I really sympathize with what the author is doing, but I do not think that Millar's story is focused enough and detailed enough to warrant his harsh conclusion. The set-up of how the office drone becomes the super-villan is far too perfunctory and it becomes entirely lost in the sub-plot of the war among the super-villans. I think that if the book is going to pull-off its about-face ending, the reader needs to be significantly more co-opted by Wesley Gibson's transformation, significantly more sympathetic to him despite his abject degredation. Instead of just dropping hints to the depths of perversity in this world, the story should have shown them off. As it is, Millar is in too much of a rush to shove it all back in the reader's face to set his trap sufficiently. Good idea - poor execution.
- 2008-02-10, 3 of 4 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Pointless
- This book was so weak. In reading other reviews I have heard others compare this to Watchmen. The only similarity is that they are both comics. This was such a juvenille read packaged as an adult book and why does the main character look like Eminem? I just didn't get what I was supposed to take away from this book. A lot of pointless violence and profanity, no catchy lines you can walk away with. I've lost a lot of respect in millar as a writer. A great subject in incapable hands don't waste your time if your over 14.
- 2008-01-11, 8 of 12 people found this review helpful, Rated:
