About this title: 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-villians that controlled the entire planet? Mark Millar and J.G. Jones provide a look at one man who goes from being the world's biggest loser to the deadliest assassin alive. The most talked-about superhero series of the year is now collected in this stunning ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: TITAN BOOKS LTD Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781845769086ISBN:1845769082
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 192 pages. Wesley gibson is one of life's losers. his job sucks; his girlfriend's cheating on him; his life's going nowhere. then he finds out everything he believed about his life was a lie. colour comic strip illustrations (Paperback) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Top Cow Productions/Image Comics
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781582404974ISBN:1582404976
Description: Good. Used Condition-GOOD can be a well cared for Book that is in great condition to a Book that may show some signs of wear. GOOD Books sometimes are permanently marked; have some spine or page creases; exibit signs of aging or an ExLibrary copy. ** Sometimes grease pencil or permanent marking on cover. May contain limited notes and or highlighting. 100% Satisfaction guaranteed on all purchases. ** SHIPS FROM USA-Domestic Delivery takes 5-14 days ** read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Top Cow Productions/Image Comics
ISBN-13:9781582404974ISBN:1582404976
Description: Good. Purchasing this book supports the King County Library System Foundation. Thriftbooks and KCLSF have partnered to help raise additional funds for the library system. Ex-Library book-will contain library markings. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Titan Books Ltd
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781845769086ISBN:1845769082
Description: New. Wesley Gibson is one of life's losers. His job sucks; his girlfriend's cheating on him; his life's going nowhere. Then he finds out everything he believed about his life was a lie. read more
Description: New. Please note that deliveries to addresses in the UK and Europe will be in 4-14 business days. Other countries should refer to Alibris standard times. ISBN10: 1845769082. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Top Cow Productions
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781582404974ISBN:1582404976
Description: Jones, J G. New. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 192 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. new graphic novel in new condition in protective sleeve w/price tag read more
Edition: F First Printing
Binding: S Paperback
Publisher: Image Comics, Orange, California, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781582409931ISBN:1582409935
Description: As New. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall read more
Description: Very good. Used, remainders or ex-library, english-speaking-service, Gebraucht oder Verlagsrestbestand, evtl. aus Bibliotheksbestand, bei mehrbändigen Werken bitten wir um vorherige Anfrage, korrekte Rechnung mit ausgewiesener MwSt., deutschsprachiger Service, 14-Tage-Rückgaberecht. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Top Cow Productions
Date Published: 05/2005
ISBN-13:9781582404806ISBN:1582404801
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 192 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: TOP COW, Los Angeles, CA
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781582404806ISBN:1582404801
Description: JONES, J.G. : MOUNTS, PAUL. Fine in Fine jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. HB-1st. print-FINE/FINE-This truly scarce Top Cow, WANTED Hardcover reprints issues 1-6 as well as the WANTED: Dossier-"an alternate vision of the life right outside your window where the villains are the heroes, and the bad guys run the world. -Recently adapted into a major motion picture starring Angelina Jolie... read more
Description: Millar, Mark (writer) & edited by Scott Tucker., pub. by Top Cow Productions, nd (2005), c2005, Direct Sales Edition 1st printing, boards, fine (no dj), 192 pp, B & W/color illus. by J. G. Jones (pencils & inks) & Bongotone's Paul Mounts (colors), tall 8vo, "Originally published as Wanted issues #1-6 and Wanted: Dossier" Jones, J. G. (pencils & inks) & Bongotone's Paul Mounts (colors) read more
"The most insultingly bad comic I have ever read. The last page was not funny, clever, ironic, poignant, relevant but perhaps contemporary in that it just showed how, in this day and age one can champion mediocrity, suck and get rich. This is the sort of book I would expect from the inbred offspring of Caligula. This is the sort of feces that desperation excretes when it has devowered to much shame and and ignorance. Worse than the recent "JOKER.""
"This is a story about an unhappy pacifist (with an uncanny resemblance to Eminem) who discovers he is the son of a dead supervillain, and who embraces his father's lifestyle after a little encouragement from his late father's villainous colleagues. I don't object to cursing, sex, or violence on principle, but when these things are used gratuitously they can make an "adult" graphic novel seem a bit juvenile. Which is not to say that Wanted wasn't a fun read; I just can't take it seriously as the social commentary it sets itself up to be. If every other exploding-head image was used for character-defiining dialogue it would have been a much stronger story. As a mystery and adventure story it holds up pretty well."
"I found this to be an unrealistic and easy, if dark and violence, graphic novel. That's not to say I didn't like it -- because I did. I just happened to have the luxury of seeing the movie version first. Luckily for everyone involved, the movie version is unlike the graphic novel in all but name and characters (and even then it's not quite that similar). The plots are sort of vaguely similar at the beginning and parts of the ending, but otherwise, the graphic novel takes a much darker twist. Which is good, because if this had been the movie? I would have hated it. That being said, I quite liked the book. It's a dark tale, following the life of our anti-hero (or hero, depending on how you want to look at it), Wesley Gibson. The story is high on violence, the art is beautiful (if occasionally kind of gross) and while the writing isn't as eloquent as, say, something Neil Gaiman wrote, it doesn't matter. It was a highly enjoyable graphic novel, but not for people who are expecting it to be exactly like the movie. 2"
"I'm glad I didn't waste money buying this, though I contemplated it. I read this after watching the movie, and while I thought the movie was ho-hum and relied a lot on the stars' names (though the car scenes were kind of) I have to agree with some people that the movie was better than the graphic novel. Of course there's not so much of what is written here that would translate well to screen (in terms of getting approval), but still.
When the main character rapes because he can and not get caught because he's part of The Fraternity, I felt sick.
I agree this is one of the most unpolitically correct books I've read."
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