Review: Wanted #6

Wanted #6
Image Comics
Writer: Mark Millar
Penciller: JG Jones

Well, much like Wanted and Wolverine: The End, I've been taking a lot of time off from putting out new material. So here's a third post in the last 24 hours.

This issue concludes the six-issue Wanted mini-series. According to an interview with Mark Millar, there won't be a sequel to this series, and it's already been optioned for a Hollywood picture.

There are some great concepts in this series, such as what happened to the heroes, how all the villains interact, and the backstory with Wesley and his father. The art is beautiful as well. But there's something about Millar's cynicism that gets sort of annoying. In the beginning of the series, he did an excellent job of portraying Wesley Gibson as a loser, but now that he's bad, he's not at the uber-cool that Millar thinks he is.

Jones does a beautiful 2 page spread towards the end of the story. The interludes drawn by Dick Giordano are also very nice. This is a clever little concept/mystery, but it's not the "Watchmen for villains" as I've seen it billed elsewhere.

On a side note, I noticed that I'm reading three other books by Millar, Wolverine, Marvel Knights: Spider-Man and The Ultimates 2. His style is starting to get a little repetitive, I think. Ultimates is by far the best of his works. Wolverine, MK: Spider-Man and Wanted are all not as complete. The characterizations are a more varied in Ultimates and the suspense has been greater. Also, one wishes for a little more variety in material --his themes of corporate super-villains (found both in MK: Spider-Man and Wanted) seem a little repetitive.