Number 7 - Nemesis - Millar & McNiven

 

Mark Millar has one hell of a CV in the comics world.  He's written for all the major superheroes in Marvel and DC. He wrote the Old Man Logan series for Wolverine that was turned into the most interesting Marvel film to date  He also wrote the Kickass comics and Kingsman.

Slightly less well known is this one - mainly because it hasn't been filmed yet. 

Gratuitously violent, and necessarily so, this type of story works best taken to excess like this. 

Nemesis is the world's greatest supervillain. Born to ultra-rich parents, he uses his wealth to gather the best gadgets and career criminals to help his rampages. In the first pages alone his death toll is probably in the thousands. And he's never been caught. Supervillainy doesn't come much mor supervillainy.

Pitted against him is super cop Blake Morrow. He's never failed to take down a perp and now nemesis has set his sights on Washington DC, the city under his protection.

The scene is set for a gloriously OTT ultra-violent confrontation.

There's no subtlety of characterisation.   There's no deep hidden meanings.  This is good old fashioned action storytelling. 

McNiven's art is perfectly suited to the story, sleek and gory with no detail missed.

There's not much more to say about it.  It's a great fun read, funny and shocking in equal amounts. As good fun ways to kill a spare hour go, this is pretty hard to beat.