Stitch on 27/6/2008 at 01:49
Christ, I just read the first two issues of Wanted and Morte is fucking spot on, although I also would have added far more about how terribly they are written.
SubJeff on 27/6/2008 at 07:26
Let us know if the final panel is as described. I can't believe that either.
Matthew on 27/6/2008 at 09:38
It is.
Stitch on 27/6/2008 at 15:28
Yeah, Morte wasn't overinterpreting with liberal guilt. There's a panel early on where the protagonist says he raped an A-list starlet, accompanied by the visual of him tossing an electrical appliance into a bathtub containing a horrified naked woman.
Pretty vile stuff to be sure, but my issue is more with how artlessly it's all handled.
SubJeff on 27/6/2008 at 16:39
I suppose the film misses all of this stuff out then?
I'm surprised that something with such wrong themes would ever make it to the big screen, adaptation or not.
Matthew on 27/6/2008 at 16:51
From what I hear (haven't seen it yet), the movie takes the first part of the comics and then goes in its own direction almost completely.
BEAR on 27/6/2008 at 17:13
durr who cares it will be a good popcorn flick ololol
Gingerbread Man on 27/6/2008 at 17:16
I'm 100% with Stitch. No real critique or commentary on the "graphic novel" is possible because Wanted fails miserably at the most basic level: The comic is below mediocre in terms of its art and writing, and its concept (while interesting) is utterly ruined by the clumsy and amateurish way it's presented.
You could play for me the most awesome and brilliant song in the world, but if it's a shit bootleg recording of a show that already had poor sound to begin with because neither the band nor the sound engineer really knew what they were doing... well, I'm not going to think much of it, am I?
Wanted is the comic book equivalent of a MySpace page created by some 14 year-old emo faggot who thinks everything he says is soul-crushingly profound even though he can't spell and no one thinks he's in the least bit interesting anyway.
ps Also Angelina Jolie. Is there a more BORING actor in cinema? Go the fuck home, Angie. Go rent another Cambodian orphan or something. Jesus Christ just sit the fuck down.
Gingerbread Man on 27/6/2008 at 17:57
hahaha holy shit sorry lads... Didn't necessarily mean to be THAT vitriolic :D
(hadn't had enough coffee at that point)
Stitch on 27/6/2008 at 17:59
Quote Posted by Gingerbread Man
I'm 100% with Stitch. No real critique or commentary on the "graphic novel" is possible because Wanted fails miserably at the most basic level: The comic is below mediocre in terms of its art and writing, and its concept (while interesting) is utterly ruined by the clumsy and amateurish way it's presented.
I was pretty stunned to find that the most interesting concept of the comic--an everyday shlub being completely corrupted by power, call it the
anti-Spiderman--was basically handled in a few pages of montages. That fall/rise should be the centerpiece of the story, with the reader making the soulless journey alongside as each increasingly vile goal is reached. Then at least the reader would be complicit and the comic would be in a position to
take things somewhere.
As is, Wanted just comes off as some halfassed maladjusted middleschool revenge fantasy.
Feast up, Koki.
