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Marshal Law: Fear and Loathing (Marshal Law (Graphic Novels))
From the legendary creative team of Pat Mills (Judge Dredd, Slaine, A.B.C. Warriors) and Kevin O'Neill (League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) comes a new kind of hero... It is the none-too-distant future. San Francisco has been destroyed by a massive earthquake, and rebuilt as San Futuro. The Government has publicly endorsed genetics programs designed to create a new race of...more
Paperback, 200 pages
Published
April 1st 2003
by Titan Books
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Marshal Law is a high-octane black comedy, a satire on superheroism which tackles many of the same themes as its contemporary. Moore's much-lauded 'Watchmen'. But while Moore takes a serious, realistic tack in his deconstruction, Mills' satire is much more overt and over-the-top.
Like Moore, Mills is showing how ridiculous it is to take superheroism at face value, and trying to show what people would really be like if they had superpowers: naive, amoral rockstars bent on attacking anyone who does...more
Like Moore, Mills is showing how ridiculous it is to take superheroism at face value, and trying to show what people would really be like if they had superpowers: naive, amoral rockstars bent on attacking anyone who does...more
What a horrible, noxious apocalyptic world these two have created, rife with vein-popping, phallic-oozing, Christ-themed sociopathic “superheroes” originally created for work in the Nam-like Zone, and the bondage-geared, morally superior but goonish Judge Dredd knockoff Marshall Law set to rid San Futuro of its most undesirable, deranged “superhero” elements. Drink deep the putrid aroma of every saturated, over-detailed panel, and revel in the rape and destruction of superhero creeps like Sleepm...more
3.5 stars. I really struggled between 3 and 4 stars on this one and ended up right in the middle at 3.5. My struggle was based in large part between admiration of the talent involved in the story (which was superior) and enjoyment of the story itself (which at the end of the day was "middle of the road").
The story itself, as the introduction to the work makes clear, is really a deconstruction of the super hero genre. It is not an attack on the genre itself but rather on the way heroes have been...more
The story itself, as the introduction to the work makes clear, is really a deconstruction of the super hero genre. It is not an attack on the genre itself but rather on the way heroes have been...more
This book collects the six issue mini-series that was published in the late eighties by epic and was written by Pat Mills with art by Kevin O'Neill. The pair are both alumni of the British comic 2000AD and collaborated previously on the fantastic Nemesis the Warlock. Mills has written a number of other series for 2000AD including sword and sorcery epic Slaine and ABC Warriors. O'Neill is probably best known these days for his work on The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
Published just after Wat...more
Published just after Wat...more
Marshal Law stood out from the many nihilistic characters crowding the pages of late 80s comics. Literally an anti-hero, Law hates and even actively hunts superheroes. Set in San Futuro, a near-future version of San Francisco, Marshal Law: Fear and Loathing collects the first over-the-top storyline (originally published as six issues) of this scathing indictment on religion, establishment politics, war, bigotry, and hypocrisy all wrapped in the cape of super-heroics. Writer Mills, founder and lo...more
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Aug 06, 2012
Christopher Grant
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Recommends it for:
Anyone that likes to see superheroes portrayed the way we all know they would act.
Pat Mills is, was and will forever remain a genius in my mind. Marshal Law is just the tip of the iceberg as far as proof goes.
Between Mills' writing and Kevin O'Neill's outstanding artwork, Marshal Law stands heads above the rest of the superhero disembowelment movement.
Between Mills' writing and Kevin O'Neill's outstanding artwork, Marshal Law stands heads above the rest of the superhero disembowelment movement.
li faz muito tempo, mas é muito bom e pode ser lido hoje sem problemas.
recomendo.
recomendo.
The Marshal Law books are a blast! What I love so much about this story of a cop who hunts rogue meta-humans is the genuine contempt for super heroes that Pat Mills and Kevin O'Neill inject into the series. It seems like it was a huge influence on Garth Ennis' new comic, The Boys, which isn't quite as sharp.
Great hardcover edition containing two volumes: Fear And Loathing, Crime And Punishment.
Oct 28, 2008
Gerry Vogel
marked it as to-read
I heard this series is really sick, and funny.
May 16, 2013
Harold Smithson
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May 09, 2013
Eric Vincent Guilmette
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May 03, 2013
JOHNNY B GOODY
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Pat Mills, born in 1949 and nicknamed 'the godfather of British comics', is a comics writer and editor who, along with John Wagner, revitalised British boys comics in the 1970s, and has remained a leading light in British comics ever since.
His comics are notable for their violence and anti-authoritarianism. He is best known for creating 2000 AD and playing a major part in the development of Judge...more
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His comics are notable for their violence and anti-authoritarianism. He is best known for creating 2000 AD and playing a major part in the development of Judge...more
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