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Jimmy's Bastards: Year One HC
Jimmy Regent, Britain's number one super-spy, has got it intrigue, adventure, a license to shoot whoever he likes and beautiful women falling at his feet. He also has a new partner who isn't quite as impressed by Jimmy as all other women appear to be. Now, there’s a price to pay for Jimmy's multiple romantic conquests ― the results of which are about to come calling in the worst possible way...
From the creator and writer of Preacher, The Boys and A WALK THROUGH HELL.
This superb hardcover edition features the entire series run, issues #1-9.
From the creator and writer of Preacher, The Boys and A WALK THROUGH HELL.
This superb hardcover edition features the entire series run, issues #1-9.
240 pages, Hardcover
Published November 12, 2019
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About the author
Garth Ennis
2,629 books3,191 followersEnnis began his comic-writing career in 1989 with the series Troubled Souls. Appearing in the short-lived but critically-acclaimed British anthology Crisis and illustrated by McCrea, it told the story of a young, apolitical Protestant man caught up by fate in the violence of the Irish 'Troubles'. It spawned a sequel, For a Few Troubles More, a broad Belfast-based comedy featuring two supporting characters from Troubled Souls, Dougie and Ivor, who would later get their own American comics series, Dicks, from Caliber in 1997, and several follow-ups from Avatar.
Another series for Crisis was True Faith, a religious satire inspired by his schooldays, this time drawn by Warren Pleece. Ennis shortly after began to write for Crisis' parent publication, 2000 AD. He quickly graduated on to the title's flagship character, Judge Dredd, taking over from original creator John Wagner for a period of several years.
Ennis' first work on an American comic came in 1991 when he took over DC Comics's horror title Hellblazer, which he wrote until 1994, and for which he currently holds the title for most issues written. Steve Dillon became the regular artist during the second half of Ennis's run.
Ennis' landmark work to date is the 66-issue epic Preacher, which he co-created with artist Steve Dillon. Running from 1995 to 2000, it was a tale of a preacher with supernatural powers, searching (literally) for God who has abandoned his creation.
While Preacher was running, Ennis began a series set in the DC universe called Hitman. Despite being lower profile than Preacher, Hitman ran for 60 issues (plus specials) from 1996 to 2001, veering wildly from violent action to humour to an examination of male friendship under fire.
Other comic projects Ennis wrote during this time period include Goddess, Bloody Mary, Unknown Soldier, and Pride & Joy, all for DC/Vertigo, as well as origin stories for The Darkness for Image Comics and Shadowman for Valiant Comics.
After the end of Hitman, Ennis was lured to Marvel Comics with the promise from Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada that he could write The Punisher as long as he cared to. Instead of largely comical tone of these issues, he decided to make a much more serious series, re-launched under Marvel's MAX imprint.
In 2001 he briefly returned to UK comics to write the epic Helter Skelter for Judge Dredd.
Other comics Ennis has written include War Story (with various artists) for DC; The Pro for Image Comics; The Authority for Wildstorm; Just a Pilgrim for Black Bull Press, and 303, Chronicles of Wormwood (a six issue mini-series about the Antichrist), and a western comic book, Streets of Glory for Avatar Press.
In 2008 Ennis ended his five-year run on Punisher MAX to debut a new Marvel title, War Is Hell: The First Flight of the Phantom Eagle.
In June 2008, at Wizard World, Philadelphia, Ennis announced several new projects, including a metaseries of war comics called Battlefields from Dynamite made up of mini-series including Night Witches, Dear Billy and Tankies, another Chronicles of Wormwood mini-series and Crossed both at Avatar, a six-issue miniseries about Butcher (from The Boys) and a Punisher project reuniting him with artist Steve Dillon (subsequently specified to be a weekly mini-series entitled Punisher: War Zone, to be released concurrently with the film of the same name).
Taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garth_Ennis
Another series for Crisis was True Faith, a religious satire inspired by his schooldays, this time drawn by Warren Pleece. Ennis shortly after began to write for Crisis' parent publication, 2000 AD. He quickly graduated on to the title's flagship character, Judge Dredd, taking over from original creator John Wagner for a period of several years.
Ennis' first work on an American comic came in 1991 when he took over DC Comics's horror title Hellblazer, which he wrote until 1994, and for which he currently holds the title for most issues written. Steve Dillon became the regular artist during the second half of Ennis's run.
Ennis' landmark work to date is the 66-issue epic Preacher, which he co-created with artist Steve Dillon. Running from 1995 to 2000, it was a tale of a preacher with supernatural powers, searching (literally) for God who has abandoned his creation.
While Preacher was running, Ennis began a series set in the DC universe called Hitman. Despite being lower profile than Preacher, Hitman ran for 60 issues (plus specials) from 1996 to 2001, veering wildly from violent action to humour to an examination of male friendship under fire.
Other comic projects Ennis wrote during this time period include Goddess, Bloody Mary, Unknown Soldier, and Pride & Joy, all for DC/Vertigo, as well as origin stories for The Darkness for Image Comics and Shadowman for Valiant Comics.
After the end of Hitman, Ennis was lured to Marvel Comics with the promise from Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada that he could write The Punisher as long as he cared to. Instead of largely comical tone of these issues, he decided to make a much more serious series, re-launched under Marvel's MAX imprint.
In 2001 he briefly returned to UK comics to write the epic Helter Skelter for Judge Dredd.
Other comics Ennis has written include War Story (with various artists) for DC; The Pro for Image Comics; The Authority for Wildstorm; Just a Pilgrim for Black Bull Press, and 303, Chronicles of Wormwood (a six issue mini-series about the Antichrist), and a western comic book, Streets of Glory for Avatar Press.
In 2008 Ennis ended his five-year run on Punisher MAX to debut a new Marvel title, War Is Hell: The First Flight of the Phantom Eagle.
In June 2008, at Wizard World, Philadelphia, Ennis announced several new projects, including a metaseries of war comics called Battlefields from Dynamite made up of mini-series including Night Witches, Dear Billy and Tankies, another Chronicles of Wormwood mini-series and Crossed both at Avatar, a six-issue miniseries about Butcher (from The Boys) and a Punisher project reuniting him with artist Steve Dillon (subsequently specified to be a weekly mini-series entitled Punisher: War Zone, to be released concurrently with the film of the same name).
Taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garth_Ennis
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April 8, 2024Old Man Shouts Rape At Cloud
[read digitally, in single issues - reviewing the collected edition for convenience. I say this only to make clear I did not purchase a deluxe hardcover of Jimmy's Bastards.]
"Swearing! Drug use! Scars on your tits! Swastikas! Skeletons! Pictures of shit!"
the opening sequence of Jimmy's Bastards features a character in a suit and top hat with a Dick Dastardly mustache, whose supervillain gimmick consists of waggling his fingers as if casting a spell whilst yelling an increasingly absurd string of trigger warnings - in the hope, presumably, that the very mention of these topics will shock his opponent into submission.
"Molested by uncle, molested by nephew, savaged by badger, dad calls you a cunt, no good at algebra, angry teacher, history of cutting, man shouting rape!"
it doesn't work.
say what you will about this comic - "tiresome" is one word that immediately springs to mind - but you can't say it doesn't start as it means to go on. Ennis' better work has much to teach the interested reader about narrative economy and the rhythms of good dialogue; those strengths persist here to some extent, but mired at once in full indulgence of his sniggering immature streak and sundry cranky jabs at The Youth of Today, it is, in all honesty, a tad harder to appreciate them.
"Image shaming! Fat arse shaming! Slavery! Mumps!"
[read digitally, in single issues - reviewing the collected edition for convenience. I say this only to make clear I did not purchase a deluxe hardcover of Jimmy's Bastards.]
"Swearing! Drug use! Scars on your tits! Swastikas! Skeletons! Pictures of shit!"
the opening sequence of Jimmy's Bastards features a character in a suit and top hat with a Dick Dastardly mustache, whose supervillain gimmick consists of waggling his fingers as if casting a spell whilst yelling an increasingly absurd string of trigger warnings - in the hope, presumably, that the very mention of these topics will shock his opponent into submission.
"Molested by uncle, molested by nephew, savaged by badger, dad calls you a cunt, no good at algebra, angry teacher, history of cutting, man shouting rape!"
it doesn't work.
say what you will about this comic - "tiresome" is one word that immediately springs to mind - but you can't say it doesn't start as it means to go on. Ennis' better work has much to teach the interested reader about narrative economy and the rhythms of good dialogue; those strengths persist here to some extent, but mired at once in full indulgence of his sniggering immature streak and sundry cranky jabs at The Youth of Today, it is, in all honesty, a tad harder to appreciate them.
"Image shaming! Fat arse shaming! Slavery! Mumps!"
July 23, 2021
(Zero spoiler review)
I read this one at just the right time. I was a little page weary from a few heavier titles, both in subject matter, and length. This well drawn, somewhat humorous, tongue in cheek dig at PC sensibilities, wrapped around a reasonably interesting story was just what the doctor ordered. Sure, it could have been a little more honed. More focused. More world building and so forth. Still, I came away glad that i bought this (admittedly overly expensive hardcover) and would definitely recommend it to others. The titular character, Jimmy Regent, is basically Sean Connery's James Bond mixed with Stan Smith from American Dad. Or you could insert any other in a laundry list of similar characters.
In many ways, its a shame that this was a one and done, nine issue series. There is easily enough here to build a successful and long running comics franchise, even if the ending to this one was a little bit cheesy, wanting to go for that last page sting. Still, No real complaints for me on this one. If you enjoy somewhat crude humour, a bit of tongue in cheek PC bashing, and some light hearted action, you could certainly do a lot worse. 4/5
OmniBen.
I read this one at just the right time. I was a little page weary from a few heavier titles, both in subject matter, and length. This well drawn, somewhat humorous, tongue in cheek dig at PC sensibilities, wrapped around a reasonably interesting story was just what the doctor ordered. Sure, it could have been a little more honed. More focused. More world building and so forth. Still, I came away glad that i bought this (admittedly overly expensive hardcover) and would definitely recommend it to others. The titular character, Jimmy Regent, is basically Sean Connery's James Bond mixed with Stan Smith from American Dad. Or you could insert any other in a laundry list of similar characters.
In many ways, its a shame that this was a one and done, nine issue series. There is easily enough here to build a successful and long running comics franchise, even if the ending to this one was a little bit cheesy, wanting to go for that last page sting. Still, No real complaints for me on this one. If you enjoy somewhat crude humour, a bit of tongue in cheek PC bashing, and some light hearted action, you could certainly do a lot worse. 4/5
OmniBen.
December 6, 2023
Very Garth Ennis. Fun, weird, high concept premise. Horrible world, horrible things happening to horrible people. I generally quite like horrible worlds, things and people, but it's just all so... Garth Ennis-y.
February 16, 2021
Garth Ennis wrote Preacher and The Boys. This one is basically his version of James Bond mixed with Archer.
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