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whimsicalmeerkat's review
3.0
Warren Ellis is never really what you might call subtle, but this is a fantastic story. He manages to twist it around enough that you have to think about the issues he's addressing, yet it's never predictable. Highly political, yet not in the way you might expect.
charliemudd's review
5.0
A Watchmen-esque story about an ex-group of heroes that have to rejoin the fray because one of their members takes it upon himself to kill the president and pretty much the entire executive branch of government. While this is just a single graphic novel, it does a great job subtly providing backstory so that you feel like we read several volumes before this one. And it accomplishes it without any obvious rehashing. Add to that some of the coolest, most insanely detailed art ever and you get a nearly perfect graphic novel. I wish there was more, but there really can't be.
scotto's review
2.0
i'm kind of surprised people enjoy the artwork in this one - i regularly spent pages at a time wondering WTF was happening because juan jose ryp's style devolved into massive bloody squiggles that obscured the action and clouded the story. the action scenes are just terrible visually. the writing's not ellis's best either; the female characters are largely indistinguishable in voice and none of the characters in the book ever reach the point of being people you care about. mind you, that's not a crime or anything; ellis himself takes this same subject matter, throws out all pretense of needing a "team of heroes" in the center, and delivers the book "SUPERGOD" (a book with no central protagonist at all, just a doomed narrator who describes the downfall of humanity) which is far more effective and creepy and pushes this premise a lot further.
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