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A review by unladylike
Black Summer by Warren Ellis
5.0
Wow. This is the most concise and applicable Warren Ellis commentary on forms of revolution, corruption in the government, creative tactics, and vigilantism I've come across. Anyone who appreciated the themes of [a:Alan Moore|2041|Frances Hodgson Burnett|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1197934848p2/2041.jpg]'s [b:V for Vendetta|5805|V for Vendetta|Alan Moore|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165548128s/5805.jpg|392838] or [b:Watchmen|472331|Watchmen|Alan Moore|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1238274511s/472331.jpg|4358649] should seek out this graphic novel. I would put this one right up alongside [b:Transmetropolitan|22416|Transmetropolitan Vol. 1 Back on the Street|Warren Ellis|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167349093s/22416.jpg|23442] as far as the importance of different pieces in Ellis' anthology.
It is set in a realistic present-day United States free of mutants, post-humans, gamma bombs, and all the other elements that usually exist in the superhero genre. There is just one team of people with superpowers, the powers are scientific modifications which enhance actual human capacities to use data. The superheroes got together for the sake of freedom from invasive policing and spent years fighting corrupt authorities. At the start of the story at hand, the group has been fragmented, if not defunct, for some time. Their most powerful member sparks the book off by speaking at a White House press conference covered in the president's blood. Through violent force, he has responded to his conclusion and assertion that the president was a criminal and the war in Iraq was illegal. Black Summer is about where people go from there and how they respond to what appears to be a terrorist dictator.
It is set in a realistic present-day United States free of mutants, post-humans, gamma bombs, and all the other elements that usually exist in the superhero genre. There is just one team of people with superpowers, the powers are scientific modifications which enhance actual human capacities to use data. The superheroes got together for the sake of freedom from invasive policing and spent years fighting corrupt authorities. At the start of the story at hand, the group has been fragmented, if not defunct, for some time. Their most powerful member sparks the book off by speaking at a White House press conference covered in the president's blood. Through violent force, he has responded to his conclusion and assertion that the president was a criminal and the war in Iraq was illegal. Black Summer is about where people go from there and how they respond to what appears to be a terrorist dictator.