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From the creators of Criminal and Sleeper comes the most insane and evil super-villain comic you've ever read! What if you were an ex-super villain hiding out in Witness Protection... but all you could think about were the days when the rules didn't apply to you? Could you stand the toil of an average life after years of leaving destruction in your wake? And what if you couldn't stand it? What would you do then? Incognito - a twisted mash-up of noir and super-heroics - by best-selling creators Ed Brubaker (The Death of Captain America) and Sean Phillips (Marvel Zombies) with Val Staples on colors. Collects Incognito #1-6.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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If you've read Sleepers and Criminal this is more of the same from Brubaker, so if you loved that, great but if you're expecting something different you're not likely to find it here.
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If, like me, you enjoy the artwork of comics and tpb more than the story line you will love this book. Not to say that the story line is bad, far from it, but the art is simply stunning, Phillips just seems to have an effortless ease to producing noir style comics.
One of my fave tpb's.
One of my fave tpb's.
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Once the good guys have rounded up the bad guys in the superhero books they usually wind up somewhere like Arkham Asylum (Batman) or sent into space in a mirror (Superman 2), but in this book Ed Brubaker has his villain wind up in a Witness Relocation Program and given a job as a file clerk. There he lives a normal life of boredom, his super powers regulated by drugs administered by the good guys (a kind of less glamorous JLA). But the life he lived is too alluring and he soon finds his ways back to old life.
"Incognito" takes an interesting premise telling the story you rarely get in the superhero comics, that of the baddie after the events, from his perspective. There are a few interesting side stories such as a normal woman held hostage by one of the bad guys during a robbery who, after the event, develops a fetish for costumed heroes and danger, while another deals with blackmailing someone with knowledge of their secret identity.
The actual story of the baddie in question is less interesting as it's more akin to the kind of stuff Marvel and DC put out in their regular publications. It involves aliens, superpowers, superbrains, etc, etc. while I felt the ending was a bit Marvel/DC as well and less like the promising alternative approach that the comic started out in.
I felt that the book had the right idea but wasn't executed as effectively as it could have been. I think this new approach to the superhero genre though is quite brilliant and am enjoying this renaissance of comics coming out such as "Incognito" as well as Warren Ellis' "No Hero" and Garth Ennis' "The Boys". Ed Brubaker is a brilliant writer but I would point readers to his other series "Criminal" for a better read.
"Incognito" takes an interesting premise telling the story you rarely get in the superhero comics, that of the baddie after the events, from his perspective. There are a few interesting side stories such as a normal woman held hostage by one of the bad guys during a robbery who, after the event, develops a fetish for costumed heroes and danger, while another deals with blackmailing someone with knowledge of their secret identity.
The actual story of the baddie in question is less interesting as it's more akin to the kind of stuff Marvel and DC put out in their regular publications. It involves aliens, superpowers, superbrains, etc, etc. while I felt the ending was a bit Marvel/DC as well and less like the promising alternative approach that the comic started out in.
I felt that the book had the right idea but wasn't executed as effectively as it could have been. I think this new approach to the superhero genre though is quite brilliant and am enjoying this renaissance of comics coming out such as "Incognito" as well as Warren Ellis' "No Hero" and Garth Ennis' "The Boys". Ed Brubaker is a brilliant writer but I would point readers to his other series "Criminal" for a better read.
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Having being raised on 2000ad i am used to classic writing and artwork so i tend to compare everything to Alan Moore or John Wagner for writing and bollard and gibbons for art and... Read more
Published on 9 April 2010 by Mark Lynch
Not as good as any of his other works
I found this to be a let down - its basically a watered down/alternate version of sleeper. Unfortunately Sleeper has a much tighter pace and a feeling of noir, while this really is... Read more
Published on 13 Feb 2010 by Adil Ehsan
Another Brubaker Delight
When it comes to the revival of the crime comics genre, there is no way around it. Ed Brubaker most certainly is the man to do the job. And he does it! Read more
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