Just finished reading "Wanted"...

[Crash-Man]

...and I searched for some old threads here to see what people thought.

My opinion of the book aside, something about the one Wanted thread I found confused me.

Why were so many posters angered and offended by Wesley's rant on the last two pages of the last issue?

It's not very different from what villains like the Joker have been saying for decades now. The Joker expressed an almost identical sentiment in The Killing Joke.

The whole point is that regardless of how much Wesley's life may have resembled some readers' initially, he was, beneath the surface, a bad person. A good person wouldn't have become The Killer, or at least wouldn't have sunk to the depths of rape and senseless violence that Wesley did.

So he rationalizes his newfound "success" with a big FU to the average joe.

You didn't expect a supervillain's worldview to be inoffensive, or at the very least comfortable, did you?

I don't understand why anyone would see Wesley's words as Millar's indictment of his readers.

[Arvandor]

I don't get it either. I hated the issue for COMPLETELY different reasons than everyone else.

What I hated was the way Wesley suddenly went from being an evil hardcore badass, into a girly wuss, crying for his dad. Why would an evil scumbag like Wesley shed a tear for his dad? What was the point of the father-son male-bonding crap? It didn't make sense, and ruined the whole badboy atmosphere.

Where most of the series read like a bloodsoaked tarantino flick, the last issue for some reason veered off into daytime soap opera crap for no reason, and I hated it.

The last two pages could have redeemed the last issue for me, but it wasn't enough. Too little, too late.

[Bald Steve]

The only thing I didn't care for was just how obviously Eminem and Halle Berry were referenced for Wesley and The Fox. It was distracting at times. I loaned the trade to my brother and as he doesn't care for Eminem (understatement of the year material there, folks), he hated it.

Other than that I thought it was a gloriously over-the-top ride. The Savage Dragon crossover should be a riot.

[Headhunter]

The only thing I didn't care for was just how obviously Eminem and Halle Berry were referenced for Wesley and The Fox.
Really? Eminem is obvious, but I though the Fox was based on Vivica A. Fox's role in Kill Bill (especially with the name).

[DoubleShot]

Yeah, I didn't like the whole Swordfish (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244244/) ripoff but it was a great read! Ending didn't bother me at all.

Isn't it supposed to be made into a movie or did they decided not to do it?

[k0ntraband]

I actually just bought the trade last week and enjoyed every bit of it. Solid story telling.

[Chris Thomas]

why didn't I like the last 2 pages?

because up to that point, the book was a 10--art, story telling, pacing.

then in the last 2 pages, it mutates from a fable about 'what if' the sadistic villians took over and hatched a plan to run the world into 'breaking the 4rth wall' and telling the reader that he/she is just a pawn in a large game. did millar want to say that OUR world is just like this one--whether it has 'super' villians or not? I wan't quite sure. but I didn't like being brought into the story. if the sentiment was just that wesley now likes being in control instead of being kicked around (i.e. his transformation is complete) then millar, who is a remarkable story-teller, could have done this many other ways.

other nit-picking: without the 4rth dimensional imp and most, if not all, of the alien supercomputers--how would they continue to hide the fraternity from everyone else?