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NextWave: Agents of H.A.T.E., Vol. 1: This is What They Want
by Warren Ellis
This comic is good for what it is, and that is complete nonsense. Now, I can't bring myself to give it five stars even though I can see that's what it's aiming for with all the silliness. But for whatever else you think of Ellis, he is a white dude, and white dudes do tend to be very cis-het centric in their thinking. This leads to a lot of stuff like finding humor in the main baddie's quirk of wearing dresses. And while, yes, that main baddie is hilarious and he is not just on the verge, but going through a severe mental breakdown RIGHT NOW, that doesn't mean that just slapping a dress on him and having all the main characters laugh at it makes it 100x funnier.
However.
This book was written in the early 2000s so I give it leeway for that. If Warren Ellis tried writing that crap in the here and now I would decry it with all I've got. But he didn't, he wrote it more than 10 years ago, so I think a little leeway is deserved, since he most likely did not intend for his work to be offensive.
So. Setting all that aside, if you take the book at face value, for what it was meant to be, an insanely hilarious oddball comedy where all the main characters and even the villains have at least one screw loose (probably actually 50), and LOTS of EXPLOSIONS!, then you can sit back and enjoy, because it's a helluva ride.
However.
This book was written in the early 2000s so I give it leeway for that. If Warren Ellis tried writing that crap in the here and now I would decry it with all I've got. But he didn't, he wrote it more than 10 years ago, so I think a little leeway is deserved, since he most likely did not intend for his work to be offensive.
So. Setting all that aside, if you take the book at face value, for what it was meant to be, an insanely hilarious oddball comedy where all the main characters and even the villains have at least one screw loose (probably actually 50), and LOTS of EXPLOSIONS!, then you can sit back and enjoy, because it's a helluva ride.