Wanted: Nihilism on Crack

Excerpt from Wikipedia:

"Nihilism (from the Latin nihil, nothing) is a philosophical position which argues that existencepurpose, or intrinsic value. Nihilists generally assert some or all of the following: is without objective meaning,

• Objective morality does not exist.
• No action is logically preferable to any other in regards to the moral value of one action over another."

This is the bedrock of 'WANTED' a comic book based on the premise that the bad guys win an all out war with the good guys and then re-write history to their own liking. Altering the time-line you find that nobody believes in superheros or villains in the first place, except in comic books. The real super villains have gone underground and secretly rule the world as 'the fraternity', a badge that gives you the right to kill, maim and rape as you please without consequence. So what happened to the superheroes? Most of them never figured out their powers, suffered 'accidents' or are in mental wards.

Thus our hero is not a hero at all, but an villain. An everyday worker bee who gets trained to be a murder machine. To say that the comic has lost it's moral compass is to state the obvious, there is zero accountability for anything done in this comic. In fact you can expect the most evil decision to be the frequent one for all the characters.

As a juxtaposition to regular comics, this is a very good book. On the whole I wish there had been something redeeming about the story. Some new insight into evil, a moral gray zone or three... but the author simply wasn't skilled enough or thought it unnecessary to present a more advanced plot. Read it if you're bored of the same old thing.

Personally I'm in the mood to go back and read 'Hellblazer' and 'Lucifer' for some good old fashion evil with a mix of infernal responsibility.