Nemesis #4 (of 4)

[superboyprime]

The comic's backmatter gives the genesis of this cover:

"Here's a little extra treat for all of you Nemphomaniacs. Just to prove his renaissance man-ishness, Mark decided to put the keyboard away and pick up a pencil and draw the variant cover for this issue."



The good guys eventually succeed in killing Nemesis.

Comments

[tsunamiwombat]

Ten Years?

That is some motherfucking Xanatos Chessthere.

[thanekos]

I wonder, just how many versions of that letter did Mysterious Power Broker Man draft up and leave at that hotel?

With different vintages, of course.

[pyrotwilight]

Soooo...Nemesis is a corporation? I...what.

[proteus_lives]

Huh.

Not as bad as I thought it would be. But there are a lot of pages I'm not seeing.

[sadoeuphemist]

So..the bad guy was God the whole time?

[psychopathicus_rex]

So Nemesis is an institution, then. Eh, it's been done. I'm not impressed.

[jlroberson]

Interesting shot there at the end, at Hollywood. A bite, in fact, at the very hand that feeds him. Except it's more like he's the hand feeding THEM. So it seems a mite hypocritical as Millar is a prime mover in Hollywood's current glut of superhero stuff. And that this is obviously destined to be a movie(the whole comic is basically a storyboard). And Millar is also a major culprit of the past decade's attempts to make comics storytelling more like movies--and not even GOOD movies, but the kind Emmerich or Bay do. Which I think is a mistake, as commercial as it might seem, because comics and film really have nothing in common as media. Which was why, for instance, as messy as it was, I liked Bendis & Cho's MIGHTY AVENGERS because of the massive number of panels and thought balloons. It was nice looking at a mainstream comic that was ACTING like a comic.

That said, I wasn't expecting any more of this than well-crafted diversion and it delivered as far as that's concerned. I'm used to Ennis and Mills, so its pure meanness doesn't put me off. It's a hell of a lot more fun to read than KICK-ASS, which I found repulsive, though that might have had to do with the strange, gratuitous liberal-bashing. What exactly IS MIllar's understanding of American culture? Because Hit-Girl's--and her dad's--expressed beliefs did not seem ironically meant. MiIlar's been spouting that weird sort of seeming RW pandering ever since ULTIMATES and I'm not sure if any satire is intended by it. If so it's clumsy.

[hybrid2]

Right,the henchmen "retire" after every job.

[stubbleupdate]

So the cops knew that internal affairs were setting them up?

[lonewolf23k]

Reading that title blurb, "Is there anything this Bastard isn't Capable Of?"

I'd say yes. He can't even begin to get me interested in this mini-series.

[cyberghostface]

I'm moderately happy that the series didn't end with Nemesis defeating the Gordon proxy in a cruel and humiliating fashion, as I was expecting.

Although how could whoever write the letter know that the girl would have three triplets, or that they would be carried to term? I mean, maybe he would have known about the impregnation, but the results?

[lordmcdeath]

The waiter is being paid to lie and doing it badly. Do I win a Millar no-prize?

Scratch that, it would probably be filled with antrax.

[halloweenjack]

Yeah, this is about as dumb as I thought it would be. At least now we know what it would be like if Millar tried to write Ozymandias.

[espanolbot]

It is unintentionally funny that a lot of Miller's villains these days seem to be reflective of the attitude of the villains from Grant Morrison's Batman run.

Only with Grant good triumphs and the traditional supervillains dispose of the new ones in the most humiliating ways possible.