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knight_movesSuicide Risk... kind of a dumb name, because it has nothing to do with the story beyond vaguely sounding cool and making it impossible to tag the comic... is advertised as a deconstruction of the superhero genre, but it isn't for my money. It's more of a genre-bender that starts off in the superhero genre, never entirely leaves it, but steadily shifts into Lost-style myth arc, identity porn, and ends up as something of a space opera. So, brightside, you don't get the lazy "what if REED RICHARDS stretched HIS DICK" bull that Garth Ennis has been peddling since the Middle Ages.
It's set in a world where superhumans have started showing up, but unlike in most cape comics, they are largely supervillains... well, I suppose this IS the case for most cape comics, since every superhero has their own big rogue's gallery, but in this case, the villains are able to outnumber and neutralize the heroes, while law enforcement is regularly massacred by them and everyone is basically living under martial law. In the wake of one of these crises, one cop finds a note on a captured supervillain that he thinks is a clue to how these people are getting superpowers.
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It's set in a world where superhumans have started showing up, but unlike in most cape comics, they are largely supervillains... well, I suppose this IS the case for most cape comics, since every superhero has their own big rogue's gallery, but in this case, the villains are able to outnumber and neutralize the heroes, while law enforcement is regularly massacred by them and everyone is basically living under martial law. In the wake of one of these crises, one cop finds a note on a captured supervillain that he thinks is a clue to how these people are getting superpowers.
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