With great power... comes great opportunity. Nineteen-year-old Parker Robbins couldn't afford college, but he was able to buy a ski mask and a Lorcin .380 handgun. After dropping out of high school, he hoped to follow in the footsteps of his late father, a soldier in the Kingpin's vast criminal empire - but life in the mob isn't always as glorious as the movies make it seem. With a pregnant girlfriend, a demanding mistress and an institutionalized mother to care for, Parker can barely make ends meet. So when the small-time crook finds mystical apparel that grants him strange powers, he elects to forgo organized crime... for the more prestigious and financially rewarding world of costumed villainy. Collecting The Hood #1-6.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
F#$%in' Hood,
This review is from: The Hood (New Avengers) (Hardcover)
"The Hood" is "Lost" scribe Brian K. Vaughan's (slightly) more realistic take on the Marvel Universe. What if the super-hero who was granted mysterious powers turned out to be not so much of a "hero"? While the same "sympathetic super-villain" card has been played out, Vaughan does manage to wrangle an entertaining and morally challenging story out of the premise. The book is labeled as containing "explicit content," which equates to an f-bomb on every page.
While the Hood faded into obscurity, "New Avengers" writer Brian Michael Bendis has recently thrust him into a starring role in the New York criminal underground.
4.0 out of 5 stars
A good fun read, with mature themes and language,
By DJ Joe Sixpack (...in Middle America) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER)
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This review is from: The Hood (New Avengers) (Hardcover)
"The Hood"
Written by Brian K. Vaughan Illustrated by Kyle Hotz (Marvel Comics, 2002/2007) ------------------------------------------------- This book is one of the better titles in Marvel's Vertigo-esque, mature-content "Max" series -- there's explicit language and some mild sexual content; but mostly there's a good, solid story that takes place on the criminal fringes of the Marvel superhero universe. The amoral protagonist of this 2002 miniseries is a low-level criminal named Parker who stumbles into a failed heist that accidentally leads to his gaining superpowers. With his newfound powers of flight and temporary invisibility, Parker decides to go for it, and become a full-fledged costumed bad guy. His next job, however, runs him afoul of a Kingpin-like crime boss called the Golem, as well as several branches of law enforcement. The story arc that follows is quite satisfying and fun; the only trouble is that at the last minute several new plot points are dangled in front of us, including a new super-heroine out to get revenge on Parker for the death of her husband, as well as some supernatural blowback from the source of his powers. Neither of these points were resolved before the cancellation of the book back in '02, but the Hood has since emerged as a major baddie in the post-Civil War Marvel universe, and is clearly a favorite character for several current writers. If you want to see where this character got his start, by all means pick this book up and give it a shot. The "origin story" never got tied up into a nice, neat little ball, but it's still a fun book to read. (DJ Joe Sickpack, ReadThatAgain book reviews)
2.0 out of 5 stars
All set-up with no conclusion,
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If you're reading about the Hood in the Avengers or another comic and looking for background this is an OK read but if you're looking for a complete story look elsewhere.
This book tells the origin and initial adventures of a budding supervillain the Hood. The character is interesting enough the story is well-told but it ends on a very incomplete note. The book sets up foes for him, some mysteries and a cliff-hanger and then ends. There's no resolution, no complete story here. Maybe the author assumed he would return to write a sequel but 6 years later it hasn't happened.
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