Customer Reviews

Marshal Law: Fear and Loathing

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

Pat Mills is one of the most vicious satirists in any medium anywhere in the world, and Marshal Law has to be his finest work. On the surface, it's a mere parody of superhero comics, but Mills digs beneath the surface to show the true horrors of politics and religion. Kevin O'Neill's art is the perfect compliment. I won't give away the plot -- just believe me when I tell you that anyone who's ever read a Superman comic or wants to know the truth about our culture and society should check out Marshal Law.

The deconstruction of the superhero is a prevalent theme in many modern comic-books today. Marshal Law is yet another version of a superhero universe that mirrors characters from DC, Marvel, and superheroes in general (other comics in this category: Watchmen, The Boys, Bratpack, Invincible, Astro City, etc.), in order to shed new light, or destroy common notions about superheros.

Anyways, whatever those books accomplish with their ingenious satire, Marshal Law does 1000x harsher, sicker, and brutal-er. It's like they chopped up the DCU and Marvel universe, threw them in a garbage can, let it sit there until the apocalypse, and then poured them out onto paper. That would be what this comic is. This is the ugly ugly truth beneath our superheroes.

It's glorious.

writing: [7.5/10]
art: [10/10]

I always found the Marshal Law books a refreshing view of the super hero genre. We are in the age of the anti hero and Marshal Law is for those who have become tired of the typical goody two shoes superhero cliche's. Some of the superheroes of Marshal Laws are worst than the criminals they fight and just as corrupt any city's politicians. For the more sophisticated comic book reader you'll definitely enjoy some of the dark parody version of some of yesterday's superheroes.