This is another crosspost, from Civilian Reader, re-formatted into our usual style. The original post can be found here. As before, we're cross posting because the book fits the remit of the site, and CR
kindly offered us the review. He has this to say about himself:
I’m a British
globe-trotter, who is passionate about all things genre-related (novels, movies,
comics, etc.) and loves to tell people about them.
Writer: Mark Waid
Artist: Jean Diaz
Inker: Belardino Brabo
Colourist: Andrew Dalhouse
Letterer: Ed Dukeshire
Letterer: Ed Dukeshire
Publisher: Boom Studios
What's it about?
What if the world’s greatest supervillain decided to become the world’s greatest hero? Meet
Max Damage, Sky City’s most notorious super-powered criminal. Known for
everything from manslaughter to terrorism, no one could match Max’s
appetite for chaos. But that was before the Plutonian, the world’s
greatest hero, turned his back on humanity and slaughtered millions,
leaving Max a changed man. Now, the world’s salvation may lie in the
hands of its most infamous supervillain. Can someone who once ruined so
many lives now truly become Incorruptible?
Faced with a
post-Plutonian, post-apocalyptic city filled with petrified survivors,
Max starts out on his new path, putting a stop to the machinations of
those who would prey on people’s fear for profit. We see a weary resignation in Max,
as he has to deal with people’s understandable trigger-happy reaction
whenever they see him – he’s trying to make things right, but
people only see the supervillain and insist on shooting him. Repeatedly.
(It’s so hard, being a reformed villain…)
Incorruptible is a companion series to Waid’s longer-running Irredeemable (reviewed here). Needless to say, if you like
comics, superheroes and great writing, you need to be reading Irredeemable. Seriously: it’s incredible.
