The Pro (2008, Edizioni BD, paperback, 80 pages in color, € 9). Screenplay by Garth Ennis, Amanda Conner drawings. In 2002, Garth Ennis ritortnò writing with an irreverent superhero ever. Flanked by slightly more than the rookie Amanda Conner pencils, Ennis, with this work, with a large chisel away the patina of idealization which is the figure of the superhero, looking like they had told the houses mainstream. The Pro also because it is nothing but a prostitute. Received his powers (strength, endurance, speed, flight time) by an alien called The Viewer (Marvelli Uatu playful parody of the Watcher and again as "The Voyeur") as a prostitute is approached by many League of Honor, parody JLA irreverent built with copies of the most powerful heroes, DC Comics. His unconventional and unorthodox ways, however, will create more of a problem and solve that her new powers may be more useful in improving their lives and their work made more generous. The Pro is an American comics in 2002. This has a meaning very strong, not because it is the third millennium since, rather, because it comes after the WTC attacks and the beginning of the war in Afghanistan. The United States is no longer the untouchable bastion of democracy (if it ever were). They've seen what it means to be war at home, or something that we should be very close. Consequently, the American hero is not exported from Garth Ennis is not what comes baldante in a war zone and you save the day. Far, from what the protagonist seems to have returned to the doctrine of the closed door. The U.S. deal with their problems and the heroes Americans occupy the country's problems and not their small skirmishes between supermen. Among the strange irony of events that are followed Ennis, who is not American, leads a lunge to the superhero of the millennium, accused of futility, not to work for people because they are too taken by the super villain of the moment. With a foul-mouthed language, excessive and is full of racism back post 9 / 11, The Pro complaint, in effect, the power failure still a myth that obviously had the strength to exist just because a nation ruled by powerful and untouchable . The state of crisis with which the United States began the new millennium is likely to ask, albeit with some stupidity, then where were the heroes. In fifty years of increasing spectacle, in the absence of war "right" to fight, once exhausted the social battles (one example among many is that drugs in the pages of Amazing Spider-Man) in which stand the heroes entered with the nineties era of the great sagas, the first period and now continues in an effort to raise more and more the draft and propose something more shocking. The focus on the reality in recent years is coming back, hidden beneath the narrative devices from the hand of authors capable. But we digress here, because The Pro is the work of the beginning two thousand, and as such has the second term of comparison the great sagas (the ones that we were the big summer crossover, just because that the casual reader, with 'easing tension in the real world, leaving the job and the arrival of well-earned vacation, he was encouraged to continue shopping) the nineties that, although perhaps well-told and drawn, had little to say to the reader himself. It may be argued that an interested reader to fill its empty ontology may well find in superhero comics, but it will certainly objection wrong, history is my witness. The Pro and then points his finger and raises his voice, got pissed and charges, through a critique of the superhero, all that production well packaged but poor in content. Because while the heroes are playing, people die. Destroyed the myth Ennis destroy the symbol. Amanda Conner's role here is crucial, in wringing the Pro in a costume at the allowed limit, fulfillment of Bollori horny teenagers rather than actual facing of the hero. The reluctant heroine is hardly the conventional image of the hero to be imitated, mired in vice and the abyss of a profession that, while the sordid, allows her to bring home the need to live and to feed their child. The extremes of this miseducation is in his character to be a very foul-mouthed, violent and vindictive so unhealthy, as almost to death when it strikes a supervillain who had struck her with an energy beam and then pisses on him in front of Congress United States. The path of mutation superhero is here to drift opposite to that of mainstream comics: if the crisis has brought the heroes of Marvel and DC to a continuous improvement during the first years of the new millennium, that The Pro is staging a hero more real its needs and its real responsibilities.
mercoledì 17 febbraio 2010
The Pro (2008, Edizioni BD, paperback, 80 pages in color, € 9). Screenplay by Garth Ennis, Amanda Conner drawings. In 2002, Garth Ennis ritortnò writing with an irreverent superhero ever. Flanked by slightly more than the rookie Amanda Conner pencils, Ennis, with this work, with a large chisel away the patina of idealization which is the figure of the superhero, looking like they had told the houses mainstream. The Pro also because it is nothing but a prostitute. Received his powers (strength, endurance, speed, flight time) by an alien called The Viewer (Marvelli Uatu playful parody of the Watcher and again as "The Voyeur") as a prostitute is approached by many League of Honor, parody JLA irreverent built with copies of the most powerful heroes, DC Comics. His unconventional and unorthodox ways, however, will create more of a problem and solve that her new powers may be more useful in improving their lives and their work made more generous. The Pro is an American comics in 2002. This has a meaning very strong, not because it is the third millennium since, rather, because it comes after the WTC attacks and the beginning of the war in Afghanistan. The United States is no longer the untouchable bastion of democracy (if it ever were). They've seen what it means to be war at home, or something that we should be very close. Consequently, the American hero is not exported from Garth Ennis is not what comes baldante in a war zone and you save the day. Far, from what the protagonist seems to have returned to the doctrine of the closed door. The U.S. deal with their problems and the heroes Americans occupy the country's problems and not their small skirmishes between supermen. Among the strange irony of events that are followed Ennis, who is not American, leads a lunge to the superhero of the millennium, accused of futility, not to work for people because they are too taken by the super villain of the moment. With a foul-mouthed language, excessive and is full of racism back post 9 / 11, The Pro complaint, in effect, the power failure still a myth that obviously had the strength to exist just because a nation ruled by powerful and untouchable . The state of crisis with which the United States began the new millennium is likely to ask, albeit with some stupidity, then where were the heroes. In fifty years of increasing spectacle, in the absence of war "right" to fight, once exhausted the social battles (one example among many is that drugs in the pages of Amazing Spider-Man) in which stand the heroes entered with the nineties era of the great sagas, the first period and now continues in an effort to raise more and more the draft and propose something more shocking. The focus on the reality in recent years is coming back, hidden beneath the narrative devices from the hand of authors capable. But we digress here, because The Pro is the work of the beginning two thousand, and as such has the second term of comparison the great sagas (the ones that we were the big summer crossover, just because that the casual reader, with 'easing tension in the real world, leaving the job and the arrival of well-earned vacation, he was encouraged to continue shopping) the nineties that, although perhaps well-told and drawn, had little to say to the reader himself. It may be argued that an interested reader to fill its empty ontology may well find in superhero comics, but it will certainly objection wrong, history is my witness. The Pro and then points his finger and raises his voice, got pissed and charges, through a critique of the superhero, all that production well packaged but poor in content. Because while the heroes are playing, people die. Destroyed the myth Ennis destroy the symbol. Amanda Conner's role here is crucial, in wringing the Pro in a costume at the allowed limit, fulfillment of Bollori horny teenagers rather than actual facing of the hero. The reluctant heroine is hardly the conventional image of the hero to be imitated, mired in vice and the abyss of a profession that, while the sordid, allows her to bring home the need to live and to feed their child. The extremes of this miseducation is in his character to be a very foul-mouthed, violent and vindictive so unhealthy, as almost to death when it strikes a supervillain who had struck her with an energy beam and then pisses on him in front of Congress United States. The path of mutation superhero is here to drift opposite to that of mainstream comics: if the crisis has brought the heroes of Marvel and DC to a continuous improvement during the first years of the new millennium, that The Pro is staging a hero more real its needs and its real responsibilities.
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