No Hero (comics)
No Hero | |
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Publication information | |
Publisher | Avatar Press |
Schedule | Monthly |
Format | Limited series |
Genre | |
Publication date | July 2008 – September 2009 |
No. of issues | 8 |
Creative team | |
Created by | ISBN 1-59291-085-8 |
No Hero is a
No Hero is regarded as the second series in Ellis' Avatar Press-published "Superhuman Trilogy" dealing with the creation of superheroes, preceded by Black Summer, and followed by Supergod. Prior to Supergod's release, Warren Ellis said in an interview that, "Black Summer was about superhumans who were too human. No Hero was about superhumans who were inhuman. Supergod is about superhumans who are no longer human at all, but something else. The third leg of a thematic trilogy if you like."[2]
Plot summary
No Hero takes place in a world where superheroes have existed since the 1960s and came about as a reaction to increasingly violent police reactions to the American
Throughout the first half of the story, the reader is also shown that Front Line has been using its metahuman forces to control world events through actions such as assassinating Boris Yeltsin, destroying the Iran oilfields, dissolving South Africa, and preventing France from developing nuclear weapons, in the name of world stability.
Joshua takes the FX 7 pill and gains incredible powers, but with a horrifying side-effect: Joshua's skin, teeth and genitals rot off, leaving him monstrously disfigured. Despite this, he's welcomed into the group and given a costume to cover up his disfigurements.
However, after Joshua saves a crashing jet liner, two other members of Front Lines reveal that they had engineered the crash by killing the pilots to allow Joshua to gain positive PR. Meanwhile, someone has been targeting Front Line members with weapons capable of killing superhumans, with clues hinting at any number of governments angered at Front Line's past actions.
However, it's not until the climax of the story where the truth is revealed: Joshua Carver is a secret
Collected editions
The series has been collected into an individual volume:
- No Hero (192 pages, Avatar, January 2010, softcover, ISBN 1-59291-085-8)
Notes
- ^ Furey, Emmett (May 23, 2008). "Leveling the Playing Field: Ellis talks "No Hero"". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved July 26, 2010.
- ^ "Supergod". avatarpress.com. 26 August 2009.
References
- No Hero at the Grand Comics Database
- No Hero at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
External links
Reviews
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