More filters. Sort order. Could basically be called Legends of Midnighter as the creative team rotates between each arc with only Keith Giffen and Cristos Gage contributing more than one story. The Wildstorm version of Midnighter is much more violent than the new 52 version. He punches through someone's head as if it's something he does regularly. I also prefer how his sexuality is handled in this book. Yes, he's gay, but the entire book doesn't focus on his sexuality like the new 52 version.
Gay or straight, I don't car Could basically be called Legends of Midnighter as the creative team rotates between each arc with only Keith Giffen and Cristos Gage contributing more than one story. Gay or straight, I don't care much about your sexuality and don't need it thrown in my face every third page. Just get on with the superheroics. Midnighter gets forced into going back in time to kill Hitler and so has to fight Nazis and time cops.
The Bad: I typically like Keith Giffen but his stories were terrible and didn't make much sense. The Ugly: There's no character advancement in these stories.
It's just Midnighter ripping folks apart for the most part. Take it for what you will. May 03, Matthew rated it really liked it Shelves: , adults , thriller , suspense , superheroes , series , sci-fi , mystery , m-m , library-books. Who is Midnighter? How did he get his powers? Who was he before he became this monster? These are questions still left unanswered after reading this massive collection.
It is the sole reason why it is not 5 stars material because I love to know about a character's backstory. Also the main reason why I checked this graphic novel out of the library for the simple fact that he is gay and I wanted more gay action and it barely scratched the surface. Midnighter is this vigilante who has the ability to see the future in terms of fighting. What I mean is if someone decides to attack him, he is able to see their moves in advance and knows how to counterattack.
He has super strength and nano technology in his system so if he gets injured he's practically instantly healed in a matter of seconds. Through this graphic novel we get to see difficult situations that arises either by enemies who seek havoc on Earth or drama within his own family. He is married to Apollo and I love the chemistry between these two characters. While the gay action is not extremely apparent, there are moments where we get to see them kiss and make out.
My favorite storyline out of the entire magnum opus is Hitler time travel. Midnighter gets kidnapped one day and his kidnapper proposes the idea of him going back in time to kill Hitler and prevent the Holocaust.
His parents died in the concentration camps and wishes that to never happened. Simple request right? Oh I forgot if Midnighter does not accomplish this task, he's injected a bomb inside him and it will detonate and obliterate him. So Midnighter participates in this experience and gets sucked into the middle of a battle in WWI and discovers a young soldier who is Adolf Hitler. He's close to killing him when this group of time travel police interrupt him.
He fails to kill to Hitler but discovers a valuable lesson about history and why you shouldn't mess with time even though you would be saving million of lives from a mad man. Midnighter is a hero but at the same time I would say he is not the classic definition of what it means to be a superhero. His brooding behavior reminds me of Batman except he has special abilities. With these abilities come major consequences and we see the toll it takes especially on his identity. Theres one storyline that deals with his past and if granted the chance to discover your past life and maybe remember it would you accept this information?
We get close to finding the juicy details about his life and yet the road is so far towards actually knowing what happen to him before he became this monster. The illustrations are phenomenal and even though this series was written years ago I felt major relevance especially the Anthem storyline. Especially with who is governing our country it doesn't surprised me if the sad day comes where we would hired organizations to "protect" our cities in exchange of our liberties getting taken away.
If you want to read a comic book that caters to the Batman and Superman gay fantasy then I highly recommend picking up this comic. Dec 23, Shannon rated it really liked it Shelves: action , fantasy-scifi , graphic-novels , books-reviewed. Interesting power with some of the tales quite innovative. Others are meh. Sep 26, Shannon Appelcline rated it really liked it Shelves: comics , comics-wildstorm. Killing Machine Garth Ennis' first Midnighter arc is an amazing story where he's blackmailed to go back in time to kill Hitler.
What a great premise, and Ennis just goes from there with time cops and the inevitable revenge. This is Ennis at his best, creating amazing high-concept stories. Flowers for the Sun 6. An alternate reality story that is almost poetic, but almo Killing Machine An alternate reality story that is almost poetic, but almost pointless as well. Fact Accompli 7. Ordinary People 8. Gage writes a one-off about Midnighter looking for a lost cat.
The Hercules Virus 9. These one-offs weren't doing the series any favors. Anthem New author Keith Giffen takes over, and fortunately gets Midnighter back on its feet after four rampling and mediocre issues. This arc has a great premise: who did the Midnighter used to be? It also has a plot that feels positively Authority -like, as we meet a corporation bent on sowing fear and hate into the populace, so that they can then step in and protect them from the heroes that they've demonized.
The visuals make this even creepier with a bunch of literally faceless adversaries. The arc is at its best when Midnighter is fighting these forces in his "old home town" A Failed World M:A.
Well this is a curious issue, apparently part of a larger "Amageddon" event. It's a nice enough visit to a near future that the heroes must then prevent, an old trope, but it doesn't go anywhere within this volume Assasin8 The final Midnighter arc is sadly the weakest. Not sure what to rate this one coz it's a really mixed bag. His second arc, where The Midnighter and Apollo are samurai in ancient Japan is better.
Most of the other stories are pretty disposable. But I really liked Keith Giffen's story arc -- the longest in the book -- which explores whether you can go home again and what happens if you do. It gives The Midnighte Hmm. It gives The Midnighter a chance to explore his past before he became what he is, and try on a normal life for size.
Too bad there's a corporation called Anthem who effectively own the town which is "policed" by a bunch of creepy guys and gals who wear an American flag on their face. They say you can't go home again, and maybe it's true. Or is it? On the artwork, I really don't like Chris Sprouse's renderings. They make The Midnighter look too benign. This surprised the hell out of me as Sprouse is co-creator of Tom Strong with Alan Moore and I love that book, especially the ones penned by Moore himself.
I think the artwork is a little too neat, too tidy for The Midnighter. He heeds to look more feral, more threatening, more insane. Look at the drawings done by ACO for the Steve Orlando Midnighter series -- that's what I'm talking about : The Midnighter is a great character -- Batman unchained -- and for mine, only Keith Giffen gives us a good look at him.
Jul 21, Charles rated it it was amazing. I love Midnighter, but my only exposure to him had been through the DCYou run and the Midnighter and Apollo run that happened alongside Rebirth. Although this is branded under the DC imprint, the stories in this pre-date their acquisition of Wildstorm. This offered me a new and unique view on his first solo run and I just frigging loved it. He's certainly different than the more recent take on him, but not differe Boom, Now this is what I needed in my current low of reading DC Rebirth titles.
He's certainly different than the more recent take on him, but not different enough to make me take pause and reconsider how much I love him.
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