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It’s all delivered with panache by Jones. How could anyone not be reeled in by that plot device? The opening chapter alone introduces several righteous targets, and Millar explains how the villains can operate in society with impunity and no fear of justice. The hook is that Wesley will inherit his father’s multi-million dollar estate, but only if he can convince his father’s super-villain colleagues that he has the balls to become one of them. That’s the first in series of eye-popping revelations about his heritage, his future and the way the wider world operates. Remorselessly put-upon, Wesley’s wake-up call arrives in the form of the Fox, deadly super-villain, who reveals the father who deserted him when a baby is the recently assassinated Killer, the world’s premier contract hitman. Jones there was the budget for the graphic novel comic to have the villains as super-villains, and that just ramps up the entire affair.īoth comic and film begin in roughly the same place, with an assassination and the introduction of Wesley Gibson, nondescript and cowardly: “This is the office where I work as an assistant to the associate editor on Hyperthyroidism Today, the third-biggest auto-immune periodical on the Eastern seaboard”. This is because for the movie the villains were downgraded.

A fast-paced action thriller with a good performance from James McAvoy, it still scores highly on Rotten Tomatoes.

Originally serialised in 2003, in 2008 Wanted was the first Mark Millar project to hit the cinema screens.