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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. A group of New York police detectives go rogue and form a vigilante death squad to deal what they see as previously denied justice against drug dealers, mob figures, Ponzi schemers, and pedophiles. This 2014 book has terrific art and solid scripting, but the police corruption and brutality, the code of silence, and ending sour everything in the light of the past couple years of revelations and turmoil in the real world. ( ) This one felt a bit like a "for the paycheque" story from Garth Ennis. We have four cops who are very good at their jobs (or so we're told, not shown), who have formed very tight bonds with each other and trust each other implicitly (or so we're told, not shown), who have become frustrated with all the setbacks, loopholes, and rules they must follow, and decide to go all vigilante on the worst criminals' asses. I would have liked to have seen less of the interviewing sequences and more plot and character development. We get some for the main guy (sorry, I've already forgotten their names—which is a bad sign), much less for the single woman of the group, and absolutely none for the two most senior partners of the group. The ultimate showdown is telegraphed way too early, and way too obviously to build any suspense, and when the shocking plot twist comes along, instead of actually being shocking, my reaction was more, finally! Took you long enough, Garth!. So the story is nothing to write home about, nor is the workmanlike art from Craig Cermak. Honestly? My favourite part of this seven-issue series was the Howard Chaykin covers. I only wish he'd been available for the interior art as well. He would have at least elevated the facile story with some dynamic and visually interesting art. Nothing to see here, move on. I'm a big fan of Garth Ennis. I remember fondly his work on HELLBLAZER and PREACHER and PUNISHER. And HITMAN! We can't forget HITMAN. Of course though, all of that was a while ago, specifically 1991, 1995 and 2001. (Plus 1996 for HITMAN) Finding his work now is a bit more difficult. Or probably more realistically with my reduced comic book buying, I just don't see his work that much. That's why I was real happy to find RED TEAM. And why when I was finished reading it, I felt wistful for the "good old days" when his work was more prevalent. Anyway, RED TEAM. The story is about an elite team within the police department that focuses on taking down higher targets than the street-level thugs and dealers. After being stymied by the legal process and watching their targets escape, the red team decides to bypass the judicial process and execute the criminals. The story follows the events that unfold from that point to their, in my mind, natural end point. I felt that the story was realistic to what would happen in today's society. The steps followed and decisions made all seemed true to the characters and to what cops might do. And the graphic novel isn't just about following the story to the ending. As with many of Ennis' work, the details are what helps make it. The characters are dealing with life issues, large and small: a failing marriage where the reader can see it slowly disintegrate, a person killed that reveals so much about the cop doing the killing but at the same time the topic is never discussed. We can see how the characters ended up as who they are. And that always makes for a better story. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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Red Team, the NYPD's elite anti-narcotics unit. Eddie Mellinger, TrudyGiroux, Duke Wylie, and George Winburn have taken down one drug lord afteranother with a careful blend of meticulous surveillance and applied violence,but their latest case Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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