The Illegitimates

author: Taran Killam

name: Wayne

average rating: 3.00

book published: 2014

rating: 3

read at: 2014/09/17

date added: 2014/09/17

shelves: graphic-novels

review:

'The Illegitimates' takes an interesting (but done before) premise from the superhero genre and pastes it into the superspy genre. It's not a bad story, but has a weird habit of going way over the top with gore.



The book starts with Olympus super spy Jack Steele, who at the end of a number of his famous missions has a number of dalliances with beautiful women. This is similar to a fictional cinematic British spy. When he dies in an over the top horrific sort of way, his spy agency is left in the lurch. But they have a plan. They've been keeping track of the offspring of Steed's dalliances and a number of them seem to be spy material. While Steed was a superspy, it will take 5 of his children to do his work. Of course, they don't want to work together, but when archenemy Viktor Dannikor plots to destroy the world, they better get their act together to stop him.



This graphic novel has 6 issues, with the possibility of more in the series. At times it rockets along (no pun intended), but it seems to drag a bit in places. Even though it's a retread, I still found it clever, but some of the death scenes seemed overly graphic to me for some reason. I liked it, but just didn't quite love it.



I was given a review copy of this graphic novel by Diamond Book Distributors, IDW Publishing and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.





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