Review of
Incognito Number One,
by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
Five out of five stars
A tough antihero is presented
The opening of
this story has two seemingly incongruous parts. In the first two pages a masked
man drops into an alley to rescue a woman being attacked by three men. He deals
with them rather quickly and efficiently and then tells her to get lost and
forget about him. There is an immediate switch to a clean cut man wearing a tie
in an office and then attending a holiday party where he pulls a dramatic con
on a female co-worker.
This sets some
of the context for what is a man with an extremely violent past that is somehow
in a program where he is trying to just be another office salaryman in a world
that is generally alien to him. There is the mention of drugs and he has some
significant powers of strength and at least partial flight. He was one of a
pair of twins that were the subjects of the traditional mad scientist with wild
hair, bug eyes and a nasty, toothy grin.
While most of
the contextual background of the main character has been established, there are
still a few unknowns to be fleshed out. Yet, there is enough to pique the
interest of the reader in what is another character in the dark, antihero
genre.
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