All-Star Section Eight
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Publisher Description
From the world and the creators of HITMAN-Garth Ennis (PREACHER) and John McCrea (THE DEMON) bring you a comics legend, reborn! In a universe of heroes, he was the mightiest of all-Sixpack, leader of the legendary super-team Section Eight. His band of misfits took on the forces of interdimensional Hell, and gave their lives to save the world. Last to fall was Sixpack himself-or was he? Waking up in Noonan’s Sleazy Bar, Sixpack finds that his memory of that fateful day is somewhat hazy. What he does know for certain is that a grave new threat is coming-and only a reborn Section Eight can stop it. Who can fill the storied shoes that contained such legends as Friendly Fire, the Defenestrator, Flemgem, and Jean De Baton? To face the oncoming peril, Sixpack must gather friends both old and new to fight at his side-Bueno Excellente, Baytor, a brand new Dogwelder, Powertool, Guts, and (try as we might to forget him), the Grapplah! But Section Eight is still one member short, and Sixpack needs a heavy hitter to round out the team. Will it be Batman? Green Lantern? The Martian Manhunter? Wonder Woman? Or will the new Section Eighter come from the realms beyond life itself? Collects ALL-STAR SECTION EIGHT #1-6 and CONVERGENCE: HARLEY QUINN #2.
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Ennis (Preacher) and McCrea (Hitman) resurrect DC's most politically incorrect team, which the two cocreated during their popular run on Hitman in the late 1990s. Sixpack, leader of the titular super-group, pops out of or possibly into his usual drunken fantasies in Noonan's Sleazy Bar with only a bleary memory of the event that killed his teammates. He's anxious about a new threat that only a reformed Section Eight can stop. Joined by newbies such as the Grappler as well as returning super-pervert Bueno Excelente, Sixpack attempts to recruit DC's biggest stars to fill out his roster. The ensuing farces are among Ennis's bawdiest lampoons. Beginning with a riff on "legacy heroes," Ennis mocks Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, and more in a series of misadventures concerned less with story than with gross-out humor and absurdity. Far more clever than Ennis's halfhearted progressive-baiting are McCrea's background gags, filled with sly hilarity.
