The Ones Volume 1
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
From the writer who brought you Marvel’s Illuminati, New Avengers, Uncanny X-Men, comes the next, best awesome super team to end all super teams… THE ONES!
Every single person in every mythology that was told they were THE ONE are brought together for the first time to defeat.... THE ONE. The actual one. The real actual one.
This amazing new vision is brought to life by wunderkind artist and co-creator Jacob Edgar (Batman, Army of Darkness). Watch as he brings explosive comics splendor to this big new world! Think Good Omens meets Ghostbusters meets The Adam Project meets The Goonies meets Everything Everywhere All at Once meets, um, anything else you’ve ever liked!
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In this welcome deconstruction of mainstream comics tropes from Eisner winner Bendis (the New Avengers series) and Edgar (the Batman Adventures series), a superhero team is destined to defeat evil—if they can get their act together. Wilson, "Keeper of the Prophecies," recruits a Vampire Slayer (and her mortal sidekick, Barb, who's in real estate); master of magic Doctor Jamax; the brawny "Thrace the Champion," wielder of the Bloodspiller Sword; Ava Granetstein, who appears to be a normal human; plus, a genuine superhero type called Novus and a figure named "The Chosen One"—though the conceit is each of these fighters are one of a kind. Together they promise to be the winning combo to best Satan (the real deal), a goal thwarted by infighting, second-guessing, and demands for catered meetings. Bendis plays to his strengths in the script: quippy dialogue, brilliantly realized archetypes, and mundane profanity are peppered throughout. The art and design by Edgar achieves a stripped-down cartoon style akin to Michael Avon Oeming's work on Powers (also a Bendis-scripted comic), with clear and crisp detail across action and (ample) dialogue. For example, while three different red-headed women are introduced as major characters within a dozen pages, Edgar makes each immediately distinct. This arch superhero saga by way of the Coen brothers shows Bendis at his best.
