Major Spoilers for Mark Millar's Big Game #3 ahead
Mark Millar's 2008 limited series Wanted told the story of Wesley Gibson, an ordinary, disaffected young man, who discovers his true origins as the son of one of the world's greatest villains, taking his father's place in a secret cabal known as the Fraternity of Super Criminals. Now, Mark Millar's Big Game series has brought back Wesley as the primary antagonist in this sprawling Millarverse action saga.
Big Game #3 – written by Mark Millar, with art by Pepe Larraz – takes Wesley's return a step further, as the leader of the Fraternity reveals to a cornered Hit-Girl that he has received biological augmentations, giving him superhuman abilities of his own.
The issue finds Wesley and the Fraternity near-triumphant in eliminating Earth's latest generation of superheroes, with the villains seemingly confident that their ascendency remains secured.
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Wanted Was A Supervillain Origin Story
What many readers didn't realize about the ending of Mark Millar's Wanted was that the series, all along, had been serving as an origin story for a villain, whose subsequent career would be left unexplored – until now. In Big Game, Wesley has long ago left any moral quandary, any doubt, any hesitation behind, fully embracing his position at the head of the Fraternity of Super-Criminals, the organization that rules the world in the Millarverse's twisted reality. The series so far has been a litany of brutal deaths, with the Millarverse's heroes falling to a lethal demonstration of the Fraternity's power, instigated by Wesley.
Wesley Has The World's Wealth At His Disposal
Big Game #3 ramps up the already-intense story's action considerably, as it leads into the five-issue series' penultimate installment. In addition to the long-awaited return of Kick Ass, and an appearance by the Magic Order, the issue continued the Fraternity's slaughter of the world's heroes with several more deaths – most staggering among them, the graphic demise of Kingsman's protagonist Eggsy. As Hit-Girl sits stunned, covered in the secret agent's blood, Wesley and his troops corner her, with the leader of the Fraternity confidently explaining that he has been, "augmented with superhuman senses," in addition to his natural skills and experience as an assassin.
In order to thoroughly dispose of Hit-Girl, Wesley himself dons a pair of targeting glasses and takes aim with an atomizer pistol that unleashes a devastating blast – with the hero only escaping through the use of the recently deceased Chrononauts' time travel technology. What this elucidates for the reader is that Wesley wields power on an unimaginable scale, with the entirety of the world's wealth and resources at his disposal. Armed with the most advanced tech, and augmented to have superhuman physical capabilities, Wesley Gibson has unassailable claim to the title of the Millarverse's ultimate supervillain, turning Wanted's protagonist into a next-level antagonist.
Big Game #3 is available now from Image Comics.
