Well finally visual superhero media begins to catch up with comics. Unfortunately it's only just caught up with the superhero deconstruction that began waaaayy back in the eighties. Witness the enthusiastic and overly glowing reviews of people who've never encountered this angle before. Sadly this is already "old hat" for many of us.

I quite like Garth Ennis but his work has never been the pinnacle of the "superhero as flawed icon" trope. Ennis is known for his darkly humourous plotlines but they always seem a little bit juvenile to me. Always crude and frequently cruel with a toilet humour bent not forgetting his perpetual adolescent treatment of female characters.

I think this series is so busy trying to be so edgy that it actually fails to be entirely compelling.

Don't get me wrong it's very well made and occasionally very entertaining but copious swearing, sex scenes and crudely intentioned bloody violence are not a valid substitute for a well crafted story.

One more for the Mark Millar crowd and/or thirteen year old boys.