Mark Waid's Empire is a brilliant devised comic that shows the aftermath of a
world, where the villains have "won." Golgoth, the book's main
character who is the supreme architect that manufactured the fall of every
country and hero on Earth, is now faced with the challenges of running what he
has conquered. His villainous allies are his cabinet members, and so the
citizens of world are blessed with people like a axe-wielding medieval
executioner as the minister of interior affairs and the minister of information
is wired up to watch and record everyone, "Big Brother"'s wet dream .
My favorite character though is Lucullan, the minister of war, to deal with the
small pockets of resistance that pop up time to time, and Golgoth's right hand
man. Every time he talks, he uses big and fancy words to showcase his supreme
intellect no doubt, its so great. Like this panel~
Tergiversate-
1. To use
evasions or ambiguities; equivocate.
2. To
change sides; apostatize.
What a word to use in my writing. The whole story really does
explore what these bastards are, like the characters are not anti-heroes, they
are villains with wants, desires, and bad habits (deadly would be a more apt
description). So of course, their
conduct while running the Empire, is full of scheming, backstabbing, baseless
accusations, and sucking up to power. It is Waid's deconstruction of the
superhero genre at its finest.
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