Imagine it’s
something like this; a politically visionary, mysteriously engaging action
adventure that is satirically humorous while disguising itself as a romantic
spy thriller. This refreshingly funny take on contemporary world events is
peppered with, while including demonic possession, psycho- babble and even
robotics. Frank Miller and Bill Sienkiewicz gave this jewel of a novel to the
world in the nineteen eighties. It was originally released in monthly
installments by Marvel Comics and sold
in specialty shops. That was the way I initially read this graphic novel. It
was brilliantly conceived and constructed at the time. It not only holds up in
our contemporary political climate (the age of Trump) it soars and is on many levels
definitive in tone along with being surprisingly prophetic.
Elektra was a character Frank Miller created as foil to Matt Murdock’s Dare Devil. Elektra was an extrodinarally gifted while flawed character. She was an immediate fan favorite and she was killed almost as quickly as she was introduced. Elektra was too good to remain in oblivion and the novel “Elektra Assassin” was a wonderful way to revisit the character while adding to the mythology in this work that is a prequel to the original Miller thriller.
THE SOVIET PREMIER HAS BEEN SIGHTED AT THE WEST WING...VOTED FOR THAT SON OF A BITCH...LIED TO US...CANT BELIEVE HE'D LET THIS HAPPEN...
I most
recently reread “Elektra Assassin” in a compilation edition and it was
exceptionally good. In ways even better than I remembered from my eighties encounter
with the book. At this point I couldn’t recommend it any higher.
“Elektra Assassin” is literature at it
most heightened. The creators are in-league with Ian Fleming, Dashiell Hammett
and Stieg Larsson. They are masters of their chosen form. Miller’s words and
Sienkiewicz’s pictures make for an illuminating and grand experience. In
another way of phrasing; they are ranking among the very best!
Miller and
Sienkiewicz followed up their achievement; “Electra Assassin” with another tale
from the Dare Devil Mythos; “Love & War” which is centered on the chance
that the heartless “King Pin” (Wilson Fisk) might actually be capable of loving something
outside of his own narcissistic self-love. Could this, again be a prophetic
treatise on the inner life of a ruthless businessman politician, someone at the
present time, some unnamed public figure?”
But within the mean time take a look at “Electra Assassin.” It just might
become a thing treasured in your own right, as you may as yet find to peruse
and imagine.
"I don't need evidence," said the President. "I'm the President. I know what I'm talking about," he said. "I got elected didn't I?"
A local man claims to have seen the woman strike down two police officers with her bare hands, before being subdued. Local authorities refuse to draw any connection between this incident and the recent assassination which took pace in San Concepcion.
