Having tackled the Superman mythos in his first arc, it only makes sense for Mills to move onto the next largest carcass, Batman. Well retaining its laughs as well as its relevance Marshall Law is as he will remain the most potent anti-super hero of pretty much all time. Particularly memorable and equally damning is the deployment of a self-hating-super-hero who his employed as a well… a retirer of capes themselves!Īnd the shiv of serrated self-awareness digs its barbs in deeper and deeper as the Batman mythos (most especially his omnipresent origin story) becomes up-ending, exposing the bare-belly of comic book contradictions since time immemorial. While Watchmen is the exemplar of this super-hero-styled-satire, and deservedly so, Marshall is a far more accessible yet equally devastating tome of tireless laughs and incisive insight. Soaring from the very end of the 80’s to the very beginning of the 90’s this scathing parody presented its own blistering barrage of savagely snipes at the very medium itself.
Saturated with the insight of an industry luminary in the thick of it for decades and laced with the snarl of British satire was Marshal Law.
Before his work on the ever seminal League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series, Kevin O’Neil had pioneered his own brand of comic book styled midrash.
