Wanted (comics)

Wanted
Cover of the Wanted trade paperback. Artwork by J. G. Jones
Publication information
Publisher	Top Cow Productions
Schedule	Irregular
Format	Limited series
Publication date(s)	December 2003 – February 2005
No. of issues	6
Creative team
Written by	Mark Millar
Artist(s)	J. G. Jones
Letterer(s)	Dennis Heisler Mark Roslan Robin Spehar
Colorist(s)	Paul Mounts
Editor(s)	Renae Geerlings Jim McLauchlin Scott Tucker
Collected editions
Hardcover	ISBN
Softcover	ISBN

Wanted is a comic book limited series written by Mark Millar, with art by J. G. Jones. It was published by Top Cow in 2003 and 2004 as part of Millarworld. It features an amoral protagonist who discovers he is the heir to a career as a supervillain assassin in a world where such villains have secretly taken control of the planet.

The Sunday Times dubbed the title "the Watchmen for super-villains."

A film adaptation, very loosely based on the comic, was released in 2008.

As with Superman: Red Son, Millar claims that the concept for the series occurred to him when he was a child. In this case, it came to him after his brother told him that there were no superheroes any more because they had all disappeared after a great war with their respective supervillains.

1986, the year of the aforementioned war in which the supervillains took over and made their world "darker and grittier", has real world significance to the world of comic books. It marks the publication of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Watchmen, and the completion of the 1985-86 Crisis on Infinite Earths series.

With regard to character design, the physical appearance of Wesley is based on rapper Eminem and the Fox's appearance is modeled after actress Halle Berry. Millar had originally planned to not have the characters in costumes, and that they would only be worn for initiation. However, he and J. G. Jones forgot about this, and the characters were indeed rendered wearing familiar supervillain costumes by midway through the series. Many of the characters in this series bear abilities and traits similar to notable comic book supervillains.