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@Popdose: Red

What better time to write about a 5+ year old book than when the movie based on it opens up at #2 on the box office charts.  Here's some musings at Popdose on the comic RED by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner:

That is all we really get to know of Paul Moses and all we need to know of the man. There’s no back story about how Moses was recruited by the CIA, no revelations about why he was such a killer, no crying over the love he didn’t get from his father and no general exposition that may have given the reader a false feeling that they know Paul Moses better than they do. Ellis doesn’t add anything to Moses’ character that would make him a sympathetic character and that’s what makes Moses so fascinating. He’s a true stone-cold killer but he’s also tried to move beyond that past and be a normal man with a normal life and normal family. Ellis creates that tension in Moses as he does not try to tip the balance by making Moses a repugnant or sympathetic character. He is what he is and Ellis leaves it up to the reader to judge whether he is the hero or the villain of the story.

You can read the full review at Popdose here.