10 Comics Where You Couldn’t Help But Root For The Villain

When cubicle rat Wesley Gibson is recruited to join an underground society of supervillains known as the Fraternity, his life changes forever. He enters a world where the supervillains won, erasing superheroes from existence, remaining only as a faint fantasy-like memory. Gibson takes on his late (?) father's mantle, becoming The Killer... essentially every teenage loser's dream.

With the help of fellow supervillain the Fox, Wesley quickly rises through the ranks of the Fraternity, learning to love and enjoy committing acts of violence, raiding alternate universes and acting as personal bodyguard to an actual mad scientist.

Yet, in spite of Wesley's immature, edgelord frat-boy behaviour, one can't help but go along with it, cheering Wesley on in his exploits. Like so much else of Mark Millar's Millarworld, Wanted is sheer power fantasy... and that's okay sometimes. Ironically, the movie 'adaptation', which dulled down many of the book's rougher edges and supervillain vibes fell flat on its face - precisely because it made Wesley a more traditional hero type.