Ok. Time to men­tion one of my favorite comic series right now: Hunter Killers. I love the Hunter Killer series. I fin­ished read­ing issue #6 after wait­ing six months for it.  Talk about annoyed and excited. It sold out quickly. This is one of the best comic series around. Hunter Killer is writ­ten by Mark Waid and pen­ciled by Marc Sil­vestri. Great art­work with a great story, I think many peo­ple would enjoy this series.

The story arc cen­ters around Ellis who was raised and iso­lated by his par­ents in an urban town. Ellis has no idea that his par­ents are apart of a rogue group of “Ultra Sapi­ens” who have went into hid­ing. They kept Ellis shel­tered for a rea­son: to hide the truth of their existence. After his parent’s home is attacked, Ellis reluc­tantly joins the Hunter Killers, an orga­ni­za­tion set up to police the Ultra Sapiens.

So, what are Ultra Sapi­ens? Ultra Sapi­ens are those humans with excep­tional gifts cre­ated for war. Their “gifts” are weapons of mass destruc­tion. Many of these excep­tional humans have no idea how lethal their pow­ers are to soci­ety. Most of the Ultra Sapi­ens work for the gov­ern­ment to bring in rogues of their own kind. Ellis has spe­cial pow­ers as well—he is able to mimic the pow­ers of other Ultra Sapi­ens within a lim­ited dis­tance from him. There are other char­ac­ters with cool pow­ers like “Cloaker” who is able to “cloak” your real iden­tity and many others.

Each install­ment starts off with a hunt or assign­ment of a Ultra Sapien. The sus­pense is nice in fig­ur­ing out who is the human with the excep­tional power. And what power they have is rather inter­est­ing, too.  There are sev­eral threads in the story and one that inter­ests me is Ellis. In Issue#1, he is intere­gated by the head of the Hunter Killers. It seems that Ellis has dif­fer­ent answers from every­body else when it comes to know­ing who is the (real) president of the United States and so forth. His infor­ma­tion and his mem­o­ries are key to the Hunters Killers but in what capac­ity? What else does Ellis know that soci­ety doesn’t?

There’s a bit of humor and great art­work and great story.  I vowed that this would be the only series that I would get involved in and wait for month after month because I have the patience of gnat. I fully under­stand those who wait for bound issues. I lie; there is yet another series that I enjoy just as much that I will review later. Mean­while, if your look­ing for some­thing fun and dif­fer­ent, check out Hunter Killers while it’s still available.

Grade: A