THE AMBASSADORS #4 (OF 6)
IMAGE COMICS/Netflix
STORY: Mark Millar
ART: Olivier Coipel
COLORS: Giovanna Niro
LETTERS: Clem Robins
EDITORIAL: Sarah Unwin
COVER: Olivier Coipel with Giovanna Niro
VARIANT COVER ARTISTS: Ryan Sook; Olivier Coipel
28pp, Color, $3.99 U.S. (June 2023)
Rated M / Mature
The Ambassadors created by Mark Millar at Netflix
The Ambassadors is a new comic book miniseries written and created by Mark Millar. The series focuses on the six people out of eight billion humans who will receive super-powers. Each person will become a member of the international rescue squad, The Ambassadors. Each issue of The Ambassadors will be drawn by a different superstar comic book artist. The fourth issue is drawn by Olivier Coipel; colored by Giovanna Niro; and lettered by Clem Robins.
The Ambassadors focuses on the efforts of Doctor Choon-He Chung. The technology of her company, Chung Solutions (the world leader in bio-engineering and artificial intelligence), built her a new body. Now, she wants to share super-powers with the world. From her “Base-Control” is in Antarctica, Choon-He is building “The Ambassadors.”
The Ambassadors #4 opens in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. There, the police have defeated the gangs, but now these enforcers of the law have become the crime lords. A lone voice, Father Vitor Pereira fights the corruption from his church, and for his efforts, he has been chosen “Codename Brazil,” the superhero who will be Brazil's “Ambassador.”
But he doesn't want it. What part do Captain Eduardo Lobo, the policeman turned militia leader and crime lord, and his female killer, Zee, play in Farther Pereira's ultimate choice? Meanwhile, Jin-Sung, Choon-He's ex-husband, continues to sell super-powers to the super rich...
THE LOWDOWN: Thanks to a review copy provided by the Mark Millar division of Netflix, I have been able to read the first four issues The Ambassadors. This is a treat for which I have been awaiting since the announcement of the series last year.
In The Ambassadors #4, artist Olivier Coipel captures the grittiness, persistent poverty, and brutal violence of Rio de Janeiro in an artistic tableau of stylish graphics, eye-catching graffiti, and expressive graphic design. Under Giovanna Niro's lavish colors, Coipel's art matches the aesthetic of writer Mark Millar's darker series, such as the recent Nemesis Reloaded and Night Club.
Millar's script, however, offers a poignant tale of a rose growing in concrete, but a flower showing its thorns in a life of horrid violence. This is a tale of a man determined to make that flower bloom beyond full, even if he has to give up the greatest material things any human could ever get on the planet Earth.
The Ambassadors #4 is a nice follow-up to the amazing third issue. This fourth issue keeps the series undeniable and unmatched.
I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of Mark Millar and of big concept superhero comic books will want to read The Ambassadors.
A+
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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