American Ronin arrives in Spain from the hand of Evolution, a world of super spies, action and above all strange genetic powers. Everything from Peter Milligan and ACO
Peter Milligan’s new work, American Ronin, takes us to a world full of spies, chases, action and strange abilities beyond the human. These “Gifted” They are agents of hidden international organizations, they are not the CIA, they are not MI6, they are private agencies above them, of governments and that seek to control the world through their economy, coups, drug trafficking and others. uncomfortable, but necessary, ways to achieve full power.
The British writer once again grants us a strange and complex work, in which we can find not only intelligence agencies, covert operations and actions beyond what any government could agree to do, or have done, takes us to a world of conspiracies full of organizations that are beyond the public or known powers and handle the economy, politics and crime in a surreptitious way, disguised for the world we know. Puppeteers who pull the strings, who change governments and godparents, who dominate the world.
Peter Milligan maintains his great capacity for action, for the pulse of rhythm and certainly never lets the reader lose interest. The action measured and of course, illustrated in a magnificent way, leads to moments of reflection where we can enter into those concepts that he adores, such as sensations, feelings, memory, love and identity.
History is a revenge, and a way to do justice for a population ignorant of reality. Our protagonist has been the victim of a betrayal and is an agent without a lord, a ronin, hence the title, but the most important thing is not revenge, but everything that comes with the fact of fighting against something bigger than him alone. Milligan provides us with a complex, strange character, an outcast who has been used, modified, tortured and transformed, but who has escaped to become an outcast of society. Because his special talent, which arises from having been modified, transformed, serves to achieve someone’s memory only by taking his DNA, saliva or blood is his gateway to the memories of the whole world. Which makes it a kind of book to write, which often ends up being overwritten, so that losing its individuality is also among the great threats to the ronin.
The Spanish artist, the mysterious ACO, is in charge of planning and capturing everything that Peter Milligan has been able to concoct and in the end he achieves an incredible work with aesthetics, clear, impressive and above all very dynamic. The cartoonist is able to capture situations as strange as the search for memories, within what is a kind of surreal mental process given through AD, ACO poses a world that only Ronin knows, of feelings and memories against of the nightmares what does the Incubus do. Between these surreal and lysergic impressive scenes, the author allows himself great moments of composition of action, with pages that could have been perfectly used for any movie. Even conversations move at their own pace, without the reader losing interest, ACO stands out and is revolutionary with enormous power and capacity to impact.
American Ronin It is one of these works that we hope will continue, because we would like to know more about this secret war around the world, and also the personal war of the ronin to get rid of those who created it. AWA with this work and with any other that we have discussed on the web, such as resistance, sets foot within the highly competitive North American market and does so with first-rate authors, with quality and above all, with revolutionary ideas.