The Ambassadors #1
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| Writer | Mark Millar |
| Artist | Frank Quitely |
| Cover Price | $3.99 |
The most ambitious comic book of all time is finally here!
Imagine you could gift superpowers to six people. In a world of eight billion, who do you choose? Join six of the greatest artists in the industry for an enormous story about ordinary people from around the world explaining why it should be them.
This first story features artwork by superstar FRANK QUITELY.
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9.6
You Don't Read Comics - Russ Bickerstaff
Mar 30, 2023DC tried something very similar to this with a mega-crossover back in the late 1980s called Millennium. It stumbled over the weight of the DC Universe and the fact that it was WAY too ambitious to actually live up to what it was trying to do. Millars approach weaves together familiar superhero comic tropes with a basic understanding of 20th-century geopolitical concerns to develop something with real potential to be interesting. Read Full Review
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9.5
Lyles Movie Files - Jeffrey Lyles
Mar 29, 2023One of the best aspects of Millar titles is that he's going to at least tell the complete story and has no issues revisiting characters if the fan demand is there for future chapters. The Ambassadors is already off to a fantastic start and I'm excited about the possibilities with it. Read Full Review
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9.4
The Super Powered Fancast - Deron Generally
Mar 29, 2023Frank Quietly delivers some beautifully detailed and brutal art throughout the issue. I love the visual style of the story and how immersive the imagery is. Read Full Review
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9.0
COMICON - Olly MacNamee
Mar 27, 2023'The Ambassadors' #1 mixes old school black ops action with modern day geo-politics as America must wake up to the realisation they're not the global superpower they thought they were? For that, as in the real world, we must look to the East and to bio-engineering genius, Doctor Chung. A billionaire who, unlike many, only has altruistic motives for the world in mind. From Mark Millar and Frank Quietly. Read Full Review
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9.0
Lotusland Comics - Hank Rea
Mar 31, 2023Intriguing, compelling, and irresistible, 'The Ambassadors' lays the groundwork for a riveting miniseries that will question what it means to be a superhero. An almost perfect debut. Read Full Review
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8.4
Graphic Policy - Brett
Mar 29, 2023Millar has been on a roll as he's expanded Millarworld and The Ambassadors #1 is no exception. How it fits into the big picture should be very interesting but even on its own, without all of that, it's a debut and series that's well worth checking out. Read Full Review
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8.0
Capes & Tights - Justin Soderberg
Mar 30, 2023Imagine you could gift superpowers to six people. In a world of eight billion, who do you choose? Join six of the greatest artists in the industry for an enormous story about ordinary people from around the world explaining why it should be them. Read Full Review
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8.0
Major Spoilers - Christopher Rondeau
Apr 02, 2023The Ambassadors #1 asks us unique philosophical questions but doesn't introduce a protagonist for the audience to latch onto. Read Full Review
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10
Wow, a great concept. Well written and beautiful art
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9.5
Millar is kicking it right now. Ambassador is a great start. I am already intrigued for issue #2. Quietly's art is perfect. Shame he isn't do all the upcoming Ambassador issues, though.
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9.0
*Please ignore the idiots with their ridiculously low SPAM review scores. The fact that they don't write anything in their "reviews" speaks volumes.* Frank Quitely's art alone is worth a high rating. Add to that a very compelling opening issue with some brilliant examples of how to use the comic book medium as it should be used. Mark Millar is writing for the joy of being a comic book writer and for the love of the medium. Some people don't like that. The Ambassadors #1 is pure comic book storytelling. Recommended!
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9.0
Millar is firing on all-cylinders. Another good, new title! Yeah, some of it retreads old tropes like governments using superheroes as a screen for bio experiments but like most of Millar's work, there's a twist.
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7.0
Quitely brought me here. Decent issue
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7.0
Not a lot is going on in this one. Millar stretches a prologue to a size of an issue. The premise is cool, kind of Reverse Uno card on superhero mythos. Instead of heroes being big part of the culture they are relatively new thing in this world. Don't know how good the overall message of "pure" heroes is going to be because it's Mark Millar (a walking paradox of parody and serious political commentary). Quitley is always good tho and I've missed him so much. Worth tunning in at least for him.
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7.0
Millar World! The Greatest that Comic Books have to offer! Large Fonts! REALLY LARGE FONTS! You're not reading a comic you're reading a TV Show! We're streaming the art right into those pages as you turn them. MILLARRRRRRR! He's at a meeting right now in Century City making your life better. You want ambition??? He's got it baby! This comic was okay but I wasn't ecstatically hyperventilating from this glorified storyboard for Netflix. You know who Mark Millar reminds me of? Dane Cook. A large font guy who tapped into the Woo Hoo crowd and rode them to stardom. My breakdown of the similarities and if this comic warrants the 150pt font treatment is here: https://standupcomicreader.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-ambassadors-1-review.html
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6.0
This book didn't do it for me and gave me no reason to get the second one. Nothing happens and we have seen this story before. A select group of people can get superpowers. Somehow she was able to build a robot from prison. Not sure how that works. It's a skip it for me.
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4.5
The ending didn't make any sense
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