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A little about me, I’m Ian, I am a father to an adorable 1 yr old daughter, husband of 5 years to one exasperated wife and I am OBSESSED with comics. I have been reading comics for around a year now, was originally a huge Marvel fan, then big 2, now I will read anything with pictures and words. I love everything to do with the art of comics 
. This is my first ever attempt at a review so please all feedback is welcome whether you love it, hate it or find it pointless let me know on Twitter! Catch you all next week!
Gail Simone has been consistently knocking it out of the park with her writing, even overcoming being controversially sacked from Batgirl only to be reinstated 2 issues later! The second installment of her standalone title The Movement is a fast moving and well worked comic book. The first issue was an almost text book example of how to launch a new comic, there was no slow steady build up with too much time spent talking for page upon page. We got to know the characters sure, but the full back story for them can come through more issues organically and not be forced upon us in one issue which then becomes a chore to read and makes you never want to come back. The long and short is the world in which The Movement is set is a world where law and order are king but the police have become corrupt with the power. There is an exaggerated proportion of homeless and prostitutes, and praying on these vulnerable victims is the cornea killer, so called as he takes the eyes of his victims!
The second installment of Gail Simone’s standalone title The Movement is a fast moving and well worked comic book.
The Movement #2 opens with the cops who were captured in #1 being taken down an old sewer looking tunnel until they reach a factory room filled with women, young men and children. The people there look like the survivors of some sort of disaster, sleeping on camp beds and being taught basic English. The bigger and louder of the two cops remarks that it looks like a sweatshop. This allows Virtue (a member of The Movement who is leading them there) to fill us in on the back story of the factory. It was worked in by mostly women and children who were forced to work for little money and obscene hours, even being locked in to avoid breaks and thus the ‘mindless gossip and chatter women engage in’. She explains that one day an earthquake caused all inside to die but the owner swept that atrocity under the rug.
The two cops are now locked away and the team must decide about how to best make a statement with their new found prisoners. They all argue from a different stand point, making somewhat of a societal commentary of ‘how far do we go for liberty’? What makes one mans terrorist another’s freedom fighter….
We send ‘em back. But first….we mess them up!
This back and forth takes place before Katharsis claims she knows how to solve this once and for all by going to see the real head of the city, the Don Corleone if you will. The fear is built and battle ensues, one that lasts nearly half the book, but again it is well presented and keeps the reader engaged. The Movement talks to me personally as a book which challenges societies responsibilities to law and order, where do we draw the line? At what point do we lose our liberties in an attempt to secure them?
Another point to note is the use of predominately female characters. These are not women who are using (excuse the term) T&A to get their point across, these are women who you can belive in and relate to.
The Movement talks to me personally as a book which challenges societies responsibilities to law and order, where do we draw the line?
The Movement is very much a series already on my pull list and is in a special breed of it’s own, one which I would be proud to give my daughter to read!
Storytelling 9/10
Art 7/10
Overall, seriously can’t wait for issue #3!
I’m out!
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Posted on June 7th, 2013
Category: HANMORE UNCHAINED, REVIEWS
Tags: Amanda Conner, Comic Reviews, DC Comics, Freddie Williams II, Gail Simone, Hanmore Unchained, Ian Hanmore-Farrugia, The Movement #2 Review