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| Livewires Vol. 1: Clockwork Thugs, Yo | 
 enlarge | Authors: Adam Warren, Rick Mays, Jason Martin
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Category: Book
List Price: $7.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 417387
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.5
ISBN: 0785115196
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9780785115199
ASIN: 0785115196
Publication Date: November 9, 2005
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Condition: Ships immediately! Perfect and New! 2005 Paperback.
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Product Description
Hollowpoint Ninja. Gothic Lolita. Cornfed. Stem Cell. Social Butterfly. They're nanobuilt human form combat mecha, with "smartware" bodies specialized for covert ops and Artificially Intelligent minds programmed for suicidal loyalty. They're the superhuman products of a top-secret, quasi-governmental R&D program with a unique agenda: namely, to seek out and destroy other top-secret, quasi-governmental R&D programs. And in the ultra-tech underbelly of a Marvel Universe infested with mad super-geniuses, homebrewed WMDs, and bootlegged alien technologies, they have a lot of work to do... Collects Livewires #1-6.
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The R Word June 20, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I really like Livewires. I like it so much that I have all six issues of it. I really wanted to give this edition 5 stars but Marvel's horrendous choice of going with the digest format has ruined this wonderful book. The pages are shrunk to about the original size and the print quality of the details really suffers, especially the light line-work of the dialogue boxes. Despite this, I heartily recommend this to any anime or espionage fans.
 There's potential, but not in this first volume. June 12, 2006
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Marvel attempts to do manga. It's not a bad idea, a robot special-ops team, but then that's when the good idea stops. The characters have a ton of potential, and the art is pretty good too. But, it seems like the story was written before there were any characters created. "Hey, here's a cool story, now I need to come up with some characters to put in there. Hmm, who can I create to further my story's plot?" I do look forward to seeing more of these characters, but only if there is some character development along the way.
 Livewires wins October 10, 2007
Yet another snarky, bleeding-edge take on the frightening possibilities of modern science, shown in the bright and shiny mirror of the Marvel Universe's backdrops.
Adam warren makes me happy on the pseudoscientific, elementary level. That, and I like viscious AI-driven robots.
I wish it was longer... December 17, 2007
A comic shop near my school was having a big sale. Manga, comic and graphic novels were 70% off. So when I saw this I thought I would give it a try. I'm very glad that I did. When I was done reading it was like "Wow. That was awesome." I love the set up and characters. The only complaint I have is the fact the series is so short. The should of at least made it 2 books/12 comics long, if not more. That way the readers can get to know the characters better and care for them more. If there's ever a 2nd series, I will be picking it up. This comic is worth a chance.
Interesting ideas but unengaging characters September 21, 2008
In this book Adam Warren goes wild with science fiction concepts and crazy comic book science. A group of robots - the products of a black-ops top secret experiment - travel the country seeking out and destroying other black-ops top secret experiments.
The problem is the characters never really come to life. Except for their new member 'Stem Cell' the others all speak in the same sort of lame hipster, rapper-wanna-be voice and have the same too cool for school attitude.
And once Stem Cell grows into her role... she starts speaking the same way. It's not a bad book but it hardly left me wanting more.
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