Human Target: Chance Meetings

by Peter Milligan (Writer), Edvin Biukovic (Illustrator), Javier Pulido (Illustrator)

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Series: Human Target (Omnibus of Vol. 1 + OGN), Human Target Vol.2 (mini 1-4, OGN)

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Christopher Chance has made a living off of making himself a human target. A master of disguise, he cunningly takes on the appearance and persona of men and women with contracts out against them. But when a routine assignment to impersonate an African-American minister with a bounty on his head goes south, Chance is soon caught between a lethal assassin and a vicious gang war. As this psychological thriller takes the reader through a roller coaster of unexpected twists and turns, it is soon... In the psychological thriller HUMAN TARGET- FINAL CUT, Christopher Chance, a unique bodyguard that assumes the identity of the person that he is protecting, finds himself caught in a tangled web of Hollywood deceit, drugs and duplicity. While posing as an elderly film actor, the Human Target successfully takes down and kills the man who has been extorting aging thespians. But when Chance learns that the extortionist has also kidnapped a child actor, the master of disguise must impersonate his...… (more)

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I've never read any of the original Human Target stories, but Milligan does his thing here by deconstructing the mental state of a man who spends his life impersonating other people. It's vintage Milligan - if you like his other mind-bendy works, you'll probably like this one. That said, the first story in the collection works much better than the latter. The 2nd story spends too much time dwelling on the repercussions of the first, but without resolving anything meaningfully. If you're going to dredge up old dirt, do something with it? Please? (

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elvendido | Feb 14, 2010 |

Better than I remembered it being. Possibly I was retroactively affected by the brilliance of Human Target: The Final Cut? Anyway, these twisted skeins come together into a climax that is neither too convoluted nor not convoluted enough; the central conceit about the dude who's just so good at imitating other dudes is fun to think about; and if the psychological realness of the characters sits a bit uncomfortably alongside the extreme absurdity of their situations and actions, well, that's melodrama, I guess. (

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Milligan, Peter	Writer	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Biukovic, Edvin	Illustrator	main author	all editions	confirmed
Pulido, Javier	Illustrator	main author	all editions	confirmed
Bradstreet, Tim	Cover artist	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Human Target (1999) #1 (of 4) by Peter Milligan

Human Target (1999) #2 (of 4) by Peter Milligan

Human Target (1999) #3 (of 4) by Peter Milligan

Human Target (1999) #4 (of 4) by Peter Milligan

Human Target: Final Cut by Peter Milligan

Human Target by Peter Milligan

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Christopher Chance has made a living off of making himself a human target. A master of disguise, he cunningly takes on the appearance and persona of men and women with contracts out against them. But when a routine assignment to impersonate an African-American minister with a bounty on his head goes south, Chance is soon caught between a lethal assassin and a vicious gang war. As this psychological thriller takes the reader through a roller coaster of unexpected twists and turns, it is soon... In the psychological thriller HUMAN TARGET- FINAL CUT, Christopher Chance, a unique bodyguard that assumes the identity of the person that he is protecting, finds himself caught in a tangled web of Hollywood deceit, drugs and duplicity. While posing as an elderly film actor, the Human Target successfully takes down and kills the man who has been extorting aging thespians. But when Chance learns that the extortionist has also kidnapped a child actor, the master of disguise must impersonate his...

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