Nemesis Vol. 4 is the final volume of the four-issue limited series Nemesis by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven. The series is the pair's second collaboration after Civil War and Wolverine: Old Man Logan. Its protagonist is no hero but a super-villain who calls himself "Nemesis": an exceptionally skilled fighter, a master strategist, and a man whose cruelty borders on obsession, hunting down police officers the world over treats as heroes. After causing mass chaos in Tokyo, he turns his sights on the United States and closes in on the officer who once arrested his parents. The book takes the notion of "what if Batman were a criminal" and tells it with a straight face, filling every page with extreme violence and black humor while fundamentally questioning the legitimacy of vigilantes and heroes. This volume is the fourth in the series, the concluding part of the four-issue run; as the finale, it draws together the revenge, police investigation, and the mystery of Nemesis's true identity threaded through earlier issues and drives them toward the final confrontation and resolution. It is best to read the first three volumes before this one to avoid confusion over plot and character relationships. The Chinese edition was brought out by World Publishing Corporation, translated by Wang Jun, and is one of its Marvel-related titles.
World Publishing Corporation is a publisher known for introducing and disseminating overseas academic and general-interest works. Its 28 in-house titles show that it focuses on world history, psychological research and application, finance and investment, and social psychology. They range from Hans Delbrück's multi-volume History of the Art of War to Abraham H. Maslow's classics such as Motivation and Personality, Toward a Psychology of Being, and The Farther Reaches of Human Nature, as well as John Bogle's investment books. Its author resources include overseas scholars such as Delbrück, Maslow, and Bogle, with translators including Jiang Haoqian and Liu Yinlong. Its overall character lies in balancing scholarly depth with accessibility to general readers. As public information is limited, the above is based only on an overview of the in-house titles.
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