GARTH ENNIS RETURNS TO MARVEL - WITH NICK FURY AND FRANK CASTLE AS YOU'VE NEVER SEEN!
It's 1971, there is a war raging in Vietnam, and Nick Fury has been captured by the Viet Cong. At this moment, they don't quite understand that they have in their possession a man who knows enough secrets to damage the United States beyond comprehension. The C.I.A., however, DOES realize this and they can't risk their enemy getting those secrets, so they dispatch the most deadly man in the U.S. Army - LT. FRANK CASTLE.
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Run, don't walk. Buy this book NOW, and immerse yourself back in the definitive world of the Punisher. You won't be disappointed. Read Full Review
Like Thors brother Loki, Letrong Giap enjoys making mischief. Yet in Get Fury #1, the former North Vietnamese General shows Captain Frank Castle and Colonel Nick Fury protecting their men and avoiding unnecessary killing. By contrast, Letrong shows his NVA soldiers engage in heartless cruelty. Does Letrong want to get his government into trouble? Or will he turn the tables on American readers in future issues? Read Full Review
Get Fury #1 is a barebones, gritty, ugly, gruesome war comic that weaves a tale about two famous Marvel characters intersecting on the field of battle. Ennis delivers a comic that chooses to show war as ugly as it truly is without the glamour or glory, and the art team brings the violence to vivid life. Read Full Review
Frank Castle and old school Nick Fury are back, and with this creative team the blood is set to flow. Read Full Review
This is going to be one hell of a ride. Read Full Review
Overall, Get Fury #1 feels like a lost Rambo script in some ways. It takes classic characters, a real setting, mixes it up with a pretty straightforward mission, and adds in some ultra-violence. Altogether, it's classic Ennis fans will enjoy. Read Full Review
Get Fury has all the makings for a classic showdown. It's incredibly adult as it never holds back with violence and swearing while establishing the hard edge of Frank Castle and Fury. It'll be interesting to see them go head to head, but this stage we must patiently wait. Read Full Review
Even figures like Castle and Fury are made to seem like minor figures in a much larger world and when the introduction is complete by issue's end, readers are readied to read a bona fide war story and all that it really entails. Read Full Review
Get Fury #1 dangles an intriguing setup with engaging characters over the readers head, but then hits them with childish dialog and lackluster visuals. Read Full Review
Plot
Frank Castle was already a soldier feared for his tenacity and efficiency, also for his lack of respect for authority. We are in the Vietnam War in 1971 and his new mission is to eliminate an elite soldier for being a prisoner of war.
Frank Castle is ordered to eliminate Nick Fury, as the US government fears that all of Fury's Military Intelligence knowledge will be extracted through interrogations.
Fury is being transferred to a mysterious location with two other soldiers, who are killed in the most cruel way in Nick's presence, just to break his will.
Shocking start to this miniseries that mixes the war genre with the superhero genre at a key moment in Contemporary History, where Garth Ennis demo more
Ennis has in fact matured a little over the decades, but that is not immediately evident in this particular issue, which reads as though Punisher Max never ended. I don't love everything about Ennis's style but he's a great storyteller. I rolled my eyes a lot back in the day, reading Punisher Max--but that doesn't change the fact that Punisher Max absolutely kicked ass. Ergo, *more* Punisher Max works for me, warts and all.
It's good to see Frank Castle again. I was excited but not "that" excited for this book to come out, but how things have been lately with my favorite character, anything done and done right, it's good and I will gladly accept it.
Don't expect anything action packed, but this is a set-up issue, nothing groundbreaking in terms of storytelling and the reasons that will put Frank's crosshairs on Nick Fury were kind of "predictable".
Either way, it started well, I'm more pumped by this than Soviet #1 or even Platoon #1. The artwork was good, and again, Jacen Burrows shows how to make violent scenes as we saw in Punisher: Soviet.
Can't wait for the rest of the story and how things will not be that "simple" as Ennis used to show us. more
Promising start, and Garth Ennis is not the type of writer to disappoint the reader, especially when he writes characters like the Punisher, although I have a certain fear that Marvel's editorial could turn the classic version of Nick Fury into a villain if they drastically change the concept of the character based on this retcon.
But I hope that doesn't happen.
Good set up. There's not a lot going on, but it does set up the series in a way that makes me want to read more.
(Cover Date: July, 2024)
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