#Marvel MAX

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Ennis + Burrows pit the Punisher against Nick Fury in ‘Get Fury’

The Marvel MAX miniseries set during the Vietnam War begins in May.

cover by Dave Johnson

#dave johnson #garth ennis #jacen burrows #get fury #marvel #marvel max #comics #comic books #comic covers #punisher #frank castle #nick fury

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Dave Johnson's cover for 2013's Fury: Max #13.

#nick fury #marvel max #garth ennis #goran parlov #2010s #war #20th century #punisher #outside the marvel universe #max

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#black widow: pale little spider #black widow #yelena belova #greg rucka #marvel #marvel 616 #marvel comics #marvel max #poll

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2001 Marvel Max Comics Marvel Comics House Ad

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Psycho Analysis: Harald Jaekelsson

(WARNING! This analysis contains SPOILERS! You can thank me later because now you won't have to read a piece of shit comic!)

So in 2003, Marvel decided to let Garth Ennis write a Thor story for the Marvel MAX imprint. Said story is called Thor: Vikings and it features Thor fighting against a horde of immortal, unstoppable zombie vikings. The Avengers are completely and utterly hopeless against said zombies and are beaten offscreen, Dr. Strange is a sarcastic asshole who acts more like Constantine than himself, and of course the whole thing is filled to the brim with the darkness, grit, and biases we all know and hate Ennis for. The last issue is the only one worth reading, and it is unfortunately held back by the fact that the previous four issues are tryhard edgelord nonsense. In short: This comic is absolute dog shit.

But hey, even the worst comics can have some positive qualities, right? Could it be that paerhaps the main viking zombie antagonist of this awful elseworlds story, Harald Jaekelsson, might actually be an interesting and compelling villain for Thor to face? Could it actually be possible for Ennis to fuck up the awesome concept that is Thor, a self-loathing Nazi who hates Hitler and his government, an affable Templar knight, and a warrior woman vs. a horde of zombie vikings?

Of course it’s possible! I’m going to tell you just how possible it is! And I'm also going to rant about how terrible this comic is!

Motivation/Goals: Literally everything there is to know about this guy is right in the very first page of the comic:

I'm not kidding when I say that there is literally nothing to this guy but murder, rape, and conquest. There's no underlying motivations, there's no hints of complexity, nothing remotely resembling a personality. He's just a walking, talking, rape-and-pillage machine.

Final Fate: The sole redeeming feature of this comic is the final issue, which actually manages to deliver a cool premise (even if it's not enough to save it as a whole). And considering how fucking nasty and unpleasant Jaekelsson has been this whole time, his ultimate end is very, very satisfying.

First, he gets fucking roasted by Thor's crew as the god goes in for the wind up:

And then Thor gives this crusty viking bastard the ol' Kars tratment:

This is somewhat diminished due to the fact that, unlike Kars, Jaekelsson's personality and characterization is thinner than wet paper, but I'll let Thor have this since it's the only cool thing he gets to do in the whole comic.

Final Thoughts & Score: The goodwill a work like Preacher awards you can only get you so far, and this might very well have burned all that up. As Thor: Vikings is utter dog shit, so too is its main antagonist. But quite frankly, Jaekelsson goes beyond being shitty; he is, without a doubt, the worst fucking villain I have ever seen in my life.

He is quite literally everything wrong with Garth Ennis and his writing in one gruesome package. His entire personality is nothing but rape and murder, with zero complexities or anything compelling to make him interesting beyond being a shallow hate sink; he easily curbstomps the heroes, including Thor, because Ennis hates heroes with a passion and will be damned before he lets one have a win over normal, everyday folk (something undercut by Thor getting a badass finishing blow); and worst of all, his entire existence is just absolute nonsense to get Ennis’ point across, existing only so he can deliver a grisly “fuck you” to superheroes.

Like, there is literally no reason that Jaekelsson, let alone the rest of the vikings, should be so absurdly overpowered from a curse that they are singlehandedly able to commit mass murder and no sell gods, super soldiers, the fucking Scarlet Witch, and all modern technology and gunfire. And yet Jaekelsson and his crew continue to pull new unexplained magical abilities out of their ass at every turn so that Ennis can keep allowing the bodies to pile higher and higher. There’s no logic to anything going on in this story because these zombie vikings exist only to make the heroes look like incompetent jackasses so Ennis can make a “point.”

And you know, there’s an easy fix to this: Make the vikings more like the undead pirates in Pirates of the Caribbean. Give them a lot of strength and durability that makes them a challenge to fight, but also allows them to be beaten with enough cunning and wits. Hell, if you want to make it so Thor can’t just zap them away with lightning, go the Kingdom Hearts II route and have them be immune to all damage (even magic) when not standing in the moonlight revealing their skeletal forms. There are plenty of creative ways to make a challenge out of cursed sailors, but that would require a bit of thinking, wouldn’t it? And it would require giving any of these zombies a personality.

And that’s perhaps Jaekelsson’s biggest failing: He is an utter void of a character. The last two paragraphs were me ranting about the zombies as a whole because Jaekelsson is less than nothing. He is just a walking personification of rape, murder, and brutality who exists as the ultimate and definitive generic doomsday villain, a black hole of character writing and charisma that just sucks the joy and readability out of the story. A comic needs a compelling villain, and doubly so if you’re trying to make a point like Ennis so desperately is here, and Jaekellson is just none of that. He’s all the bad bits of Preacher and The Boys wrapped into one package, and it might be the worst thing he’s ever done.

I thought Alan Moore’s Moonchild was the shittiest villain ever, but at least Moore had something he was trying to say. At least there was enough to his absolutely whack take on Harry Potter to start a conversation about, and if nothing else there’s the absolute hilarity of seeing Harry zap Sean Connery with electrified thunder piss. It was still fucking terrible, but you can at least kind of appreciate the effort Moore is putting in to his grumpy old man ranting. Now imagine that but there’s no effort to be compelling and even more effort to be spiteful, and you have Jaekelsson.

I’m giving him a -1/10. Yeah, a negative score. This is the most spiteful, edgy, tryhard waste of ink I’ve ever had the misfortune to see, and he’s easily the worst thing in one of the worst things Ennis ever wrote. How did he manage to make a zombie viking who features in some of the most metal panels ever so unbelievably lame? I am so fucking mad that a comic that has this panel-

-is one of the worst things I've ever read in my life.

Thank god none of this shit is canon, no matter what Ennis says.

#psycho analysis #Harald Jaekelsson #Garth Ennis #Marvel #Marvel MAX #Thor: Vikings #tw gore #tw rape

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The Punisher (2004) #15

#punisher #the punisher #frank castle #marvel max #marvel #marvel comics #and he was! #dad mode activated

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Alias

Volume: 1

Issue: 23

The Secret Origin of Jessica Jones (Part 2 of 2)

Writer: Brian Michael Bendis

Penciler: Michael Gaydos

Inker: Michael Gaydos

Colourist: Matt Hollingsworth

Cover: David Mack

Marvel Max

#Alias #Jessica Jones #Brian Michael Bendis #Michael Gaydos #Matt Hollingsworth #David Mack #Marvel Max #Marvel #Thor #Flash Thompson #Peter Parker #Scorpion #Mac Gargan

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The Punisher

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The Punisher targets Nick Fury in Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows' Get Fury!

The Punisher targets Nick Fury in Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows' Get Fury! #comics #comicbooks

This May, legendary storyteller Garth Ennis returns to Marvel in Get Fury, a new five-issue limited series starring two characters he helped define for the modern age: Nick Fury and Frank Castle. Joining Ennis will be frequent collaborator and superstar artist Jacen Burrows, along with acclaimed artist Dave Johnson for the series’ covers. This trio of talent will pit two of comics’ most…

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#comic books #Comics #dave johnson #garth ennis #get fury #jacen burrows #marvel #marvel max

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Destroyer was one of my favorite Marvel MAX titles ! This reveal here makes more sense than in the last Cap special, had me thinking Sharon was the new Madame Masque :

Transhuman propaganda much. But with an ass that phat ... :

Cap shoulda been did this (*no one specific shield slinger) :

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X-Men '97 1x02 “Mutant Liberation Begins”

#m* #magneto #x-men '97 #marvel animation's x-men '97 #x men 97 #x men #x-men #xmenedit #xmenuniverse #uncannysource #marvel #marveledit #dailymarvelgifs #marvellegends #heroesdaily #comicedit #animationsdaily #tvedit #cinematv #dailyflicks #max eisenhardt #1k #2k #3k #4k #5k

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Get Fury #1 (Marvel, May 2024) variant cover by Jacen Burrows

#get fury #nick fury #punisher #marvel #comic books #comics #variant covers #marvel max #comic covers #jacen burrows

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When Storm inevitably comes back to the mansion:

#Storm #Ororo Munroe #Cyclops #Scott Summers #Jean Grey #Magneto #Erik Lensherr #Max Eisenhardt #Gambit #Remy LeBeau #Rogue #Anna Marie #Marvel #X-Men #X-Men 97 #x men 97 #Wolverine #Logan Howlett #James Howlett

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This is literally so iconic

#cartoon network #the marvelous misadventures of flapjack #regular show #gravity falls #bravest warriors #bee and puppycat #ok ko #Clarence #craig of the creek #infinity train #summer camp island #hilda #mighty magiswords #amphibia #adventure time #the midnight gospel #owl house #maomao #steven universe future #close enough #disney #netflix #hilda netflix #long live the royals #max #hbo max #anime #animation #cartoons #over the garden wall

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magneto’s last act was comforting a scared child i am never going to recover from this i fear

#actually sobbing rn #magneto #max eisenhardt #erik lehnsherr #x men #marvel #x men 97

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If not gay ... THEN WHY EACHOTHER'S NARRATIVE FOIL?🤨 hmmm?? 🤔🤔🤔 WHY THE LIGHT SIDE TO HIS DARK ONE?? WHY CAN'T GO WITHOUT THE CAMERA POINTING AT FACE FOR MILLISECOND WHEN OTHER'S NAME MENTIONED??? why SO MUCH VISIBLE SUBTEXT IN CONTEXT?? 🧐

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