Warning: This article contains depictions of violence.
The most gruesome kill of Nick Furys long career shows why even the Punishment had to bow to his status as Marvel’s deadliest man alive. The kill comes in a comic published under Marvel’s MAX Comics imprint – a brand launched in 2001 to cover adult-only comics including Jessica Jones’ AliasThe Supreme power Continuous and multiple Punishment comics.
in Get Fury #5Frank Castle (After a US posing as a Russian officer, Castle uses the kidnapped General Tran to get into the facility and rescue a traumatized Fury. Unfortunately for Tran, Fury turns his wrath on the captured general, blinding and killing him In the back of the Punisher’s car.
The escape is made possible by Fury’s former lover Phuong Thuy Tram and the daughter he never met before, Bian. Fury’s horrifying killing of General Tran while blowing “Crawl inside you pull your spine out” Following a long tradition of Garth Ennis’ writing for Nick Fury and the Punisher under MAX Comics, with collaborator Jacen Burrows bringing his extensive horror experience to the scene.
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Get fury Sees Fury kidnapped by the Viet Cong, with shadowy officials in the US. Unfortunately for them, the corrupt officials misunderstood Castle and Fury’s connection, and the future Punisher did everything he could to retrieve Fury alive, despite being completely brutalized by his captors. Punisher and Fury’s history was explored in both Ennis Punisher Max And Fury: My War Gone By which exist in the same continuum, with Ennis depicting Fury as a man “In Love With War” who spent his life as a key figure in America’s modern conflict.
The story is set between Ennis’ Punisher: The Platoon (with Goran Parlov and Jordie Bellaire) and his epic BornAt a point in Frank Castle’s career where he has been broken by the horrors of the Vietnam War, but has not yet experienced the slaughter that will take him beyond return or the murder of his family that will transform him into the Punisher. Ennis has been writing Punisher for decades, telling Frank Castle’s most brutal and explicit stories, but also those that dig the deepest into his psychology and the reasoning he uses to justify his vigilante war against crime.
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however, Ennis has long depicted Fury as a more despicable figure – Someone who could have helped prevent some of the great conflicts of the 20th century but instead added fuel to the fire in order to feed his own addiction, ending up miserable and alone. Ennis portrays Punisher as an obsessed killer who puts flawed planning and innocent lives above anything else, reserving cruelty only for the worst of the worst. In contrast, Fury is willing to plunge entire countries into war if it serves his interests. If a character were to literally reach inside someone to kill them in Ennis’ Punisher-verse, it makes sense that it would be Nick Fury.
Stan Lee did not approve of how Max treats Nick Fury
Creator Garth Ennis didn’t let Lee’s disapproval sway him
One person who was never a fan of Ennis’ Nick Fury was the character’s co-creator (along with Jack Kirby), Stan Lee. Lee saw Fury as an out-and-out hero, and famously disliked stories that hinted at the character’s corruption. Sean Howe Marvel Comics: The Untold Story Shares an anecdote of Lee banning any reprinting of a story that saw Fury embezzling money to obtain the life-extending infinity formula.
It is therefore understandable that Stan Lee was no fan of Ennis’ take on FuryWith Ennis recently told Comic Book Resources that, “I know Stan Lee, among others, didn’t like it, but never read any of his comics that didn’t mean as much to me as it might to some.” Ennis’ ultra-violence will understandably be divisive for fans of Nick Fury Like a dashing super-spy, but it’s hard to argue that if there’s going to be an R-rated story where Nick Fury brutally kills someone by reaching down their throat, Ennis’ Punisher MAX universe is the place to tell it.
Get Fury #5 is available now from Marvel Comics.
Source: Brian Cronin for Comic Book Resources