Fury MAX (Fury #1-6) [Paperback]

Garth Ennis (Author), Darick Robertson (Illustrator), Jimmy Palmiotti (Illustrator)

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Marvel Comics (May 13, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0785108785
• ISBN-13: 978-0785108788
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 6.8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,178,973 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Darick Robertson is an American artist best known for his work as a comic book illustrator. Highly prolific, Robertson has illustrated hundreds of comics in his twenty plus years in the industry. His body of work ranges from science fiction characters of his own creation to headlining on renowned classic characters from Marvel and DC Comics. Robertson is best known as the co-creator and illustrator of the biting satires TRANSMETROPOLITAN and THE BOYS.

In January of 2010 he wrote and illustrated CONAN: THE WEIGHT OF THE CROWN for Dark Horse Comics.

Darick currently lives in California with his wife and two children. When he's not drawing comics, which is almost all the time, he creates custom action figures, writes music, sings and plays guitar.

Original art for sale can be found at tinyurl.com/DarickR

* Special thanks to Joey and Sara at ComicVine for the interview video contained in this profile.

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Marvel Gets "Mature"....., September 27, 2002

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Daniel V. Reilly (Upstate New York, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fury MAX (Fury #1-6) (Paperback)

Let's get this said right off the bat: When I finished the first chapter of Fury, I was ready to throw the book down in disgust. I was not impressed with Garth Ennis' foul-mouthed, whoring interpretation of Marvel icon Nick Fury. I kept going, though, and I'm glad I did.

Nick Fury is a man left behind by the agency, S.H.I.E.L.D., that he helped build. He's a cold-war dinosaur who is finding that, without a war to fight, his life just isn't worth living. He's reduced to a drinking, whoring old crank....until a chance encounter with an old enemy changes everything. While rembering old times over a drink, Yuri Gagarin waxes poetic about how he and Nick could go somewhere and start their own war, and bring the glory days back. Fury laughs it off, but soon enough, Gagarin has started a coup on a small but strategically placed island near Hawaii, and is about to trigger World War III. Suddenly Fury is important again...

After the first chapter, and the pointless focus given to Fury's nephew Wendell, the book takes off. Artists Darick Robertson & Jimmy Palmiotti have clearly based their Fury on Clint Eastwood, and I could easily imagine Clint playing out this story on the big-screen. The final chapters play out like the best summer action movie you've never seen, and Ennis' pacing is flawless. Be warned, though- This is a "Max" book, Marvel's "Mature Readers" imprint, and BOY, does it earn that title: Death, destruction, dismemberment, used condoms, disfigured soldiers with obscene names, a man being strangled with his own Intestines....The list goes on and on. The action finale is mind-boggling, and the final sequence is staggeringly memorable. I'd love to see Ennis, Robertson, and Palmiotti do a return engagement with Nick Fury.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Meet Nick Fury, September 15, 2003

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N. Durham "Big Evil" (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fury MAX (Fury #1-6) (Paperback)

After his long run on the classic and critically acclaimed Preacher series and his re-invention of The Punisher, Garth Ennis was given the task of giving the same treatment to Nick Fury. And what a job he did. Collecting the six issue mini-series; Fury tells the story of a modern day Nick Fury: a profanity laden, whorring, cold war dinosaur who longs for the days when he could shoot first and ask questions later. Tired of his day in, day out life, his hopeless and annoying "nephew" Wendel, and disgusted by what S.H.I.E.L.D. (the organization he used to run) has become; he is soon made an offer by an old enemy to go off to some little third world country and start a war of their own to re-live their glory days. Nick doesn't take him seriously, but soon enough he learns it was no joke, and once again Nick Fury is being counted upon. Ennis has really gone all out here: full of his penchant ultra graphic violence, a severe lack of being politically correct, and being insanely darkly humerous; Fury is one of the best pieces of comic art to come out of Marvel in quite some time. The art by Darick Robertson and Jimmy Palmiotti is as equally fantastic and shows all the graphic, gritty detail. Also, look for various in-jokes and references to Ennis' Preacher saga; including a man whose disfigured face is a clear homage/re-interpretation of Arseface from the Preacher comics. All in all, if you like comics in the least bit and can handle everything contained in these pages (it well deserves it's Parental Advisory label) then you will definitely love Fury. Also highly recommended is any of Ennis' work on The Punisher.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars another great Ennis read, October 5, 2005

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Tyler Lavigne "tylersaurusrex" (western wisconsin) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fury MAX (Fury #1-6) (Paperback)

Ok first of all I have to admit to being very biased, I love ennis's work, I would probably read his grocery list if I got the chance.

That out of the way, this is another short by ennis collecting the 6 issue miniseries.
Its got everything youd come to expect from an ennis book, dark humor, gore, cussin a plenty and of course a killer story.
Ennis's take on Fury is perfect, an old, pissed off dude whose disenfranchised with s.h.i.e.l.d. and dealing with a funny little guy named wendel. The dynamic between those two is sooo funny, and worth a read in itself.
I dont wanna give anything away about the story so i'll just leave it at this, if you like ennis at all buy this, if you've never heard of him, buy it.