Lately I’ve been reading the early Iron Fist stories, trying to get a better feel of the raw materials that Ed Brubaker and Matt Fraction are working with to craft the all-kinds-of-bad-ass Immortal Iron Fist series. There’s a fair amount of 70s cheese to the early tales from Doug Moench, Chris Claremont, et al. But [...]
The fist in question belongs to one Marc Spector, whose nom de superhero is Moon Knight. Before he went around mutilating people’s faces, he used to just lay a little smack down on the poor thugs. This example is from Essential Moon Knight Vol. 2, part of the excellent line of old school Marvel reprints [...]
This comes from the recently released and very awesome graphic novel The Goon: Chinatown – It’s a kind of origin story for Eric Powell’s heavily scarred noir character and it looks incredible. The Goon pretends to be an enforcer for a crime family while actually running the show himself, frequently going up against zombies and [...]
Never bring a knife to a bone breaking fight. Never go up against a Frenchman when getting your eyeball ripped out is on the line. Bahlactus knows that. This from Global Frequency Vol. II: Detonation Radio written by Warren Ellis, drawn by Tomm Coker.
I’m not sure a man dressed as a bird should be quite so flippant when he’s squaring off with Luke Cage. But then again Nighthawk is delivering the goods here in this panel from Defenders #17. Just like Bahlactus does.
I still have time to answer the call of Bahlactus. It starts with a vulgar display of power. Then, I like that my brutal underground bareknuckle brawls have pseudo-philosophical tough-guy commentary. In the noir-ish underbelly of 100 Bullets, as in real life, its usually a bad idea to bet against a guy named Jackhammer. Because [...]