Foolkiller #1 Storytime

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>>87417696
So this is going to be one of those first-person narration books.

Dandykiller>Modernkiller>Gimpkiller

Fight me.

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>>87417758
I am a big fan of the pirate hat costume, and I won't spoil anything

>>87417792
CAGE

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>>87417792
"Young Red Skull" is better than "Kid Skull", I think.

This has been one of the few surprisingly good books of Marvel Nower so far. Too bad it's doomed.

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>>87417817
We always knew this was gonna get six issues at maximum

Recap time! You might be familiar with this if you read Steve Gerber's excellent mini.

DIE A FOOL

>>87417758
Die a fool.

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>>87417840
That's a pretty skewed recap, though, considering how Gregory helped guide and drive Kurt Gerhardt on, but I think there's a deliberate theme going here

>>87417840

On the upside Bemis and the editors of this seem to know that, too, and are writing it accordingly.

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>>87417875
And now, how we got out of Mercs for Money

I think Duggan used him in the first place because he was trolling the OHOTMU for cool names, but hey, it's better than how Bendis works

that's the first issue of the Gerber mini, there

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>>87417892
Exactly. Everyone doing niche has to work that way now.

>>87417875
Gotta point out, he doesn't look a thing like Gregory either.

Greg was a blond, kinda Charlton Heston looking guy. This guy has more of a Gregory Peck thing going. Not like he'd be the first Foolkiller to seriously change his face, though.

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>>87417932
nothing could possibly be going wrong, here

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>>87417954
That is also true, but colorist errors like that are a long-running comics tradition by now

welp!

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>>87417993
I'm not sure who the girlfriend is, but it gives us this next page, that's for sure

>>87417758
I'm a bit confused. Do you mean
OG>Max>"The trash is my home" Foolkiller

>>87417955
My head cannon is that really is stark and this is what happened to him after Civil War.

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>>87418015
Hah!

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>>87418063

>>87418020
I meant costumes.

>>87418063
If only he ha the hat on.

>>87418081
Ohhh, I'd have to agree with that

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>>87418081
It's really not the same without the hat, I agree.

I like the coloring on these recap pages.

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>>87418113
Is today the day our comics deal with some heavy issues in the midst of humor?

I am liking this, maybe it has something to do with the writer, he did the worst x-men and polarity and i liled both.

Anyway i will say foolkiller > slapstick > solo, so far from their #1

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>>87418139
I agree with that ranking

So I think there's a deliberate thing going on here with Greg's newly-found yuppiedom; much as Gerber was very NYC of the early 90s, this is very NYC of the now

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>>87418113
>Ja Bruder, Heavy on the corn

As a german, i have to laugh about that one.

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>>87418184
hallo bernd

The body language on this page is great, what else has the artist done?

>>87417993
>Get me my Minecraft

We've all been there.

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>>87418212
You knew this was coming.

>>87418139

It has a strong hook, makes use of continuity both recent and old. It explains how he went from his stint as Foolkiller to the Mercs for Money to working as a psychatrist while also making it clear that there is more to it than explained here. It establishes two different plot hooks, one with Shield contact and another at the end of this issue. All in the span of one issue.

That is already much better than many of Marvel other #1s this year (e.g. the current Thunderbolts).

>>87418265
F

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>>87418265

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>>87418298
Strong character voice, too.

>>87418312
>Ya'll

I hope to god those are stereotypical rednecks. If they're black it means Rodney really was coming around, and Greg just offed him when he was getting better.

Lord knows how poetic that'd be though.

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>>87418332
Pants are for the weak

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>>87418364
Hey, if you liked this, buy it digitally because god knows it's going to need all the help it can get because it's already been declared DOA

>>87418332
I really like this so far. They should cancel the mercs for money and bring some foolkiller/solo/slapstick/terror/stingray stuff. Remember, when they acted like the stooches? Classy.

>>87418298
I was worry because the writer for this said that he only had read MAX foolkiller.

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>>87418384

>>87418394
I think he went back and did some research, which makes me really happy--the original pitch was "Oh, we're moving forward" and now the covers at least indicate "we are well aware of our past"

>>87418265
Wooooo, no, this get to close to my because i like my psicologist and my mom is one too.

>>87418357
>>87418402
Yep, white supremacists, also, he did say that they had a final job for him, indicating that it was the same Nazis he had been working with

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>>87418402
Heh. Know that art. Same guy worked for Punisher MAX and Daniel Ways Deadpool. 2 of my 3 favourites.

>>87418418

Not only must he have done research, he also seems to have really liked what he read there considering how heavily this builds on Gerber.

Thanks OP, you're good people.
This is going to end up as a forgotten gem, huh.

Thanks OP, I really enjoyed this. Gonna go out and buy this later.

this was really good

>>87418647
It's criminal that Marvel hasn't made the Gerber available as digital (you can buy the first issue and that's it) or a nice 10-issue trade. Had to find the scans for storytiming it a month ago.

>>87417840
>Zooey Deschanel Hawkeye
Fucking kek

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>>87417792
nicolas cage???

>>87418758
>storytiming it
Ooh, where?

>>87417696
>the comic no one wanted

>>87418921
it's on desu

https://desuarchive.org/co/search/subject/foolkiller/

I love /co/'s got this little Foolkiller cult. Gerber da god

Pretty good stuff. This page >>87417932 reminded me of Richard Pryor's epiphay for some reason. Solid start, definitely gonna check it out. Thanks for the storytime!

>>87417909
You call yourself lame but Stingray didn't get comic.

>>87417993
POP CULTURE REFERENCES!!!!!

Holy shit, I mean, this reads better than most Marvel books right now but I don't know what to say about those references, either part of the style or a lazy crutch.

Like I can see it how a hardass mercenary talking about mundane stuff creates a nice contrast about living as a super criminal vs living like an average person.


But I can see it getting annoying

>>87418402

This was good, sad that this is going to be axed soon and shit like Gwenpool gets two volumes...

>>87419010
thanks

Was Worst X-Man Ever any good? It's apparently the only other thing that Bemis has written that wasn't a song.

Amazingly, this was good.

>>87418063
Oh wow. The acknowledgement of cape kink is the best cape kink.

>>87417875
>Fake Weezer Glasses

Aaaand now i'm reading him in the same voice I read Boomerang's narration in Superior Foes, due to the scummy first person narration.

Its a cocky New Yorker putting on a fake Aussie accent.

I really like how this makes the other aspects of Greg's life the less definite ones. He can move to new things and new identities in his other lives, because Foolkiller is the anchor and the strongest and most definite identity. It plays into capes in general but vigilante stuff especially, and Kurt had some of this too. It gives me hope that his recounting of events may not be 100% too.

>>87418402

I usually only buy in TPBs, but in this case I may part with my usual principles and buy it digitally just to give some support.

I loved this, thank you, it seems marvel is better at solos than teams.

>>87419701
Better at foolkillers than solos, you mean :^)

>>87418265
Aaaaand Foolkiller just went from adorably fucked up to really dark and interestingly fucked up.

>>87418364
He's a junkie in full relapse, he don't need no stinkin' pants!

>>87417875
Yeah. This is the guy who, when he couldn't be Foolkiller, induced another guy to be Foolkiller. I think Gregory thinking this is totally in-line with how he is in this issue, without overwriting any of what we actually saw in the Gerber mini.

>>87417792
Do you think they tried to make him look like "Rodney" Nicholas Lyndhurst?

>>87417840
>still no explanation of the conch

>>87417955
This guy Gary could have been written by Spencer/Lieber.

>>87419131
I read all the pop culture stuff and the hipster life habits as, well...even the Foolkiller can be a current fool, until something happens to shock him out of it. At least that's the arc I see as possible after one issue.

>>87418063
Chances this is gonna be true?

>>87421327
Sure. He's kind of distanced himself from the whole thing. He followed a guy who wasn't much, and a guy came after him who was a psychopath. "It's my dad's fault, right?"

BUT. HE. IS. THE. FOOLKILLER.

>>87421505
I hope he makes up some of the business cards again, those were great.

I want to make a full-on pirate hat Foolkiller costume for next year. No one would know who I was, but...

>>87421575
What's essentially a spandex cowboy outfit would probably be a lot hotter in person than it is on the page. If you could pull it off.

>>87421679
I'm betting good support garments are the vital part. Ugh, seams, tho...

Here's the Bemis interview from July:

http://www.cbr.com/exclusive-max-bemis-puts-fools-on-notice-in-marvels-foolkiller/

>I did some reading up on it — I almost didn’t want to know too much. I didn’t want to go back and read every Foolkiller appearance. The idea that we’re starting with is very different, and since he’s never really been fleshed out as a person, I reinvented — or invented — Greg like a new character, in a way, without disregarding anything he’s done in the past. There’s just not much.

Something changed in the writing, I think.

>>87422279
Maybe he was lurking with JSA-anon's FoolKiller mini storytimes.

>>87422327
then truly my work here would be done

>>87417875
So, what's your dad like.

>>87419315
I enjoy this and Gwenpool. Do we have to fight now?

>>87418385

have you read recent deadpool this week? it was hilarious, you couldn't be more wrong.

>>87419315
If we support this, it might last twelve issues.

>The tone of the comic is what doesn’t feel unique. It has the jokey tone that we see in Deadpool or in Solo and that was perfected in Hawkeye. So, the comic feels like a cope of those series in many ways, just with a different setting. It’s like a write by numbers network sitcom. Change the characters and settings, leave a lot of the rest the same.

what Hawkeye book featured the MC snapping a guy's neck, I think I missed that one

>>87423666
He's a cool guy with his other kids. Wasn't around me when I was a child. Nevermind. I just wish he was around to teach me how to be a ladies man like him.

>>87418364
this was actually........kinda good

WTF

>>87424084
Who wrote this and where is their neck?

>>87424084
Let me guess. That reviewer also hated Flintstones.
(Which is probably, in tone, the closest book currently out to this one, being a deadpan dark comedy with moments of drama.)

>>87424283
https://graphicpolicy.com/2016/11/02/review-foolkiller-1/

Went trolling for reviews.

>>87424338
>This version of the character debuted in 1976 and got his own series in the early 90s.

>>87418402
This was genuinely good as a one shot, so I'm interested in how the keep it up. Much better than Solo's book.

>>87424400
Solo's first issue made me think that if you want to do as straight of an action book as that these days, you need to have exceptionally responsive art and plot the fights/sequences in as much detail or else it's too generic. There's not enough of a tonal hook other than that.

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>>87418015

>>87424453
Solo ought to have been bolder by far, and not just in the action scenes.

>>87424686
The backup story that Phil Noto drew in whatever Deadpool issue it was that did all their backstories had a lot more edge and style to it.

Hey, lemme go find that, and I'll run the Foolkiller one.

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>>87424753
bonus storytime, from Deadpool #7

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>>87424862

>>87424862
Thanks man!

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>>87424887
considering all the time Greg spent in a straight-up asylum, this is a little odd

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>>87424904
happy to share

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>>87424940

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>>87424957
bump if you're reading, maybe

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>>87424988

>>87424988
Bump of gratitude.

>>87424988
Ah, I don't like this overwrite. But this vs. the actual #1 we've got gives the lie to that review that this (the actual comic) is as Deadpool, Hawkeye and such.

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>>87425012
sorry, went to get tea

>>87425028
The #1 is better than this backup, for sure

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>>87425146
Yeah - but this back-up is more in line with Deadpool and Solo. So if they're not the same...

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>>87419733

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>>87425170
I am willing to take one for the team and run the Solo backup and first issue, next, new thread, if anyone gives a shit

>>87417875
>Nickels and butt sweat
What did he mean by this?

>>87425349
blood has a distinct metallic smell to it when it hits air and oxidizes, and it's not very pleasant.

>>87425215
I will anon, thanks for the storytime.
I wasn't interested in Foolkiller until now.
Now something that has been on my mind is Foolkiller last name, ''Sallinger''. Is there any connection or symbolism between Foolkiller and the writer J.D. Salinger?

>>87425532
What kinda fuckin phony question is that?

>>87418265
Aww. I had a boner for Rodney.

>>87424084

>what Hawkeye book featured the MC snapping a guy's neck, I think I missed that one

Kate was going full Man of Steel whenever Clint wasn't looking.

>>87425618
>liking twinks
>>87416421

>>87425532
it can't not be deliberate on Gerber's part

>>87418212
Wait, did Rodney kill the guys who offered him the job or did they send him to retrieve the stolen shipment.

>>87426492
>>87418312
Ah, nvm.

>>87424862
why are the letters in his book backwards?

>>87418474
It's kind of hard to read Gerber's stuff and not want to build on it. The man's work was brilliant.

>>87419315
>shit like Gwenpool gets two volumes...
But Gwenpool is fantastic? It's one of Marvel's best current ongoings. Assuming you're just basing this off the ASSUMPTION that it's bad, you should really give it a read and make up your own mind on it.

>>87428466

>>87417840
I miss that costume.

>>87417932
I really like that logo though. He should be proud of himself for that if he thought it up.

>>87418265
RIP

>>87432554
I was immediately more interested in the preview when I saw that costume was making an appearance

the capekink with it was the icing on the cake

>>87425549
see >>87426192
fuck you

FOOLKILLER #2
MAX BEMIS (W) • Dalibor TALAJIC (A)
Cover by DAVE JOHNSON
VARIANT COVER BY TBA
TEASER VARIANT COVER BY MIKE DEODATO
• Foolkiller versus a bunch of skinheads!!
• Alone with an arsenal of weapons against an army of Red Skull sympathizers…what could be more fun??

FOOLKILLER #3
MAX BEMIS (W) • DALIBOR TALAJIC (A)
Cover by DAVE JOHNSON
Variant Cover by TBA
• Someone from Foolkiller’s past has come back to haunt him.
• And the truth about who’s really pulling Greg’s strings will be revealed.

>>87417875
Deflecting any responsibility for goading Kurt over BBS may be a plot point, Anon.

>>87434514
Oh, he's totally in denial about his responsibility, there.

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>>87429481
>responding to bait

>>87425813
He wasn't a twink. He was just a regular guy with a slightly phallic schnoz.

>>87418080
That's not a little girl on the end of that chain.

>>87434831
Hell, he was the one who TOLD him to go after "small game."

>>87417696
Is that supposed to be Crossbones or just some generic masked supervillain type?

>>87433901
Dare we hope for Kurt in#3?

>>87417840
Killing druggies and bitches. Kurt is a hero.

>>87419131
>people talking about stuff that exists hurg im angry agghhhh

>>87417696
I see someone was browsing /co/ for the Foolkiller storytime this summer.

>>87417955
Christian Slater?

>>87424862
Who wrote this?

>>87440286
Huh, it was Amy Chu. Duggan wrote the Solo backup, and various others wrote more of the backups.

http://www.comicbookdb.com/issue.php?ID=354842

>>87417814
This just makes me miss Mettle.

>>87417993
Is that dude he just shot supposed to be someone we know?

"Tin man"?

>>87418166
Not Queens, not yet, though it'll become that if the hipsters and yuppies make it the new Brooklyn.

>>87418364
Whelp, this went exactly where I didn't want it to go but expected it to end up.

>>87418265
I nearly checked out after the first page but now I'm glad I didn't

>>87419518
Isn't Boomerang a cocky Aussie putting on a fake New York accent?

>>87422279
I'm used to writers bragging how they read up on everything about the character, and then ignoring all continuity when they start writing.

Here was have someone who brags about not knowing anything about the character, and then gives us one who's continuity appropriate.

>>87417696
Who's this guy on the couch on the cover? Is that Gerhardt Foolkiller? With his costume looking like a recolor of Sallinger's and all.

Plus, that would be a logical place for the serie to go.

>>87440933
There was a Tin Man, some kind of mutant cyborg, but he doesn't look like that dude. Perhaps he's just saying he lacks heart.

>>87441523
I think that's Greg and his inner Foolkiller, but I would like Kurt to show up in this. Kurt went through a much more arduous rebirth than this guy here.

>>87441899
His last appearance was written by Bendis, after all.

>>87444253
Poor guy.