The Untimely Death of Hammer and Anvil
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scans_dailyGreetings again fellow marvel lovers, today we have the death of a lesser known supervillain duo.
Who is Hammer and Anvil you say? Fill us in wiki!
Leroy "Hammer" Jackson was an African-American prisoner said to hate everyone and everything. As part of a chain gang, he was chained to a white racist named Johnny Anvil. The pair's hatred of prison, however, was stronger than their hate for each other and they succeeded in escaping the chain gang while still chained together. Hammer stole a .38 handgun from a guard, and when the two encountered an alien who had crashed on Earth, Hammer tried to kill it but accidentally wound up saving the creature's life instead; it fed on metal, and used the bullets fired at it to regenerate. The alien wanted to thank them, and replaced the chain linking them with a device that granted them superhuman powers. The two returned to prison seeking revenge, but wound up battling the Hulk instead
Man...Wish bullets healed me... Anyway onto the story!
As we begin this story, Hulk is stomping through the desert when he comes across a Native American Shaman. Hulk almost smashes the shaman but the shaman calmly tells him "friend". Hulk wars with himself but agrees to sit down. The shaman throws some kind of compound into the fire and the hulk becomes "high" and loses his thought process. The shaman takes out some kind of gizmo and announces (to himself) that the neuro-tranquilizers vapours has worked and his targets are nearing his location. The Shaman hides.
Hammer and Anvil appear behind the Hulk, seemingly tipped off that he was there and neutralized.
The issue ends without any clue who the assassin/Shaman was. Or is there a clue? Maybe what was said by the assailant after the shot was fired?
Till next time Marvel fans!
p.s don't check the wiki cheaters!
Who is Hammer and Anvil you say? Fill us in wiki!
Leroy "Hammer" Jackson was an African-American prisoner said to hate everyone and everything. As part of a chain gang, he was chained to a white racist named Johnny Anvil. The pair's hatred of prison, however, was stronger than their hate for each other and they succeeded in escaping the chain gang while still chained together. Hammer stole a .38 handgun from a guard, and when the two encountered an alien who had crashed on Earth, Hammer tried to kill it but accidentally wound up saving the creature's life instead; it fed on metal, and used the bullets fired at it to regenerate. The alien wanted to thank them, and replaced the chain linking them with a device that granted them superhuman powers. The two returned to prison seeking revenge, but wound up battling the Hulk instead
Man...Wish bullets healed me... Anyway onto the story!
As we begin this story, Hulk is stomping through the desert when he comes across a Native American Shaman. Hulk almost smashes the shaman but the shaman calmly tells him "friend". Hulk wars with himself but agrees to sit down. The shaman throws some kind of compound into the fire and the hulk becomes "high" and loses his thought process. The shaman takes out some kind of gizmo and announces (to himself) that the neuro-tranquilizers vapours has worked and his targets are nearing his location. The Shaman hides.
Hammer and Anvil appear behind the Hulk, seemingly tipped off that he was there and neutralized.
The issue ends without any clue who the assassin/Shaman was. Or is there a clue? Maybe what was said by the assailant after the shot was fired?
Till next time Marvel fans!
p.s don't check the wiki cheaters!
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Date: 2011-05-12 09:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-12 09:56 pm (UTC)*flees*
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Date: 2011-05-12 10:18 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-05-12 10:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-12 11:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-12 09:56 pm (UTC)That takes me back.
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Date: 2011-05-12 11:33 pm (UTC)This is collected in the recent Scourge TPB too.
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Date: 2011-05-13 01:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-13 01:43 am (UTC)Or maybe not, these guys have as much depth as a kiddie pool
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Date: 2011-05-13 05:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-14 07:12 pm (UTC)(Also, now that I think of it, I wonder how Scourge knew that so he only needed to blow Hammer away instead of taking the time (and bullets) to take out Anvil, too...)
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Date: 2011-05-13 01:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-13 01:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-13 01:48 am (UTC)Got taken down inside of two pages, but still.
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Date: 2011-05-13 01:57 am (UTC)First, Hammer and Anvil were based on the movie The Defiant Ones, which has been remade a few times.
Second, this is one of many examples (starting with the end of the Dark Phoenix Saga) in which John Byrne left a title after what he thought of as undue interference from the book's editors; in this case, it was his turning in an issue of The Incredible Hulk (which he'd been on for a fairly short period of time at this point) which consisted entirely of splash pages. The editor(s) apparently were concerned that Byrne was tuning in an issue with insufficient content, a criticism which had been leveled at him when he was writing and drawing Fantastic Four and Alpha Flight previously. This would not have been very long before he departed Marvel (for a while) and rebooted Superman.
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Date: 2011-05-13 04:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-13 11:12 am (UTC)On the other hand, it's possible that being linked at the actual time of death was enough to ensure Anvil died.
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Date: 2011-05-13 12:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-13 01:38 pm (UTC)That's got to be the most homoerotic name for a duo ever.
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Date: 2011-05-13 02:05 pm (UTC)no subject
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