Battle Scars #6

[flint_marko]

 

Comments

[lascoden]

So, we now have Ultimate Nick Fury in the main MU...Was this freaking necessary? Ult. Fury is a terrible character, why is he needed?

[darkknightjrk]

"Was this freaking necessary?"

Probably has to do with the movie coming out--besides, this Fury hasn't been shown to be anywhere near as much of a douchebag as Ultimate Fury was after a while.

[auggie18]

Ultimate Nick Fury is in the 616? That seems a bit unnecessary.

[darkknightjrk]

Seriously, though, who cares about the new Nick Fury? Agent Coulson in the 616, mo'fuckas! XD

[shadowpsykie]

Yeah Colson is cool, but i am more excited about DAISY FREKING JOHNSON as the new Director? when did THAT happen?

[filthysize]

Welp, I'm guessing this paves the way for killing Nick Fury, since they're doing this for the movie audience, and movie audiences might be confused by two Nick Furys of different race running around.

[icon_uk]

Since Fury 1.0 talks about his real age catching up with him that seems already a fait accompli

[lonewolf23k]

I'm not seeing the pic.

[werehawk]

Nice.

Any chance you could post the Serpent Society pages from issue 4 (I don't think any of that issue has been posted yet) and the last page of issue 3? I just found out they were in it and now my store only has the latest issue.

Thanks!

[jcbaggee]

Incredibly convenient.

I know...

[silverzeo]

Almost like "Mephisto tempering the past to make it that Peter and MJ were never married in which they end up having nothing to barter with to make him changed the past making the whole story arc kinda non-existing yet still existing at the same time, let alone defying Marvel's time travel laws and the fact that the fact their not getting hitch somehow hardly changed anything except for a plotline that went nowhere but somehow got a dead man to come back and Peter losing a trait from his movie left unexplained" kinda of convenient

[silicone_soul]

There is something seriously wrong with not-Fury's arms in that last panel.

[darkknightjrk]

His right arm seems fine enough, but...hmm...it seems like his left arm goes from shoulder to forearm. Methinks there was a foreshortening snafu.

[drexer]

Just came back from the theatre after seeing the Avengers movie, so this warms up my heart quite a lot after the excellent role both of those characters played in the movie.

:)

[darkknightjrk]

You lucky, lucky, so and so. I'm so green with envy I might grow a couple of feet in height and throw some tanks around.

[biod]

This is so, so stupid.
Here's hoping some writer'll prove me wrong.

This is why I love comics

[capt_satellite]

The sheer audacity of this move is absolutely breathtaking! We get to have our cake and eat it, too. If you can buy an "Infinity Formula," what's so hard about buying this? It's silly, batsh*t crazy idea, but that IS one of the things I love about comics. It's hardly an unprecedented new way to create a legacy character (Baron Zemo, anyone?), and I love it. We still have good old Nick out there, using the time he has left to settle some scores, with the real threat of his actual death out there; AND we have Fury back in the field as an agent, as he was when he was reintroduced into the Marvel Universe as Marvel 616's answer to the era of James Bond, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and Mission: Impossible. As Captain Spock told Admiral James T. Kirk, "If I may be so bold, it was a mistake for you to accept promotion. Commanding a starship is your first, best destiny; anything else is a waste of material." Nick's best destiny is in the field. Pulling him into line with the look of Samuel L. Jackson in the film puts both the comics and the whole Avenger's franchise on more solid ground. Everybody wins.

Re: This is why I love comics

[arysteia]

I agree 1000%

[silverzeo]

So, Tony's ineffective "baby sitter" from the greatly flawed 2nd movie is now part of mainstream Marvel cannon, as well as being on a Avengers poster... good to know that ALL of the fans who wanted THAT got it...

[bewareofgeek]

Coulson isn't ENTIRELY ineffective:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1uD5_ovwqg

SIMPSONS COMICS DID IT!

[silverzeo]

I guess it was "fate" that the new guy's eye jsut HAPPENS to be the same as Nick's and fate just HAPPENS to prevent it from healing over....

Seriously though, I am freaking out how much that parody story is like this one, and they were made years apart...

Re: SIMPSONS COMICS DID IT!

[flint_marko]

To be fair, the villain intentionally removed his eye to make him look like Fury, or something.

[eaglet_auditore]

Interesting. We'll see how this goes. But... I liked having the original Fury around in 616. ...Doesn't even matter anymore, I follow so few titles lately. ._. Perhaps when it hits trade.
I also remember why I decided to avoid certain websites until I get to see the movie. *Puts them on a temporary black list*

So next week, I too will get to see the movie, YJ will get another new episode (I like next week's episode title) and my favourite comic book shop will participate in Free Comic Book Day events. Next week better be as great as it sounds to me.

[icon_uk]

You think this is blatant marketing, check THIS out



Thus, of course, if bugger all to do with the Avengers, it's another movie he made a couple of years ago, released under a conveniently new name....

[big_daddy_d]

LOL seriously?!

[big_daddy_d]

1. I honest to god enjoyed this series.
2. Coulson looks like a badass in his suit.
3. I thought this was an awesome way to integrate the characters.
4. Does this mean Ultimate Marcus Johnson is white?

[lascoden]

4. Does this mean Ultimate Marcus Johnson is white?

Oh god, I'm so hoping they do that now, just cause I find the idea absolutely hilarious.

[thanekos]

I like how they gave him Steve's " Commander Rogers " outfit: it's another cool thing neatly put (well, kept) in circulation.

And that is a much more two-fisted Phil Coulson than I ever expected to see, there in the final page.

[silverzeo]

Wow, Marvel heroes have alot of hammy-downs.
Spider-Girl had Ben Riley's SPidey suit...
Ant-Man to Ant-Man...
Peter's new suits to Cain...
THe Iron Spider Suits passed to 3 clones of this one guy who had hardly ANY connection to the wall-crlawer...

I bet if she existed in this universe; everyone, from Squirrel Girl to Dr. Doom, would have worn that battle suit Kim Possible had after the movie...

[kd_the_movie]

I wouldn't have a problem with this if it didn't reek of being a forced attempt at having the comics verse and movie-verse be congruent with each other.

[lascoden]

Wait, I thought Fury didn't need Infinity Formula doses anymore. Something about how his body has started naturally producing it after so many years. I think they even had a big storyline about it. Some villain caught him, and tried to...juice him, I guess.

[crabby_lioness]

This is reaching for DC levels of sleaze "convenience".

[flash_fan]

Why? I LIKE Ultimate Fury, at least in Ultimate Spider-man and Ultimates Vol 1 & 2, but I like him in the Ultimate Universe. Something I used to read frequently pre-Ultimates 3. This defeats the purpose of the character. Marvel you just gave every 616 fanboy valid reason to complain about Ultimate U characters. They're all managing to seep into the main Marvel U witch basically makes them irrelevant.

[cyberxigbar]

A bit unnecessary, but at least Old!Fury didn't have to die for this move.

[schala_kid]

You know I would have been more receptive to this if he just kept his Marcus Johnson name.

Because this and Hawkeye's costume change, and the Avengers Assemble line-up is just ughh... I hate hate HATE when they change comics to try to conform to the movies.

Seriously, stop this shit.

On the plus side Daisy Johnson as DIRECTOR OF MOTHERFUCKING SHIELD! Awwwww yeah.

[kraesil]

Since I have not been keeping up with Marvel, this doesn't really affect me that much... Although I do have to go O.O at making him one-eyed.

[eyz]

Oh, come on Marvel! Don't force these story twists just to mimic the current movies adaptations!