Why I'm Dubious Of Frank Tieri

[espanolbot]

In Garth Ennis' Marvel Knight's Punisher series, he took the opportunity to poke fun at some of Marvel's characters, or at least the tropes that they were being written with at the time. One such character was Wolverine, who Ennis seemed to think was a catchphrase-spouting, ridiculous character that people treated as being a lot more serious than he really should be.

And since Marvel Knights (not Punisher Max, the later more serious take on the characters) was effectively running on deliberately Looney Tunes levels of ridiculous violence, stuff like this kept happening to Logan as the story progressed.


However, despite the depiction of Wolverne clearly not being meant to be taken seriously (and Frank admitting that in a straight-up one on one fight Logan could easily kill him), then writer of Wolverine Frank Tieri apparently got offended and in Wolverine 186 decided to write his own take on a Punisher/Wolverine story.

Unfortunately, Tieri ain't no Garth Ennis, so his comeback to a perceived insult to his character... wasn't the most mature either..





So yeah, resorting to homophobia to prove that Wolverine was the "better character". This is why I'm dubious of Frank Tieri.

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[cainofdreaming]

To quote Sluggy Freelance - "One man's 'birds of a feather' is another's 'muscling in on my territory'."

But, yup, there have been some good bits when they haven't just instantly gone at each other's necks. Like that storyline in War Zone where the Avengers went after Castle, Logan helped Castle with getting his one time partner out of a death sentence. And was generally heck of a lot more amiable in their interaction than in 99% of their meetings.