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.

Comments

[espanolbot]

Oh yeah, I just remembered another moment I disliked about Gotham Underground. After all the character development that Paul Dini did for the second Ventriloquist over in Detective Comics, Tieri just had her led off to be "hurt" in an offhand comment in one of the issues. *sigh* She doesn't die, if only because Dini was still writing a story with her, but he still had a mentally ill woman apparently beaten or whatever offscreen... which is all the more unfortunate considering her own backstory of domestic violence.

[mrstatham]

Mm. That was really unfortunate, but unsurprising given it's Tieri. I really liked Peyton as the new Ventriloquist, too - she was really quite underrated in an entire run that was underrated thanks to Morrison's run going on at the same time.