The Hood #1

[mastermahan]

Since Foolkiller ended with the implication Frank Castle was about to shoot The Hood, and the general consensus was "good riddance", I thought I'd take us all back to a time before Parker Robbins was a lame magic Kingpin wannabe, with the MAX series that first introduced him, written by a pre-Runaways and Y: The Last Man Brian K. Vaughn and drawn by Kyle Hotz.

Trigger warning for racism and sexist language.

We open with Parker Robbins visiting his mother in a gray, run-down hospice. He tells her he's been accepted to NYU's pre-med program (a lie). She doesn't recognize him.

Later, he meets up with his cousin John at a bar to plan a robbery, only for Parker to get distracted fanboying over Eletro.





Parker stops in to see his blond Russian mistress before heading home to see Sara, his very pregnant girlfriend.