{October 3, 2011}
Nick Fury: Hater of Shirts
{November 8, 2009}
A Beginner’s Guide to Villain Monologuing
For this entry, I’ve chosen not to do an entire issue, but one scene. Why only one scene? Because it is so full of crazy awesome (or awesome crazy) that it deserves it.
The scene comes from the fourth issue of the 1983 Hawkeye limited series. Full disclosure: I absolutely love this series and declare it the second best thing to come out of 1983. (The first best is me.) It was written by the late Mark Gruenwald, whom I have a great deal of respect for as a writer. I have chosen it not because it’s badly written or insanely stupid. On the contrary. I have a feeling Gruenwald actually knew exactly what he was doing when he wrote this, which, for me, only adds to the hilarious. The entire limited series is full of snark and little tongue-in-cheek bits, and this part is no exception.
So which scene am I talking about? Why, the villain’s grand reveal, of course.
