Fury MAX (Fury #1-6) Paperback – May 13, 2002

Everyone knows Garth Ennis is one of the kings of "cool concepts", but his delivery here was not up to par in my opinion. His portrayal of Fury himself is fantastic, but the story itself is a bit contrived.I must say that I like Fury as an aged, disgruntled old bastard better than as a young, sleek, fast-talking, hard-hitting super spy. Everything that makes him Nick Fury is well thought-out in this tale, but everything else is fairly weak. The story itself is a fun idea, an old adversary-cum-almost-friend of Nick's is bored with peace and wants to start a war. Fair enough, I could dig that. It's a very ex-Cold War soldier thing to do. But it's too easy for this insane Russian to suddenly run a country, and from there on everything is static, there is no character development, just fighting. The outcome is predictable, which isn't always bad, but the story itself is predictable.As always with Ennis, you can expect vastly unnecessary amounts of gore and sex. His periphary characters are, as usual, way over-the-top (note the General and his daughters, and the new head of S.H.I.E.L.D.). Ennis is brilliant when he is creating his own tales (Preacher, Troubled Souls), but lately he has not been doing well writing for established characters of the Marvel Universe (see his decidedly uninspiring work on The Punisher series, both MAX and otherwise, for proof).I never read his work on Hellblazer or Judge Dredd, so I can't comment, but I must say that this comics icon is losing his touch. All his stories these days seem to be intriguing concepts, but in the end are just unnecessarily violent and profane tales featuring one-dimensional characters. Don't get me wrong, violence and profanity are right at home in the comics world, and Preacher is an amazing series, but this is not Ennis' route. His extremely eccentric nature is not appreciated here.

I don't know if this fits into the canonical Marvel universe (well, you know, if there really IS one) but the story isn't really anchored in any specific time or place. You can easily imagine it happening sometime after the current Fury series, Secret Warriors - which I suppose it would have to because Dum Dum Dugan looks like he is 80 years old in MAX and in comics published 6-8 years AFTER MAX he looks like he's been sipping some of Fury's infinity formula leftovers . But whatever. The point is it's a GREAT read that keeps Nick Fury in character, it just turns the amp up to 11 with tons of gore, swearing, attitude, booze, wanton destruction - and laughs! If you love COL Fury this is a must read. If you just want to read some awesome s*&t, then you should pick it up as well. Totally worth it.

Ok first of all I have to admit to being very biased, I love ennis's work, I would probably read his grocery list if I got the chance.That out of the way, this is another short by ennis collecting the 6 issue miniseries.Its got everything youd come to expect from an ennis book, dark humor, gore, cussin a plenty and of course a killer story.Ennis's take on Fury is perfect, an old, pissed off dude whose disenfranchised with s.h.i.e.l.d. and dealing with a funny little guy named wendel. The dynamic between those two is sooo funny, and worth a read in itself.I dont wanna give anything away about the story so i'll just leave it at this, if you like ennis at all buy this, if you've never heard of him, buy it.

I bought "Fury" because I've always liked the character of Nick Fury and because Garth Ennis did some good work with the Punisher. The idea of a hard-core warrior like Fury having to deal with the Big Game (the Cold War) being long dead and SHIELD having gradually turned into a bureaucracy was, or could have been, interesting. Too many straw men were created, too many superfluous sidelines included. For instance, the addition of a geeky 'nephew' for Nick to put up with was unnecessary, silly and added nothing to either story or character development. The defaced (pardon the pun) Russian giant was also silly. Ennis seemed to undermine himself at every turn.The art could have helped salvage the book but didn't. Darick Robertson's style is too slick. The pencils needed to be rougher, more in line with what appeared in most of the Punisher MAX comics (apart from the ones that Robertson did). His work on the character F*ckface was just bad.Overall, this was a good idea poorly done.

Engaging story made all the more amusing because we finally get a glimpse of one of Fury's relatives and the things he has to deal with when he's not saving the world.

Written by the same man who did the original Punisher MAX run, Fury shows an embittered Nick Fury battling both Hydra and a new bureaucratic version of SHIELD

If you're not a fan of the sjw comics Marvel puts out now, you'll love this book. I miss these days.

A thoroughly enjoyable read. Looking at the first page, I wasn't sure I'd like the art, but by page 3 I was hooked. While I wasn't so into character development in Fury MAX, it certainly provides a backdrop for an excellent action/dark humor read. Laugh-out-loud funny at certain points, my only complaint is the end, which tried to be a little too serious. Otherwise, well worth the money.

well written very violent a nice look at the cranky old war veteran version of nick fury