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''Fury'' is a 2001 six issue miniseries about
Nick Fury Colonel (United States), Colonel Nicholas Joseph "Nick" Fury Sr. is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer/artist Jack Kirby and writer Stan Lee, he first appeared in ''Sgt. Fury and ...
written by
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. The series was published under Marvel's
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imprint and featured much harder violence and explicit material than was common at the time. This caused some controversy among fans and comic creators. The series takes place outside of main Marvel comics continuity and is interconnected with other series written by Garth Ennis under the Max imprint. It was followed by a prequel and a sequel.


Publication history

Three issues of the series were published in Germany in 2002 by Panini.


Plot

After the end of the
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Fury finds himself lost and incapable of enjoying himself like he used to when going to war.
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has tried to put him into a non-combat position and he feels bored and unneeded in the modern age. Fury's luck begins to turn when he has a chance encounter at a bar with a former H.Y.D.R.A. operative named Rudi Gargarin. The two lament about the good old days when men could actually get their hands dirty. Gargarin proposes they quietly invade a seemingly non political island and run it into an all out war for their own benefit to get that feeling back again. Fury contemplates the idea but ultimately rejects it. After Fury has sex with several Asian prostitutes his apartment is swarmed by assassins sent by Gargarin. Fury kills them all and decides to go to war. He forces his way through S.H.I.E.L.D and builds a small team of elite soldiers who will do precisely what he says and then goes with them to the island. The soldiers and Fury arrive with a relatively bloodless plan but soon that all flies out of the window. By the end Fury has to kill the last enemy by strangling him with his own intestines.


Reception

Writer-editor
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, a co-creator of Nick Fury, was critical of the extreme violence and
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of this new series: "I don't know why they're doing that. I don't think that I would do those kinds of stories." According to reports, actor
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similarly condemned the books, the
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contents of which prompted him to drop out of talks regarding portraying Fury in a then upcoming Marvel film. Gus Lubin of the
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stated that "''Fury'' is a smart and enjoyable comic, which portrays the spy chief as an aging " cold warrior" who on some deep level wants nothing more than to get his hands dirty again. Still, it's understandable that this portrayal of the character scared Clooney away." Clooney's dropout reportedly caused
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, the head of Marvel's West Coast division who is heavily involved in Marvel's film deals, to wield a harder grip on what content Marvel writers were allowed to publish. Greg Burgas of ''
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'' described the book as a rather odd tribute to the character of Nick Fury. As the years went by the book reached a near legendary status among comic book readers. Ennis himself has expressed that he is very happy with the book and feels that it is in his top 10 favorite series he has written. He also praised his artist Robertson and expressed gratefulness to his editorial team which he felt let him do whatever he wanted with the work. He stated that he would never change a single thing about it. In an interview in 2024, Ennis said that he didn't know if the story about George Clooney was true, but that it didn't seem to affect his relationship with Marvel.


Followups

Ennis wrote a prequel mini series in 2006 named '' Fury: Peacemaker'' and a sequel series named '' Fury: My War Gone By'' from 2012 to 2013.


Prints


Issues


Collected editions


See also

*
2001 in comics Notable events of 2001 in comics. Events and publications January * January 3: '' Jonathan'' (or ''Codename comrades''), by Jane Espenson and Cliff Richards. * January 16: ''Le manuscript,'' by Frank Giroud and Béhée, ( Glenat), first ...


References


External links


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