Totally 90s Comics: Vigilante Edition!
Jun. 16th, 2010 11:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
goggle_kidOk waaaaay back in the heyday of Scans Daily 1.0 I posted a week-long series of ridiculous 90s comic covers called "Totally Awful 90s Covers" or something like that. It was something of a hit, so I'd share some more absurd covers from the era. Today we'll look at the "grim and gritty gun-wielding anti-hero" genre that was particularly ubiquitous at that time.
In the early 90s the Punisher was freaking everywhere! He had three monthly titles PLUS a quarterly book, plus annuals plus dozens of guest-appearances. Naturally this kind of over-exposure lead to some silly situations.n Did you know Frank Castle had an animal side-kick named Max? He did seriously seriously!
Fun fact, they actually tried to kill Max off in his second appearance, but they ret-conned it due to overwhelmingly negative fan-mail response to the story. So apparently cira 1995 Marvel cared more about Max the Rottweiler fans than DC cares about Ryan Choi fans.
Another wacky chapter in Punisher history was the time he got his own toyetic STOMPY-FUN MECHA BATTLE SUIT!
Naturally he got a second one. Sadly neither got made into the Marvel Legends line.
DC tried several times in the 80s and 90s to ape Frank Castle's success. First semi-successfully with Vigilante and less-so with Wild Dog. Then they had Deathstroke pull a heal-face turn. Somewhere along the way he got a couple of embarrassing costume changes.
That one was particularly sad. He looks sort of like one of those knock-off action figures you look at Big Lots. Throw a Rambo head ontop of a repainted Punisher body and bingo... you have a new toy! Slade also briefly wore this bright blue nightmare during the dieing days of his book.
By 1993 hired Judge Dredd creator John Wagner to create a whole team of Punisher knock-offs called "Chain Gang War" with the twist that they also ran an underground prison outside of Gotham City. Oh and Az-Bats guest-starred just because it was 1993.
It also had some god-damned ugly covers such as this neon-pink nightmare.
I don't know what's funnier. The idea that this guy might be wielding a talking gun or that he's throwing his voice.
It also had some WACKY villains.
Notice that the black guy has a knuckle-duster/dildo hybrid latched onto his belt.
In the early 90s the Punisher was freaking everywhere! He had three monthly titles PLUS a quarterly book, plus annuals plus dozens of guest-appearances. Naturally this kind of over-exposure lead to some silly situations.n Did you know Frank Castle had an animal side-kick named Max? He did seriously seriously!
Fun fact, they actually tried to kill Max off in his second appearance, but they ret-conned it due to overwhelmingly negative fan-mail response to the story. So apparently cira 1995 Marvel cared more about Max the Rottweiler fans than DC cares about Ryan Choi fans.
Another wacky chapter in Punisher history was the time he got his own toyetic STOMPY-FUN MECHA BATTLE SUIT!
Naturally he got a second one. Sadly neither got made into the Marvel Legends line.
DC tried several times in the 80s and 90s to ape Frank Castle's success. First semi-successfully with Vigilante and less-so with Wild Dog. Then they had Deathstroke pull a heal-face turn. Somewhere along the way he got a couple of embarrassing costume changes.
That one was particularly sad. He looks sort of like one of those knock-off action figures you look at Big Lots. Throw a Rambo head ontop of a repainted Punisher body and bingo... you have a new toy! Slade also briefly wore this bright blue nightmare during the dieing days of his book.
By 1993 hired Judge Dredd creator John Wagner to create a whole team of Punisher knock-offs called "Chain Gang War" with the twist that they also ran an underground prison outside of Gotham City. Oh and Az-Bats guest-starred just because it was 1993.
It also had some god-damned ugly covers such as this neon-pink nightmare.
I don't know what's funnier. The idea that this guy might be wielding a talking gun or that he's throwing his voice.
It also had some WACKY villains.
Notice that the black guy has a knuckle-duster/dildo hybrid latched onto his belt.
