Art by: Jacen Burrows, Guillermo Ortego
Colors by: Nolan Woodard
Letters by: Rob Steen
Cover art by: Dave Johnson
Cover price: $3.99
Release date: August 21, 2024
Get Fury #4, by Marvel Comics on 8/21/24, finds Frank Castle listening in on Nick Fury’s former lover as she explains the political landscape of Vietnam in her bid to sneak Castle into the Hanoi Hilton.
Is Get Fury #4 Good?
File Get Fury #4 under “The One Where Garth Ennis Explains Everything, Part 11.” How could a miniseries with such a killer (no pun intended… or maybe it is) beginning devolve into a non-stop litany of boring blathering, punctuated by a brief scene of gory violence? You’ll be tuning out after page four.
When last we left Nicky Fury and Frank Castle in Get Fury #3, Nick Fury was enjoying the painful amenities of the Hanoi Hilton. When Frank Castle arrives to save him, the prison’s defenses are too much for the man who will become The Punisher, so he employs some unorthodox help to get in. Meanwhile, the CIA concluded Fury and Castle knew too much about their drug trafficking operation.
In Get Fury #4, Frank listens while Nick Fury’s former lover and his illegitimate daughter, Bian, fill him in on the nature of their relationship with Nick, what happened after Vietnam fell to the Communists, what they have to do to survive now, and how she intends to use her lover, a high-ranking general, to get Frank into the prison where Fury is held.
In a nutshell, that’s the entire issue. Garth Ennis intermixes the fictional histories of these characters with the historical events in the region. The mother (whose name I can’t remember) delivers multiple pages of exposition about the assorted characters involved in Fury’s detention and how the constant machinations and maneuvering will afford her a window of opportunity to see Fury. Frank Castle mostly goes along for the rise in this issue, doing little until the end when it’s time to kill a few guards.
War buffs keen on the specifics of the military conflict in Vietnam may get a kick out of entangling which aspects of this story are real versus fictional, but for everyone else, this comic is a boring slog.
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Final Thoughts
Get Fury #4 puts readers to sleep with an exposition and dialog-heavy issue that intermixes the fictional history of Nick Fury’s former lover with real-life political maneuverings in Vietnam. Garth Ennis’s script may be an Easter Egg-riddled dream for hardcore history fiction buffs. Still, typical readers hooked on the first issue will find the series has devolved into a boring over-explanation of useless details and little to show for it.
4.5/10
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