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proteus_lives (proteus_lives) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-04-08 16:53:00

Current location:	Outer Dark
Entry tags:	char: bullseye/hawkeye, event: dark reign, publisher: marvel comics

Bullseye "rescues" a woman.
Greetings True Believers! I picked up the first issue of the Dark Reign mini "Hawkeye." We know of course that Hawkeye is really the psycho-killer Bullsye. In this ish the Dark Avengers are fighting a guy in a rogue Hulkbuster suit of armor. Bullseye kills the pilot but the armor falls on a bus and kills 36 people. Bullseye's reaction is "Oops." Osborn rakes him over the coals and Bullseye runs into a kidnapping in progress....

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Ouch. The issue ends with Bullseye carving his emblem into the victims foreheads but uh-oh! A news copter filmed the whole incident!

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	daningram 2009-04-08 04:06 pm UTC (link)
	Hmm, who'd have thought that a sociopath would so casually murder people? Poor Norman, he couldn't have seen this coming. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	hybrid2 2009-04-08 04:16 pm UTC (link)
	please! Norman was probably trowing someone of a bridge or stealing babys when that hapenned. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ghosty732 2009-04-08 04:14 pm UTC (link)
	I thought the point of centering a story around an villain or anti-hero was that they have at least some redeeming quality so, you know, the reader actually cares about what happens to them. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	jarodrussell 2009-04-08 04:21 pm UTC (link)
	In comics? Ha. No, no. It's all about perverse body counts. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	colonel_green 2009-04-08 04:27 pm UTC (link)
	Not necessarily; this is the other school, where you watch them run amok and try to get away with it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ghosty732 2009-04-08 04:30 pm UTC (link)
	I can't see that as a sustainable story. Though I guess that is why this is a mini series and Dark Reign will only last until some summer event. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kijikun 2009-04-08 04:52 pm UTC (link)
	You knows what I'd like to see this summer? No event. ;_; (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	neuhallidae 2009-04-08 05:26 pm UTC (link)
	Thiiiiis. A break from the "EPIC" would be nice. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kijikun 2009-04-08 07:01 pm UTC (link)
	In fact one might say that a break from EPIC would be EPIC. But then one might be beaten for making a bad joke. Which I would never do. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	electra_torch 2009-04-08 04:14 pm UTC (link)
	What a shocking turn of events! I'm really hoping that this all ends with Clint going back to the purple. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	sir_razorback 2009-04-09 10:57 pm UTC (link)
	No, he's best staying Ronin now. Bullseye's going to crap all over his old name and make it something Clint won't want back. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	kaileighblue 2009-04-08 04:16 pm UTC (link)
	Kind funny that not that long ago Marvel Editorial had someone edit out a knife through the chest. But here's 4 solid pages of not... graphic, but definitely shocking death. (Reply to this)

	sherkahn 2009-04-08 04:21 pm UTC (link)
	I think Bullseye say the Dark Knight movie and got inspired. "Wanna see a magic trick?" (Reply to this)

	icon_uk 2009-04-08 04:28 pm UTC (link)
	I think you'll need to shrink down the image above the cut, it's way over the requested size. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Fixed it. proteus_lives 2009-04-08 04:35 pm UTC (link)
	Thanks for the head's up. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	drsevarius 2009-04-08 04:57 pm UTC (link)
	Could you not talk about the issue's content outside the cut? (Reply to this)

	neuhallidae 2009-04-08 05:28 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, God. I actually twitched at the guy getting the arrow through the mouth. (Reply to this)

	taggerung301 2009-04-08 06:14 pm UTC (link)
	wow . . . so does anyone else really, really, really want bullseye to die a slow and horrible death right now? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	lonewolf23k 2009-04-08 06:57 pm UTC (link)
	I've been wanting that for years now. But honestly, I'd settle for him becoming a quadraplegic and STAYING that way, knowing that he's going to be helpless and pathetic for the rest of his life... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	his_spiffyness 2009-04-08 07:37 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah! DD needs to come in and kick his ass into his diaphragm, or have Cage do it literally. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	unknownscribler 2009-04-08 07:40 pm UTC (link)
	Nah, I'd amputate his limbs. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	halloweenjack 2009-04-09 01:08 pm UTC (link)
	See, that actually happened once, but he got better. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	kagome654 2009-04-08 08:12 pm UTC (link)
	He's getting really tired...and I have a high tolerance for overused baddies. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ashtoreth 2009-04-08 10:49 pm UTC (link)
	Enh. If he wasn't on a team, he'd be fine. Now, Norman Osborn is one who should go back in the coffin. He's been done and done. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	janegray 2009-04-09 06:39 am UTC (link)
	raises hand (Reply to this) (Parent)

	geoffsebesta 2009-04-08 08:42 pm UTC (link)
	I love how this takes no time at all to go horribly wrong. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ashtoreth 2009-04-08 10:50 pm UTC (link)
	I thought that was hilarious! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	taggerung301 2009-04-09 10:00 am UTC (link)
	o_O . . . hopefully you meant the part where bullseye killed the kidnappers/rapists and not the part where he killed the innocent woman the first part was slightly, emphasis on slightly, amusing in a dark and twisted way but if you found the second part amusing . . . hm . . . well that's not too good . . . (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ashtoreth 2009-04-09 01:33 pm UTC (link)
	I was echoing the comment, in that the sheer speed at which something which may not be a good idea and in fact was a pretty horrible idea becomes horrible in point zero seconds. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	taggerung301 2009-04-09 01:59 pm UTC (link)
	ah, i see sorry for misunderstanding you - it was rash for me to reply like that I'm sorry ): no hard feelings? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ashtoreth 2009-04-09 10:31 pm UTC (link)
	Of course not! Besides, your instincts were right. I was highly dismissive of the innocents' plight, though I blame the evil history of the Marvel civilian for that. (Reply to this) (Parent)

tahngarth
2009-04-09 06:20 am UTC (link)

This actually made me wince.

You know, there's a problem with really scary villains and ongoing comics. This is the same kind of problem we keep getting with the Joker over in the DCU. You have some villains that you want to portray as particularily vile or "cool" and you do that by continously upping the body count, of making them kill more and more people in creative ways. The other way is to wash out their distasteful side and make them more of anti-heroes, like Venom in the 90's, or Lobo, but that's not in vogue anymore.

But, due to the nature of DC and Marvel, these characters will -never- be brought to justice, because if nothing else they will be brought back out of nostalgia, or even due to trademarking.

And in the end you can never stop thinking "wow, why hasn't the Punisher or someone else killed this guy/girl by now?". At least the original Bullseye arc by Miller had him in a full-body cast at the end of the story, and Miller didn't use him again.

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