It’s the height of the Vietnam war and Nick Fury has gotten himself captured by the Vietcong. Fury being Fury, he knows all about the CIA’s massive drug-smuggling operation and they can’t afford for that knowledge to potentially leak. The CIA needs a mindless, efficient killing machine to take him out, just in case - who else but Frank Castle? Time for him to… Get Fury!
Garth Ennis is writing a Marvel MAX comic which can only mean that it’s either a Punisher or Fury book and this time it’s both. Joining him is his longtime collaborator Jacen Burrows, and I wish I could say Get Fury is as good as their last book, Punisher: Soviet, but it is unfortunately not.
Burrows’ art is good - as you’d expect for an Ennis MAX comic, there are some very gory pages and Burrows delivers - and the occasional scene is fun, like seeing Frank do his thang in Da Nang (that is, brutally slaughtering people).
But, boy, is this a boring read. The CIA plot is convoluted and never interesting, Fury is largely absent, Frank is there but kind of a non-entity until he rumbles into action. Frank has always been in the background of a lot of Ennis’ Punisher stories but other compelling characters usually take the spotlight and none did in this tale. They were all so very forgettable.
There isn’t much else to say about this one - a very weak book despite the top tier talent on the cover. Time to get bored if you pick up Get Fury!
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