Marvel have announced “Get Fury,” a new MAX series by writer Garth Ennis, and artist Jacen Burrows. Set during the Vietnam War in 1971, the five-issue comic sees the CIA order a young, lieutenant Frank Castle to assassinate Nick Fury after he is captured by the Viet Cong, fearing the secrets the colonel might be tortured into spilling.
The book marks the latest to star the (pre-)Punisher and Fury by Ennis, who helped launched the adults-only MAX imprint in 2001 with books like that year’s “Fury” miniseries with artist Darick Robertson, and the Punisher origin story “Born.” Ennis says, “There’s a nice sense of things coming full circle with ‘Get Fury;’ the editor is my good friend Nick Lowe, who handled ‘Born’ back at the beginning some 20+ years ago, and just like that story, this one sees Frank Castle as a U.S. Marine in Vietnam (in fact, it goes some way to explaining how he ended up at Firebase Valley Forge in the first place.)”
It is also the first Ennis and MAX series from Marvel since 2020’s “Punisher: Soviet.” Unlike some of the MAX series, Ennis’s Punisher and Fury books largely take place in the grittier pocket universe known as Earth-200111, the timeline of which concludes in the 2012 books “Fury: My War Gone By” (by Ennis and Goran Parlov), and “PunisherMAX” (by Jason Aaron and Steve Dillon.) Ennis says, “As the two most violent men in mainstream comics, Fury and Frank work well together — just like they did in the Vietnam sequence of ‘Fury: My War Gone By.’ All in all, if ‘Get Fury’ turns out to be the last time I write Frank, I think it’ll make for a worthy farewell.”
Burrows, who created “Soviet” as well as “Crossed” with Ennis, says, “I never have more fun on a project than I do with Garth, and his work with these two characters is world class. Getting to bring this chapter of their saga to life was extremely exciting to me as a huge fan of those previous books. And I think I am in the minority of artists that really enjoy the research aspect of doing a period book, so getting to draw a comic set at the tail end of the Vietnam War was a fun challenge.”
“Get Fury” #1 (of 5) will be released on May 1, with a main cover by Dave Johnson, and a variant by Burrows.
