This is literally Punisher done right

Thank you kind man.

80s run or 90s run?

I will also storytime the story from the op post
powerful stuff

80s. Definitely 80s

I've just read a lot of the DC gritty stuff (Checkmate, Wild Dogs, Manhunter) and I decided that I must share my load with Cred Forums

90s one any good?

I know that Peacemaker had appearance in Showcase, but he didn't have an ongoing, didn't he?

90s DC is overall good, but sometimes suffers from the XTREEEME syndrome.

No, the Punisher is the Punisher done right...

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it would be, if it ended at some point. Punisher became a caricature of himself long time ago

not to mention that even before Frank got a mini-series, he did became insane for a while in Spider-Man, and started shooting people for littering, which shows how limited the character was and is.

>you now remember EXTREME JUSTICE
fug.

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>I'm a contrarian, I can't stand Punisher because he has a fanbase...this makes me angry, I thought I was getting into something that made me special, but this doesn't make me special at all!
>I KNOW, let me find another version of the character who's less well known, then I'll be the unique and special snowflake and most knowledgeable of all geeks on the internet

Kill yourself

plot-wsie Extreme Justice wasn't bad, but obviously, DC was very inspired by Marvel in terms of art. I mean, Blue Beetle in blatant Spider-Man McFarlane poses for example...

A NEW TAKE ON A CLASSIC DC CRIMEFIGHTER - THE VIGILANTE: SOUTHLAND
By AnonymousMonday, July 11th, 2016
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Crime Novelist Gary Phillips Re-imagines The Vigilante on the Mean Streets of Los Angeles In New Six-Issue Monthly Miniseries Scheduled for October
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The Vigilante: Southland Cover Art by Mitch Gerads
The spirits of Greg Saunders and Adrian Chase are alive and well at DC, but instead of the open prairie or the skyscrapers of Manhattan, the next Vigilante will be battling crime on the seedy backstreets of Los Angeles, as DC Entertainment announced today that THE VIGILANTE: SOUTHLAND, a six-issue miniseries written by Gary Phillips (Vertigo’s COWBOYS, Violent Spring, Perdition U.S.A.) with pencils and inks by Elena Casagrande, colors by Giulia Brusco and covers by Mitch Gerads (Vertigo’s SHERIFF OF BABYLON), will be hitting comic retailers October 5.

"This take on Vigilante incorporates current social and political issues making Vigilante: Southland both relevant and contemporary, which sounded like an incredible direction to tell new stories featuring this character,” said DC Entertainment Co-Publisher Dan DiDio. “Gary’s experience with crime fiction will give Vigilante an edginess and grittiness that hasn’t been seen before.”

THE VIGILANTE: SOUTHLAND is the story of Donny Fairchild, a failed NBA player who’s just making ends meet as a maintenance man. When his girlfriend stumbles on a conspiracy to steal water rights through a series of shady land development deals, she’s mysteriously murdered. Once Donny starts getting too close to the cause of her death, his house is blown up and he’s left for dead. Determined to bring the killers to justice, Donny undergoes training from an urban legend known as The Eastsider to become a masked vigilante.

why so salty?

hmm.... so that's why vigilante is being released (and ripped) digitally?

“THE VIGILANTE: SOUTHLAND is incredibly relevant to our times,” said writer Gary Phillips. “It’s a politically tinged story that touches on a myriad of contemporary issues, such as gun violence, class struggle. The book also provides me an opportunity to contemporize classic issues/tropes like the fight over water rights in southern California. I’m very excited to show readers this character, reimagined for the 21st Century.”

THE VIGILANTE: SOUTHLAND #1 arrives at comic retailers on October 5.

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40 isdues released so far, i know arrow is awful but thanks to the show dc is collecting the series.

okay we get it. enough with the shilling

only 10 issues left. I'm more surprised that they also ripped annuals, because it's very rare for them to do so.

Peacemaker had a 4 issue mini series in '88.

I do admit that thanks to some of the digital rips, I did start reading some obscure DC titles, like Batman and Outsiders, or Guy Gardner, Captain Atom.

Okay, so I will check it for sure.

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>like the fight over water rights in southern California.

Fucking Califags.

>contrarian
Literally kill yourself, sheep.

digital rips are not always superior to the original scans (like Sandman for example), but in a lot of original scans, you either have some scanner stamp / logo, missing pages, holes, and etc.

Is Kupperberg's run even good? I know of him as a shitty writer.

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I will storytime one of his stories after Moore's so you will decide for yourself

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>Godzillions
I want these to be real so bad.

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>b-baka it's not like I l-like you or anything...

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I feel like she is Moore's self-insert

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and now for Kuppenberg's two-parter

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Vigilante WAS a popular character. He's not popular now because his story had a very definitive end and unlike a lot of other characters he's never been revived. The name has but not the character himself.

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Isn't Adrian Chase going to mentor the new vigilante in the upcoming mini?

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I honestly don't know. I don't keep up with the news

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aaand again that pic

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dayum, I god blessed by the God of Cred Forums with my first quads

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aaand the twist
the end

BRUTAL

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great movie. will rewatch tonight

I don't get it

Chase is ineffective.

>COSTUMED VIGILANTES SUCK AND SOMETIMES THE CHILD MOLESTING PEDOPHILE MAY HAVE MORE TO HIM THAN YOU'D THINK
Great story, Alan. Really a message that the whole world needed.

The only EXTREME things about it was Captain Atoms mullet, Boosters brooding and Beetle just being Blue Spider-man. The rest was pretty average.

Thanks, OP. This was pretty good. A bit dark and depressing, but true.

He thinks that he made a difference, but he didn't

Alan "Rape and kill, before she can tell" Moore

bump

The 80s version was one of DC's highest selling books at the time. They've just never been able to recreate that success.

It's not the Punisher done right, it's just another take on the Vigilante genre, with more thought to it, and character driven elements. There's a reason why Chase messed up in the end, lost his mind and shot himself. The Punisher generally has as much debt as an exploitation flick, and that's not a bad thing.

this sounds like garbage

>tfw they're finally collecting it in trades

Here's hoping to commit to the entire series

>he used to dress up as Astro Boy
He had black underwear?

>This take on Vigilante incorporates current social and political issues
>THE VIGILANTE: SOUTHLAND is the story of Donny Fairchild, a failed NBA player

So they're making him black?

Tell me where the bad man touched you.

This does seem to be the attitude on display. It's weird, before the "SJW" boogieman Cred Forums used "hipsters" as their favorite internet group to feel superior than, when this nerd culture is rife with hipsterism.

It really does feel like Moore doesn't respect the character in these issues, which makes it kind of bad.

Fuck Yeah

Who's the guy at the center-bottom?

Not sure desu. Here's the female equivalent

Checkmate

Except he still raped his daughter and murder not only his ex and a random woman. Goddammit Alan, you're making it hard to take some of your shit seriously.

Posting issue 50 spoiler warning final issue of the series.

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the end

youtube.com/watch?v=vQRmCy6LfjI

youtube.com/watch?v=vt1Pwfnh5pc

Thank you user

>“There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.”
>Tennessee Williams

I almost went with that cover but I felt the piano with Trent's vocals echo better how empty the apartment was.

Agreed Better.

Also unrelated to a real life tragedy

youtube.com/watch?v=I3yvFmi_q1M

I like how he was going to put the mask on but had a change of heart
Shows how honest he was trying to end things

I wonder how people reacted to this back in the 80s? It must have been pretty shocking for its time

Vigilante is a flawed run, but the balls it took to end it like this will always ingrain on my memory. Would DC even do something like this nowadays?

*Fun Fact: Apparently Wolfman was not pleased with the way the series ended, but had no say in it. Oh well.

Why did he leave it in the first place? Pretty sure he explained in the letters column but I forget

Whatever he thought, it is the logical conclusion for someone of Chase's mental state, and sums up the rarely portrayed repercussions of vigilante actions quite neatly.

It was a direct edition comic (so it never wound up on newsstands) and did not carry the Comics Code Authority seal - which is fitting because the Vigilante shot and killed criminals. The ‘antihero’ was still a relatively new concept in the early 80s, and the fans were squeamish. This series was mired in controversy since the get-go. Fans complained about the cold-blooded killing and the Vigilante took a vow of “no killing” after issue #1. Fans then complained he was too soft, so the writers hardened him up again. At some point fans complained the Vigilante lost his edge and he became a super-hero for a while. Critics panned it for it’s blatant 'implied’ sex scenes. Wolfman wrote and edited this series for the first year, from then on Paul Kupperberg took over writing chores (presumably because Wolfman was busy with Crisis On Infinite Earths and other projects, but I’d be surprised Wolfman didn’t quit because the readers were too fickle). Wolfman stayed on as editor and Kupperberg stayed on as writer to plot out one of the best whodunnits I’d ever read.

Cheers for the info! I haven't read Viggy in a few years so nice to have that in mind for next time I do read it

Also by whodunnit you mean when someone else took on the Vigilante mantle halfway thru the book?

Also; a reminder that Chase has his own figure and it's pretty fucking sweet

Nice

Vigilante 001 (1983) (digital) (Glorith-Novus-HD)
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Vigilante 022 (1985) (digital) (Glorith-Novus-HD)
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Vigilante 029 (1986) (digital) (Glorith-Novus-HD)
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Vigilante 031 (1986) (digital) (Glorith-Novus-HD)
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Vigilante 032 (1986) (digital) (Glorith-Novus-HD)
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Gotta find one of these

Thank you

Very good

He did but the narration throughout the whole second issue is obviously done to make you stop and think that "well this guy is still human and a complicated one despite the horrible things he's done". He's unequivocally a giant piece of shit but as said it's obvious Moore doesn't give a shit about the character and just used him as a way to tell a story about how stupid he thinks shit like the Punisher or Death Wish and other vigilante justice fiction are. Part of that is giving the fucking serial killing daughter fucker some hackneyed "morally gray" shit to make the reader go "wow, maybe just killing bad guys is wrong because things are always more compicated" and making Adrian into an utterly incompetent retard at the same time who's ineffective (It seriously looks like the first issue of the story was supposed to be some sort of ultra-dark black comedy with how goofily ineffective he was) and makes the situation worse (i.e. he basically does nothing and the day has to be saved by the prostitute).

It's just such a bad story because it's Moore in full crotchety "I HATE THIS THING" mode.

Get ready for BLM bullshit and probably ~EVIL WHITE COPS~ too.

IMO Vigilante is really a product of its time. When it was made, NYC was a crime infested shithole and there was a giant aspect of urban decay going on. There's a reason things like Death Wish and the Punisher came out of that time period. If it was done nowadays you'd have to do it in Chicago with gang members and Mexican cartel members and shit.

Chicago? Like, African-American Chicago?

And MEXICAN CARTEL MEMBERS?

You can't put people of color in a villainous role, that's racist!

And I'm ready to take your load.

Ah yes the old "My baby!!" trick

Lol yes

Meh design

>Guess I tripped
>Twice
Hilarious.

Yup

Gracias

they just couldn't help themselves could they?

That design sucks

You rock.