Battle Scars #6 *Spoilers*

**KurtW95** · 04-26-2012, 01:56 PM

Originally Posted by hypkin

nick fury normally fits his eye socket with some emergency explosives!

Real Nick Fury still has his eye. He wears the patch for depth perception.

**Rasputin9977** · 04-26-2012, 03:09 PM

Originally Posted by Hypestyle

...side note.. does he have to have just one eye? with the tech that exists now, shouldn't he at least get a tech-eye?

In the '90s, he had some kind of gadget instead of the eye patch. Didn't last long. Besides, it wouldn't be Fury without his eye patch.

**Will.S** · 04-26-2012, 03:51 PM

This comic's paper stock was flimsy as hell, what did they make this issue out of tissue paper?

**One More Day** · 04-26-2012, 03:54 PM

Originally Posted by Will.S

This comic's paper stock was flimsy as hell, what did they make this issue out of tissue paper?

Go digital

**Will.S** · 04-26-2012, 04:07 PM

Originally Posted by One More Day

Go digital

Well I didn't actually buy it but when I handled it at the shop it was seriously some of the lowest quality paper I've held in a long time.

There's cutting costs and then there's being cheap, sheesh Marvel!

**Monty_Cristo** · 04-26-2012, 04:14 PM

Originally Posted by Will.S

This comic's paper stock was flimsy as hell, what did they make this issue out of tissue paper?

my rear end thanks marvel

**Monty_Cristo** · 04-26-2012, 04:15 PM

Originally Posted by Ghost Shark

I haven't felt this forced upon since Catholic school...

heyyy! there will be nun of that in this thread!

**Will.S** · 04-26-2012, 07:11 PM

Originally Posted by Monty_Cristo

my rear end thanks marvel

Well not THAT type of tissue paper, more like this one:

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**BartonisHawkeye88** · 04-26-2012, 08:08 PM

Pardon my digital French... but this is absolute %&^* garbage.

**jackolover** · 04-27-2012, 02:10 AM

The best compliment I can say for this series is that it is a must read for the Avengers Movie. It's like a forerunner to where Samuel L Jackson's character came from, and gives us a very touching background to the origin of Phil Coulson, who spoilers:

died tragically in the Avengers movie

end of spoilers. All we need is an indication of the existence of the Committee also in the movie, and we make the connection complete.

We also get an indication of Nick Fury's mortality, but that can be easily wiped out if Nick Jnr gives senior a blood transfusion.

Battle Scars? I didn't think it fell flat. I was a severe critic of this concept that was handed down from the top, but after reading the last issue, and after watching the Avengers movie, I was stoked to read this last issue in collaboration, because the two Fury's in the book and the one in the movie, hit home nicely the way it fit. I now see where Coulson comes into the movie, and why an African American Nick Fury is in the movies. It's the best kept secret of the symbiotic mix of movies and comics being created and published at the same time, with no time delays. Well done Marvel and Marvel Productions.

**josh straightedge** · 04-27-2012, 02:05 PM

I really enjoyed the series. Everything, from art to story, it was just a fun, enjoyable story to me. I cannot understand the hate associated to a minority character. So there's an illegitimate son of Nick Fury? Big deal. He didn't replace the original. He's still there and he'll probably always be here, because the way his character is, he's died a few times and always come back. Reading threads like this just make me think that anytime creators do anything different, they'll just get blasted for it non-stop. To me, we got another interesting minority character who will hopefully do some great things and amount to something other than as someone's sidekick. To me, that's pretty good.

**Dr.J.** · 04-28-2012, 03:06 AM

Originally Posted by Zero Hunter

I think if they would have just called him Marcus Fury it would have been fine. Calling him Nick Fury Jr just comes off as dumb and lazy. We get it Marvel you wanted a black Nick Fury, but man this was a lame way to do it.

I forgot just who here made the predection, that marvel would have EVERYTHING happen in the last issue, in this manner. I think most fans could see it coming a mile away. I'm just glad that I didn't waste my money on more then the first issue!What next, A black kingpin, just because he was so in the dd movie? Back in the late 1990s, marvel tried to kill fury off. now, they can do so again, he isn't needed,and just will confuse new readers.I expect past apperences to soon also have him shown as always having been black.Way back in 1963, gabe Jones, one of his howlers, was shown from at least the second issue to be black.But he was killed off, he wasnt needed any more.Man, marvel sure is getting lame in it's old age.The disney age of marvel,is slowly showing itself,as a different marvel.

**jazz41** · 04-28-2012, 05:25 AM

Originally Posted by josh straightedge

I really enjoyed the series. Everything, from art to story, it was just a fun, enjoyable story to me. I cannot understand the hate associated to a minority character. So there's an illegitimate son of Nick Fury? Big deal. He didn't replace the original. He's still there and he'll probably always be here, because the way his character is, he's died a few times and always come back. Reading threads like this just make me think that anytime creators do anything different, they'll just get blasted for it non-stop. To me, we got another interesting minority character who will hopefully do some great things and amount to something other than as someone's sidekick. To me, that's pretty good.

You've missed the point a bit. No one is complaining about his race. No one is really complaining about him being an illegitmate son of Nick Fury. The issue is how how crappy Marvel told this story. They already have a Sam Jackson Nick Fury in the Ultimate Universe, which used to be the "cinematic" Marvel U. They forced a Sam Jackson Nick Fury into the Marvel U in the lamest way possible. They had the audacity to say "your name was always Nick Fury, and this is what you will go by." I think if they would have started introducing Marcus at the time of the first Iron Man movie, this whole thing might have gone a little smoother. He's not Nick Fury to me. He's Marcus Johnson.

**Ikonic** · 04-28-2012, 05:41 AM

Originally Posted by jazz41

You've missed the point a bit. No one is complaining about his race. No one is really complaining about him being an illegitmate son of Nick Fury. The issue is how how crappy Marvel told this story. They already have a Sam Jackson Nick Fury in the Ultimate Universe, which used to be the "cinematic" Marvel U. They forced a Sam Jackson Nick Fury into the Marvel U in the lamest way possible. They had the audacity to say "your name was always Nick Fury, and this is what you will go by." I think if they would have started introducing Marcus at the time of the first Iron Man movie, this whole thing might have gone a little smoother. He's not Nick Fury to me. He's Marcus Johnson.

You can call him Grandmaster B for all Marvel or anyone else cares. It doesn't change the fact that he's Nick Fury.

**jackolover** · 04-28-2012, 05:43 AM

Originally Posted by jazz41

You've missed the point a bit. No one is complaining about his race. No one is really complaining about him being an illegitmate son of Nick Fury. The issue is how how crappy Marvel told this story. They already have a Sam Jackson Nick Fury in the Ultimate Universe, which used to be the "cinematic" Marvel U. They forced a Sam Jackson Nick Fury into the Marvel U in the lamest way possible. They had the audacity to say "your name was always Nick Fury, and this is what you will go by." I think if they would have started introducing Marcus at the time of the first Iron Man movie, this whole thing might have gone a little smoother. He's not Nick Fury to me. He's Marcus Johnson.

You would have to imagine it as Marvel editorial had always wanted a black Nick Fury and a Phil Coulson in the last 5 years in the comics. They put them in the movies first, and then published them a lot later than they intended, in Battle Scars. That's how I rationalize it. What you get is the foreshadowing in the movies, of the publishing appearance of Black Nick and Coulson in the books, and their movie debut in Avengers, at the same time. A conjunction of new appearances, in both media, happening together.