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You Want Hardcore!?

  
 
Tim Tempest
17:42 / 28.10.05
This is the thread where we can talk about the most HARDCORE COMICS of all time.

I'm talking comics that are so over-the-top HARDCORE, it's amazing. Even laughable. Actually, it's mandatory that these be laughable, because Oddman's loves having a good laugh.

So, to start, take a look at this HARDCORE COMIC. This comic is so damned HARDCORE, it's almost unfathomable. This comic will rip out your eyes, mash up your intestines, stick all your innards in a blender, and then feed them back to you through a funnel.

A rusty funnel.

This comic sets the standard for HARDCORE COMICS, and I want to see it topped.

And just remember..."Guns are for wusses".
 
 
madfigs #32, now with wasabi
18:14 / 28.10.05
 
 
Kirk Ultra
18:58 / 28.10.05
Oh my god, that Doom comic has the best dialogue in it EVER! I need it! I want it!

"RIP AND TEAR YOUR GUTS!

YOU ARE HUGE! THAT MEANS YOU HAVE HUGE GUTS!

RIP AND TEAR!"

No dialogue written by anyone ever has ever been that sweet.


There was a great comic put out by Marvel years ago called Death's Head II (I assume there was a Death's Head I but really I have no idea). I only got to read one issue of it, issue 4 of a four issue miniseries, but it was fantastic. It took place in a apocalyptic Marvel future completely consumed by war zones, with super hardcore future versions of Wolverine, the Punisher, and few other survivors, along with Death's Head II the crazy robot killing machine. They have a dramatic last stand against some evil guys and kill the hell out of a lot of people. Very hardcore and joycore at the same time somehow.
 
 
Juan_Arteaga
18:58 / 28.10.05
How in hell's name the Weather Wizard's attack to the great wall of China affects the Quick Bunny?
 
 
Tim Tempest
19:00 / 28.10.05
"Sweet Christmas! Big-Mouthed floating thingies! It's always something!"

Guys, I honestly think that this comic has a quote that is applicable to ANY situation.

In fact, this could be the most-quotable piece of literature ever created by mortal minds.

"You are HUGE! That means you have HUGE GUTS!"
 
 
Kirk Ultra
19:03 / 28.10.05
Another great hardcore series was the original Predator series put out through Dark Horse comics. It was one of the first comics I ever read as a kid, after New Warriors. I must have been in fifth grade when I found it. I remember how blown away I was by the ultra-violent images inside, that splash page in issue 1 of that guy getting a hole shot through him and his chest being blown out. Predator did eventually get lame, but there were a couple of really cool miniseries in there before it did. The original Aliens vs Predator series was especially brilliant (I don't know how the movie ended up being such a piece of shit).
 
 
Tim Tempest
19:09 / 28.10.05
Kirk! Link us to these HARDCORE comics!

I am considering never speaking again without quoting the Doom Guy.

"I'm cookin with gas! I've gota handful of VERTEBRAE and a headful of MAD!"
 
 
Tim Tempest
19:17 / 28.10.05
How in hell's name the Weather Wizard's attack to the great wall of China affects the Quick Bunny?

I don't know, but look at how comfortable that chocolate-monger looks perched atop old Supes' head.

I swear, Superman did some craaaaaazy things to fit in.
 
 
Kirk Ultra
19:22 / 28.10.05
Ok let's see what I can find. . . .

Here's the cover of Death's Head II #4, the issue I have (god its been way too long since I read this)
http://www.spiderfan.org/cgi-bin/cover.pl?80123,deaths_head_2_ls,004.jpg

and here's some info on that issue

http://www.spiderfan.org/comics/title/deaths_head_2_ls.html

(I'm going to learn how to do the links right soon, I swaer)

more info on the series:

http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/earthcharnel.htm

and it turns out there actually is a Death's Head I, right here http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/d/dethhead.htm

And here's a site called The Complete Death's Head http://www.trinity-dreamnation.fsnet.co.uk/dh/
 
 
Kirk Ultra
19:26 / 28.10.05
Oh and here's the wikipedia entrance for him that I just found. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death%27s_Head That's probably the best one.
 
 
grime
20:18 / 28.10.05
"Another great hardcore series was the original Predator series put out through Dark Horse comics."

fuck yeah, the same thing happened to me as a kid! it was callled Big Game, i think. it was the first time i was ever expose to violence on that level . . . it totally fucked me up. for which i am thankful to this day.
 
 
Rachel Melmoth
20:50 / 28.10.05
...that is without a doubt the greatest achievement in comic book history. It's a 12.0 on the 10.0 scale of classicness!
 
 
Tim Tempest
21:05 / 28.10.05
I totally agree.

Could you imagine a monthly??!?
 
 
Mistoffelees
21:26 / 28.10.05
Death´s Head is great, I got (almost?) all issues. I liked, that DH was always so nonchalant about his bountyhunter business.

With HARDCORE do mean extremely violent? The most over the top violence I´ve ever seen in a comic was FAUST. Quite well drawn, but very violent and bloody. Guts and blood everwhere, shooting or ripping off private parts, very weird.

And I got the Jeffrey Dahmer vs. Jesus issue. They´re boxing.
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
22:10 / 28.10.05
Yeah, that's all pretty much a bunch of crap. Anyone remember Tim Vigil's original Faust? The Pander Bros' Exquisite Corpse? Even Larry Hama's Wolfpack had a crippled kid's dad getting set on fire in a toll booth.
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
22:11 / 28.10.05
Oh, hello, Mistoffelees. Sorry about that.

Sorta funny, you mentioning Faust, eh?
 
 
Tim Tempest
02:08 / 29.10.05
Ok, I looked into Death's Head.

Mother of God.

He is so badass it isn't even comprehensible. The dude's got a vulture for a sidekick.

Thats HARDCORE.
 
 
matthew.
05:02 / 29.10.05
Huh? Whuzzat? Whuzzat? I like what I see. An important looking door

I... this... it.... No words can accurately describe this comic other than... hardcore.
 
 
matthew.
05:04 / 29.10.05
Wait. Who is this guy talking to? He has the narration boxes above his head, and then he's self-narrating his life already. This is like Woody Allen meets Duke Nukem.
 
 
Mistoffelees
07:46 / 29.10.05
Sorta funny, you mentioning Faust, eh?

Yes, Mistoffelees [from a cat poem by T.S.Eliot, btw] has a faustian twang.

And what about the comic Trailer Trash? That could be very funny, but it was very icky and violent, too.
 
  
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