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Monday, March 21, 2005

Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. S.H.A.F.T.



Take a little bit of blacksploitation, mix in a little bit of Ultimates, and stir with a healthy dose of Somethingawful.com-esque humor. This guy has photoshopped an entirely new series of Ultimate Nick Fury stories following his adventures with the Under Cover Brother Serum.

After Magneto launched an assault on the White House and humiliated President G.W. Bush on national television, the U.S. government had to find a way to assure the American people (and the traumatized president) that it could never happen again. So they set about assembling the Ultimates, a team of super-powered heroes to protect the country from future supervillain attacks. And who better to lead the Ultimates than Nick Fury?

Fury was a cigar-chomping man’s man: leader of the Howling Commandos in World War II and Korea, a CIA operative in Viet Nam, and most recently the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. (the Strategic Hazard Intervention Espionage Logistics Directorate). And after all that mileage, he was still young and studly thanks to the Infinity Formula that slows down his aging process.

But was all that enough?


Obviously not, as you will find in the pages of issues #1 and #2 of this apparently ongoing webseries. Basically, Fury is recruited for the government agency S.H.A.F.T., which stands for " Shit Happens All the Fucking Time" but the government publicly touts as the "Super Human African-American Federal Task Force." It's all "Ultimately" a tongue -out-of-cheek farce about the racial changes Marvel has made in the Ultimates line and in their films.

My favorite tagline from the whole thing though: "What's that Ultimate league--That never suffers from fatigue? SHAFT! You're damn right!"

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