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>>152367398
I remember. I care.

>>152367398
It's mainly because for 00s/10s fanboys their preference for Nick Fury is:
>Garth Ennis version
>Ultimate version
>MCU version

And the 00s/10s fanboys usually don't read anything made before the Quesada era which also became a problem when some took over at Marvel

>>152367398
>Do longtime Marvel fans not care?
Pretty sure longtime Marvel fans are more concerned about their colostomy bags and dementia pills at this point.

>>152367494
Maybe you’re right about boomers.
But I figured Generation X fans would give a damn.

I cannot remember a single major thing about Shield besides the Steranko stuff. They just sort of poke in other books here and there but I don't remember any other Shield book getting major hype or memories.

>>152367398
Isn’t the entirety of the Marvel Universe sort of like that at this point? S.H.I.E.L.D. is only more notable because it got a big push in the MCU and Ultimate universes. Almost every other part of the universe is similarly “dead” at this point, just kept around to IP farm.

>>152367594
Elektra: Assassin was tight. S.H.I.E.L.D. vs The Hand.

>>152367469
The Ultimate version was marred by everything that came after Ultimates 2. That line really shat the bed.

Global War On Terror ruined SHIELD since everyone associates government onions groups with war crimes and morally ambiguous assholes, whereas part of the appeal of Nick Fury and his inner circkevwas that he was a moral paragon in a sea of liars and sociopaths.

>>152367594; the Strange Adventure line has the death of Baron Strucker and Yellow Claw arcs. Sternako didn't turn to crap until they made the Nick Fury ongoing and Sternako basically tried to turn Nick Fury into the Spirit, complete with creating Scorpio as his Octopus; a villainous master of disguise who's identity was never supposed to be revealed.

>>152367398
>Quartermain
I miss him.

>>152368513
He’s deader than dead

I lament the loss of SHIELD and Nick Fury every day

>>152367519
gen x stopped caring in the 90s, thats why marvel went bankrupt to begin with.

Bendis
>Destroyed the shield
>Destroyed the Avengers
>Destroyed checkmate
>Tried to destroy Legion(Williamson and Geoff no sold that)
>Tried and probably destroyed Defenders
>Fucked the xmen and Inhuman with Soule

>>152367398
Secret War was eyebleed dogshit with the worst writing it could possibly have received, and I'm not going to pretend that it wasn't just a five issue setup for how cool Daisy Dukes is (here's a tip: she isn't, she's fucking lame) or that those were the (also extremely white, to anybody but an American) characters that Bendis and Marvel chose to follow into the new century instead of Nick Fury and Bowler Fat Guy

but it was also over 20 years ago and complaining about it now has two main problems

one that you have to acknowledge that it happened, that Nick Fury sent a bunch of brainwashed heroes on an assassination mission and they messed up, somehow - fucking Wolverine didn't snikt somebody ffs - and their target waited an entire year and hired a bunch of legacy villains and established a tier system of powers all to murder the heroes, together, all at once, like a fucking Scooby Doo plot from AO3

two that complaining now is like complaining then that Secret Wars happened, that the Beyonder took fucking Detroit or whatever the fuck it was into space and made a planet, Spider-Man got a magic costume that he didn't realize for YEARS was a living creature, all of that bullshit

forget it, it's goofy, it's done, there's no perfect continuity and there never was, wait for someone who isn't an absolute footfag of a bootlicker to come along and write about how fucking stupid all of Secret War and the Bendis-era SHIELD crap is instead of trying to build in the ashes of the continuity he torched

his is right there for the torching, that's how this shit works

>>152367398
I pretty much stopped caring after Steranko left.

>>152369032
To be fair to him, the Defenders have been fucked by multiple authors since (and, depending on how anal you want to be, could have been fucked as far back as the Hannigan days)

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>>152367398
I'd argue it was on life support after the Nick Fury Vs. SHIELD mini series because after that SHIELD was on a constant cycle of going down in flames due to internal corruption, being rebuilt and being disbanded again. If it was just a hero team? That's part and parcel with team books but this is supposed to be a pretty big government organization. Also? Whenever it's destroyed editors and writers forget it was narrative short cut anytime a story needed some kind of government or law enforcement representation.

Also remember in the 90's when Nick Fury was killed by the Punisher and in the same issue his son Mikel (remember him? Marvel doesn't want you to) lost an eye and become leader of SHIELD for reasons nobody could explain? That's when 'classic' SHIELD truly died then it just became whatever the writer wanted it to be, usually a shady shitty strawman for US black ops, especially during the Gulf War years.

TR;DR When Marvel stopped caring about rank designation for SHIELD uniforms and everybody wore white? It was over.

>>152371719
>rank designation for SHIELD uniforms
>pic
neato

>>152367398
No one cares about SHIELD specifically and really no one cares about spy shit in general these days.

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Nick Fury is honestly my favorite character. I'm a big spy geek in general, but one of the things I liked about Fury is how rough around the edges he is. He grew up in Hell's Kitchen and showed it.

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>>152367398
I probably got past Steranko, but not much past.
Didn't Fury drink some sort of immortality serum?
Everybody else ought to be either in a retirement home or dead by now.

>>152371990
>Didn't Fury drink some sort of immortality serum?

They change the explanation of his slow aging as often as they change the origin of his eyepatch.

Interesting that this was posted the exact day I reach the SHIELD section in my Marvel silver age read-through. Ive only read 2 issues so far but I like the art, I only need Fury to be more serious. He's kinda goofy. When does It get good in (you)r opinion?

>>152371744
spy shit used to be cool, now its fat idiots in call centers making shitposts all day for minimum wage and everybody knows it

>>152371990
>Didn't Fury drink some sort of immortality serum?
It got sucked out of him.

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Never forget.

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>>152372635
>tfw you're stuck explaining to boomers that Colombian memes aren't indicative of civil unrest in South America instead of being the agent that gets to do a "field-op" at Evo now that the Saudi's own it

>>152371990
Black Widow is a super soldier