I think it’s work like this that really bring out the best in Garth Ennis, which focus more on humanizing his characters and fleshing out the lives they lead, making them seem like the kinds of people you’d like to share a beer with, instead of focusing solely on deconstructing tropes in the most offensive and vulgar way possible. It really shows that Ennis has a lot of heart and warmth to his stories that is rarely ever focused on
@@manintheline5331yeah it's crazy the wave of zoomer hate Ennis has being getting from people who didn't even know he existed until the boys show came out on Amazon. Even the boys comic despite it's flaws was really well liked when it came out. Only recently has it been popular to hate on it
I grew up on this comic. I have all the graphic novels. In the back of my mind, I hear the quote "My name is Tommy Monaghan, and I kill people for money. It's a living. " Classic.
@@hitmanmonaghan6633 I was thinking TV show with real actors, if Happy can get a tv show that was done from a comic, well Hitman can be done as well. It is bizzare and it wont be for everyone but I would hope for the ratings to be high with a lot of views so they can complete it, a lot of shows get cancelled these days cause nobody is watching…
One thing I think this series excels at it is really being in a DC universe but at a more grounded level. No other series at Marvel really captures that the same way Hitman does espically the crossover events. Deadman’s land for example.
Wow. I never thought I’d see a video about this comic run. I’m from a small town where the local library is always either throwing or giving out old comics and mangas. I have found a lot of the series I love from just being there when they wanted to toss out something. Hitman was one of those said series. I got all the issues up to 15 as that was all they had.
Hitman and Preacher are my favourite Ennis books. I have kind of fallen off of Ennis work over time, The Boys show is a lot better then the comic and alot of his more edgy work leaves me cold. However both Preacher and Hitman have (for me) the right amount of edgy with a lot of maturity and depth. They are both in my top 20 comics of all time.
Randomly found the Ace of Killers trade in a shop while looking for more Ennis to read and never looked back since. Tommy will always be one of my all-time favorite heroes and I wish his story gets an adaptation at some point. Happy to see Six-Pack in Kite-Man Hell Yeah. Great video.
Thank you for pronouncing his name the way I thought of it in my head. It's probably supposed to be pronounced. Mon -a -han, and not mon-a-gon. But that's how it was pronounced in my head. And yes, this comic is hilarious.
I don't know what voice y'all read Tommy with, but when I got the first 3 issues last Christmas I read him with the voice of Karl Pilkington. I think it's hilarious imagining Karl as an assassin and it really gives the read a pleasant feel to it.
Garth Ennis can polarize some people. Many find his penchant for black humor, disdain for traditional caped heroes, and trope of writing characters to be dumb or cruel a bit much. For me, I can vibe with some of his stuff. I like the directions that Preacher went and from what I’ve heard about his Punisher work I think I’ll enjoy that as well. But this work has intrigued me the most because it seems much more grounded than his other work. At least more emotional intelligent. I’m glad you spotlighted it as it was one of the hidden gems to come out of 90’s DC.
Ennis is a shitlord writer. There's basically 2 sides to him: the shitlord who takes the piss out of everything (the boyss, crossed, etc etc) And locked in ennis writing some banging material (punisher max, preacher, thor max, hitman).
@@thefvguy5648 - It depends. I'm not a fan of *Crossed* in general, but the few short arcs written by Ennis himself were the only good one from the entire run. There are in total 177 issue of *Crossed* , and sadly Garth Ennis has only written a small percentage of them. Ennis wrote the first 10 issues arc (which isn't a masterpiece, but compared to the slop some of the other writters have written for that title, it's serviceable), then a bunch of different writers took turns writting a bunch of stories in various title, with Ennis only writting 14 issues in the longest Crossed title "Badlands". These 14 issues are divided into 3 arcs, with the last 2 being IMHO the only really good issues of Crossed. "The Fatal Englishman" followed by "The Thin Red Line", with the same group of 4 soldiers (1 scot, 1 mick, 1 limey, and 1 welch dwarf ) Ennis also wrote 2 issues in "Crossed DOA" which take place in a plane IIRC? Wasn't terrible, and we got to dive a bit into "ok what's actually going on?" since none of the other writers ever take the time to ponder on why/what/how this infection took place. All I'm trying to say is that Ennis only wrote 26 issues of the 177 stack of comic book that "Crossed" consists of, and frankly they're easily the best of the lot, with the most interesting characters by far, the stories with the less gore & nudity, and more important the arcs that make the story advance the most and actually try to give us an answer on "ok what exactly is that darkness we're fighting against?" "The Fatal Englishman" in particular is a must read if you're an Ennis enthusiast, and even if you haven't read the rest of Crossed. All of this blablabla to say that IMHO it's not very fair to put all the blame on Garth Ennis when it comes to Crossed, since most of the issues that are pure schlock, misery pr0n and edgy gorefest aren't actually written by him. If you want to read a solid Ennis series that reads like the good ol' times, right now he's written *"The Punisher: Get Fury"* ... We're only 3 issues in as I'm writting this post, but it's very promising so far. We finally get our MAX versions of Frank Castle and Nick Fury in Viet-nam, in a difficult mission that we hadn't be privy to before. Plus, an old, popular adversary of both Frank and Nick makes a comeback, which is always nice. Anyway, Ennis is writting a PunisherMAX/FuryMAX crossover series right now and more people need to read it!
this sounds super cool. it gives me that black lagoon/cowboy bebop kind of vibe. getting through and finding solace in a dirt bottom of the barrel mercenary life. a certain kind of “thats life, make of it what you can” style to it.
I loved his one page JLA appearance. Poked hard of the trend for team books to slap in 1-3 popular current characters even if they didn’t fit in the team dynamic. Secret Defenders at Marvel really pushed that.
Hitman deserves a revival from the dead. Tommy Monaghan needs to be slated into Suicide Squad, a Batman game or a grind house level stream series. A time capsule of the 1990s.
I found your channel last week, and I gotta say, you deserve more views. The audio, background comic panel quality, storytelling,everything. It's awesome.
God, I loved this comic! I was hoping he would appear in a CW show, but I’m sure they would ruin him. Now that Preacher, and The Boys got television shows, we could get a show starring Tommy. Noonan’s is in Harley Quinn, but I DO NOT want him to appear in that. They will ruin him. He does get a name drop in Justice League Unlimited.
I feel like you would really enjoy Transmetropolitian. Idk just a hunch. I can't wait to see more videos about some hidden gems comics provide which are usually my favorite ones. I can see you making great videos about Preacher, Transmetropolitian, The Darkness, and more indie gems
I have been collecting these comics for a while now. I ĺove each one. It's just a shame that his run was so short. Then again, maybe it's a blessing that it didn't have time to become outdated.
I like that you mentioned Tommy forgetting that he has powers and relying on his skills instead. Personally, I think that is something he has in common with Jesse Custer from Preacher.
Hitman, a Garth Ennis fan, the Skullgirls and Persona 3 soundtracks and Last Summer Whisper by Anri? I know we will never meet, but in another life, I would have loved to have grabbed a beer with you and talked about comics. Just out of curiosity, have you ever checked out the manga "Shamo", "Battle Royale" or "Fourteen"? If, by chance we have a similar taste in Japanese comics, you just might like those.
@@THEMANGALOG no problem, I'll be honest I'm not the biggest fan of Garth Ennis (I found what I've read of Preacher good though) but stuff like this I find really interesting. Human level supers dealing with down on the ground problems, that's why I love Resurrection Man
mabye in james gunn dcu he will make it into a spin off show set in gotham in the dcu james gunn would really make him a well know charter 2 years ago nobody ever heard of peacmaker now he is in mortal kombat and there is fans of him now and we see him a lot more in the main curret dc comics
The fact that you missed mentioning Hitman received an Eisner award, makes me think you have no idea about the comic and I have already unsubscribed from your channel. Also so many spoilers in your vids for newcomers to the series...
Wizard Magazine absolutely LOVED this series back in the day.
Yes they did 😆 you couldn't pick up an issue of Wizard without them mentioning it for a while there
As they should, as we all should.
This is hands down my favorite DC comic series and I’ve read a lot in my time.
I unironically had to explain why I mutter BUENO to myself.
Excellente
*I* aM BaYToR?
I think it’s work like this that really bring out the best in Garth Ennis, which focus more on humanizing his characters and fleshing out the lives they lead, making them seem like the kinds of people you’d like to share a beer with, instead of focusing solely on deconstructing tropes in the most offensive and vulgar way possible. It really shows that Ennis has a lot of heart and warmth to his stories that is rarely ever focused on
The best of ennis is Sara and red rover Charlie, fury max and war stories.
Bro, its cause the boys is his only work with exposure, Preacher is probably the greatest comic in history
@@manintheline5331yeah it's crazy the wave of zoomer hate Ennis has being getting from people who didn't even know he existed until the boys show came out on Amazon. Even the boys comic despite it's flaws was really well liked when it came out. Only recently has it been popular to hate on it
@@hinkhall8451 zoomers can't take gore they are weak
I grew up on this comic. I have all the graphic novels. In the back of my mind, I hear the quote "My name is Tommy Monaghan, and I kill people for money. It's a living. " Classic.
DC is releasing the first Hitman omnibus on July 30th. So I guess the series isn’t as forgotten as you thought.
this would make THE BEST hbo max series. this has james gunn written ALL OVER IT.
Man I would love a tv show on this comic, one of my alltime favourites
In an animated series, who would voice Tommy?
@@hitmanmonaghan6633 I was thinking TV show with real actors, if Happy can get a tv show that was done from a comic, well Hitman can be done as well. It is bizzare and it wont be for everyone but I would hope for the ratings to be high with a lot of views so they can complete it, a lot of shows get cancelled these days cause nobody is watching…
This could work as a live action, granted mucho bueno might be an interesting concept to be put into cinema . . . Dog welder too
One thing I think this series excels at it is really being in a DC universe but at a more grounded level. No other series at Marvel really captures that the same way Hitman does espically the crossover events. Deadman’s land for example.
6:30 He actually starts the video topic
I am not a fan of Garth but this comic sounds really good. I might check it out one day.
Wow. I never thought I’d see a video about this comic run. I’m from a small town where the local library is always either throwing or giving out old comics and mangas. I have found a lot of the series I love from just being there when they wanted to toss out something. Hitman was one of those said series. I got all the issues up to 15 as that was all they had.
I oh shit. Ace of killers part 1? Niceeee. My first was local hero 1 - 4
Damn those first 3 and a half minutes gave me a bigger sell to seek out more Hitman as if Section 8 and issue 34 weren't enough for me.
Hitman and Preacher are my favourite Ennis books. I have kind of fallen off of Ennis work over time, The Boys show is a lot better then the comic and alot of his more edgy work leaves me cold. However both Preacher and Hitman have (for me) the right amount of edgy with a lot of maturity and depth. They are both in my top 20 comics of all time.
I remember a panel where he comments to green lantern while taking a look at wonderwoman "I think I lost my xray vision"
Randomly found the Ace of Killers trade in a shop while looking for more Ennis to read and never looked back since. Tommy will always be one of my all-time favorite heroes and I wish his story gets an adaptation at some point. Happy to see Six-Pack in Kite-Man Hell Yeah. Great video.
Great video 📼
It would be awesome if HBO did a show 📺 based off this comic run.
Hitman and Punisher by Gart Ennis is a masterpiece. I hope there is something similar to them written by someone other than Ennis
Pat mills
Hands down my favorite superhero and one of the greatest entire series ever written.
Thank you for pronouncing his name the way I thought of it in my head. It's probably supposed to be pronounced. Mon -a -han, and not mon-a-gon. But that's how it was pronounced in my head. And yes, this comic is hilarious.
I don't know what voice y'all read Tommy with, but when I got the first 3 issues last Christmas I read him with the voice of Karl Pilkington. I think it's hilarious imagining Karl as an assassin and it really gives the read a pleasant feel to it.
Garth Ennis can polarize some people. Many find his penchant for black humor, disdain for traditional caped heroes, and trope of writing characters to be dumb or cruel a bit much. For me, I can vibe with some of his stuff. I like the directions that Preacher went and from what I’ve heard about his Punisher work I think I’ll enjoy that as well. But this work has intrigued me the most because it seems much more grounded than his other work. At least more emotional intelligent. I’m glad you spotlighted it as it was one of the hidden gems to come out of 90’s DC.
I think even Garth Ennis fans can agree his stuff in Crossed is just disgusting.
And I mean disgusting with no taste or substance.
Ennis is a shitlord writer. There's basically 2 sides to him:
the shitlord who takes the piss out of everything (the boyss, crossed, etc etc)
And locked in ennis writing some banging material (punisher max, preacher, thor max, hitman).
@@thefvguy5648 - It depends. I'm not a fan of *Crossed* in general, but the few short arcs written by Ennis himself were the only good one from the entire run.
There are in total 177 issue of *Crossed* , and sadly Garth Ennis has only written a small percentage of them.
Ennis wrote the first 10 issues arc (which isn't a masterpiece, but compared to the slop some of the other writters have written for that title, it's serviceable), then a bunch of different writers took turns writting a bunch of stories in various title, with Ennis only writting 14 issues in the longest Crossed title "Badlands".
These 14 issues are divided into 3 arcs, with the last 2 being IMHO the only really good issues of Crossed.
"The Fatal Englishman" followed by "The Thin Red Line", with the same group of 4 soldiers (1 scot, 1 mick, 1 limey, and 1 welch dwarf )
Ennis also wrote 2 issues in "Crossed DOA" which take place in a plane IIRC? Wasn't terrible, and we got to dive a bit into "ok what's actually going on?" since none of the other writers ever take the time to ponder on why/what/how this infection took place.
All I'm trying to say is that Ennis only wrote 26 issues of the 177 stack of comic book that "Crossed" consists of, and frankly they're easily the best of the lot, with the most interesting characters by far, the stories with the less gore & nudity, and more important the arcs that make the story advance the most and actually try to give us an answer on "ok what exactly is that darkness we're fighting against?"
"The Fatal Englishman" in particular is a must read if you're an Ennis enthusiast, and even if you haven't read the rest of Crossed.
All of this blablabla to say that IMHO it's not very fair to put all the blame on Garth Ennis when it comes to Crossed, since most of the issues that are pure schlock, misery pr0n and edgy gorefest aren't actually written by him.
If you want to read a solid Ennis series that reads like the good ol' times, right now he's written *"The Punisher: Get Fury"* ...
We're only 3 issues in as I'm writting this post, but it's very promising so far.
We finally get our MAX versions of Frank Castle and Nick Fury in Viet-nam, in a difficult mission that we hadn't be privy to before.
Plus, an old, popular adversary of both Frank and Nick makes a comeback, which is always nice.
Anyway, Ennis is writting a PunisherMAX/FuryMAX crossover series right now and more people need to read it!
First found this series when I was in high school, had to get them all. One of the best stories in all of comic history.
A colleague put me onto this series many years ago. I’ve got a fair few of them but not all. Such a cool series. Pity they killed them all off
this sounds super cool. it gives me that black lagoon/cowboy bebop kind of vibe. getting through and finding solace in a dirt bottom of the barrel mercenary life. a certain kind of “thats life, make of it what you can” style to it.
Hitman one my favorite characters. They should do some kind of series.
Kite Man: Hell Yeah takes place largely at Noonan's and Sixpack is a regular. Probably as close as we'll ever get.
Man, Ringo is that one cool dude everyone wanted to be as a kid
I loved his one page JLA appearance. Poked hard of the trend for team books to slap in 1-3 popular current characters even if they didn’t fit in the team dynamic. Secret Defenders at Marvel really pushed that.
Love how this channel covers all the underrated stuff. Keep up the good work!
I have everything Hitman from DC I know Preacher got most of the love but Hitman was special
most underrated channel, love your content homie
It wouldn't surprise me if this guy inspired Knuckle Duster.
Hitman deserves a revival from the dead.
Tommy Monaghan needs to be slated into Suicide Squad, a Batman game or a grind house level stream series.
A time capsule of the 1990s.
Ennis has vetoed it. I asked mcrea about Blackest Night and he said Tommy was just in a bar.
I found your channel last week, and I gotta say, you deserve more views. The audio, background comic panel quality, storytelling,everything. It's awesome.
You should definitely do a video on James Robinson's Starman. It's truly my favorite run from DC and as you mentioned, untouched by creator request.
God, I loved this comic! I was hoping he would appear in a CW show, but I’m sure they would ruin him. Now that Preacher, and The Boys got television shows, we could get a show starring Tommy. Noonan’s is in Harley Quinn, but I DO NOT want him to appear in that. They will ruin him. He does get a name drop in Justice League Unlimited.
I mean they actually are pretty faithful. They have noonan and the twins as part of the main cast
I feel like you would really enjoy Transmetropolitian. Idk just a hunch. I can't wait to see more videos about some hidden gems comics provide which are usually my favorite ones. I can see you making great videos about Preacher, Transmetropolitian, The Darkness, and more indie gems
Kinda hate seeing Noonans as the setting for the fucking kite man show
The show creators pitched a hitman show. But dc didn’t let them so this was a comprise
if only movie people knew the comics. tarrentino would be greaat for this.
I have been collecting these comics for a while now. I ĺove each one. It's just a shame that his run was so short. Then again, maybe it's a blessing that it didn't have time to become outdated.
I like that you mentioned Tommy forgetting that he has powers and relying on his skills instead. Personally, I think that is something he has in common with Jesse Custer from Preacher.
gonna read this when my exams are over
I love kind of low level gothamite stories, so I will have to pause this at 12:31 and go read this for myself
It has a beauty that no series has, I had only one book, I used to read daily as it was a new book
Hitman, a Garth Ennis fan, the Skullgirls and Persona 3 soundtracks and Last Summer Whisper by Anri? I know we will never meet, but in another life, I would have loved to have grabbed a beer with you and talked about comics. Just out of curiosity, have you ever checked out the manga "Shamo", "Battle Royale" or "Fourteen"? If, by chance we have a similar taste in Japanese comics, you just might like those.
Hitman needs his own movie trilogy.
Garth Ennis , Enough said
Great video! Kept me engaged from beginning to end.
Thank you!
I’m gonna adapt the Superman issue of Hitman very soon🤙
Hype hype hype
Gonna check this out later. Seems really unique and overall like a good time.
i wish hitman gets his own tv series or movie someday i would absolutely watch that
The guy is a telepath and hitman, do more with him
you're a really good storyteller :)
Thanks, I got my masters in it 😋
@@THEMANGALOG no problem, I'll be honest I'm not the biggest fan of Garth Ennis (I found what I've read of Preacher good though) but stuff like this I find really interesting. Human level supers dealing with down on the ground problems, that's why I love Resurrection Man
Just finished reading this about a month ago and thought how I was the only who's seen it
Oh, that’s not Billy Butcher in the thumbnail?
mabye in james gunn dcu he will make it into a spin off show set in gotham in the dcu james gunn would really make him a well know charter 2 years ago nobody ever heard of peacmaker now he is in mortal kombat and there is fans of him now and we see him a lot more in the main curret dc comics
I loved this series. Hell, somebody close to me named his Xbox 360 account I AM BAYTOR
I gotta read this book
dude, dub a scene pls i beg you
@@THEMANGALOG any recommendations? I haven’t read it
It’s your video that recommended it to me🤙
@@therussiancomicbookgeek Ace of Killers, please
@@THEMANGALOG I’ll have to read this
@@THEMANGALOGany specific issue you’d recommend for adaptation?
Click here to skip the spoiler alert 👉 14:45
yeah, Hitman is a great series,great characters,stories a dark humor(well,it was there until volume 7).
HOW DO YOU NOT HAVE MORE FOLLOWERS
Yeah Hitman was really good
Bueno
Bueno Bueno Bueno
Why does the protag of this series remind me of butcher
he's essentially proto-Butcher, just less inherently violent
@@THEMANGALOG yeah he seems alot nicer i kinda prefer him
six pack is alive
anyone else smell somethin funny
Heh... Bueno...
Two points: Sixpack survived, and Tommy's "path" wasn't exactly bad, since he never harmed any innocents. ("Just the bad guys, Don Feretti.")
【ｐｒｏｍｏｓｍ】
This video sucks especially the intro
Thanks
So cringe
The fact that you missed mentioning Hitman received an Eisner award, makes me think you have no idea about the comic and I have already unsubscribed from your channel. Also so many spoilers in your vids for newcomers to the series...
Ok