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FURY

                                          October 31, 2005
                                          November 2, 2005

The thesis-in-progress:
popular art advances in
small steps, by an                 TWISTING_SHADOWS
evolutionary process.


The Nick Fury character is one of my exhibits.


The original gruff-but-likeable "Sgt. Fury"
was a pretty dull, WW-II cliche and the
decision to put out a Secret Agent comic to
capitalize on the Bond craze was a similarly
dull bit of commercially-driven recourse to
cliche...

But hybridizing the two, taking the old
"Sgt. Fury" character and transforming him
into a "Bond" figure (and *also* an "M") as
"Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD"... that was a
good move.

   It's not exactly
   an act of genius,                                Possibly: it's another
   but it worked.                                   application of the
                                 NOVELTY_AGAIN       "rule of reversals":
   The child was much                               Bond was "suave", so
   stronger than you'd                              Marvel's version would
   expect from such                                 be a "rough neck".
   parentage.

                                                                BLAZING

Examples of Jim Steranko's Fury:

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