Blackjack O'Hare
This is Blackjack O'Hare, mercenary and leader of the Black Bunny Brigade. He is a bad guy.
He has prosthetic legs and may have robot hands.
He seems very focused.
He likes a fight...
...but everyone likes money.
He likes a fight...
...but everyone likes money.
And this is his killer, Rocket Raccoon. Art by Skottie Young.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Raccoon
Blackjack dies. Oops, Comic Vine says he lived. First appearance in
The Incredible Hulk back in 1982. No, first appearance in Marvel Preview
1976. Hell, I might have that.
I need to read this. The net is maddening at times.
I need to read this. The net is maddening at times.
With the Black Bunny Brigade.
Later he gets a new crew.
Mike Mignola, 1985. Seems that Rocket and Blackjack are forced to 'cooperate'.
Mike Mignola, 1985. Seems that Rocket and Blackjack are forced to 'cooperate'.
See ya in the funny pages!
Something fun to add to my Anthro comics stock; there's never enough good ones.
ReplyDeleteYou might like readcomiconline.to, huge trove of comics there. They have a large anthro section. In addition, they have all the Flaming Carrots I missed while I was being young and feckless and not reading comics like I should have been.
ReplyDeleteFeckless - adjective. Irresponsible, useless, hopeless, incompetent, feeble, worthless, futile, ineffectual, aimless, good-for-nothing, shiftless, weak. The young man was feckless and irresponsible.
"Qualis artifex pereo"!
Wow -- BlarghSpawt lets me comment again -- and with my own I.D.
ReplyDeleteFunny, I don't even remember Rocket Raccoon from back in the 1980s -- and I would have grabbed it if I had seen it -- and definitely not Blackjack O'Hare. Something weird about the bookstore I used to patronize; I think they filtered the comics they sold, and someone didn't like the 'furry' stuff. And that's odd, because I remember seeing the earliest TMNT there. I have old copies of Cerebus the Aardvark, Albedo and Usagi Yojimbo I bought there.
Maybe it was the level of violence? Perhaps they kept them in the back room and one had to ask for them. I'd ask the guy who used to run the Comic Shop, but since his brain surgery he doesn't remember my name. He still remembers my sister's name, though...
I just now found Albedo, good. I have never read Cerberus, I just finished all of Bone. Better late than never. I found Usagi in the manga section at the library just as I had switched from a cat to a rabbit as my main character, I was crushed and thought I would have to start over. Then I decided that no one owned anthro rabbits, I would just have to stay away from the Samurai thing. The 4 part Rocket can be found on that awesome site you turned me onto, readcomiconline. Mayhap they have Cerebus as well, I will check into that. While violence is part of the comic thing, when I was reading Marvel and D.C. as a kid no one ever got killed. It took Heavy Metal to straighten me out! (not to mention that no one in mainstream comics ever stays dead, or at least the character will return, Tarantula is in his 4th or 5th avatar by now).
DeleteFunny how brain damage works like that. When dad was all but gone I once asked him about what a guitar 'pre-amp' was, he gave me a concise' dead on answer and then was back in outer space. Sorta like a boxer who when all but knocked out will flash back into form through instinct and hard wired programming, just ask Billy Conn about Joe Louis when he had the title all sewed up and tried to KO a dazed Joe in the 13th. All he had to do was run from Joe for 3 more rounds and the fight was his.
DeleteHave you had trouble with Blogger? They have changed their programming to my bitter rage and I am having to relearn how to do this. My loyal fans must be horrified - both of them.
DeleteFantastic art here-he looks like one tough bunny! The rabbits aren't always the victims or prey!
ReplyDeleteBlackjack sure does not let the bunny thing slow him down. He is a great character, I am surprised he did not at least get a cameo in the recent movies. Rocket is just as amoral and greedy but he seems to have more 'humanity', O'Hare has none. Maybe it's because the rabbit does not have a talking tree as his buddy.
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