An oddball match up this time around to be sure, but I don't think that Wilson Fisk is the type to back down from any hero. Ray Palmer's may have incredible abilities, but the Kingpin's resources are vast, there might be a fun battle to witness here.
That re-coloring of Ray's costume is incredible. That blue- reddish black look really kills it as a superhero and spy type. Fisk gets his own way on lots of things but he should have no way to touch Ray unless he traps the phone lines.
ReplyDeleteIndeed, Ray Palmer's my have incredible abilities. ;)
ReplyDeleteAS I recall, Kingpin didn't have too much fun when Spidey took the kid gloves off, during that now-classic prison bout, following the critical wounding of Aunt May by a sniper's bullet. That's when Fisk finally learned that it was not so much his sumo wrestling skills that gave Spidey such a hard time, the first time they fought, mano-a-mano. It was Spidey trying not to become a bigger Nietzschean monster than the one he was fighting!
ReplyDeleteNope! Kingpin realized that, without Spidey's sense of moral self-restraint, it would be all too easy for the webslinger to (as David "Chronos" Clinton might put it) clean his clock.
May Parker: "Mr. Fisk? Don't make my nephew angry. You wouldn't like him when he's angry."
ReplyDelete"Under my nose"... maybe even literally!
ReplyDelete@Anon@8:40: I would love, some time, to see Banner himself (ideally, the MCU version) give someone that warning, in the third person, not with a sense of ominousness but rather with concern and maybe a little fear. ("I'm just saying, if he loses his temper, it's out of my hands. I can't help you out.")
Ross, I'm a little surprised you didn't use the Golden Age Atom here. I know you're a big fan of his, and he seems the type to match up better with Kingpin, being a non-powered, two-fisted type and all. Good work either way, of course!
ReplyDeleteAl Pratt was too big to fit on the table.
ReplyDelete@Ben W: besides which, Al was preoccupied rescuing Thor back at STF #3849.
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