A history of the Black Knights and the Ebony Blade? This is what happens when you don't get your first pick of research subjects. From 2014,
Original Sins #2, featuring "Black Legacy" Written by Frank Tieri, art by Raffaele Ienco, color art by Brad Anderson; "Hidden in Plain Sight, part 2 of 5" Written by Ryan North, art by Ramon Villalobos, color art by Jordan Gibson; and "Before Your Eyes" Story and art by Ty Templeton, colors by Paul Mounts.
I think I've even read at least part of the main
Original Sin miniseries, and I know part of the gimmick was the Watcher had been murdered, and his exploding eyes revealed a number of secrets. I'm not sure how far that effect went, since this issue it gets to the Black Knight and Howard the Duck. After a bit of excessive force on a D-grade villain, Dane has holed up in his apartment, as a historian tries to confront him with the increasing likelihood that he was going to succumb to the curse of the Ebony Blade. She knows it has him like a junkie, and probably even knows Dane is considering killing her as they speak. This predates the shortened series
Tieri would later write, although I think I like the art better here.
There was a five-part Young Avengers vs. the Hood serial, where I think the kids think they have Hood's number multiple times over the course of it, but he's slipperier than greased grease. And then a all-too-short Howard the Duck story, where even he gets shown an unpleasant truth from the Watcher's eye-splosion: that he might be one of the smartest beings in the universe. Or, at least he could've been. I think Templeton's written Howard more than once, and may have the best handle on the character since Gerber. (I'm not the biggest Howard fan, but I do still like that he's out there.)
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Idk if irony's the right word, maybe, but a random factoid like that IS pretty on brand for Howard. I never read much of his stuff either, beyond an odd issue here or there. I did read the last Howard story Gerber ever wrote for Marvel before he died. Good stuff and very timely at the time. Kinda' still holds up now though to be honest.
Ha ha, that psycho-killer pose by Dane...junkie is the correct term here after seeing that.
Mainly did NOT like Original Sin, because much like Identity Crisis, it poisoned & darkened the past for the sake of being hip and edgy, needlessly killing off both Uatu, Dum Dum Dugan, and essentially OG Nick Fury, all so Sam L Fury could replace him.
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