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Mar 26, 2008 · Garth Ennis: Hitman Interview. Writer Garth Ennis (The Boys, Preacher) talks about Hitman, one of his favorite comics to write, the creation of Tommy Monaghan and the odd assortment of...
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Today I get to sit down and talk to one of my favorite creators of all time! Garth Ennis. Joining us is Dynamite's Senior Editor Joseph Rybandt. We talk ab...
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Jun 25, 2022 · Fala fãs do Batman. E uma republicação aguardada pelos fãs chegou, Hitman por Garth Ennis e John McCrea é o novo lançamento da editora Panini Comics. Bora dar uma olhada no encadernado e ao...
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- Caverna do Morcego - O Universo do Batman
- First Appearances
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- Heroes, Super and Otherwise
- Greatest Hits
- Love and Death
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Tommy Monaghan first appeared in The Demon Annual #2, part of a crossover called 'Bloodlines' that ran through DC annuals in 1993. The crossover involved a group of alien parasites whose attacks sometimes created new metahumans from their victims. After appearing in a couple more issues of the Demon prior to that book's cancellation, Tommy made a g...
Nrama: Tell us a little about the origins of the Noonan's crew, and the whole Cauldron area in general. Ennis: Sean and Pat had already been established in The Demon, as surrogate father and brother figures to Tommy. Hacken was the comic relief idiot. Ringo was a nod to the aforementioned John Woo movies, a direct lift of the tragic gunman characte...
Nrama: What was your take on Tommy's relationship with superheroes? Most of them, such as Batman and Green Lantern, seem to exist mainly as Tommy's foils. As a writer, how did you view those characters? Ennis: Tommy saw them all as idiots, mostly walking bullet-magnets to be avoided like the plague. Occasionally they would be worthy of a little mor...
Nrama: 'Zombie Night at the Gotham Aquarium'is my personal favorite story from the series. How did that one come about? Ennis: A visit to the San Diego Aquarium in the summer of 1995. I was looking at some adorable baby seals, and it suddenly occurred to me: what if they were undead? Nrama: "Who Dares Wins' was a story you had been wanting to tell ...
Nrama: In a book called 'Hitman,' death is pretty much a given, but the book was unique in how often and how poignantly major characters died. How did you pace things out...did you always know who was going to die, and when, or was it just a case where the story demanded it? Ennis:I figured out pretty early on that everyone would eventually buy the...
Nrama: Did you always know how Hitman would end? The last issue feels very...inevitable. Ennis:I figured out that particular ending about halfway through the book's run. I knew what would happen, I just wasn't sure of the details Nrama: If you had been able to continue the book, how long do you feel it would have run? Ennis: Not much longer. Maybe ...
Nrama: Peter Tomasi, who helped edit the book throughout its entire run, is a writer these days. What was it like working with him? Ennis: It was a pleasure. Pete's smart, professional, civilized, a good friend. I wish him nothing but the best in his writing career. Nrama: There were only a few issues not drawn by John – some great artists, to be s...
Too bad he's Gotham City's most mediocre paid assassin. From Garth Ennis, the co-creator and writer of Preacher, comes this legendary title in a new recut graphic novel series. On the back streets of Gotham City, ex-military operative Tommy Monaghan has set himself up as a hired gun.
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Garth Ennis’s Hitman (1996-2001) 10 months after the cancellation of The Demon Vol. 3, Hitman was spun into his own ongoing series. The series was helmed by his creators, writer Garth Ennis and artist John McCrea.
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Hitman (Tommy Monaghan) is a character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by Garth Ennis and John McCrea and first appeared in The Demon Annual #2 before receiving his own series by Ennis and McCrea that ran for 61 issues.
