1. Daylight.
2. Wooden Stakes.
3. Garlic.
4. Holy Symbols
5. TOMMY MONAGHAN.
From the sadly uncollected HITMAN #37, in which vampires attack a ruined Gotham City and subsequently regret it.
1. Daylight.
2. Wooden Stakes.
3. Garlic.
4. Holy Symbols
5. TOMMY MONAGHAN.
From the sadly uncollected HITMAN #37, in which vampires attack a ruined Gotham City and subsequently regret it.
With scenes like this and the Hellblazer story with the King of The Vampires,I can’t decide if Garth Ennis really loves or really hates vampires…
Tommy Monaghan. A Gotham hood who brought it every time.
His bloody life and times will live forever in the hallowed walls of Noonan’s Sleazy Bar.
My one regret is that he never got a chance to cross over with Marvel and do to Wolverine what he did to Lobo. Well, there was that one Ennis Punisher story, but can you imagine what Bueno Excllente would have done to Logan?
LaRue, I was just going to bring that up. Ennis doesn’t ever let vampires die peacefully, does he?
I do love that Hellblazer scene.
KING OF THE FRIGGIN’ VAMPIRES!
And don’t forget that Anne Rice wannabe wanker in the Cassidy one-shot. I don’t think Ennis hates vampires. I just think he sees the comedy in them.
Stupid DC and their stupid lack of Hitman trades…
Does that really count as a weakness for Vampires though? Cause Tommy can pretty much kick the asses of most things, its not really a specific vampire thing- I mean compared with how sunlight, garlic and holy symbols dont do much harm to most other creatures. Of course wooden stakes through the heart would kill other things too obviously, but its an `as opposed to other things through the heart’ vampire specific weakness there. Wait, I’m overthinking this, arent I?
Yes, you are overthinking this. If you’ll consider that a stake through the heart can kill most things too.
Forgot about that one. I remember that it ended with the Cauldron gang tearing down the vamps’ nest, and they wound up getting killed that way. Also, I never knew Garth Ennis was a Monty Python fan. It’s the “HOP! HOP!” sound effects that’s the icing on the cake.
The fact that all of Hitman isn’t collected in trade is proof that DC comics hates me AND SPECIFICALLY ME.
Man, Garth Ennis sure seems to be writing comics specifically for me.
If I’m a vampire, I’m taking my chances with the whole stake-through-the-heart thing before I ever even DREAM of setting foot in the Cauldron. Tommy beat dinosaurs. Dinosaurs.
I still miss the hell out of Hitman.
Thanks, Chris. That’s one of my absolute favorite Hitman bits.
Particularly because Ennis builds this particular vampire up as (a) menacing and (b) a complete scumbag child-killer, before having Tommy and Nat whack him.
If a Hitman omnibus was released I’d buy it in a heartbeat.
Aren’t the vamps in this the surviving friends of the “King of the Vampires” from Ennis’ Hellblazer story? I haven’t read it in forever, since I gave away my singles in anticipation of more trades after Where Eagles Dare…
Ha! Jokes on me…
Zombie Night at the Gotham Aquarium.
ZOMBIE NIGHT AT THE GOTHAM AQUARIUM.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, POST SOME SCENES FROM ZOMBIE NIGHT AT THE GOTHAM AQUARIUM!
I wish this same thing would happen to whoever it is at DC that keeps saying “no” to producing the entire Hitman series in collections.
Same guy who keeps stoplighting the Sugar & Spike Showcase, I assume.
Y’know, I’ve often wondered, when Bruce got his spine broken and needed a replacemnt, why didn’t he just pay Tommy to keep an eye on Gotham? I mean, it couldn’t have worked out much worse than the whole Azrael thing did in the long run. And I’m sure he’d have been just as good at hucking car batteries around…
I am Baytor!
Tommy Monoghan: Master of Shotgun Fu.
Still Ennis’ best work, and my second favorite comic book series ever.
Heh. I believe that not only the hopping, but some of the vamp’s dialogue, was directly from Holy Grail.
Of course, another vampire weakness in most versions is decapitation, which can be accomplished quite nicely with a shotgun as well. Guess Tommy didn’t feel like being that merciful…
“Y’know, I’ve often wondered, when Bruce got his spine broken and needed a replacemnt, why didn’t he just pay Tommy to keep an eye on Gotham?”
Timing. Tommy was “just” a hitman when Bane attacked, and wasn’t given superpowers until after Azrael had already become Batman. And Batman wouldn’t even MEET Tommy until the Contagion plague a few years later.
What? I’m allowed to know that.
Zombie Night at the Gotham Aquarium.
Did it a while back.
Decapitation is usually a *post-mortem* vampire treatment, though – to prevent them from being resurrected somehow *after* killing them with the stake through the heart/sunlight/running water/whatever method. Specifically, if I remember my Monster Manual right, cut off the vampire’s head and stuff holy wafers in its mouth. (Which, come to think of it, wouldn’t that be kind of blasphemous if you believe in transubstantiation? D&D isn’t Catholic, though, so I guess that’s OK….)
“The fact that all of Hitman isn’t collected in trade is proof that DC comics hates me AND SPECIFICALLY ME.”
Well, you do have a spectacularly unsympathetic name, even if it is admirable that you overcame it to earn that doctorate.
All of this stuff about DC hating money and joy reminds me of a running joke I had with a friend of mine that there was someone working at DC who hated him and made publishing decisions just to torture him. That Dan Didio may very well be that guy served as the capper for that. Well that and I never talk to the guy anymore.
Proof that Garth Ennis is a genius and Hitman needs to be collected and reprinted, in two words:
“Bueno Excellente.”
A member of the loser team “Six Pack.” A well-mustachioed man. And, most importantly, a superhero whose power is…Super-Buggery.
Best character since Batroc? Without a doubt. Better even than Zee Leapair? Perhaps so. Perhaps so.
Heh heh…Bueno.
“WAAGGGHHH!!”
Isn’t that Howard the Duck’s catchphrase?
“It’s only a flesh wound!”
dosen’t Hitmen have Dog-Welder? i need to find this
and i love Cassidy and that whole Anne Rice thing. damn. Cassidy is Spike if Spike hadn’t gotten lame
All I can say is that Hitman will finally be Clixed next week, and he shall be on all of my teams. It shall be GLORIOUS.
the above post made me curious about this marvelous thing.
I just checked, and yes, it is Tommy. But they think they can contain his awesomeness in just 61 points.
that reminded me of Constantine’s last run in with the Lord of Vampires only more alcohol was used that time
more alcohol, and much more urine.
A member of the loser team “Six Pack.â€
Bueno Excellente was a member of Section Eight, a super-team led by Sixpack. Get it right man, these things are important!
Thanks for bringing some attention to my all-time favourite series. Tommy damn Monaghan…
While I agree that Section Eight is perhaps the greatest superhero team ever assembled, my personal favorite part of the team – and the best vehicle I have yet found for explaining the team’s total awesomeness to other people – was Dogwelder.
“And then there’s Dogwelder.”
“Wait, what? What does he do?”
“Exactly what the name says. He welds dogs to people.”
“… do you have some issues I could borrow?”
..
It’s a GOOD thing.
..
“Timing. Tommy was “just†a hitman when Bane attacked, and wasn’t given superpowers until after Azrael had already become Batman. And Batman wouldn’t even MEET Tommy until the Contagion plague a few years later.
What? I’m allowed to know that.”
Dang, there’s that plan out the window. Never could remember my “Big Event” sequencing.
Unless…a future Bruce had a retroactive change of heart, decided that Azrael really was as bad as he was, and sent Tommy back to whack him and take over the job. And as long as we’re doing time travel and retcon wetwork anyway, maybe Jonah Hex could come along for the ride. He and Tommy would make a good team.
“Man shouldn’t ought to dress like a penguin, Tommy.”
“You’re preaching to the choir, Jonah. Let’s just shoot him and be done with it.”
Well, it’s a beautiful dream, anyway…
Wait, wait…Super-Buggery?
Wow! Karate Kid vs. Bueno Excellente!
Super Karate vs. Super Buggery!
Fight!
“Exactly what the name says. He welds dogs to people.â€
I do actually have one problem with that… what did the poor dogs do to deserve it? I’m looking at my dog right now, and even though he just stole a chunk of garlic bread from me, I’d have to borrow Tommy’s shotgun if Dogwelder tried to weld him to… well, anybody.
Yes, I just said I’d use deadly force on a human being to defend my dog. What?
Sounds like you need a good old fashioned dogwelding.
What? There’s such a thing as new-fangled dogwelding?
Huh. Learn something new every day.
Dogwelder didn’t kill the dogs. He gave already-dead dogs a higher purpose.
“Dogwelder didn’t kill the dogs. He gave already-dead dogs a higher purpose.”
Ah – now that you’ve clarified that point, I can be firmly in Tommy and Dogwelder’s camp with a clear conscience.