Nick Fury in the Cold War.

• Author: Krayewski, Ed
• Position: Briefly Noted - Fury Max: My War Gone By - Brief article - Book review

Fury MAX: My War Gone By, a graphic novel written by Garth Ennis and illustrated by Goran Parlov, relmagines the Marvel superspy Colonel Nick Fury as a CIA agent operating not in a comic-book universe but in ours. Ennis tracks Fury's career from French Indochina to Cuba to Vietnam to Nicaragua, using the fictional but realistic Fury to trace the real and bloody history of the CIA.

Ennis provides a simple yet comprehensive description of the Cold War In one bit of dialogue: "Us and China and the Soviets, picking our lineups of third world...