Heroes for Hire Appreciation 2020

[your_name_here]

Another example of breaking the fourth wall (house ad featuring PM/IF):

I loved these.

[Ying Ko]

Kerry Gammill was just perfect for the book, and losing him was like losing Davis from Excalibur

Exactly. Talk about a jarring transition, to Cowan. Who of course later was perfect for The Question, but not so much for this particular book.

[taozen]

Maybe my favorite panel for one of the Heroes for Hire series just because it has Shang and Fist doing their kung fu think.

[taozen]

[From The Shadows]

Another example of breaking the fourth wall (house ad featuring PM/IF):

Haha! I loved these ads!

[your_name_here]

Would love to see an ongoing series with these two. Right amount of comedy mixed with the right amount of heart.

[Ying Ko]

Would love to see an ongoing series with these two. Right amount of comedy mixed with the right amount of heart.

It would need to have a quality creative team. I mean, the cartoon art in that last attempt was so bad that anyone could tell the book would get cancelled quickly.

[Steel Inquisitor]

Ostrander's run got me in Heroes for Hire. One day I need to read the other runs.



Marvel needs to bring back Ostrander's White Tiger, she was great.

[your_name_here]

It would need to have a quality creative team. I mean, the cartoon art in that last attempt was so bad that anyone could tell the book would get cancelled quickly.

Who would you have?

[Ying Ko]

Who would you have?

I don't know. In my dream world they'd steal Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis from DC to create a nice 50+ issue run, haha.

[Pav]

I've been playing the newly released -- and absolutely fantastic -- Streets of Rage 4, and when I realized how much Adam resembles Luke, it hit me that a side-scrolling beat 'em up Heroes for Hire game would be so cool.

Make Luke, Danny, Colleen, and Misty the main characters, and then maybe have some unlockable ones like Shang Chi, Paladin, etc.

-Pav, who wants to throw an iron fist himself...

[Panic]

Three pages from Power Man and Iron Fist #74 showing the Duffy/Gammill team in their prime. Between the writer and penciler the chemistry achieved between Luke and Danny was hard to beat.


Duffy never seemed to favour one hero over the other, and the humour worked without spoofing the characters or the concept, something modern writers often get wrong, imo. It was a pretty wonderful book in its prime.

[Ying Ko]

Issue #74 might be the the best single issue in the whole series. Other standouts would be #60, 75 and 77.

But really, any issue from the Duffy/Gammill run is pretty good.

[Panic]

I don't know. In my dream world they'd steal Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis from DC to create a nice 50+ issue run, haha.

Alan Davis would be good, though he doesn't work much anymore.

[dkrook]

Three pages from Power Man and Iron Fist #74 showing the Duffy/Gammill team in their prime. Between the writer and penciler the chemistry achieved between Luke and Danny was hard to beat.


Duffy never seemed to favour one hero over the other, and the humour worked without spoofing the characters or the concept, something modern writers often get wrong, imo. It was a pretty wonderful book in its prime.

YES...! Agreed the two of them are moving and operating in perfect synergy. I hate when some writers have played Cage to be some kind of muscle head that jive talks. The dude is very smart and when the dialogue comes correct you will see this played out by Danny's responses and interactions.