Saturday, October 24, 2015

Let's Kill Hitler: Midnight, and the kitties are sleeping


In our initial Let's Kill Hitler post (and if there's a phrase that's gonna give me some weird-ass Google referrals, that's it), we saw that Midnighter wouldn't kill Baby Hitler.


Panel from Midnighter (2007 series) #2 (February 2007), script by Garth Ennis, pencils by Chris Sprouse, inks by Karl Story, colors by Randy Mayor, letters by Phil Balsman

But here's the question we've all been asking ourselves on the comicsblogosphere: would Midnighter kill the Adult Hitler?



Panels from Midnighter (2007 series) #1 (January 2007), script by Garth Ennis, pencils by Chris Sprouse, inks by Karl Story, colors by Randy Mayor, letters by Phil Balsman

So, of course, time travel back to World War I, naturally:



Panels from Midnighter #2

And typically, time cops arrive to stop him.




Panels from Midnighter (2007 series) #3 (March 2007); script by Garth Ennis, pencils by Chris Sprouse and Joe Phillips; inks by Jasen Rodriguez, Scott Williams, and Saleem Crawford; colors by Wildstorm FX

Obviously then, they fight a lot and then get zapped to Berlin, April 1945:


So, you can probably then guess the end of the story.


Panel from Midnighter (2007 series) #4 (April 2007), script by Garth Ennis, pencils and inks by Peter Snejbjerg, colors by Randy Mayor, letters by Phil Balsman

Is it bad that I don't find the fact that Midnighter didn't actually kill Hitler in the story as distressing as the fact that they couldn't keep the same penciller on the book for four straight issues?

So anyway, did Midnighter kill Hitler?


Busted: He had opportunity in two time historical periods. But he didn't.

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