Today in Comics History: Midnighter regrets hooking up on Grindr with Jason Bourne

Panel from Midnighter (2015 series) #7 (February 2016), script by Steve Orlando, pencils and inks by Hugo Petrus, colors by Rómulo Fajardo Jr., letters by Tom Napolitano

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.

Let's Kill Hitler

Hey, the New York Times would like to know if you (yes, you) would kill Baby Hitler? Well, wouldja? (As opposed to say, just punching Adult Hitler.)


I imagine after they decided 'let's poll everyone to see if they'd kill Baby Hitler,' it wasn't that far a leap to making the infographic look like a rattle. I'm betting that at one point during the design process, that rattle had a toothbrush mustache.

Anyway, would you kill Baby Hitler? Booster Gold wouldn't!


Panels from Booster Gold (2007 series) #25 (December 2009), script and pencils by Dan Jurgens, inks by Norm Rapmund, colors by Hi-Fi, letters by Travis Lanham
Even Midnighter (The Batman from Another Universe, Who's Now in the Same Universe As Batman So Why Bother, Really?™) 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
We've established that heroes and anti-heroes wouldn't kill Baby Hitler (the vote is still out on, say, the Punisher or Wolverine), but would comic book characters kill adult Hitler?

Well, let's find out today, all day, on Let's Kill Hitler!