I'm skipping the mediocre and shitty Wolfman Issues. Here's a tldr of what you missed
>Adrian Chase's wife and son were killed by the mob >He goes to the mountains to train or some shit *by this point of the run I was just rushing to get to Kupperberg's issues* >He comes back ready to *correct* the lapses in the US Justice System >He has a guy in the chair who does his tech stuff, and a woman in the team because all teams have women. >Some mediocre Daredevil-w-Guns Stories happens >Cyborg appears in an issue >YaddaYaddaYadda, his guy in the chair gets killed, the woman leaves the theam >He's a judge now for some reason >Also he has a recurring antagonist called the Electrocutioner who's like Punisher but he has Electric Hands and not guns.
Now you're caught up!
We're actually not starting with Kupperberg's run. Gil Kane's brief stint with Wolfman is really where they finally start *getting* what made good Daredevil stories great and finally applied it to Vigilante.
Around this time is really where they realize I guess that the few Vigilante issues Wolfman did that did work where the ones where Vigilante was being terrible at his job or having personal dilemmas over what he was doing.
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Yeah, I'm pretty much just storytiming these particular issues because I was surprised how much I liked Gil Kane here. Mainly because I'm coming out of Spider-Man thinking how inferior he was to Romnita.
>He comes back ready to *correct* the lapses in the US Justice System I always hated how Vigilante and characters like him always claim that the problem with the US justice system is that criminals have "too many rights" when in the real world it's the exact opposite.
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The first real Kupperberg credited Vig story.
It's not a really good jumping on point (IE; Marcia is referenced here but first-time readers would have no idea who she is) but it's still a good story.
Yeah. Anyway these are written by capeshitters so you don't really get any more nuance than that.
At least issue related started challenging the idea that cops are all knowing arbiters of justices. There were glimpses of that in the 2nd Gil Kane issue but not to the degree we see here, these cops are no good.
I haven't finished reading the entire run yet but I wonder if that gets explored further.
Yeah, Vigilante started out as a vigilante that only went after criminals who "got off on a technicality" as if that were something that happened all the time, if anything it just means that Adrian Chase was a terrible prosecutor who constantly ignored due process and was then surprised when there were consequences. Later writers realized how limited this was and made him into Punisher-lite, which is a better direction.
