The narrative pauses for an eightpage mini comic about benedict arnold, the notorious traitor. The catchup comic tells the back story behind the mercenaries never ending. Among the more commonplace comic book names like batman, xmen or the avengers, its sometimes easy to forget that there are a slew of comic books and graphic novels based off of video games. Canonically, its being run by a burly, fearless adventurer named saxton hale, who serves as a catalyst for many of the teams conundrums. References comics, accessed march 30, 2019 valve presents. In the games storyline, the teams are composed of mercenaries hired by two feuding brothers to protect the company assets belonging to one brother while trying to destroy those of the other. Sacrificing the lives of our mercinaries, using redmond and blutarchs glavel war against them, and possibly drugging the. Gray mann is founder and chief executive officer of gray gravel company and the third son of zepheniah mann. A fate worse than chess is a comic released august, 2012, as part of the mann vs. Sure, injustice is technically based off of a video game though its also based on comic book characters. Saxton hale s mail storm had its first and only issue published in march 1964 to help explain the new federal recall of all 36 million gold coasttweed personal apple corers, due to their tendency to not only core apples, but fingers, lamps, and small furry animals. Fun fact topic team fortress 2 message board for pc. Spoilers follow for infamous, assassins creed iii, and left 4 dead 2.
Saxton hale is a character from team fortress 2 as a side character in the comics as well as being a boss fight in the custom versus saxton hale mode. A reddit for fans of comic books, graphic novels, and digital comics. Combatants who made their first appearance in comic books, or have appeared in comics e. The red team can use saxton hale armed with his fists and is hard to take down and the c. Fanon ideas so far saxton hale vs mettaton, saxton hale vs mike haggar complete, galactaks season 1 winners battle royale complete. A fate worse than chess official tf2 wiki official team fortress. In 1957, a young saxton hale and his girlfriend mags were. But after capturing the tf2 mercs and miss pauling for integration on the administrators whereabouts, the tfc. Team fortress 2 nonplayer characters characters tv tropes. Sometimes it just feels like the tf2 mercs are more akin to a bunch of time honored friends that we all grew up with rather than just a bunch of video game characters. Fanon wiki ideas so far saxton hale vs merasmus, saxton hale vs mike haggar, saxton hale vs segata sanshiro, saxton.
Saxton hale is an antagonist featured in team fortress 2 saxton hale is a daring australian, president, and ceo of mann co. Since his first appearance, saxton hale has appeared in several other tf2 updates, and has even appeared in the first tf2 comic. Saxton hale is a daring australian, president, and ceo of mann co. It is the sequel to the 1996 mod team fortress for quake and its 1999 remake, team fortress classic. After zepheniah mann purchased the badlands and passed the land down onto his two sons, blutarch and redmond, in his testament, the two hired nine mercenaries each and founded the. When my dad was growing up this ad and ones like it would be in the back of comic books. Saxton hale is a fictional character who is part of the team fortress 2 universe. Saxton hale vs merasmus death battle fanon wiki fandom. My players of games are also readers of books of all kinds. Dark horse comics is the thirdlargest comics publisher in the u. The sacrifice and other steampowered stories volume 1 hardback version from dark horse books. He also refuses to wear clothes on his upper body for obvious reasons. At the time, saxton hale was a oneshot gag, but later proved popular with the community and became a notable figure related to team fortress 2.
He could speak perfectly by the time he was born, but was the weakest physically. Try saxton hale s newest brand of comical printed books, guaranteed 110% to keep those pesky wimps at bay. If you read the comic and click on the part were saxton hale says monkey, it opens a new screen. Vs saxton hale mode is a fanmade game mode for team fortress 2, created by dr.
Shannon hale is an american novelist and young adult fantasy writer, best known for her rewarded books the goose girl and princess academy. The sacrifice and other steampowered stories official. May not actually keep alligators, sharks or giant enemy crabs at bay. The comic book franchise is titled saxton hale s thrilling tales. If were going to talk saxton hale, then youve gotta include this page. Jan 14, 2017 the day is then saved by saxton hale, whose adventure comic persona always elicits a laugh, and through a series of gorgeous splash pages, we see saxton help the team to take down their metal enemies. Saxton hale comic books by war on fri oct 30, 2009 10. Saxton hale is a character from the video game, team fortress 2. The muscular manly man decided to go digging for gold, and well, once again his employees are being forced to deal with the consequences. Eggman and the random fortress community vs saxton hale pits the red team against saxton hale, a single, player controlled enemy with the ability to onehit kill and super jump.
Team fortress 2 celebrates free comic book day with a. The sacrifice and other steampowered stories, dark horse comics. To celebrate, a new team fortress 2 comic is out, reminding us that every day is free comic book day for saxton hale. He is a brawny muscular australian with a hairy chest, tight fitting shorts, and a hat who is seen shirtless in an excerpt in a catalog that the spy orders spy gadgetry from. His identifying features include a mustache, rippling muscles, a crocodiletooth lined hat, and a patch of rotating chest hair shaped like australia.
Hale himself and an allaround man among men whose favorite pastimes include fighting, drinking and battling with rare and ferocious animals. In here an idea can be seen for a new weapon, a bugle. Saxton hale is the rugged australian ceo of mann co. The sacrifice and other steampowered stories, with introduction by saxton hale, then ceo of mann co. Ranging from several issue arcs where the team has to reunite after dispersing to the far corners of the earth, to small newspaper comic like oneshots denoting the true meaning of australian christmas. Sacrificing the lives of our mercinaries, using redmond and blutarchs glavel war against them, and possibly drugging the innocent with. Saxton s shtick is his ability to perform great leaps can jump dozens of meters into the air with ease always scores a perfect landing, even if its from an airplane 4th wall awareness knows when hes in a comic book and can go as far as to change the scenario completely. He is also a side character in the comics, as well as being a boss in the custom versus saxton hale mode of tf2. A playstation 3 version followed in december 2007 when the orange box was ported to.
Team fortress 2 celebrates free comic book day with a quick. Character year 2009 origin team fortress 2 tags team fortress 2, tf2, saxton hale, character, chuck norris additional references twitter urban dictionary wikipedia about. Identifying features include his exceptional moustache, rippling muscles, crocodiletooth lined hat and a patch of chest. They contain one of my favourite comic book characters, saxton hale helen you chain smoking seductress. Judith saxton has 42 books on goodreads with 5335 ratings. And saxton hale was created specifically for this comic. He wont be in the story that much, and as funny as it would be for saxton hale to own jw, i thought it would be too weird for the people who. And with his famous last words, nathan hale, spy for the american war of. He serves as the secondary antagonist of the comic series. Tf2forsaken comic chapter 1 freshsalad team fortress.
Due to his muscular stature and overlymanly character, he has developed a following online. For team fortress 2 on the pc, a gamefaqs message board topic titled fun fact topic. Saxton hale is a character from the online fps game team fortress 2. Saxton hale is the former president and chief executive officer of mann co. Not much of a visual aspect to this comic, seeing as its more of a newspaper advertisement, but these comics had to start somewhere. Do you still like steak dinners and sex with handsome men. I dont know if any of you have thought about this, but i was curious as to what your favourite comic book sound effects were. Mod hale vs toph mod hale is the same as book hale but can jump very high and paralyze people with his voice every so often edit.
Today i found the original ad that the insult was based off of. Saxton hale blog dark horse comics dark horse comics. Books by judith saxton author of first love, last love. The day is then saved by saxton hale, whose adventure comic persona always elicits a laugh, and through a series of gorgeous splash pages, we see saxton help the team to. He is the ceo of mann company, which is the company responsible for delivering weapons and cosmetics to the teufort nine. Saxton hale vs toph beifong no thread found this is assuming saxton has gotten over his inability to hurt little girls. Newcomers to the series are given enough context in the first few pages to figure out the dynamic among the provost, hangman, and hale and will soon feel in on the jokes in the meta commentary. The company is currently run by olivia mann after beating saxton hale in a fight for the company. The mayor of the earth vs the ceo of australiafight is in metro cityboth unarmed. The longest story might only be 12 pages, but every single one offered is a laugh riot, especially the filler material between each story detailing the adventures of saxton hale. Saxton hale game mod where one player plays as hale himself and not only has incredible amounts of health, but also capable of leaping tall buildings in a single bound, onehit kos the opposing characters, and has a stun yell so manly it not only. The smallest of the three mann brothers, gray was also the most intelligent of the three. Saxton hale doesnt even put down his tea when he goes in battle.
The magazine he appears in are apparently weapons catalogs comic books for his own company, mann co. I like this voice better because its more like a cheesy comic book hero kind of voice. Saxton hale is a side, yet important, character appearing in team fortress 2s comic books. Over the years, the comics have spawned ancillary characters, then assistants to the ancillary characters. Companies mentioned in passing became global empires three generations old. She had four siblings, two older sisters, and a younger sister and brother. And brave press and a bold new plan saxton hale uses this trope a lot. Initially considered as the sixth richest man in america, saxton hale rose to become fourth by increasing his wealth further beyond fifth and eliminated the fourth by killing him in a harpoon duel. Identifying features include his exceptional moustache, trademark shirtlessness, rippling muscles, crocodile.
This is a win win win and really no sacrifice at all. On page 5 of his comic, people have discovered a magic secret page that points to a page full of some more vintage comic book spoof ads. Judith saxtons most popular book is first love, last love. In the tf2 universe, hes the manly swashbuckling star of his own series of comic books. And where better to start than with ol saxton hale. It was released as part of the video game bundle the orange box in october 2007 for microsoft windows and the xbox 360. Team fortress classic mercenaries are originally playable characters in the game team fortress classic, but now serve as the major antagonists in the tf2 comics. Ukcs mega game servers view topic saxton hale comic books. Saxton hale s thrilling tales first arrived on newsstands in 1961 as part of a bold mann co.
The muscular manly man decided to go digging for gold, and well, once again. That kind of kills the traditional comic book feel and gives the impression that it. Disgusted by how he could talk, zepheniah mann was going. Saxton hale interrupts the comic, announcing his new way to tell stories. But as the updates got more ambitious, we found the perfect way to explore the mercs world. Mcninja was waged and only one man was left standing, brushing the dust off his naked, naked shoulder. Frustrated, sniper orders saxton hale jarate pills from a magazine that triple the size of his kidneys, as well as saxton hale pain tonic that numbs him to the pain as his organs shut down. Shannon hale was born in the year of 1974 on january 26th in salt lake city in the state of utah. Saxton hale is an antagonist featured in team fortress 2. Saxton hale describes team fortress 2 as a dramatized documentary game based off of the events that have transpired in the comics universe. Saxton hale official tf2 wiki official team fortress wiki. Unfortunately, the yeti only appears in the comics, not in. In team fortress 2, two teams compete for a combatbased objective. Although jamming the comical printed book into the attackers jaw may prevent this, tf industries does not offer refunds for any damages caused by this.
Ownership has been handed over to close friend and hunter barnabas hale, as stated in zepheniah manns last will and testament. Team fortress 2 is a multiplayer firstperson shooter game developed and published by valve. To compensate for this, most of the red teams weapons are modified to be more powerful or versatile. Oct 25, 2011 dark horse comics is the thirdlargest comics publisher in the u. The comic was developed as a plot builder for the war. If saxton hale says that property damage is a sound effect, it is a sound effect. Published by amulet books, 2012 recommended for grades 58 i regret that i have but one life to live for my country. Saxton moore is the author of rooms of halloween 3. The tfc mercs were hired by gray mann to seek out the administrator and retrieve the australium she stole from mann co.
These comics really capture the badassery of saxton hale, especially the second one the. The mercenaries of red are forced to embark on a dangerous journey to help miss pauling and bidwell, across a zombiedotted landscape, after saxton hale unleashes a curse on the land. The insult that made a jarate master out of sniper marked the first appearance of saxton hale. I know it can be hard to think of sounds to use in your own comics sometimes, so i wondered if there were any yall really liked. Team fortress classic mercenaries villains wiki fandom. Round 5 fight comes to a close we celebrate the manliest of men. Comics official tf2 wiki official team fortress wiki. Sep 25, 2012 nathan hales hazardous tales by nathan hale vol.