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Especially when everyone knows it's Spider-Man with the death sperm.
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Doc Hawkins posted:I really don't get why some people seem to find the idea of Superman killing women with his death-sperm really appealing. You haven't been on the internet long, have you.
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RiotGearEpsilon posted:Wait, so what's the story with Beyonders and Nextwave?  It turned out later on that the Nextwave team were the only ones who remembered tearing across the country, leveling small towns and killing hundreds of people. In a Secret Wars tie in they found out the Beyond Corporation was back and actually run by the Beyonders, which was where all this bizarre poo poo they had to deal with came from. They were just messing with Nextwave because it amused them. Blue Marvel and his mad scientist son re-purpose the bad guys' portal to get help from his other son, stuck in the neutral zone, and he throws them out of reality. Then Doom blows up everything, but at least Spectrum has stopped feeling sorry for herself.
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Doc Hawkins posted:I really don't get why some people seem to find the idea of Superman killing women with his death-sperm really appealing. Timg'd for  -adjacency:
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Apr 1, 2017 21:20
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Thanks Garth Ennis
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God, Garth Ennis sucks.
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wiegieman posted:It turned out later on that the Nextwave team were the only ones who remembered tearing across the country, leveling small towns and killing hundreds of people. No: I remember too. 
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Apr 1, 2017 23:07
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Sometimes I remember that I need to read Mouse Guard already.
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Roth posted:Thanks Garth Ennis
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It was also strongly implied in Superman 2 that bedroom incompatibility was the reason Superman couldn't be with Lois without turning human. That's almost certainly the reason for the mainstream idea of "man of steel, woman of kleenex".Android Blues posted:God, Garth Ennis sucks. This can never be said enough.
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Apr 2, 2017 00:03
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I thought it was mallrats
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As one of the three Northern Irishmen on SA I officially apologize for Garth Ennis. He's not going away though. After this RHI business we need all the money we can get.prefect posted:Timg'd for Is that Amanda Conner on art? Maybe I'm going nuts.
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Nilbop posted:As one of the three Northern Irishmen on SA I officially apologize for Garth Ennis. He's not going away though. After this RHI business we need all the money we can get.
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Apr 2, 2017 01:23
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Bah. I think Garth Ennis is a funny guy. You're all a bunch of sourpusses. 
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Ennis has his ups and downs, it's just his downs are pretty far down in the gutter
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Rhaka posted:Sometimes I remember that I need to read Mouse Guard already. HOLY poo poo. It's like Redwall on steroids.
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site posted:I thought it was mallrats Funny anecdote about this, Kevin Smith was approached about writing a script for a Supes movie for exactly this reason, the dialogue about Supes and his super sperm.
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Rhaka posted:Sometimes I remember that I need to read Mouse Guard already. Not a panel, but your post reminded me of this and it's awesome: 
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Android Blues posted:God, Garth Ennis sucks. Yeah, pretty much.
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I want to like Ennis, I really do. But he just so often ends up feeling like the little kid proud of himself for writing a naughty word on the blackboard, and it just gets tiring.
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Rhaka posted:Sometimes I remember that I need to read Mouse Guard already. I've been reading Mouse Guard to my toddler. We've finished the Fall and Winter books (that owl fight is in Winter) and are partially through both The Black Axe and Baldwin the Brave. It's a little dark at spots, like that img, but overall it's pretty awesome. A well fleshed out world with great art and distinctive characters. And smart mice fighting predators in epic fashion is pretty drat cool.
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Choco1980 posted:I want to like Ennis, I really do. But he just so often ends up feeling like the little kid proud of himself for writing a naughty word on the blackboard, and it just gets tiring. I am generally a big fan of Garth Ennis, and even I don't really care for his work that tries to deliberately be comedy or parody. All of that praise he caught for the audacity of Preacher didn't do him any favors in the long run. I try to stick to his other fiction.
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Ennis' Hellblazer is the definitive run on the character.
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His Punisher run too.Honestly avoid anything superhero related he's done and you'll be fine.
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David D. Davidson posted:His Punisher run too.Honestly avoid anything superhero related he's done and you'll be fine. I like The Thousand.
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David D. Davidson posted:His Punisher run too.Honestly avoid anything superhero related he's done and you'll be fine. With one notable exception: Hitman. The series lies smack-dab in the middle of DC's Gotham, and while it makes Green Lantern and Batman look like chumps, it also includes a phenomenal depiction of Superman.
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"What an unbelievably cool guy."
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Skwirl posted:Ennis' Hellblazer is the definitive run on the character. It's good, but I think Jamie Delano got Constantine's voice better than any other writer. To me, Ennis' John Constantine sounded like pretty much every other Garth Ennis protagonist, just even more british than usual. Skwirl posted:I like The Thousand. I don't.
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The Pro was pretty fun for what it was & much better for Amanda Connor's art. It feels a lot worse in retrospect since Ennis went on to do the pro nine more times for some reason.
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I'd like his humor more if it didn't so often feel like it was predicated on picking on characters for not being tough-heeled macho men. I mostly really liked his Hitman/JLA thing but the bit about Kyle Raynar getting raped really struck a sour note. Similarly, I reread part of his Marvel Knights Punisher run this weekend and found it a lot more uncomfortable than I did when it first came out. Detective Soap is kind of just trampled over for not being hard enough on crime, and this extends to him pissing his pants, putting a gun to his head, and loving a woman who's implied to be his sister. Ha... ha...? That sure shows him for not unconditionally agreeing with The Big Good Boy, Frank Castle. I guess it's hard not to read these scenes today in light of his first arc of Crossed (which I believe is the last Ennis I read): he seems to think that the world is a hard and cruel place, but that's a good thing, and that people too sensitive or not "masculine" enough are destined to be humiliated and punished by it, and that's hysterically funny because everyone around them secretly hates them anyway. I mean, look-- The Boys prominently featured a dog that raped people and this was all generally framed as an instrument of karmic and comedic justice. That's just not a world-view I can play along with. Maybe I'm just bitter because I know I'd last two pages in a Garth Ennis comic before a grizzled man in a black trenchchoat knee-capped me for vague reasons. That being said he has really great comic timing, and I think he generally has a rare knack for knowing what kinds of jokes his collaborators will best be able to land. That bit from The Pro that was just posted isn't very funny or original, but Amanda Conner kind of nails it.
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I'd always heard that Ennis' Punisher was the definitive run so when it was on a big digital sale I got the whole thing. Tons of racism and sexism and just stuff that rubs me the wrong way, I never ended up finishing it. I get that "it's the bad guys saying it, they're supposed to be bad" but I'd still rather not subject myself to that kind of stuff, there's too much of it irl anyway.
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Yeah so in summaryAndroid Blues posted:God, Garth Ennis sucks.
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I keep on confusing Garth Ennis and Warren Ellis.
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It's because they're actually the same person. It's the opposite of Mark Millar who's actually just 3 kids in a trench coat.
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If Mark Millar licks goats, what does Garth Ennis do?
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Tasteful Dickpic posted:If Mark Millar licks goats, what does Garth Ennis do? 
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The Wesley Gibson wiki page is amazingly terribly written. Go read it, you'll have fun. An excerpt:Some sixteen-year-old posted:He started with target practice using corpses to shoot, not to just improve his aim, but to get him used to flying flesh and bone. Then he moved on to working in a slaughterhouse to get him desensitized. Mixed in with this was regular beatings so he wouldn't be afraid of getting hurt. From there he moved on to murder. His first kill was the man who had beaten him for weeks, the man punched Wesley so hard that he fell of the chair he was tied on to and used a piece of broken wood from the chair to stab the man through the head.
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Tasteful Dickpic posted:The Wesley Gibson wiki page is amazingly terribly written. Go read it, you'll have fun. An excerpt:
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Tasteful Dickpic posted:The Wesley Gibson wiki page is amazingly terribly written. Go read it, you'll have fun. An excerpt: Reading that whole mess then getting down to "Wesley's appearance is modelled on the rapper Eminem." gave me a solid belly laugh.
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Kalli posted:Reading that whole mess then getting down to "Wesley's appearance is modelled on the rapper Eminem." gave me a solid belly laugh.  TFW
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