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I have apparently read a summary of this series before, because I read the first post and it all started to flood back to me after being repressed to a dark portion of my brain.
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If you need some sketchy electroshock treatment to wipe it back I might know a guy.
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Joe Chill posted:I feel bad about Anthony Williams "It would be fun to work with an established writer" 
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Death at the gates again. Howling my name. Can't greet you today. I have a comic to rip to pieces. My copy of issue #2 has the "offensive" variant cover included. It's a loving abortion joke with a cat using a "BABY-VAC 3000" to suck the screaming, sobbing fetus out of an alligator. Aptly named. ISSUE #2: I GUESS WE'RE DROPPING THE ISSUE TITLES NOW, THIS ONE DOESN'T HAVE ONE We start off in a dressing room, where a monkey informs "Pussywhisker" that he goes on in two minutes, so if he needs to piss, do it now. Pussywhisker, who appears to literally just be Snagglepuss, responds by saying, more or less, he's an artiste and doesn't want to be bothered. The monkey apologizes and Pussywhisker calls him a fuckin' Neanderthal. So far, this isn't anywhere near as bad as issue 1; even the art's a little less offensive-looking. I have a weird feeling there's a big ol' other shoe about to drop, and I'm gonna hate it.  It's sort of telling that even as unhinged as he sounds, Pussywhisker seems to be on the sympathetic end of the cast. Any other comic, and this guy would be raising "obvious villain" flags. He comes out, and he's a birthday clown. We get a page of him being a birthday clown, and then:  This is the one genuine laugh I have gotten out of this comic so far, and then I remembered where this is going.  Sally Gator, the alligator outside, walks into the doctor's office and talks about her problems. It turns out she has anxiety because her daughter, Allie Gator, is misbehaving. (Jesus loving christ, these character names.) Specifically, Allie is a third-grader who is selling people coke and heroin. The doctor suggests Prozac, which Sally dismisses as just avoiding the problem; she instead proposes that they have a social worker come deal with Allie. The doctor says he has an idea. Words loving fail me so I'm just going to post this straight up.   gently caress you, Mark Millar. gently caress you. Just... gently caress you. loving Mike goddamn Lester would be ashamed of having written this. gently caress.  Sally says she'll think about it after a little more prodding from the doc to "exercise her fundamental right as a woman." I want to beat Mark Millar to death with his own shoes. An old lady asks the swearing chick from earlier for help. The chick tells her to lick its AIDS-infested nuts. More swearing from the chick, which takes us over to Legal Beagle, who's on the phone with Birdseed Betty. (Oh, god.) Legal Beagle is propositioning Betty for kinky sex. Said kink is being in a lovely, unemotional relationship. They agree to meet at a hotel, and Betty frowns at a photo of Moe, asking how he could have gotten them into this situation. I really hope we don't come back to this, but I have a feeling we will, because this comic is the loving Anti-Life Equation. Next page, cops are interrogating Moe asking why the crime around the area has gotten more serious suddenly and trying to figure out who the gently caress Troy Hicks is.  Does anyone know who the hell that is "playing" Troy Hicks? If that's loving Millar I'm going to go punch something. Anyways, we have our plot: Troy Hicks is offering people Faustian bargains so he can come into the cartoon world. Moe continues explaining that there's nothing Troy loves more than murdering children, and the cop stops him to ask "uh how the hell do you know this guy's dead." Moe explains that Troy directly told the bargainers this, and that anyone who takes the bargain could bring him back by laying down in the basement of 666 Jack Parsons Avenue. I think this is a reference to the rocket scientist and Thelema cultist, but I'm not really sure, and it raises more questions than it answers, frankly. We go back to the swearing chick for a minute, who says something rude to a newspaper salesman. The newspaper salesman asks the chick why he shouldn't just beat the living hell out of him for saying that.   I'm gonna be honest, this barely even registers to me anymore. But yeah, Frosty Pete is now putting the town's children in Saw-esque games. That's a thing. Also, I loving hate this "EH, READERS?" thing. I'm not laughing with you, Mark. Nobody's laughing with you, Mark. Also also: SPEEDY MEX-MOUSE Because God hates me, we return to Betty and Legal Beagle. Because God decided to show a little mercy on me for once, they don't end up loving, all they do is act out a lovely loveless marriage. Which... well, I think it's vaguely joke-shaped, but that's not really a joke. Outside, Allie Gator gets caught in a net while trying to sell kids heroin, by people in a van labeled "FREELANCE ABORTIONS." Meanwhile, the cops investigate the house Moe told them about, and openly talk about murdering him in cold blood if they don't find anything. It turns out, Moe was telling the truth, and they find a weird room with an Ouija board. Before they can figure anything out, they get another call, about the swearing chick from earlier having been shot in the head. The issue ends at Frosty Pete's house, as his grandma (the old lady from earlier- wait, how the gently caress does that work, she's a human and he's a Satan penguin- you know what I'm not thinking about it any more) talks to him about the swearing chick being just awful. Meanwhile, he's cleaning and reloading the rifle he just used to murder said chick. gently caress this goddamn comic.
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A wrinkle in the whole "his wife throwing it at him" story that makes this seem even more maliciously awful: Gill Millar, his wife up to 2009, was a youth services worker (from what I understand, basically British CPS). It's not a surprise they divorced shortly after this book finished, and I'm loving stunned all she did was throw it at him.
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Looks pretty plausible that that's a lovely Photoshop of Mark Millar. Same chin, cheeks, similar nose. Troy's hair looks like no effort was put into editing it.
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Yeah I just looked up what Millar looked like in 2005ish and... yeah, that's probably him For gently caress's sake, I was more right than I thought about Troy being some attempt at a self-insert
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I just want to remind everyone, especially in light of the last issue, that abortion rights in America are seriously under attack and you have a moral imperative to protect them in any way you can from absolute hellfuckers like this. Donate to NARAL. Be a patient escort at your local Planned Parenthood. Vote against fuckers who want to restrict people's rights. Do absolutely anything you can to help unfuck this situation, because we need it, badly. This last one really struck a nerve with me, y'all. Like, I almost feel like the rest of the issue just blew past me, that abortion clinic scene was so loving staggeringly awful.
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In retrospect, once I realized how toxic and reactionary this and issue three are beneath the shock jocking, I did actually find a scrap of anger to throw at this dipshit.
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May 16, 2019 01:21
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Oh, of course it goes loving pro life e: just saw a tweet from millar and thought “gently caress you” so your plan is working watho fucked around with this message at 08:31 on May 16, 2019 |
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Can you put this on some kind of blog post off the forums so it can be more easily shared around?
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Nessus posted:Can you put this on some kind of blog post off the forums so it can be more easily shared around? When it's done, I'll figure something out. What would the preferred venue for that be, Medium?
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poo poo, it's actually kinda humorous how thin the whole premise has already worn by issue #2. After you've opened with pedophilia, murder, sexual slavery and infanticide, there's only a few places you can really go. And even then, you have to milk it. The whole "abortion on the 200th week" bit MIGHT work if it was just done casually or even post-facto (Like, say the "I did it 35 minute ago" bit in Watchmen) so it'd be jarring compared to both usual expecatations and the silly theme. But noooo, Millar has to rub it on your face and spend two pages going on about it. Look at how poo poo the doctor is! And the WORLD is! He has all the ghastly rationalizations for it, folks! It's happening and we're in for the ride! The evil penguin chessmaster just makes me cringe and also has Millar all over him. Such a cool chessmaster ruining lives he catches in his evil web, isn't he dark and edgy! I bet even if you somehow killed him it would only be part of his master plan to get you arrested and raped in prison while freeing him to go live in the human world and continue his vile games*! *: I honestly haven't read this and am just throwing out the most adolescent schlock that comes to mind. Please tell me this is not what actually happens or I may break something I can't afford to replace.
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not quite, but you're closer than you think. I was about to tell you no but then I remembered. e: also, like, if the abortion thing was just... an over-the-top abortion joke, i might have just kind of been like "jesus christ, okay then" but it straight up goes full-on loving pro-life polemic i don't know if you're familiar with how fundies handle the issue but Millar basically dipped straight into their playbook. that's why it made me genuinely loving angry and not just irritated e2: El Gallinero Gros posted:The abortion joke isn't even original, it's a variation of an old Dennis Miller joke about Kevorkian aborting people in the (insert huge number here)th trimester when Dennis loving Miller is better at constructing a joke than you, you should probably pack it in and never write anything again not that there's not plenty of other reasons why Millar should have his loving hands broken but WeedlordGoku69 fucked around with this message at 01:28 on May 17, 2019 |
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Sephyr posted:poo poo, it's actually kinda humorous how thin the whole premise has already worn by issue #2. After you've opened with pedophilia, murder, sexual slavery and infanticide, there's only a few places you can really go. The abortion joke isn't even original, it's a variation of an old Dennis Miller joke about Kevorkian aborting people in the (insert huge number here)th trimester
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Deep breath. I can do this. I need to loving do this. ISSUE #3 The cover of this issue alludes to Moe getting raped. My copy of this one doesn't have the Offensive variant cover. That one's just a random cartoon gore picture, basically. I don't get it either.  God help me, this would have actually been a clever method of visual storytelling, except it looks like it was drawn by loving Tim Buckley and lettered by a fifth-grader in a pirated copy of Photoshop. What the hell is with that small print reading "BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH" on the third panel, even?  Frosty Pete shows up, and asks Pussywhisker what happened to his clown gig. The latter got fired from it for not being funny enough, hence sandwich board. He's optimistic, though!   God loving drat it MarkFrosty Pete moves on to the cops and asks them if they've found any more child murders lately. Turns out yep, Birdseed Betty's kid got murdered. (I mean, duh, why else would the child murderer be asking about child murders.) Frosty Pete asks if there were any witnesses.  Okay, I initially was just going to put something along the lines of just the compulsory MARK MILLAR LICKS GOATS and something like "there is a special hell for this man," but my mind started going down a really genuinely loving creepy direction. See, Millar's mentor was Grant Morrison. Grant Morrison is famously a chaos magick practitioner. You might think that's bullshit, and frankly, you're probably right, but some of Morrison's experiences are... really loving weird, to say the least (particularly the stuff relating to King Mob. There is an explicit reference to Jack Parsons, a famous Thelema cultist, in the previous issue, and while there's no real explicit occult iconography I've seen that isn't explainable by the plot, one of the things about chaos magick is that comic books can totally be sigils (in fact, if GMo is right, that kind of got him in some poo poo writing The Invisibles because his life started paralleling King Mob's). And Millar is exactly the kind of person who would learn some weird occult poo poo and then use it to be a jackass. And I've noticed that this comic has somehow managed to make me run across nearly the full loving gamut of negative emotions. Is it reasonably plausible that this might be an actual, honest to loving Christ cursed comic, or am I just going insane from reading this? I feel like this is starting to turn into one of those Lovecraftian apocalyptic logs. (EDIT: TO BE CLEAR, I AM PERFECTLY OPEN TO THE IDEA THAT THIS IS JUST MELTING MY loving BRAIN.) Gotta get through this. If I die, it'll be at the loving finish line. I'm not letting this loving god drat comic go unpunished. Practically nobody knows about this, but everyone in comics needs to. Next page. Birdseed Betty mourns the dead.  doctor from the abortion clinic gets her hooked on "happy pills." Next page and  SNAGGLEPUSS WITH A HUMAN MICROPENIS OUT OF NOWHERE JESUS CHRIST ON A loving BIKE MY EYES, WHY Anyways basically the same doctor's talking to Pussywhisker about his ball cancer and saying he's gonna have to full-on Theon Greyjoy him to cure it. I don't think that's how testicular cancer works. Pussywhisker and his wife protest that they were wanting to start a family. Doctor says nope. Doctor openly says that they will never have children and that their marriage will be lovely and loveless. His wife sarcastically thanks the doctor and looks away sadly. gently caress you, Mark Millar. Testicular cancer survivors are so much stronger than you will ever be, you absolute worthless pile of poo poo. Next page. Timmy the Crow's funeral (so that's his name, I guess?). More loving  from the police officers about "WE SHOULD DO SOMETHING ABOUT TROY HICKS." An attempted tender moment between Moe, the pedophile, and Birdseed Betty. Meanwhile, Frosty Pete leads a human kid off to murder him. This is literally just padding. Back to Pussywhisker. He and his wife get in a fight over his new byzantine situation. (Please, God, somebody get that joke, it will be the only pleasure I derive from doing this.) He suggests adopting, she hates the idea of raising someone else's kid. She instead insists that he go find her a random guy to gently caress her senseless and give her a baby. We then get "treated" to a sequence of Pussywhisker literally going and finding a massive bulldog to gently caress his wife while he waits in the car. I hate this, y'all. I hate this with every fiber of my being. I can feel pieces of my soul being ripped away by this comic. I'm pretty sure every page I read is shortening my loving life by a year. But I have to do this. The world has to know. Pussywhisker keeps having to find guys to gently caress his wife, but none of them are able to get her pregnant. We then find out that he never actually had testicular cancer, the douchey-looking doctor was just in a competition with some creepy brain genius to get as many healthy testicles as possible. And to make this an even more bizarre plot twist, he only gave Pussywhisker the full nullo treatment as a form of cheating in the competition, because he was only supposed to get one ball per patient. They argue with this, settle on a new competition for kidneys, and the doctor eyes Birdseed Betty.  We then get the revelation that Pussywhisker's wife only isn't pregnant because she's on the pill. Back to cop. Cop learns how to use a computer. Cop finds an infodump on Troy Hicks, informing us that he's a 43-year-old cartoonist from Austin, TX (now a bald man with a mustache) convicted of the murder and molestation of eight children, some as young as two. I have levels of hatred for this comic that AM from I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream could only aspire to. Blah blah blah victims' rights groups, blah blah blah occultism depraved sex parties, blah blah blah Comic Book Legal Defense Fund... wait, buh?  Right hand to God, I didn't edit this. We get the reveal that Moe the Crow is basically Troy Hicks' self-insert, and so is Pussywhiskers, kind of. But Hicks is Millar's edgy self-insert... my head hurts. They finally, finally put together that Troy died in the electric chair and stole Frosty Pete's body. They resolve to go kill Frosty Pete instead of... I don't know, maybe exorcising him somehow? Like, it's pretty clearly the serial killer in the driver's seat here, not the cutesy cartoon penguin mailman. I'm overthinking this. The lead cop remarks on real-life pictures looking creepy and having a bunch of colors he's never seen before. This is a clever idea, actually. I kind of like the idea that cartoon characters gazing upon our world would be like the loving Color out of Space. Unfortunately, Millar goes nowhere with this. Instead... Okay, again, right hand to God, I did not edit this. This is the final page of The Unfunnies issue #3.  linking this just to be safe, unclear stained glass naked ladies WELCOME TO FROSTY'S gently caress PALACE I hate everything about this loving comic and I wish I didn't have to be the one exposing it to the world so people know who (or possibly loving what at this point) Mark Millar really is But fate has placed this burden upon me, and I swear to loving God I WILL CARRY IT OUT TO THE loving END WeedlordGoku69 fucked around with this message at 09:42 on May 17, 2019 |
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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Batman's Shameful Secret > WELCOME TO MARK MILLAR'S gently caress PALACE I laugh so I don't cry. e: I looked at issue 4 because I was thinking I might just finish the whole loving thing tonight. My copy has the offensive variant. Nope. I'm not loving doing this tonight. I need some time away from this comic so I don't book a flight to Glasgow and beat Mark Millar senseless with his own loving shoes. WeedlordGoku69 fucked around with this message at 09:41 on May 17, 2019 |
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Comfort yourself that you can still feel such impassioned revoltion at this, my sadbrain is just emotionally dead to it. I doubt that Mark Millar actually learned this much from this failure, I think eventually his ego will build up to dangerous levels again and he'll go super-critical.
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By popular demand posted:Comfort yourself that you can still feel such impassioned revoltion at this, my sadbrain is just emotionally dead to it. You know, sometimes I feel the exact same way. It's kind of weird, I see people get, or at least act, super angry about this stuff, and I read it and I'm just like "that's in rather bad taste". I guess the internet has kind of beaten that sense out of me, so it's like, yeah, this poo poo is horrible, but it doesn't make me feel anything. Not an excuse to write it, though. I think a lot of creators take the idea of "I don't feel upset at this" to mean "this isn't offensive or horrible", and when the world says otherwise, they think people are too "sensitive", as opposed to them just being desensitized.
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Millar was a major contributing factor in my giving up on 2000AD in the mid-1990s because it had become aggressively unpleasant to read. (He wasn't the only culprit, as other members of the 'new guard' like Morrison and Garth Ennis often brought the same kind of edgelord cruelty and nihilism to the comic, but Millar's stuff was especially gloating about it.) Anyway, totally by fluke after I'd read through this thread, someone on my Twitter feed just retweeted something Millar said about Robert Pattinson being a good choice for Batman several years ago, and the first person to respond to Millar's tweet was James Cleverly. For non-Brits, James Cleverly is a totally misnamed politician, and also a reactionary, regressive Tory piece of poo poo. Make your own joke about the standard of Millar's followers. I'd often wondered how the hell Millar, of all the people in British comics, made it big in Hollywood (Wanted, Kick-rear end, Kingsman, etc) until I realised: Hollywood takes the kernel of a cool idea at the core of his stories, and discards pretty much everything else.
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Maybe I'm desensitized but this really doesn't live up to the 'edgiest comic eva' hype. Its just bland cartoon characters saying but not doing laziliy 'offensive' things. The worst bit is definitely the whole abortion bit but not because it's particularly transgressive (South Park did the same joke better years ago) but because it turns into an uncomfortable pro life polemic half way through. The story doesn't go anywhere beyond "twisted cartoonist enters cartoon world, kills cartoon characters off-panel." Theres literally no point to any of this and its not even showing or even revelling in any of the nastiness? Theres a bit in the final issue where we learn that the "real" frosty jack was in the real world body of the serial killer and died in the electric chair, and the only reaction I can muster is "So?" Was that supposed to be darkly funny? Was I meant to care about frosty jack? I just don't know what the comic is even going for its just lame.
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By popular demand posted:Comfort yourself that you can still feel such impassioned revoltion at this, my sadbrain is just emotionally dead to it. I'm numbed to the edgy poo poo itself, but the fact that he and others genuinely think that's a meaningful statement, and see more success than plenty of people who actually try, never fails to make the bile rise on the back of my throat.
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Mr Phillby posted:Maybe I'm desensitized but this really doesn't live up to the 'edgiest comic eva' hype. Its just bland cartoon characters saying but not doing laziliy 'offensive' things. The worst bit is definitely the whole abortion bit but not because it's particularly transgressive (South Park did the same joke better years ago) but because it turns into an uncomfortable pro life polemic half way through. see, I don't think this is the edgiest comic ever. it actually very much isn't, off the top of my head Crossed gives it a major run for its money. the problem is the approach to the edge. rather than, like, trying to tell a story, or tell actual jokes, it's just an incohesive look at a bunch of poo poo Millar thinks is hilarious. and... what he thinks is hilarious, is psychotic. the simple thought of someone actually finding this funny makes me physically sick, because it's basically just checking off all the boxes of "things horrible garbage people think are hilarious." so edgiest comic ever? nah. but this is absolutely in the running for just flat-out worst. WeedlordGoku69 fucked around with this message at 21:21 on May 17, 2019 |
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Fair enough Its just that with so much pedophillia and child murder I was really suprised how utterly tame the comic was. I did get a big lol out of the blurb on the back cover tho. I don't think anyone quoted there actualy read the thing. Its just these are cartoon characters, you can get away with a lot with cartoon characters. The offensive variant covers (especially the gator abortion one) are so far removed from the actual content it feels like they put much more effort into marketing the thing than the thing itself.
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Not that I'm saying I'd prefer more explicit cartoon abortions, I just might have respected the thing even a little if it wasn't more pg than Fritz the cat for example. I think the howling nothingness at the core of this stupid thing may be affecting my judgement at this point.
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Yeah, the comic tries to be edgy but is instead mostly bad. There's a lot of horrible things happening constantly, but we see nothing normal to compare the horribleness to, so it's just the status quo. We're also not given any reason to care about the characters or what happens to them. Past the first page of the first issue where the tone was set nothing has felt shocking, but like more of the same. I feel that pure shock value is what this comic is going for and it fails that spectacularly.
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Basically, Humanimals did the same broad concept infinitely better and more tastefully.
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Like Bishop the android, I don't so much get upset at this, as feel contempt for Mark Millar. I do think he probably was setting out to make the ugliest, shittiest thing possible out of some kind of poo poo-rear end sadism, chaos magic theory or no. Indeed it being so relentlessly banal probably accents this, because it is just this horrid THING that is just making flat disgusting jokes constantly. It's like a look into the mind of a "real" serial killer (as opposed to some romanticized Hannibal Lecter).
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Sephyr posted:*: I honestly haven't read this and am just throwing out the most adolescent schlock that comes to mind. Please tell me this is not what actually happens or I may break something I can't afford to replace. hahahahahahaha you poor sap
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ISSUE #4 Thank God this poo poo is almost over. The offensive cover is Moe's son committing a school shooting. That's why I just noped the gently caress out when I first looked at it. Jesus christ on a bike. More prison rape jokes with Moe on the very first page. I don't even know why I'm noting this. He's on his way to His daughter isn't there. Betty is only there to tell Moe that she's not visiting anymore.  This happens. He begs her not to leave, because she's the only reason he can keep going through being sodomized by everyone in prison every night. She suggests to him that he tell the other inmates he has AIDS.  The cops face down Frosty Pete in his gently caress palace. They try to shoot him, but he has Neo powers and stops the bullets, because he's Troy Hicks. Blah blah blah Satan blah. Meanwhile, Birdseed Betty inherits a bunch of money, and Moe's son comes back to life, thanks to Jesus. More exposition from Frosty Pete on poo poo we already know. Blah blah, he's a serial child rape-murderer, and now he's a penguin. Specifically, he came up with this plan on death row as a way to put himself in the cartoon world: he would keep drawing his comic, The Funnies, and channel satan to have a character swap places with him. After the exposition, Frosty Pete melts the cops.  Well, yeah, of course you are, Mark Millar. You're real. I wish you weren't. On the outskirts of town, Birdseed Betty drives off, kids in tow, and thanks Jesus. Her son looks up and goes HOLY poo poo and an anvil falls on them, killing them all. It has a gift tag saying "COMPLIMENTS FROSTY PETE" on it. Moe gets a new cellmate and tries his AIDS strategy. His new cellmate actually does have AIDS. Because of loving course. We "finally" catch up with Sally Gator, because per Frosty Pete there's still a plot thread to tie up. This plot thread is Frosty Pete taking Sally Gator's new baby, presumably to rape and/or murder. Then we find out in the final pages that the real Frosty Pete, who basically has the mind of a child, is in Troy Hicks' body on death row in the real world, being tortured by the guards. EH, READERS? EH, READERS? EH, READERS? EH, READERS? EH, READERS? EH, READERS?
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How meta. The upshot of all that is that you should watch Too Many Cooks instead of reading this.
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So was this entire thing a big jab at Morrison or something, then? Can we ask Morrison to curse him?
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By popular demand posted:How meta. I thought the same thing. Too Many Cooks does a better job at whatever the gently caress this comic is trying to do.
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Well, -gently caress-. Now I hate myself that I even knew enough about this shitlord to be able to see where this was going. I feel like Edward Norton's character in Red Dragon, cursed to understand way too much about how monsters do their monster stuff and worried about what ot may say about me.
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Okay, so this is pretty shocking even by Millar standards i'll admit, but apart from this, why all the extreme hate for the guy? Seriously, educate me on why I should hate this man and not buy his comics because i've ignorantly bought and enjoyed immensely Kick-rear end, Hit-Girl, The Secret Service, MPH, Nemesis and Chrononauts. I like both Kick-rear end movies (even if the sequel was disappointing compared to the first) and both Kingsman movies and own them all on Blu-Ray. I know a fair bit about Millar from reading his editorials and other strips in CLiNT magazine. Am I just missing something? I started reading comics around 2008/2009, if that helps.
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Dell_Zincht posted:Okay, so this is pretty shocking even by Millar standards i'll admit, but apart from this, why all the extreme hate for the guy? Well, you are already a fan of Millar (and no one is telling you to "hate this man" ) so I doubt you are going to get much from other people criticisms. I became aware of Millar around the same time as you. Personally, I find he is an overrated writer who gets by with shock value/nihilism with none of the humour or thoughtfulness as other comic writers. It is amazing how he become so popular. Also that Captain America quote from Civil War FTW. The Unfunnies is pure, distilled Millar. It contains the worst of his comics. Joe Chill fucked around with this message at 21:26 on May 18, 2019 |
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