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He's gone on record multiple times that he HATES superheroes. Except for Superman but that's it. Hitman, The Pro and The Boys are all about his contempt for the genre and the characters.
First thing which needs understanding, the British hate the concept of a hero, in the American exceptionalist sense. The virtuous moral exemplar who can do no wrong. In the 2000ad documentary "future shocks, a story of 2000ad" (you can find it on YouTube for free, search for historia da 2000ad, very good watch, highly recommend) Neil gaiman said and I quote "The English can never trust their heroes the way Americans do. We can never tell a person 'yes you, you will represent us' only to find out he's been molesting a child for 50 years and we suddenly want to get away from it". I'm gonna let the irony of him saying that sink in, in more ways than one. So if you meet somebody from Britain or Europe in general, they're gonna fucking hate the concept of a hero unless it's a "far right" figure.
Second thing, garth ennis grew up with 2000ad, battle action and battle picture weekly. The thing about these comics is they were a lot pulpier and less standardized than American comics. They were assorted flavour of the week stuff like heavy metal magazine (metal hurlant for those accuracy autists), which also did not take off in the states but was popular in Canada. You had 20 different genres and subgenres compete for magazine space and that led to a lot of artistic diversity, the good kind. What american capeshit did is flatten all of comics into capeshit cause the Americans always focused on the money and capeshit was the most popular. This is another place where manga succeeded with slice of life, sports and bass fishing comics although with heavy western influence even that is losing its diversity now (to the point old timers struggle to get jobs, the first of the north star author buronson has said he has been unable to get a writing gig for 6 or so years). This made garth ennis hate capeshit as a genre cause that caused a cretaceous level extinction event in the comic book space. This is not hate for superheroes in general.
Three, garth ennis likes dc stuff namely superman and some others, you mentioned yourself.
Beyond this point if you still think garth ennis hates superheroes, I don't know what you're smoking.
Holy fuck who reads this shit anymore? I can't tell you how many years I've been hearing that the X-books have just been this slice of life nothing fucking happens and characters sit down to talk about their feelings or make weird/cringey sex jokes that aren't transgressive at all and come off as out of character and retarded. Like do any of the X-books sell 100k copies a month anymore? I doubt it if this is the slop they're putting out. It honestly feels like an entire lifetime ago to think there was a time when X-Men was the top selling book of the industry and it was fucking close, considering what's been done to it lately.
After years, I finally read the dark fantasy based on Celtic mythology Arawn + Chronicles of Arawn. It was good, not great but good.
The only thing I hated is what I always hated: the flashback narrative, of a character reminiscing about past events and being the narrator and we get to see how he got to that point. Why do this? There is no surprise at all since we know Arawn "won".
Am I crazy or is Iron Maiden's Eddie in the left? The Predator head is on the right but not sure if other heads are references to other stuff.
What I realized now is that the entire Arawn series here is a spinoff of a 3 tomes collection about King Arthur lol.
I love history and myths so european comics are just the best even when I am not the biggest fantasy fan. The problem is getting access to translations, even more for things that doesn't exist.
Holy fuck who reads this shit anymore? I can't tell you how many years I've been hearing that the X-books have just been this slice of life nothing fucking happens and characters sit down to talk about their feelings or make weird/cringey sex jokes that aren't transgressive at all and come off as out of character and retarded. Like do any of the X-books sell 100k copies a month anymore? I doubt it if this is the slop they're putting out. It honestly feels like an entire lifetime ago to think there was a time when X-Men was the top selling book of the industry and it was fucking close, considering what's been done to it lately.
What's good about it? I'm a huge fan of pretty much everything John Byrne did in the '70s/'80s, my favorites being his Fantastic Four run and Sensational She-Hulk especially because it's genuinely funny and holds up today even (Man of Steel is good too). But I've never ventured into anything he's drawn beyond that, I've heard of Next Men but what I know about post-80s/Marvel Byrne is that really weird and bad Wonder Woman run he did that looks awful most of the time, and the really fucking cursed Star Trek photo comic thing he did.
What's good about it? I'm a huge fan of pretty much everything John Byrne did in the '70s/'80s, my favorites being his Fantastic Four run and Sensational She-Hulk especially because it's genuinely funny and holds up today even (Man of Steel is good too). But I've never ventured into anything he's drawn beyond that, I've heard of Next Men but what I know about post-80s/Marvel Byrne is that really weird and bad Wonder Woman run he did that looks awful most of the time, and the really fucking cursed Star Trek photo comic thing he did.
Next Men is kInDa like X-Men but not really.
A secret government project is used to "trigger" latent DNA in humans to give them powers.
The were raised in an artificial VR type environment and not taught anything about the real world.
Only about five of them initially exist and by issue 30 only two more come about in any significant way.
I don't really want to give a whole lot away but there are drama, political, sexual, and class themes.
And of course a sci-fi element.
Give the first several issues a go.
Speaking of independent/creator owned works from celebrated people who've done good work at the Big Two, I've been reading Keith Giffen's Trencher:
Yes, it is as fucking weird and unhinged as the cover implies that it is.
Keith Giffen is one of my favorite creators of all time in comics. I love Ambush Bug, Lobo, his work on Justice League International. Trencher is probably Giffen at his most "Giffen-iest", there's tons of in-jokes from the time, general weirdness, and tons of over the top gratuitous violence. What makes Trencher different from Lobo is that it turns up the weirdness meter so much it becomes surreal/abstract art in the form of a 90s antihero comic book parody:
A lot of the first issue especially is borderline unreadable because of how fucking abstract everything looks. It's both simultaneously incredibly busy and muddy/sloppy at the same time.
The story is completely nonsensical. It's more about just making the most fucking batshit looking comic they could come up with, Trencher is like a robot/undead guy that I think is a bounty hunter? It's not really clear but it doesn't need to be. My favorite part is this page where he's being lectured by a cactus-man superhero who's giving some liberal pussy speech about understanding the villains feewings and Trencher punches his fucking teeth out:
This had me laughing harder than most things I read do. I know Keith Giffen's not everyone's cup of tea but as someone that appreciates vulgar weirdness, if you like that turned up to 11 I highly recommend Trencher. It's only 4 issues so it's not a huge time commitment.
What's good about it? I'm a huge fan of pretty much everything John Byrne did in the '70s/'80s, my favorites being his Fantastic Four run and Sensational She-Hulk especially because it's genuinely funny and holds up today even (Man of Steel is good too). But I've never ventured into anything he's drawn beyond that, I've heard of Next Men but what I know about post-80s/Marvel Byrne is that really weird and bad Wonder Woman run he did that looks awful most of the time, and the really fucking cursed Star Trek photo comic thing he did.
Danger Unlimited is pretty good as an FF pastiche. See if you can track down the original trade, because it includes a page Byrne pulled from the last issue when he realized sales weren't enough to continue. Flips the whole thing on it's head.
That was through Dark Horse, though. Most of his IDW work seems to be of a "lets keep this guy working" vibe. Trio wasn't quite as good an FF as DU, but it does give a more substantial role to Golgotha, a background villain from the earlier series I had really wanted to see more of.
There was also a straightforward spy book I remember nothing about beyond it existing, more Next Men, and a bunch of regular Star Trek comics before the photo stuff. I'd recommend the Dr. McCoy mini, a series of misadventures set right before the motion picture.
And if you're into the Buffyverse, he gave Lorne a nice sendoff special after Andy Hallett passed away.
Other than that, his Wonder Woman was bad, the Superman books he drew with Gail Simone writing looked off, and ... I can't speak to anything else.
I used to like her, but twitter and her old forum completely rotted her brain and made comic people think that liberals were a WAY bigger comic market than they actually were. It's like how Mark Millar's success with Wanted and Kickass made idiots think that if they just made a miniseries, it was their ticket to Hollywood and millions of dollars.
It's a shame because you can tell there's a good writer in her works, but she threw it all away to be called amazing online.
Even if I think how she broke into comics was retarded and a prelude for the thirdwave feminist nonsense we’d see online in the 2010s, her Night Nurse was about as interesting as you could probably make that book without getting too stupid, and her Birds Of Prey run is pretty good. Other than that, she’s incredibly overrated and I can’t think of anything within the last 10 years that’s been decent. Say what you will about Grant Morrison, Alan Moore, et al. but Swamp Thing is fucking sick. Animal Man is fucking sick. Watchmen? Overrated but still pretty good and people still talk about it. Whatever they may be doing now like getting into wizard fights and generally being unlikable cunts they have good work that’s stood the test of time. I may like Simone’s Birds of Prey but it can’t hold a candle to any of those.
I used to like her, but twitter and her old forum completely rotted her brain and made comic people think that liberals were a WAY bigger comic market than they actually were. It's like how Mark Millar's success with Wanted and Kickass made idiots think that if they just made a miniseries, it was their ticket to Hollywood and millions of dollars.
It's a shame because you can tell there's a good writer in her works, but she threw it all away to be called amazing online.
Strongly disagree, she engineered a problem and inserted herself as the solution and in doing so, paved a golden path for every dysgenic who wants to muck up comics further.
Even if I think how she broke into comics was retarded and a prelude for the thirdwave feminist nonsense we’d see online in the 2010s, her Night Nurse was about as interesting as you could probably make that book without getting too stupid, and her Birds Of Prey run is pretty good. Other than that, she’s incredibly overrated and I can’t think of anything within the last 10 years that’s been decent. Say what you will about Grant Morrison, Alan Moore, et al. but Swamp Thing is fucking sick. Animal Man is fucking sick. Watchmen? Overrated but still pretty good and people still talk about it. Whatever they may be doing now like getting into wizard fights and generally being unlikable cunts they have good work that’s stood the test of time. I may like Simone’s Birds of Prey but it can’t hold a candle to any of those.
Agreed. Brits made the edgelord kino I was raised on. Limey bastards the lot of them but they could put fry in bag, which is more than can be said for (women, niggers, queers, bald jews, cucks, CIA glow in the darks) almost everyone in comics from the past twenty years.
Mark Millar for example, is the Michael Bay of comics and like Michael Bay, he delivers exactly what you bought the ticket for. That library edition full “omni” of Nemesis later this year is on my preorder list. He put fries in bag and I love how fucking retarded Nemesis is.
Mark Millar for example, is the Michael Bay of comics and like Michael Bay, he delivers exactly what you bought the ticket for. That library edition full “omni” of Nemesis later this year is on my preorder list. He put fries in bag and I love how fucking retarded Nemesis is.
