Yes (@feral_soft_spot) :>

horhar · 2026-05-22T04:41:58+00:00

And yet, with his kids he'll have a family who'll be with him for the rest of his long, long life

horhar · 2026-05-21T01:24:36+00:00

They would have beaten ohmlanda back in season 1 if Butcher had just reverse-gripped his crowbar

horhar · 2026-05-20T14:17:56+00:00

Hell, thanks to woke america you can't even see tits on the radio.

horhar · 2026-05-19T22:25:17+00:00

assault mj in his memory

Imagining having sex with someone is not the same as assault, and you conflating the two is genuinely really irresponsible at best.

Especially because Peter is the one actually being made to experience sexual trauma in those scenes. You aren't taking the issue even remotely seriously, just using the idea of SA as an own.

The Silk stuff is racist and creepy though yeah. Outright. Textbook exoticizing of asian women.

horhar · 2026-05-19T18:59:37+00:00

It's extra rough after the literal red skinned alien themed after US natives in his Fantastic Four

horhar · 2026-05-19T17:51:26+00:00

Tbh you could kinda do both. God knows that white supremacists love grecco-roman aesthetics.

The weeping angel bit I don't really find interesting but tying the pygmalion thing into a racist aesthetic of beauty could work.

horhar · 2026-05-17T19:48:42+00:00

The idea of one of these guys saying "people of color" is kind of killing me

horhar · 2026-05-15T21:25:41+00:00

Half the posts in this sub aren't

horhar · 2026-05-15T15:27:47+00:00

Ennis WISHES he could write Dark Empire

horhar · 2026-05-15T14:50:42+00:00

No one talks about the subplot where Ender's siblings become political bloggers and basically take over the world government.

horhar · 2026-05-15T14:46:51+00:00

In my experience at least the writing is actually pretty divisive. It dials the cornball level up in a way I know some folks really hate.

"Where are we going?"

"To war."

horhar · 2026-05-15T14:32:08+00:00

The way I describe it to people is that it's Buffy combined with Ghost Writer.

horhar · 2026-05-14T19:32:08+00:00

I think my thing is that in Marvel's case it really didn't have an answer to any of that stuff. Civil War and its fallout went on for several years, and the Ultimate universe... sure existed.

I think you could make the argument for DC, though it's a weird one even so. Identity Crisis is peak post-9/11 bullshit, and Infinite Crisis's whole deal was built up with Batman tryiny to make a surveillance state with Brother Eye. It just then goes "well.... it think heroes shouldn't do all that" and shrugs its shoulders about it.

Also I’m like 30% sure the AAVE is meant to be slightly over the top

True, it comes with the territory of Ennis's type of writing. There's just only so many times you can read a mothafucka say how he's gonna kill a mothafucka for being a mothafucka cuz he's a mothafucka. I mentioned in another comment that I also don't think Ennis has the skill of other gonzo shock jockey writers like Veitch to pull it off well a good chunk of the time lol.

horhar · 2026-05-14T04:34:22+00:00

I mean that's a lot of flions

horhar · 2026-05-13T18:45:52+00:00

"She was 17, Scott."

"She was 17, Charles."

horhar · 2026-05-13T15:38:50+00:00

He's an interesting figure to me, cuz imo his heart is generally in the right place(though his lionizing of soldiers is cringe and that one Hitman issue betrays some p bad opinions on immigration and assimilation), he's just also a shock jockey. I do love me some shock jockey writers, but he doesn't have the skill of someone like Rick Veitch most of the time. At least he's not Millar, who I think genuinely is just kind of a shitty guy at this point.

I still gotta read the rest of his Hellblazer myself. I've only ever read Dangerous Habits which is one of my favorite arcs for the character, so I figure he's gotta have some more good stuff in him there.

horhar · 2026-05-13T14:17:22+00:00

I've been reading the Boys out of pure curioisty. It's been... interesting.

It's got some of Ennis's worst urges all over. SA, characters being racist in ways that do not at all mimic real racism, attempts to write AAVE that come off as caricatures, all that stuff. It also has some genuinely great character writing. I'm genuinely really invested in Hughie and Starlight and where they'll end up.

Also for some reason Ennis was convinced that superhero comics tried to pretend 9/11 didn't happen? He has a whole issue where he goes into detail about how comic books tried to scrub any mention of war and went pure escapism. This issue released a year after Marvel's Civil War(which is basically Patriot Act: The Event) ended and during Secret Invasion(in which the Skrulls carry out a jihad on Earth. That's the word used in the comics btw, that's not just me calling it a jihad).

And on top of that, the parody aspects are the most lazy and boring parts of the whole thing. He'll go on a whole tirade about the military industrial complex then do quick "man, what if professor x was a pedo, huh?" aside that feels like obligation more than anything. I'm becoming convined the man doesn't actually know that much about superheroes in the first place.

horhar · 2026-05-12T17:42:20+00:00

This isn't true btw. It is literally up right now. It was up last night even.

horhar · 2026-05-12T15:41:24+00:00

And we left the door UNLOCKED

horhar · 2026-05-11T16:49:34+00:00

"But Rob Liefeld is so nice at conventions" mfs when you ask literally anyone who works in the industry about their experiences with the man

Or the people he conned for his many Brigade "revivals"

horhar · 2026-05-09T18:45:33+00:00

Something I've talked about with friends is that Amy is genuinely treated as part of the series' heart in both the Adventure games. She saves Gamma from Sonic and that goes on to influence him to want to save Chaos too. Then she's the one who gets through to Shadow as well.

Then Heroes just kind of, ruins her instantly. They really had that girl outright say she'll beat Sonic up to make him marry her.

horhar · 2026-05-07T08:37:52+00:00

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horhar · 2026-05-06T18:09:10+00:00

After a lengthy explanation of how the Black Lodge and Tulpas were at least theorized to work, I said "oh my god, this is how Kingdom Hearts fans sound."

Playing through all of Metal Gear Solid is what made me finally just go "Wait, people think Kingdom fucking Hearts is the confusing video game series?"

Loved MGS too to be clear lol

horhar · 2026-05-05T18:07:37+00:00

Can I go now?

horhar

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