I have a free Amazon prime account and I sift through mounds of shit to watch old westerns and whatnot. I just opened the home page and I see they're advertising a new episode of 'The Boys' coming this Thursday.
What do they show to entice viewers to watch it? Two women. A redhead and a dyke looking black chick with braids.
Fucking lol not even a show that's explicity called 'The Boys' is immune. I know this isn't surprising in the slightest and just because a show is called the boys doesn't mean it's only dudes. But still I got a good chuckle when I saw it.
I watched season one and thought it was okay considering how low my expectations were. Then I heard about season two and never even gave it a chance.
Precisely... Rorschach is another character that fits the bill. Alan Moore tried to make him such a parody of the American Conservative Right that a lot of what he had Rorschach do and say actually resonated with reasonable people who felt like being hard on crime and removing government padding and social systems is a good thing.
We also saw it happen recently with a resurgence in popularity with The Punisher, which is why Marvel has been going way out of their way to emasculate and humiliate the character as much as possible, especially during these times.
I guess in these times, you can just go right down the list of Lefty writers trying to portray a certain Right-wing-adjacent character as a villain only for their moral code and conduct to widely resonate with the general audience and for Lefties to inevitably go... "No, you're not so supposed to react to the character like that!!!"
Not having principles other than the ends justify the means makes it very difficult to recognize the value of abiding by principles unto death.
It's honestly rather pathetic. He writes a nihilist reasonably accurately and can't see the nobility that's staring him in the face.