Mark's first girlfriend in the show was some moody, bossy black bitch too, also race-swapped from the comics.
I read multiple reviews awhile back actually praising the animation in Invincible and just couldn't fucking believe it. There are some things you don't expect to really reinforce the consume-product / NPC issue, and that was one of them for me.
I haven't bothered with The Boys since they went full mask-off with the cartoonish Trump-Homelander comparisons and the literal nazi bitch, but I could feel it getting under my skin as early as S1.
I haven't bothered with The Boys since they went full mask-off with the cartoonish Trump-Homelander comparisons and the literal nazi bitch, but I could feel it getting under my skin as early as S1.
I stopped when it became impossible to ignore how it was an antifa footsoldier's fantasy. Full of gory violence without real purpose, lots of sexual degeneracy, the main bad guy being an allegory for whatever real life political figure is hated by the left, rampant nihilism, etc. The part where captain atom crawls into the dudes dickhole was the last straw for me.
Ennis' best work was, without a doubt, Transmetropolitan. It's based in Mega New York so there's tons of degeneracy but it's usually called out and mocked, not excused and celebrated.
The rest of his stuff is basically just gratuity; violence, sex, drugs, whatever, for it's own sake. He sometimes plays with interesting concepts (like Preacher) but doesn't seem to have the depth to do anything other than a superficial, "I'm 14 and this is deep" exploration and uninspired character drama.
This is something I'd like to see an explicitely non-woke remake/reimagining of. Take these concepts and characters and inject some real world experience into them to give them a bit of soul, something Ennis seems to lack.
Mark's first girlfriend in the show was some moody, bossy black bitch too, also race-swapped from the comics.
I read multiple reviews awhile back actually praising the animation in Invincible and just couldn't fucking believe it. There are some things you don't expect to really reinforce the consume-product / NPC issue, and that was one of them for me.
I haven't bothered with The Boys since they went full mask-off with the cartoonish Trump-Homelander comparisons and the literal nazi bitch, but I could feel it getting under my skin as early as S1.
I stopped when it became impossible to ignore how it was an antifa footsoldier's fantasy. Full of gory violence without real purpose, lots of sexual degeneracy, the main bad guy being an allegory for whatever real life political figure is hated by the left, rampant nihilism, etc. The part where captain atom crawls into the dudes dickhole was the last straw for me.
To be fair, the comic isn't much better.
Ennis' best work was, without a doubt, Transmetropolitan. It's based in Mega New York so there's tons of degeneracy but it's usually called out and mocked, not excused and celebrated.
The rest of his stuff is basically just gratuity; violence, sex, drugs, whatever, for it's own sake. He sometimes plays with interesting concepts (like Preacher) but doesn't seem to have the depth to do anything other than a superficial, "I'm 14 and this is deep" exploration and uninspired character drama.
This is something I'd like to see an explicitely non-woke remake/reimagining of. Take these concepts and characters and inject some real world experience into them to give them a bit of soul, something Ennis seems to lack.