That's just an academic & media smear, coz the media & corporations as a whole, hate all sovereign nations, that uphold their own culture, over the culture of mass consumption. Look at how much the media always talk shit about Japan or populist politicians such as Bolsanaro, Trump, Bernie Sanders, Tulsi Gabbard, Shinzo Abe, Duterte, etc.
It's the same fucking pattern everywhere. Any leader who's not bowing down to global conglomerates, gets labeled as a Nazi Fascist. It's a convenient scaremonger tactic, so that the corporations can assert themselves as your true family and friends, who only want what's best for you. I'm not saying that the populist politicians are worthy of your trust. It's just that, they do care more about you than a corporation does, coz leaders of nations depend on the average citizen, to make the nation stronger.
Corporations don't want strong, individualized nations who are only loyal to their own country (this is why they really fucking hate Japan.), coz they're harder to market to. They just want us all to be brainless, cultureless cattle, not unlike the average Consooooooomer American.
The one odd duck is China, who for some reason, corporations always pander to. It's prob coz China doesn't mind throwing away the lives of billions of chink kids to slave away building American produce, which gets shipped worldwide.
If by Wetworks, why doesn't he just read Wetworks? LOL! Wetworks was actually good for the first 10 issues or so, when the Blood Queen's kingdom gets taken over & she has to exile herself to fucking New York or something, and then she starts feeding on random peds lol! By the time the Blood Queen comes back to reclaim her kingdom, the art suddenly turns to shit and the story becomes really fucking retarded. The last time we see the Blood Queen, she gets her eyes randomly ripped out by one of the Wetworks squad, who just makes a one liner joke about how her brother has her eyes, lol.100 bullets is about an internal conflict between an illuminati style secret society and their agents. Jack raccomended it to me I think a decade ago lol. I re-read it a couple of years ago and I had a lot of fun, it might be up your alley,
It was really fucking dumb, coz Blood Queen was portrayed as this immensely strong force but then she's suddenly portrayed as weak.Wetworks released a source book back when the series first came out, and Blood Queen's power levels were all near maxed out, but in the actual comic, she gets her eyes ripped out by one of the female Wetworks, who had a low strentgh rating. Yet for some reason, the series canon just went to shit.
The art in the later issues was also really fucking weird. Blood Queen originally just looked like the Snake lady from Ninja Scroll (she was also usually naked.) but she then looked like a generic vampire by the time you last see her in the original Image series and she finally put on some clothes lol. The comic fucking died after that plot arc, coz they tried to turn it into more typical Marvel Avengers Shield bullshit, when the appeal of Wetworks, was normal Military grunts vs monsters, like vampires & werewolves. It was a cool premise coz the Vampire clans & Werewolf families all had their own sense of organization and came off like foreign human cultures, rather than generic monsters. Blood Queen was also fucking hot, lol.
DC tried to revive Wetworks a few years back but it just flopped. At least they finally ended the Blood Queen story, but it still pisses me of that she basically got written out of the comic, both in the original series & the DC revival.
I don't think 100 Bullets is anything at all like The Boys. Watchman is prob the most apt comparison with The Boys, but I actually respect Alan Moore as a writer. I think Enis is a grade-A retard with the mind of a 13 yr old. Even his good shit, was only good coz Alan Moore wrote it, lol! Crossed by Alan Moore comes off like a zombie comic book version of Mel Gibson's Apocalypto. Alan Moore's Crossed actually feels like a Horror genre comic. Ennis's Crossed just looks like Gore Porn, LOL! It's funny coz I think Alan Moore's Crossed has way more nudity & sex but it never got in the way of the plot coz that was just Moore's way of showing how degenerated the society has become ever since it fell from zombies. The humans don't even speak English any more.100 bullets is about an internal conflict between an illuminati style secret society and their agents.
Alan Moore is a testament to talent, coz I think he's a fucking retard too, but he's genuinely a talented writer.
When Alan Moore is writing Derp Ennis works, Alan Moore will actually take the time to create an entire language & worldbuild the entire setting, to pull you into the narrative that he's trying to weave.
Garth Ennis just makes a lot of stupid political statements like how in Crossed, "you killed kids, to save kids from killing other kids." Like what the fuck am I even fucking reading? That's exactly the same line I say to myself with every Ennis project, including The Boys. I don't give a fuck that it's supposed to be absurd. It's not really telling a story. It just comes off as some nihilistic retard, sarcastically telling you that none of this matters. If the author doesn't fucking care about his setting, world & characters, then why the fuck should I care?
As for 100 Bullets, I'd actually recommend that if you liked Killer7. Killer7 was itself influenced by American comic. 100 Bullets started off good, but it just turns to shit by the time it ends. Like what the fuck is even the point of Cole Burns? They build him up as this hardcore badass, but he doesn't actually do anything throughout the entire comic, except get burned to death, AY LMAO! What was the big deal about Dizzy? Throughout the series, they overhype Dizzy as being this really important character, but she also does fucking nothing but die. The entire series ends with Dizzy's death and Agent Graves crying over her dead body as he carries her off in a La Pieta position. It's all so stereotypical, but unintentionally funny coz 100 Bullets started off with an intelligent premise, but it later devolved into stupid comic book bullshit.
Most of the bad guys don't really do anything either.
I guess in a way, it kinda reminds me of Silver Case, but this is one of those rare instances where I actually think that the video game has better writing than the actual comic/graphic novel.
100 Bullet's final arc is like a typical comic book. You know how so many retarded video game fans always complain about how they never got to see Chris & Jill lead a huge army to overthrow Umbrella? That's exactly what happens in 100 Bullets, the 7 Minutemen, or what's left of them finally invade the mansion that all of the families were currently staying at, and they just them all. It looked exactly like how I'd imagine invading Umbrella HQ would look like, basically, there's fucking nothing there.
Just the heads of the familes and they all get killed. The End. Fucking lame! Well, the twist is that most of them die from a freak accident coz Cole was like sexually harrassing the hot blonde bitch from The Trust, but he accidentally drops his lighter and burns them all to death, lol!
The premise of 100 Bullets was cool though. Random people are anonymously sent 100 untraceable bullets, and are given carte blanche to execute a figure within the Establishment-government who had wronged them in the past. It was actually a recruitment method to refill vacancies of a group called the Minutemen, who once acted as the enforcers of an iluminati-influenced plutocrat group called The Trust. The Trust betrayed them in the past, so the Minutemen went rogue & attempt to take down the entire 13 families. It's pretty fucking stupid. For one thing, how come none of the families are Jewish? LOL! I think there was at least one Bloodline that was Chinese, but everyone else is European.
Yeah, the story falls a part when it actually explains its mystery. It's prob why Lono is the only one still alive, and the series continued onward through Lono. The funny thing about Brother Lono is how that series could've easily ended in 1 issue, if Lono just killed everyone from the start, lol. That's what the conflict of the sequel series was about though. It was Lono trying to escape from his past. He was part of The Trust, the original Minutemen & the only one who didn't defect. Lono survived the final issue of 100 Bullets just through pure luck. I read the shit a long ass time ago, but if I recall, he either got punched or shot out of the building before it exploded & burned down in a fire. Brother Lono issue 1 shows how he survived, and it's pretty funny.
I think it's a testament to the serie's quality, that I can actually remember a lot of what happened in it, even though I haven't read that shit in over a decade. I wouldn't exactly call it good though. The rewards it won for its writing were most likely due to the premise and not the actual plot.The plot is fucking stupid. The Trust are supposedly the richest, most powerful people in the world, but they all get taken out in a freak-accident by a mere group of expendable soldiers, AY LMAO!
It's not all bad though, coz it is pretty funny that the only survivor happened to be the most viile, detestable human of them all, Lono. In Brother Lono though, that "Big Dik Hawaaian" finds God or some shit. It's all just irony though coz I think he actually saved by a cross he was wearing. I don't really remember. I just remember laughing at how he survived what went down in 100 Bullets, and the Gigafuck just walks it off and keeps living his life, but on the down low. He actually tries to be a better person, but realizes that he's forced to become a monster, in order to kill off lesser monsters such as the Mexican Cartels.
It's weird how Lono gets way more development than Dizzy or Cole Burns do. You'd be thinking that Cole Burns would have a lot going for him storywise, since he's the posterboy, but I guess he's only the posterboy coz he looks cool, lol. He basically looks like me, LOL!
I thought the changes were better coz Season 1 was actually much more intelligent than the Comic.People were praising the changes and saying it more relatable, but one of the main points of the comic was to show how not relatable super heroes would be if they lived in the real world.
The Tv Show Season 1, did not have an absolutist binary-dichotomy in regards to its messages & satire.
It was making fun of everyone, and it pulled it off well.
The Comic was basically saying "Capitalism BaD!" and then it shows to you the most 1-Dimensional villains ever. The only ounce of intelligence that the comic had, is that it displayed Butcher, as being just as evil & depraved as the superheroes are.
The Comic actually ended with the Bad guys winning. The Middle-manager chick from The Tv show, actually survived in the Comic. Her male counterpart just laughably pinned all of his crimes on his secretary. For some reason that secretary was rewritten in the show as the female Mr. Vought character or whatever.
The tv shows also depicts capitalism as bad, but it does it in a way that we could all agree with. The combination of military powers & corporations colluding with each other for mutual gain. This was also in the comic, but it wasn't portrayed nearly as well as it was in the tv show.
The tv show goes through the effort of lampooning marketing campaigns & the over micromanaged nature of big business. The comic book focuses way more on the actual super heroes, when who gives a fuck about the super heroes? We know they're shit. I don't need to see them all the time when the background politics was always much more interesting.
That's what impressed me about the tv show. It turned a really fucking retarded comic, into a show that was actually interesting to watch.
My pops watches the Boys. Or at least, I know he's seen season 1. I couldn't imagine him actually reading the comic though, coz it's fucking trash, and he'd probably drop it after issue 2 lol. The problem with The Boys is
that like most Ennis comics, it doesn't actually have a plot. It's just the wild rantings of Ennis, who only has half-a-brain. His stories, or what passes as a story are just Ennis following generic story beats that serve as excuses for excess violence & sex. I don't have a problem with that, usually. For some reason, it does bother me when I see it in Ennis comics. I don't know what's worse, his Jennifer Blood comic, or Crossed.
To me, Ennis comes off as a little kid who thinks extreme gore is cool coz he's never seen it in real life.
I'm someone who can watch through most reallife gore & suicide vids without giving a single fuck, but it does bother me when I see it in a Ennis comic, coz his portrayal of violence seems so fetishized.
It's kinda like how, I normally wouldn't give a shit about Last of US 2's violence, but it does bother me for the same exact reason. Its attempt at trying to be edgy just looks fetishized to me. It doesn't really serve the plot.
I don't know what it is, coz I don't have a problem with Mezzo Forte/Kite, which could be argued that the sex scenes didn't need to be there, but I feel that it does serve the plot coz it gives off a much more horrorfic vibe to the tale. Kinda like how Ninja Scroll loses its punch once you get rid of all of the gore & nudity.
I said it before, and I'll say it again. Ennis constantly repeats the same message over & over to a point of excess. Where I'm like dude, just make gore porn or something. Instead of trying to tell a story. I wouldn't have an issue at all were his work labeld as porn. That's certainly what Crossed is. Crossed didn't even get a good mythos behind it until Alan Moore wrote a few arcs. It's disappointing as fuck though when you find out just how fucking stupid the Crossed series is, when Alan Moore isn't the one doing the writing.
You don't need to concoct such a 1 dimensional depiction of super heroes to portray them as "more evil than Hitler". I don't think portraying them as baby eaters is effective story telling at all.
It reads more like a child's tale. Only a child thinks that bad guys are baby eaters who rape women & do every despicable act known to man. True evil is more like Esposito's character in Breaking Bad. The evil who stands among us, because he's one of us. You can't prove that he's evil, coz he's so cunning and is actually everything that most people aspire to be. Or at least, that's how his public facade presented him as.
Fire Emblem Three Houses has one of the much better written villains in gaming, in Edelgard. Her plot is actually really stupid, but she's well written in the regard that she actually has a lot of real life followers who believe that she did nothing wrong.
Edel is actually really fucking evil, she sacrifices people when she no longer has use for them (the very first battle in the game were just hoodlums hired by her, to kill of Dimitri & the other guy.), and she's constantly lying to you to goad you towards her side. She ends up as your lover (who always cucks you during the ending if you're stupid enough to romance Edel, LOL!) or as your main enemy, coz she gets really pissed off when she can't use your power under her guidance.
What makes Edel such a great villain, is that she's so subtle. Most people to this day, still can't see or understand why so many people don't like her as a person and think of her as the main villain.
Rhea is the other character who gets portrayed as the main villain, but that's mostly only the narrative that's parroted by Edel-loyalists, who for some reason have a hard time understanding that Edel is a false-narrator. When there's only one character from within the 3 perspectives who says the crap she does, that's an indicator that the bitch is a self-serving, greedy liar.
I agree with this, and in that regard it's pretty funny. I just don't think that's Ennis's intention. Especially when you see his "Crossed" stuff. He seems to genuinely believe that he's being profound, when he's just profoundly retarded. Oh no! Killing kids is bad, that's why we'll continue talking about how killing kids is bad, despite how they just killed kids to stop the kids from killing other kids! Why do nimrods always write stories like this? It reminds me of Mass Effect 3 where we find out that The Reapers were good guys all along, they just wanted to destroy humanity to save humanity, from Humanity. AY LMAO!
I do think season 1 of the show is much better than the comics specifically because the comics are just an ultraviolent parody of superhero comics (I basically see it as itchy and scratchy with human characters lol) while the show actually had very interesting thematic implications back during its first year.
That would make sense to me if the Aliens were meant to be AI constructs following their instruction to a literal tee, but nope... that's presented as the logic of a super advanced Alien race of giant Squids, LOL!
