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I guess the worthless retards in Hollywood haven't learned their lesson from The Boys. There's no way in hell this shit will even be slightly watchable.

Don't get me wrong, the comics are utter dogshit and just about the worst work Ennis has ever done. But this will be an absolute disaster in a completely different way. No way in hell the edgier shit makes it past the ratings board.

If H-wood wants to adapt any Ennis work, can't they just adapt Adventures in the Rifle Brigade? THAT, I'd watch.

ChampFantana said:

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I guess the worthless retards in Hollywood haven't learned their lesson from The Boys. There's no way in hell this shit will even be slightly watchable.

Don't get me wrong, the comics are utter dogshit and just about the worst work Ennis has ever done. But this will be an absolute disaster in a completely different way. No way in hell the edgier shit makes it past the ratings board.

If H-wood wants to adapt any Ennis work, can't they just adapt Adventures in the Rifle Brigade? THAT, I'd watch.

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Garth going all in with continuing his sell-out tour. Was Crossed ever being popular? "Utter dogshit" doesn't even begin to describe how bad Crossed is, no matter who was writing it. Notable mention to Moore's stint on Crossed +100 and his lame attempt at creating something akin to Nadsat from "A Clockwork Orange" in his dialogue. Which fell completely flat.

Hope Ennis has at least some decency left and won't let Hollywood get their greasy mitts on Hitman.

The Feline Solution said:

Notable mention to Moore's stint on Crossed +100 and his lame attempt at creating something akin to Nadsat from "A Clockwork Orange" in his dialogue. Which fell completely flat.

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That shit was utterly unreadable, I gave up on that because the script was just incomprehensible. Just awful in a different way from the standard Crossed.

Alexander Thaut said:

think the idea, at first, involved it being a Thelma and Louise type of thing. Add on some shenanigans, etc.

Then they kept pushing it as a gay thing. I think it's probably a way that Ivy's using pheromones to ensure Harley never harms her as Ivy's seen enough of what Joker and his ilk can do at a coin's toss

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Nah, they had shipping-themed figurine as BTAS merch which got vetoed late enough that there was an entire run printed

Cactuar King said:

That shit was utterly unreadable, I gave up on that because the script was just incomprehensible. Just awful in a different way from the standard Crossed.

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Absolutely. It just added nothing.

We had a conversation about Moore's pedo tendencies ITT topic a while ago and while writing my previous post i remembered that Moore snuck that shit in Crossed +100, too. There's a scene where one of the underage female protagonists asks one of the older members of their community, who was born when normal society was still somewhat intact, to have sex with her and not understanding why he denies her request. What i take from that is that in Moore's moral-free and lawless post-apocalyptic dystopia people would take kid fucking back up again and see nothing wrong with that. Sure gave my noggin a joggin'.

UnsufficentBoobage said:

Nah, they had shipping-themed figurine as BTAS merch which got vetoed late enough that there was an entire run printed

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was this in the 90s or recent?

Alexander Thaut said:

was this in the 90s or recent?

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90s, and I learned about it from tumblr

ChampFantana said:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/m...ed-movie-in-the-works-garth-ennis-1235976318/

I guess the worthless retards in Hollywood haven't learned their lesson from The Boys. There's no way in hell this shit will even be slightly watchable.

Don't get me wrong, the comics are utter dogshit and just about the worst work Ennis has ever done. But this will be an absolute disaster in a completely different way. No way in hell the edgier shit makes it past the ratings board.

If H-wood wants to adapt any Ennis work, can't they just adapt Adventures in the Rifle Brigade? THAT, I'd watch.

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The Kite-Man show DC is going (yes its an actual show and is airing now) has a lot of Hitman characters in it

Clyde Cash's Left Teste said:

The Kite-Man show DC is going (yes its an actual show and is airing now) has a lot of Hitman characters in it

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yeah the past decade has seen some hitman characters pop up in specials like more section 8 stuff.

weird, but i guess they were trying to attract people who liked it?

Clyde Cash's Left Teste said:

The Kite-Man show DC is going (yes its an actual show and is airing now) has a lot of Hitman characters in it

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Is it any good?

The Feline Solution said:

Is it any good?

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Its... ok. Its a spin off of the Harley Quinn show with Kite-Man and Golden Glider as the leads. Also Bane is a main character in it. If you liked the Harley Quinn show's Kite-Man watch it but its just kinda there.

Clyde Cash's Left Teste said:

Its... ok. Its a spin off of the Harley Quinn show with Kite-Man and Golden Glider as the leads. Also Bane is a main character in it. If you liked the Harley Quinn show's Kite-Man watch it but its just kinda there.

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I'll have a gander, just checked the voice cast, Sean voiced by Jonathan Banks is enough for me to at least give it a try. Thanks, fella.

Edit: Alright, lasted almost five minutes before i turned it off.

I feel like half the fun of Batman is that some of the villains can be sort of allies. Like Penguin at times is basically reformed into hosting a nightclub that’s ultimately on the grey side of morality. He’ll sometimes be an informant for Batman because it’s in his benefit to stop the Jokers terrorist attacks.

Like some niggas like Scarecrow and Joker will never not be fucking assholes, but some of them can. I feel like the Tim Burton Batman attracted the weird goth kids who wanted Batman to always whine about his dead parents rather than a mostly over it billionaire deciding to beat up psychotic freaks because writing a check doesn’t cut it.

VeteranOfTheRetardWars said:

Superman is the best hero and I’m tired of people pretending he’s not.

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I like Spider-Man, but Spider-Man when he’s juggling his life and not about to have a mental breakdown. When he’s mildly annoyed that he has to do the right thing and beats up some faggot Australian.

HodgePodgeRogerDodger said:

I feel like half the fun of Batman is that some of the villains can be sort of allies. Like Penguin at times is basically reformed into hosting a nightclub that’s ultimately on the grey side of morality. He’ll sometimes be an informant for Batman because it’s in his benefit to stop the Jokers terrorist attacks.

Like some niggas like Scarecrow and Joker will never not be fucking assholes, but some of them can. I feel like the Tim Burton Batman attracted the weird goth kids who wanted Batman to always whine about his dead parents rather than a mostly over it billionaire deciding to beat up psychotic freaks because writing a check doesn’t cut it.

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I think my issue is that a lot of people that shouldn't be into this hobby are in it for clout and then those weird kids grow up to be the Mariko Tamakis of the world.

HodgePodgeRogerDodger said:

I like Spider-Man, but Spider-Man when he’s juggling his life and not about to have a mental breakdown. When he’s mildly annoyed that he has to do the right thing and beats up some faggot Australian.

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same.

I want Spidey coming back to MJ in the apartment with some jokes as they both figure shit out. I want Spidey to have the one single thing he can brag about to other heroes being his wife.

Can't we let our boy have one fucking thing. Christ.

but uh, now MJ's a superhero and is buddies with black cat. spidey's dating life is fucked and the last we saw of mephisto and spidey it was hinted that there's something wrong with his soul now.

HodgePodgeRogerDodger said:

I feel like half the fun of Batman is that some of the villains can be sort of allies. Like Penguin at times is basically reformed into hosting a nightclub that’s ultimately on the grey side of morality. He’ll sometimes be an informant for Batman because it’s in his benefit to stop the Jokers terrorist attacks.

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I think most of the Batman and Superman villains are golden age remnants ie shit came up on a whim. The ones who've survived the longest are generally representative of a character archetype or pathology that way they can be interesting and multifaceted without being caricature. It's one of the reasons why the regular Arkham rogues gallery is that good. They each are a pathology for which Batman is the cure and sometimes they play against each other.
Sidenote: The newest justice buster issue is very good

Alexander Thaut said:

Mariko Tamakis

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Mariko tamaki and Kelly DeCunny should never be let into writing capeshit ever again, never ever ever.

admiral said:

people on twitter are insisting that Dr Doom and scarlet witch and so on need to be played by Romani actors because 'the characters are romani' and it's making me feel insane. They were never Romani, they were generic eastern europeans from a made up country somwhere in the region of Latvia. Until fairly recently if someone in a comic was from anywhere east of Germany then they were either a commie, a criminal, or a gypsy.

The push recently for 'Doom is Romani representation' and 'Quicksilver and Scarlet witch aren't white they're Romani' is kind of absurd to me, becuse their characterisation was always based off of lazy stereotypes about people from the Eastern Bloc. At once point in one of the games Quicksilver spoke Russian and for most of their publication history they were half German.

I actually don't care about retcons within the world of the comic, buy you can't retcon reality lol. Suggesting that Doom should be Romani in this new interpretation would be one thing, but stating that it's racist for him to not be Romani is dumb. He was never Romani, he was a generic Eastern European dictator. Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch were gypsies because they're supposed to be weird and foreign and untrustworthy with strange customs and mystic powers.

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i want to see doom's origin where he pickpockets the mask on his trip around europe

Georgio Cocklord said:

I think most of the Batman and Superman villains are golden age remnants ie shit came up on a whim. The ones who've survived the longest are generally representative of a character archetype or pathology that way they can be interesting and multifaceted without being caricature. It's one of the reasons why the regular Arkham rogues gallery is that good. They each are a pathology for which Batman is the cure and sometimes they play against each other.
Sidenote: The newest justice buster issue is very good

Mariko tamaki and Kelly DeCunny should never be let into writing capeshit ever again, never ever ever.

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Superman's best villains are usually mirroring him thematically (Ultra-Humanite, Lex Luthor, Brainiac. All geniuses) or are foils to his virtue (Bizarro, Parasite, Zod, Metallo, any prominent Superman Rogues gallery powerhouse). The third category belongs to the Toymen and Pranksters who've just kinda been there forever. Mr. Mixy is probably the one notable sorta exception to the idea of being a thematic mirror or foil to virtue. Superman's rogues gallery is pretty concise in the really well known ones, but I think we still have room for more development for plenty of them.

Personally, I do think we've miled Luthor, Brainiac, and Zod quite a bit and could use a little break. I did like the Superman on Warworld run from a few years back. Mongul's always been one of my picks for big bad alien that Supes fights. Darkseid needs to be reserved for special events and none of the other big bad villain aliens carry that level of dangerous. Zod's matched with Kal, but has his own code. Kanjar-Ro is a Silver Age holdover. Sinestro's not part of this rogues gallery.

I guess that leaves. . .Despero. But he hasn't been used effectively since the JLA run right during Infinite Crisis. That JL Detroit story with him was bone-billing. The further JLI-JLE era tales with him were also pretty good.

I think we have some possible greatness left with Superman in the right hands. A run exploring Superman's presence and influence on the world around him in heartwarming ways would be nice. It's been done before, but I think a Superman run that explores the dawn of the "modern age" of heroes (I.E. Supes going public in metropolis) could be really fun. Have it be told through the lenses of retired heroes, villains, and adventurers of all kinds.

Another thing I also enjoy is that the idea of a Super-family isn't bad. It just needs to be handled decently
Letting Connor go back to Hawaii would be good. Let them all scatter around.

Stop focusing on weird gender/sex shit. Just give us heroes again. Wanna do a genderspecial bullshit story? Write it from the perspective of an outsider looking in. Have the lenses be the hero's. No shit people are gonna be weirded out with Jon and Tim and other characters just suddenly switching to being gay. 99% of the population isn't gay. The fucking '90s Northstar story about him coming out was far better executed because it told both sides, had an emotional core, and the reader was akin to being on the outside and looking in.
I hate how a lot of modern LGBT/idpol narratives put the reader in the mouthpiece's shoes because it doesn't work. The vast majority of the people on the planet can't identify with this, so don't alter and fuck up things to get your idpol wank on. Wanna tell me a story about how Captain America had a gay buddy from his youth in the '30s and '40s? Some dude in the 80s did a pretty good job with that, compared to what's out now. Wanna have an Ironheart that's likable? Don't make her into a fucking redditor. You can have your goofy idea work, but just do your homework and look at what made Kamala Khan likable. Like, fucking hell, it's not that hard. She's 100% a token character, but they handled her in a way that made her likable. Miles and Sam Alexander were also likable. It's not hard. Amadeus Cho, for all his bullshit and annoyances, is at least an understandable character that's been given time to grow into a deeply flawed hero. Ironheart's a jackass who didn't earn her spurs and spent her first impression being a little bitch.


Also wish we had big anthology books again that'd rotate featured stories. I want more Plastic Man and I've read literally everything with him.