Shankie's House of Guns & Spandex

I'm playing with ScribeFire. There's good and bad about it, but XJournal kept crashing on me, so... we'll see how this works.



In The Boys, the above is a nice way of describing superheroes. If this series is any indication, the only way Garth Ennis could hate superheroes more would be to write page after page of them getting horribly mutilated and tortured to death over and over. Nearly every single one is a sex-crazed psychopath that treat everyday people like things that only exist for their pleasure. They save, or don't save, based on whims, and even can treat each other like pieces of meat. And it's graphic enough that I'm pretty sure PhotoBucket wouldn't be happy with me posting a lot of their sexual escapades that generally leave me crossing my legs and wincing just to look at it. Think "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" at various levels.

Most of the humor is definitely black humor, and sometimes the good guys don't act much better than the bad guys. But since the main protagonist shares skepticism about what pretty much everybody is doing... well. It's good, and is even blackly entertaining and funny in between bluntly graphic or just plain gory..

( Love Sausage )

I feel more cynical already.

So. This was prolly the most viewed panel from Authority Prime #1, I'd imagine.



For good reason, too. I love Midnighter. So much. He just walks into a scene, snaps off a one-liner and I am so entertained.

So, what's in #2? Well, admittedly it's not really a lot. It's pretty meh. Just a really big fight scene that ends in some death, because death is apparently contagious. There was, however, this one set of pages involving Rose Tattoo's rather, uh, unorthodox way of subduing the enemy.

Heh. Really.

( What is... is she having sex with him? )

Yes, yes she is.

Midnighter being dark and scary apparently turns her on, too, ha. It's ironic enough that I lol'ed.