I just wanted to hear the thoughts of some comrades. I feel like the whole show is a dagger pointed right at the heart of amerikkkan culture and capitalism.
I’m not the most savvy on catching all the themes or lib brain worms that find there way into media, but it speaks to my disdain for the culture. The cynical narcissism of the supes (and holy shit their sexual pathologies), the capitalizing on things from every angle, the military jingoism, the soulless use of humans for capital, the commentary on the rot at the heart of the beast, and the religious cults preying on people. It hits for me, and I hate it all at the same time.
Anyway, hope ya’ll have a great Christmas or holiday, at least a break from the meat grinder.
Edit: Oh, and the fucking rainbow capitalism, it’s pretty spot on.
The TV show changed a lot of things in the adaptation (for the better, to be clear, the comics are absolute trash and Garth Ennis is a hack), to the point where I’d say all the social commentary is new. IIRC faux-religious supes aren’t even a thing in the comics, because they’re too busy having two arcs where the entire joke is “Hey Professor X and Batman having all these child sidekicks is kind of weird, huh? What if they were pedophiles?”.
Love Sausage
Also his runs on Hellblazer, Hitman, and Punisher are legitimately great
His stuff for Judge Dredd is fun too, like having the Irish mob have guns that shoot potatoes at lethal velocities