• Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    This was a whole plot point of season one of The Boys in which Vought International forces Starlight to wear a skimpier costume (this after she was already sexually assaulted by The Deep).

    Reality imitates art, I guess.

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      1 day ago

      It’s nutpicking, to a degree. The odds of finding someone who wants to fuck the cartoons approaches 1.0 lightning fast on the internet. I’m less disgusted with the guy whining about an uninspiring upskirt shot (literally, why even shoot that frame? You could just not point the camera there!) I’m more disgusted with the AI Slop in the first panel, where they’ve replaced Kara Zor-El’s legs with the Hulk’s for some reason.

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      2 days ago

      I mean, the boys was meant as biting social commentary so not sure where we are in the cart/horse equation here.

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      1 day ago

      That guy’s stuff is always really on the nose. Watch ‘preacher’, his previous adapted-for-tv work. Its about American Christianity, conservative politics, and their conspiracies. Blunt, crass, pointlessly violent, politically kind of inchoate beyond the negative ‘this is all dumb Nazi shit’ but said amusingly ever so often. Eugenics Jesus was a pretty good gag about american myth and Nazi racial mythology.

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        1 day ago

        I read the Preacher comic and… I gotta say, it falls off fast after the first couple of chapters. The mature-ish grotesquerie made to deliver context early on devolves into pure juvenille banging-my-action-figures-together by the end.

        Eugenics Jesus was a pretty good gag about american myth and Nazi racial mythology.

        I enjoyed “What if the Catholic Church tried to Hapsburg Family the Desposyni” as a concept. The execution was crass and fell flat. They could have had a legitimately interesting story arc introducing a severely disabled Jesus descendant capable of the odd miracle who the straight white male able-bodied main character could engage with. But it was more fun to make poop jokes and then splatter them in the punchline panel.

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          Only saw the tv, but the concept is almost exactly how the Nazis conceptualized the whole ‘master race’ thing,in addition to megahapsburg.

          And the idea of breeding jesuses is pretty funny. But yes it did all kind of devolve to that.

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            24 hours ago

            And the idea of breeding jesuses is pretty funny.

            It’s a great setup for a long running joke. One reason why Garth Ennis is so obnoxious. He loves to squander a good premise on a cheap punchline.