#Garth Ennis

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Preacher - Jesse Custer by Steve Dillon

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For all its faults Garth Ennis really does write The Punisher as a guy who's just really compellingly insane hand in hand with his adherence to his genre. Sometimes I'll just pick up a non-Ennis punisher thing and it'll read like a cliche checklist of 80s hardman brooding action hero cliches (with a positive valence in his own book and a negative valence if he's guest-starring with someone less trigger happy.) You're reading Ennis's take on the character and it's like. Actually basically the same checklist but overlain with a horror lens. This is not a guy with problems. This is a guy that the problems have successfully hollowed out for use as a meat puppet because they can't operate a gun without opposable thumbs

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Hellblazer No. 49: Lord of the Dance

by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon

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When Garth Ennis writes the Punisher he genuinely engages with the idea of what kind of a person you'd need to be to be the Punisher. To be a marvel comic books vigilante like that. And the answer Ennis arrives to is that you can't be a person in any real sense, to be able to go in and kill people and do it forever, because what is the Punisher gonna do if not that? Stop? Change? Die? Of course not, there will always be a new Punisher comic.

When Ennis has approached the question of how it'd possibly ever end (like in the fittingly named Punisher: The End) the answer is that Frank Castle would keep on killing until there's nothing left to kill and then he'd die. Because the unending status quo by its very nature requires an inhuman killing machine. Even when Ennis writes about the start of things (in Born) there's no real change beyond Frank just admitting what he has always been.

This is btw why I also don't' agree that Billy Butcher from The Boys is similar to Ennis take on the Punisher, because the narrative Butcher exists in has consequences. There is a scene in The Boys where Mallory describes Butcher as someone seeking an unending war (as the Punisher does) but Mallory never understood Billy as a person. Perhaps Mallory, who is in some ways less of a realist, can believe, or want to believe in a person like the Punisher being possible.

No, Butcher was capable of change at least once and changed first when Becky gave him the belief things could be changed for the better, and later on after Becky's death where he took every lesson he had learned to become the worst possible version of himself. There were several times when things could have ended quite different on an individual level...

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1995's Preacher Vol.1 #1 (turning 30 today, feel old yet ?) cover by artist Glenn Fabry.

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Marvel Zombies: Black, White and Blood #1 (2023)

Garth Ennis | Rachael Stott

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Legionnaires house ad (circa March 1993)

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They let Garth Ennis do a Marvel Zombies one-shot about a year ago about The Punisher attempting to mercy kill a zombified Daredevil who'd been enslaved and forced to participate in a zombie superhuman fighting ring. Frankly they should have set Ennis loose on a full mini. I'd pay to see the world being gestured at in that one-shot fully rendered

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in love??? with a french man??? sacre bleu 🇫🇷🥖💙

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I can't get over how much like a gay Yandere Satan comes off as when interacting with John, every damn scene they're in is filled with this HORRIBLE tension, he wants John SO BAD

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say what you want about Wildbow but at least he doesn't have the seething contempt for the genre he's working with like Garth Ennis

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HELLBLAZER BY GARTH ENNIS OMNIBUS

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"But now it's four o'clock on Christmas Eve and I still haven't found a present for Kit."

Hellblazer No. 49: Lord of the Dance

by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon

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The one unequivocally good thing about THE BOYS and GEN V — and I know some people here will bristle at this — is that comics creators Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson are getting paid.

Tumblr fans generally hate Ennis because of his laddish crassness, fixation on dumb macho horseshit, and obvious contempt for American superhero comics, which is fair, but also not the point. How many literal billion-dollar Nerd Media franchises have been built on the backs of comics creators who never get so much as free tickets to the premiere, and who then get shorted on royalties when the publisher reprints or repackages their work to capitalize on newfound interest?

If you want to have an ethical stance on labor (and especially if you fancy yourself some kind of progressive or leftist), it needs to include people whose work isn't to your taste or you're not going to get anywhere.