#marc hitting Marlene in the 2006 run honestly hit me harder than the face ripping thing

[therealraewest]

(Firstly, apologies for rapidly going through all your live blogging of your MK reading; your takes are entertaining and I couldn't help myself) but primarily! The 2006 run committed many crimes but at least it didn't have Marc fight a ???? Rabid dolphin??? As some kind of ~How Bad A Person Are You?~ test. I've simply never gotten over that one

Oh no apologies needed, I'm glad if you enjoyed my journey!

2006 was extremely grimdark but in a way that felt grounded and reasonable. It's Marc's worst days, actively being pushed into his worst self by Khonshu at every turn, and it results in Marc literally faking his own death and Jake taking over to try to recenter the system. Worst bit of that run was how he treated Marlene and how she didn't IMMEDIATELY run for the hills and never come back.

2016 Bemis was like what if instead of a man dealing with a mental illness on top of being a vigilante, Marc has ThE PoWeR oF CrAzYyyy like some z-list Deadpool ripoff. The rabid dolphin, the antisemetic handling of Marc's jewishness (plus the Nazi posing as a rabi making bad Jewish jokes ugh), the way that run made Jake into the most unhinged/violent member of the system (plus giving Jake a daughter and making her call him Uncle Jake and insisting Marc is her "real" dad ugh) it was just a bad run and I hate that it immediately followed up the Lemire run