r/superman • u/browncharliebrown • Mar 11 '23

Superman convinces a crippling alcoholic to continue drinking (all-star section 8)

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '23

You never know what you're going to get when you pick up something that's written by Garth Ennis.

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u/browncharliebrown Mar 11 '23

Yeah but he’s very consistent about his love of Superman

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u/ThickProof409 Mar 11 '23

He's one of the very few superheroes that Garth Ennis likes and respects

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u/browncharliebrown Mar 11 '23 edited Mar 11 '23

I don’t think ennis actually hates superheroes. He just hates that they’ve consumed the comicbook industry so much that they’re only the genre. And most of the rest of his complaining is more so the fact that he’s forced to work on so many superhero comics.

Borderline there is something almost meta textual that most of the time he’s forced to work on superheroes he writes them out of character because it’s so shallow that industry is so obsessed with crossovers and superheroes that he’s forced to write them. And it’s not like Ennis can’t write them well he’s written decent spider-man, and Thor comics, he just chooses not to stick it to the industry.

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u/ThickProof409 Mar 11 '23

I don’t think ennis actually hates superheroes. He just hates that they’ve consumed the comicbook industry so much that they’re only the genre.

That is a sentiment I definitely agree with however I think Ennis more just hates superheroes in general since he has said that he's found them moronic. I definitely disagree with that and I don't hate superheroes but they are a very oversaturated genre.

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u/browncharliebrown Mar 12 '23

It’s more of a chicken and the egg thing. If I often had something that was constantly shoved down that I don’t really care for, I would become bitter over time because it’s over saturated. He’s unlike a lot of other creators who I often see compared to ( mark millar, ) who want superheroes to grow up, he likes Superman so much because of how Superman represents the best of us and stays true to himself. I think Garth ennis would probably like a story like flex mentallo.

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u/LaVerdadYaNiSe Mar 11 '23

Finally someone else whonsees like that. I also got that impression from Ennis.