The Boys - An Amazon Prime adaptation of the Ennis comic series

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Your Spiritual Liege said:
This alone tells me, that you haven't read the actual comics, just skimmed through or read the wiki, like a consooming faggot.
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Wait, are you saying that autistically and obsessively reading comics book is less of consumer culture than reading a wiki summary? You are either delusional and psychotic over the comics. Or you didn't read them or don't remember them. As literally every single superhero in the comics can fly because of Compound V. They all fly. It's literally in one of the most well known panels and moments in the comics where every single superhero flies to Washington D.C. to fight the government.

Does this not look like Compound V gives everyone flight?

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Frank(en) Castle said:
I second this. Crossed is to date the most fucked thing I've ever read.
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It's so much fun, though. And Crossed +100, especially the first arc, takes it beyond its nihilistic horror anthology origins and does something interesting. The evolution of language is cool, and Beau Salt (for all five pages he gets) is a funny, memorable character. Best of all, Amazon will never ruin it.

There's also a dog version called Rover Red Charlie that's worth checking out.
 
Then what about this scene, when flying heroes are lifting those, who cannot fly on their own?
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You know, i could potentially find the scene, where Butcher explains how Compound V works to Hughie in, I think the first or second TPB, during the stakeout, but i think i made my point already.
You haven't read those comic books, you just fucking skimmed through them, because if you would actually READ them, you would now about the nature of Compound V and how it transforms people into supes. It's not being autistic about it, it's basic things you learn, while reading the fucking books.
Yet you try to gaslight me like an autistick sped, insead of just admiting, that you don't know shit about the comic's plot. You were THIS close of experiencing all this great story, characters, dialogs and you fucking ruined it in some half-assed way of trying to proving me wrong, bravo retard.
 
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Your Spiritual Liege said:
You were THIS close of experiencing all this great story, characters, dialogs.
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What? I read the comics when they debuted. They were not that great. It was a chore to finish them. Compound V gives nearly every superhero in the comics flight. It gives almost zero superheroes on the the show flight. That was the simple point. You can psychotically debate and rage that Compound V doesn't give everyone the power of flight in the comics. Or that technically no one on the show can fly without some type of assistance from their other powers like having wings or electricity whatever.

The point was that flight in the comics was a common superhero power. On the show only Homelander can fly on his own but others have things like wings or can propel themselves with fire or lightning. No one wants to break down the hard numbers in the comics or the show. They fly in the comics. Not on the show. The comics and show do not deserve analysis beyond that. As they are both poorly written.

Clearly you are a huge fan of the comics. We get it. No need to freak out when someone says "they all fly in the comics" then start having an autism fit when the statement is taken literally. It was a generalization compared to the show. No one here, aside from you, cares enough to actually check the powers of every single superhero in the wiki to confirm who can and cannot fly. No one cares. Garth Ennis wouldn't even care. Touch grass.
 
BallisticAutistic said:
Come on. He can't be that bad. I mean he's not Alan Moore.
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He is not Alan Moore but he takes himself as seriously.

He should remember that ultimately he is a writer of funny books, not a serious literary figure.
This, I think, is why Neil Gaiman tends to get taken seriously more than Ennis or Moore, yet he had basically the same start and a very similar route to where he is today, apart from he also wrote traditional novels and not just comics.
 
Your Spiritual Liege said:
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You know, i could potentially find the scene, where Butcher explains how Compound V works to Hughie in, I think the first or second TPB, during the stakeout, but i think i made my point already.
You haven't read those comic books, you just fucking skimmed through them, because if you would actually READ them, you would now about the nature of Compound V and how it transforms people into supes. It's not being autistic about it, it's basic things you learn, while reading the fucking books.
Yet you try to gaslight me like an autistick sped, insead of just admiting, that you don't know shit about the comic's plot. You were THIS close of experiencing all this great story, characters, dialogs and you fucking ruined it in some half-assed way of trying to proving me wrong, bravo retard.
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DDBCAE CBAADCBE said:
They almost made a genuinely good show by accident. Almost.
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First season is so much different than the rest it's unreal. Very similar to Westworld on HBO. Where its first season was incredible. Then it declined at the most rapid pace of probably any television show up to that point. You could argue the same for Invincible as well. First season moves at breakneck pace with its plot. Then the second season might as well be purely filler.
 
TheHarbinger said:
Homelander has a line "I'm the only man in the sky".
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I feel like a lot of people on this forum need to learn how to fucking read. And I don't just mean the literal act of reading something, I mean picking up on the context and subtext inherent in a given bit of writing, and interpreting that in your brain.

The line is 'The only man in the sky is me' and it's delivered to the Millers, a religious family who won a prize at Believe, a Christian-right aligned festival sponsored by Vought, before Homelander drops them from a great height to their deaths.

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The line is supposed to be mocking the beliefs of the Millers - the other implied 'man in the sky' is God. God, who Homelander is mocking, as a figurative 'man in the sky', compared to Homelander who, because he can fly, in this context is the literal 'man in the sky'. It's a self-aggrandising affirmation from Homelander that God doesn't exist, but he does and thus, he is the closest thing to God in that universe. Please note that this scene takes place immediately before Homelander discusses his coup with the other supes AND THAT'S THE POINT. It's Homelander, again, reaffirming that he can do whatever the fuck he wants, because who's going to stop him?

It's Homelander saying, "I am God."

It's not Homelander saying, "I am the only supe who can fly," you autist.
 
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Miriam Margoyles said:
It's Homelander saying, "I am God."

It's not Homelander saying, "I am the only supe who can fly," you autist.
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That only works as a double entendre if both meanings are true.

If he's not literally the only man in the sky then it doesn't make sense.

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lol stay mad faggot your shitty little comic isn't even remotely as deep as you think it is
 
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Oilspill Battery said:
That only works as a double entendre if both meanings are true.

If he's not literally the only man in the sky then it doesn't make sense.
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There might well be other supes who can fly, but that's not the meaning of the line. The line isn't about being able to fly, it's about being the man in the sky. Being God.

Homelander is an egotistic megalomaniac who thinks himself above everybody, who also happens to be the most powerful superhero in the world, giving his megalomania some merit because he's the most powerful thing in that universe. If there are other supes who can fly (and there aren't in that scene, only he is present) it still doesn't matter, because to him, they are entirely beneath him.

Immediately after this takes place, he flies off and has a mid-air conference with a load of other supes where they discuss his plan to take over America. That line isn't undercut by everybody present for that conference also being able to fly, because - and I cannot emphasise this enough - the line in the previous scene isn't about that.
 
Miriam Margoyles said:
. The line isn't about being able to fly, it's about being the man in the sky.
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"The line about flying being said by the man who can fly isn't about being able to fly."

You understand why this line makes more sense if it has a double meaning or are you just pretending not to?
 
Oilspill Battery said:
"The line about flying being said by the man who can fly isn't about being able to fly."
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Yes. Unironically, yes.

Are you trolling me at this point? Because I'm struggling to believe that someone can be this fucking stupid. It's not even a difficult fucking line to grasp.

The line ISN'T about flying, you fucking autist. It has a double meaning, yes, but it's about more than 'lol, I can fly.'

He doesn't say, "I'm the only man who can fly," the line is, "The only man in the sky is me."

Meaning: 1) I can fly.
And 2) I am basically God to you.

Do you get it now, or do I need to break out the hand puppets?

Oilspill Battery said:
lol stay mad faggot your shitty little comic isn't even remotely as deep as you think it is
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Too deep for you though, you fucking spastic. :lit:
 
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