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

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dame dudi jench said:
These Gen X guys - Ennis, Millar, got away with being huge assholes under the guise of being edgy and I'm glad ppl are reappraising. Grant Morrison is insane, Neil Gaiman and that Dresden doll chick are just more creepy aging goths, and Alan Moore is a blowhard but they at least like people, care about real art in their spare time, and wanted to connect with humanity in their stories.
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Getting a bit off topic, but of all the edgy 'Superhero deconstruction' comics I always had a soft spot for Warren Ellis's Supergod solely because of the plot point that India builds an AI powered superhuman and gives it the mission to save India, and said superhuman promptly concludes the best way to do this is to eradicate 90% of the Indian population. Even better is that it's actually stated this would've worked out in the long run.

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Gurney Halleck said:
Getting a bit off topic, but of all the edgy 'Superhero deconstruction' comics I always had a soft spot for Warren Ellis's Supergod solely because of the plot point that India builds an AI powered superhuman and gives it the mission to save India, and said superhuman promptly concludes the best way to do this is to eradicate 90% of the Indian population. Even better is that it's actually stated this would've worked out in the long run.

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That's totally on-brand for India. I love it!
 
Samuel Fuller said:
On another tangent, am I the only one who thought the Amazon version of The Tick just wasn't silly enough? Sure, Tick acted like a big blue doofus, but the rest of the show was too real-world natural compared to the comic, cartoon and Patrick Warburton series.
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I'm watching it right now. I vaguely remember the tick comic since I've read it ~2017 ish but while I like The Tick himself, I feel like this is doing the Mad Max Fury Road thing where they nail the main character's casting but he's a secondary character in his own show.
What I'm trying to say is that this is focusing on Arthur a lot and it feels like Arthur's origin story more than it does a The Tick show.
 
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