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Tweak says, "It's 2004"

batcookies (batcookies) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-09-14 01:02:00

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char: green lantern/kyle rayner, creator: garth ennis, nsfw: rape, publisher: dc comics

lol, Green Lantern was drugged and molested (or maybe even raped)!
Since we apparently have a theme going...

Garth Ennis' "Hitman" featured many memorable side characters. One of particular note was Bueno Excellente, "an obese, sweaty, and bald Latino in an overcoat who 'defeats evil with the power of perversion.' Generally, the only thing he says will be "Bueno", often preceded by a creepy chuckle."

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khamelea
2009-09-14 07:22 am UTC (link)

"I always took it as kind of a dare to relax. Because people who have lived through real problems, I guess, don't feel so threatened by words and pictures."

I really don't want to get into a whole argument here, but that's not really an approach that's going to endear me to ideas like Bueno Excellente. Okay, so nothing will ever endear me to Bueno Excellente, but still.

I really don't think Deadwood or the comedy stylings of Monty Python have anything in common with the repulsive stylings of Garth Ennis, except that the former has foul language.

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	jlroberson 2009-09-14 08:16 am UTC (link)
	I wouldn't exactly call myself "endeared"(and HITMAN was never a favorite, but I have good things to say about it), but it would be pointless to argue the merits of Ennis with anyone so definitively against him. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jlroberson 2009-09-14 08:18 am UTC (link)
	"...the comedy stylings of Monty Python..." But I would suggest that "stylings" are not what Python did and to call them that suggests a missing of the point, and how serious and angry their intent was. (Peter Cook being a stronger one in this regard) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	khamelea 2009-09-14 09:04 am UTC (link)
	You'd be wrong in suggesting that. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

khamelea
2009-09-14 09:27 am UTC (link)

To elaborate on that: if the choice of the word "styling" seems to have connotations too light to label Monty Python, it's mostly because I was going for a light tone for that sentence. I don't think anything can be inferred from my grasp or lack thereof of the point of Monty Python by the use of that word. After all, I also used it to describe the work of Garth Ennis, and you've just compared the two, which was rather puzzling in itself. So "styling" can't be that incompatible with Monty Python. But maybe it's my grasp of that word that's loose, if anything, but somehow I wouldn't find that very significant.

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	khamelea 2009-09-14 09:58 am UTC (link)
	And, as I said I didn't want to get into a whole argument, that's all. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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