The deconstruction of superheroes is the most overused and predictable trope in comic book history. From watchmen to invincible, and all that crap inbetween by obsessed tryhards like garth ennis, warren ellis and rick veitch. How come this shit still sells, after 50 years of shameless uninventiveness?
>>153052335you sound like a rape victim
>>153052360Maybe to you, but that's because you're clearly unhinged and need a good lobotomy.
>>153052335Pop culture is cyclical, simple heroes became passe so ambiguous heroes freshened it up, and when ambiguous heroes become trite then going back to normal will be the new subversion
>>153052335Because those examples are not deconstruction.
Garth loves super man
>>153052335>is the most overused and predictable trope in comic book historyThere are some good books, I don't care what you say about Watchmen and Brat Pack. I don't care if 95% of everything that has released recently hasn't been good, including Irredeemable. Even the big two published good deconstructions back then
>>153052335Because midwits think liking these things makes them smart and cultured so they brag about reading them nonstop and therefore create more demand
>>153052335And the constantly reused ideas of teen romcoms, little kid shenanigans, or horror/scifi anthologies are being outnumbered?
>>153052335These are not deconstructions, they're merely darker takes on the genre, which is more in line with what the average person in the audience wants. They're basically a return to form for tales of heroism, which tend to be a lot more violent and tragic than what the superhero genre in the 60s leads you to believe. These initially pushed back against undue censorship and stagnation. The limitation was supposed to spark creativity, but it stifled it instead, letting one genre take over, until the censorship began to loosen. Making this genre more substantial in the 80s was a good move, but it also became the new stagnation because good moves are not wasted, but mined to death by these publishers. The stuff from the 00s was largely hackwork.
>>153052335Deconstruction worked on the existing readerbase.Then super heroes became a multimedia phenomenon with the MCU.Now, another demographic that wasn't exposed to this approach thinks it's interesting.It's that simple.
>>153052335Fucked how Plutonian is the best of the evil Supermans but he never got an adaptation before people got tired of the trope.
>>153052886>Fucked how Plutonian is the best of the evil SupermansNah
>>153052335Surprised this hasn't gotten a show with success of the boys. Hollywood usually isn't patient enough to avoid milking.
>>153052335>Deconstruction is when blood and gore I hate this board
>>153052893Homelander is just a gaslit guy in the comics and Literally Drumpf in the show.Omni-man is a soldier basically.Irredeemable isn't perfect but it does a good job showing why Plutonian had his mental breakdown. People say this for Homelander already but Plutonian feels pretty realistic about how an irl Superman might go insane.
>>153052335you know when you're really constipated and you take some laxatives, but it doesn't work, so you take more?we're in the diarrhea state nowor if you prefer, when you take an edible and it does nothing so you take another because nobody told you it happens slower.
>>153052991Homelander and Omni-Man were bad from the beginning. Not comparable.
>>153052335Invincible actually feels like a respectful tribute to the superhero genre.Garth Ennis has openly stated he hates superheroes and the boys is his way of shitting on them in a tryhard way kinda like how you used to sing about killing Barney the dinosaur when you were 14 because your little brother watched it (he is a hack).
>>153054140>Garth Ennis has openly stated he hates superheroesHe said he doesn't hate them, he just finds them silly.
