But why is his design based on Simon Pegg to begin with? Just because why not? Is Ennis a big fan or something?
>>153843625Anus probably liked Shawn of the Dead.
>>153843625he's pretty similar to the character in shaun of the deaddunno why simon pegg, but it works
>>153843731based
He probably just googled "ugly brits"
>how to draw an irish that does look familiar?
>>153843625Because a lot of superhero comic characters are based on actors.
>>153843625Spaced
>>153843625Simon usually plays a down on his luck but down to earth character who maintains an overall optimistic view even if he makes a few pessimistic comments.Hughie is more or less that, except he's really in the shit so his realistic nature makes him seem like an alien to his actual world. He's a likeable, entertaining lad instead of a mopey cunt so it's fine.
>>153843625The same reason Mark Millar designed his protagonist in Wanted to like Eminem.
>>153844476>several The Boys spin-off series >not one of them animated besides the throwaway anthology I hate you Amazon
>>153843625>>153844476
>>153846263Did Garth Ennis steal your woman?
>>153843625He's the perfect British everyman to look completely out of place around killers and psychos in a funny way. He probably watched Simon Pegg movies and liked it so much he wanted the character in more crazy situations. He also looks a bit like Ennis so that probably is part of it too, even though he denies it.
Isn't this illegal? Or is it only a problem if the person whose image is being used raises a stink about it?
>>153847240The latter, otherwise Greg Land would be more trouble than he's worth.
>>153846103I really want to know what happened to the baby. But at the same time if they killed her off for a cheap joke I'd probably be pissed. So for the best I guess.
>>153847349
Comic Butcher trained his dog to rape on command for a laugh.
>>153847240Pegg certainly okayed it since he plays Huey's dad in the show.
>>153843625Duh. He obviously wanted Penn to play the character in the inevitable live action movie that never happened!
>>153848911*Pegg, not Penn.
>>153848857I was happy when I got the news about Simon Pegg in the show.
>>153843625Ennis is overrated, and it's all because he, like all the other rejects from the European comic scene who crossed the Atlantic, put poured blood, semen, and the contents of a toilet onto a comic book page. So infantalized was the American consumer of the medium by DECADES of the Comics Code Authority that they did not recognize how juvenile their works truly were, as each of the great "writers" can be easily categorized as a type of overgrown teenage boy.
>>153843625>Simon Pegg'd
>>153843625Seems like it was more of Darick Robertson's decision but he says he just thought it worked.
>>153843625Because Ennis is too ugly to be his own self insert.
>>153843625Ennis is an unoriginal hack who just nabs characters wholesale from movies and places them in his stories. William Munny from Unforgiven is essentially the prototype for the saint of killers in preacher and butcher in the boys and probably a few other characters from books I havent read.
>>153849285original MM is just Ving Rhames
>>153849285Interesting evolution, appreciate the insight.
>>153849401>and probably a few other characters from books I havent read.Lol'd
>>153849285Makes sense when I consider the actor in Hot Fuzz.
>>153846263based
>>153843625Unless Ennis specifically put it in his design notes then the blame falls on Robertson. A lot of those shitty 2000s artists loved being lazy and just drawing celebrities i.e. drawing Noman as Tommy Lee Jones.
>>153847240Parody laws, and unless you got more money than sense making a case against a comic is almost never going to be worth it. At most you can get them to stop, you're not gonna get any big money from it. At the end of the day it's a face and a lot of people do have similar faces to celebrities so it's hard to hold a copyright a face alone. The only way it's going to work out in the parodied party's favor is if they're borderline advertising the comic as being endorsed by the person who's face is used(especially if the personality is similar and not a clear parody) and the comic has a notable influence on the reputation of the person and is making enough money to be sued for...the last two are very unlikely for mainstream comics. Samuel Jackson probably had one of the best cases for suing because they were using direct images for references, and even then he really just played it for a gentleman's agreement to get dibs on the role in a movie.
>>153849819They've been doing that since forever.
>>153846391>He projects his cuckold fantasies because they insulted his fag hero.snowflake
>>153846979Yeah, but they conveyed their appearance well.
>>153850416Good projection projecting.
