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There is something interesting about how often the earlier a deconstruction of a genre that would later get a Whole Ton Of Them is the more likely it is to actually go deep into the Actual Faults of the genre.

Like again Vigilante 1983 is not perfect, constantly back and forths on if Adrians right or wrong, and goes insane in the last set of issues (before the last three which go back to being great) but I still think its a way better deconstruction of the idea of a violent vigilante hero guy then other stuff that claims to do the same thing but is incapable of letting its cool male leads look actually vulnerable or stupid for longer then a panel or two

#Yeah Im vaguing Ennis again #I think it says something about the way people see stuff like that the main thing people talk about with Vigilante is #the ending. I think Ennis fucking destroyed antihero deconstruction comics honestly #made everybody think you have to be extremely gorey and violent and have alot of violence against women to be #Cool and Adult. I fucking hate Ennis dude #alot of these types of comics do get scenes of people calling the main tough guy a dumb idiot but then he always gets #a big splash page of like shooting a whole ton of goons and ripping peoples heads off to compensate #or to show him going DEEPER INTO THE VIOLENCEEEE #Also kind of vaguing the huston moonknight run now too. I hate the Huston run. New take from me Ive never said that before I know #ok done talking about vigilante now.#one more thing: also theres a reason the best mainstream superhero deconstruction was made by a anarchist.#and part of what makes Vigilante good is them acknowledging that these assholes are all rightwing #even if it is obviously way less critical of that then it shouldve been

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