Hello. I read your posts on the Punisher and you said that Ennis wasn’t one of your favorite writers. I don’t disagree, given how he writes superheroes, but I was wondering if you could provide a better analysis of his writing.

pretenderoftheeast:

racefortheironthrone:

I half wrote a post about it it, but remembering reading Preacher and The Boys and the like just put me in a negative headspace, so I stopped. Basically, Ennis has some really massive problems that revolve around gender and sexuality, and even though he recognizes it and tries to fight against it sometimes, it always gets the better of him. 

Have you checked out Hitman #34? It and JLA/Hitman is one of the nicest and well-written thematic summations of Superman I’ve ever read.

It’s also why I can’t entirely discount Ennis as a superhero writer, despite all the things you rightfully pointed out. He’s a legit good Superman writer.

Yeah, I have. It is a nice story, but its existence makes me somewhat frustrated because it’s floating in an ocean of nihilism and deeply puerile gender/sexuality stuff as I discussed above. As much as I dislike Frank Miller, I don’t expect better out of him, and it annoys me that Ennis can do better but so often chooses not to.