>From legendary writer Garth Ennis (The Boys, Preacher) and superstar artist Jacen Burrows (Crossed, The Punisher): Meet BABS, a barbarian thief with an itchy metal wardrobe and the world's worst enchanted sword (named Barry). Together they travel a fantastic landscape of wizards, dragons, demons, castles—and a band of very angry, very white knights. Babs wasn’t looking for a fight, but she’s never found a bad situation she couldn’t make 100 times worse! Featuring variant covers by Chris Burnham (Batman Inc.) and Amanda Conner (Harley Quinn).
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>and a band of very angry, very white knights
Big red flag that was only confirmed in a screenrant interview:
>Introducing the new series, Ennis had this to say:
>“Writing BABS was an absolute hoot. The character is one of my favorite types – good at the job, but crap at life, with a lousy attitude to boot – and the world of Sword & Sorcery provides endless opportunities for deeply disrespectful humor. Having our heroine smash her way through goblins, ogres, imps, incels and other vermin was extremely satisfying; nobody’s going to be Making Middle Earth Great Again while she’s around."
I'm an Ennis fan but that's just embarrassing. It's not 2017 anymore.
That seems awfully cringe I'm sad to say.
Filters all the right people
It's a no for me
I love some of Ennis' comics, but I ain't reading this shit.
Ennis has a lot of skeletons that could be dragged out and make problems for him, it's just smart to spout keksalad like this.
Was Ennis always like this?
He's the living spirit of Gen X, of course he has.
>Ugh, the parent's generation are so ghey and out of touch.
>From a millennial in his mid 30's.
Ennis never stops
Ahoy only puts out commie garbage
Is Ennis already doing cuck fetish in a positive light in his works?
Women fricking other men and their partners being portrayed as okay with has been a reoccurring motif of Ennis' work for his entire career.
>and a band of very angry, very white knights
>Having our heroine smash her way through goblins, ogres, imps, incels and other vermin was extremely satisfying; nobody’s going to be Making Middle Earth Great Again while she’s around
Fricking lord, Penis. The guy's comedy books are hit and miss but this sounds like some shit a bawd writing a female led modern Marvel book would say.
This is straight up cringe man wtf happened to him
Is there any nudity?
I do not care for Jacen Burrows
>ITT: People just realizing now that Ennis is a tryhard homosexual
I have known that since The Boys. Still his comedy stuff can be decent. I liked that Snidely Whiplash book that he did and the bits and piece that I have seen from Hitman were fun. This just looks embarrassing.
>Garth Ennis, the award-winning award-winning writer ofHitman, The Punisher, Sara and Marjorie Finnegan, Temporal Criminal, and co-creator of The Boys and Preacher, is teaming up with acclaimed artist and frequent collaborator Jacen Burrows (Crossed,The Ribbon Queen) for BABS, a sharp satire of sword & sorcery. The six-part mini-series will debut from AHOY Comics, a Syracuse-based publisher specializing in humorous takes on horror, space opera, social satire, and superheroes.
>“Writing BABS was an absolute hoot,” said Ennis. “The character is one of my favorite types—good at the job but crap at life, with a lousy attitude to boot—and the world of Sword & Sorcery provides endless opportunities for deeply disrespectful humor. Having our heroine smash her way through goblins, ogres, imps, incels and other vermin was extremely satisfying; nobody’s going to be Making Middle Earth Great Again while she’s around.”
>The series introduces Babs, a skilled barbarian thief with an itchy metal wardrobe and the world’s worst enchanted sword (named Barry). Together Babs and Barry travel the highways and byways of a fabulous fantasy universe—a world of wizards and dragons, trolls and demons, towering palaces and piles of magic treasure—aiming to strike it rich. But Tiberius Toledo, and his band of very white knights, have different plans. While enacting her latest half-assed get-rich-slow scheme, Babs uncovers Toledo’s foul plot to exploit the baser instincts of the local townsfolk, landing her headfirst into an epic battle. Babs wasn’t looking for a fight…but then again, she’s never found a bad situation she couldn’t make a hundred times worse…
>BABS artist Jacen Burrows has worked extensively with Alan Moore and Garth Ennis on projects includingThe Ribbon Queen, Crossed, Neonomicon, and Providence.
>“I’ve been lucky enough to work in a lot of genres over the years but I have always wanted to work on a fantasy story,” said Burrows. “I’m having such a great time getting to design the world and characters and I can’t wait to take readers on this wild ride. The humor, the action, the wild creatures, and settings, this really is a dream project for me!”
>“Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows master the genre of orcs, dragons, and living swords, adding an ill-gotten bounty of humor and heart,” said AHOY Comics Editor-in-Chief Tom Peyer. “Babs herself—an outsized spirit of greed, frustration, courage, and comic violence—will linger in your memory.”
>Best selling artists Chris Burnham (Batman Inc, Nameless) and Amanda Conner (Harley Quinn, The Pro) will both provide a variant cover for the debut issue. BABS #1 will land in stores on July 17, 2024, ahead of Comic Con International.
>The debut issue of the highly anticipated sword & sorcery epic BABS, by award-winning writer Garth Ennis and artist Jacen Burrows, will have stunning variant covers by superstar artists Chris Burnham and Amanda Conner. AHOY Comics will publish a total of four collectible covers for issue 1: a main cover by Jacen Burrows (Crossed, The Ribbon Queen), a full color cover by Chris Burnham (Batman Inc., Nameless), a black-and-white line art variant by Burnham, and a full color variant by Amanda Conner (Harley Quinn, The Pro).
>“Gun to my head, I cannot pick a favorite,” said Editor-in-Chief Tom Peyer when asked to comment on the covers. “Please put down the gun.”
>BABS artist Jacen Burrows has worked extensively with Alan Moore and Garth Ennis on projects including The Ribbon Queen, Crossed, Neonomicon, and Providence. Ennis is the award-winning writer of Hitman, The Punisher, Sara and Marjorie Finnegan, Temporal Criminal, and the co-creator of The Boys and Preacher. The first issue of the 6 issue series will land in stores on August 15, 2024.
>“2024 is currently shaping up to be the most exciting year in the history of AHOY Comics, and not just because of the pinball machine we installed in the office breakroom,” said AHOY Comics Publisher Hart Seely. “With the release of BABS and TOXIC AVENGER and the return of JUSTICE WARRIORS, there’s never been a better time for readers and comic collectors to notice AHOY Comics, remove our wire-rimmed glasses, and discover just how beautiful we’ve been all along.”
>Americans react like this to a British writer
>I'M SHOOTIN' PEARLS HERE!
>PEARLS BEFORE SWINE!
she have big tibbers doe
The thing that gets me is that they're acting like this is new. A satire of Fantasy. Humor about Fantasy tropes. Is this what happens when old people think they're still with it, but they're no longer with it? This sort of thing has been done to death. Frick me, webcomics did this 20 years ago. Two zero. Two fricking decades. And we all know this old fossil isn't going to do anything smart with it. It's just going to be "piss" this "c**t" that, muh edgy irreverent humor that still neatly toes the socio-political line perfectly. Oh, and gore. Because gore is funny to this guy.
>The thing that gets me is that they're acting like this is new. A satire of Fantasy. Humor about Fantasy tropes.
And it seems like it's always a barbarian, too. I'm sick to death of ironic fantasy shitposting but could get behind one about a clueless paladin who sucks at lifeal and gets into misadventures.
Infamously second sons got semi-forced into the clergy during Medieval times, and reportedly made quite a shitshow of some monasteries by finding loopholes to continue living the good life. That sort of character seems like a good basis for some dumb Fantasy comedy. Who knows, maybe we could even root for Ser Useless a little as he learns things about real life. Maybe his extensive experience of being what amounts to a Medieval frat boy makes him approach traditional Fantasy scenarios from new angles. Yeah, it could go somewhere. Frick, if I ever get to play a new character instead of DM all the time I might actually play Ser Useless from the fraternal monastic order of Chi Upsilon Gamma.
But I think they pick barbarians so often because that means they don't actually have to be too smart about the character. The standard barbarian typically already questions the world and is ready to turn everything upside down for another tankard of ale. They are also known to curse a lot and get into fights.
>The thing that gets me is that they're acting like this is new.
I disagree.
As soon as I saw the bit about a crass talking sword I knew this was garbage. Enough of this already.
Ennis really is just terrible
>AY M8 WUT IF SUPAMAN WAS A GAY MURDERER RAPIST AND RAPED UR MUM IN THE BUM WHILE RAPING ORPHANS AND SETTING PUPPIES ON FIYA GAY BUTTSEX MURDER RAPE
>whatever the frick crossed is supposed to be
>and the world's worst enchanted sword (named Barry)
She's going to frick the sword, isn't she? Or is the sword going to rape her and then turn out to be her father?
This is Garth Ennis, so both have a strong possibility of happening. Either way, that sword is going in some holes.
>someone says "incel" or "white knight"
>Cinemaphile immediately takes the hint