Ennis was raised in N. Ireland during the Troubles but never actually saw the violence firsthand nor lost a loved one to it. Him being an ignorant atheist chalked up as "oh these people are fighting because they worship a made up being differently, how backwards." Before Punisher went to NI, he had a Hellblazer story that touch on the Troubles and it is such a surface level take on the conflict.
>How does it have anything to do with religion?
It doesn't. One side just happened to be Catholic and one side happened to be Protestant. One happened to be working class and one happened to the ruling class. It would be like saying the Yugoslavian Wars were all about religion. It's a very stupid take and Ennis is a very stupid dude.
It really wasn't. The IRA were socialist and took it upon themselves to fight for the people who were Catholic, but you never heard them fighting in the name of Jesus, Pope and the Vatican.
I was talking about Yugoslavia
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Oh
Because he hates them
There are far worse groups in the world for Frank to fight.
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Again, just like North Ireland, Yugoslavia's wars were between people who happened to be Catholics, Moslems and Orthodox. Serbia wasn't even the Orthodox fraction because Serbian was an atheist state and most of the guys were advocated for separating were hardcore communists.
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Slavs hate themselves and are fated to kill themselves in an endless war
It really wasn't. The IRA were socialist and took it upon themselves to fight for the people who were Catholic, but you never heard them fighting in the name of Jesus, Pope and the Vatican.
>How does it have anything to do with religion?
It doesn't. One side just happened to be Catholic and one side happened to be Protestant. One happened to be working class and one happened to the ruling class. It would be like saying the Yugoslavian Wars were all about religion. It's a very stupid take and Ennis is a very stupid dude.
The conflict in Ireland has several different levels to it, and the way it's layered up over history means you can't really boil it down to one thing or the other. But basically: >English vs Irish >Protestant vs Catholic >North vs South >Richer vs Poorer >Rulers vs Colonised
Nah, OP makes a good point. Ennis has a boner for the IRA, but comes emptyhanded when it comes to the Ulster paramilitary which was very buddy-buddy with the UK's army.
I think he has a soft spot for Spider-Man. Of all the Marvel heroes he got shat on the least, I think he appreciates a guy whose superpowers only make his life worse.
Reminder that the Brits committed way more atrocities against Ireland than Russia did to Ukraine, yet we hear nothing about it. There are no donations, no billions of dollars in foreign aid, no weapons donation, no talk of reparations, nothing. Yet we have centuries of Ireland being tortured by the Brits.
Because we live in an anglo world, the british have commit all sorts of atrocities across the entire globe and we are all suppose to be on their side when they condemn some else for doing something much tamer.
Because the Latinx cartels and Haitian gangs who control the drug trade are a no-go, so comics people trot out boomer era white villains and pretend they’re still a thing.
I liked when Mike Parobeck would skirt around/make fun of this issue by having Batman fight ridiculous gangs with pompadour hairdos that looked like something out of West Side Story.
Because he grew up with them and the minute he moves to New York there's an endless stream of fucking plastic paddies celebrating them. Like he he has Brendan mouthpiece in that one issue of Hellblazer, try going back to Ireland and see what the fuck your ancestors were running away from.
The plastic paddies gets brought up in The Boys, and there's a similar, more PG sentiment on the nature of immigration in that Superman issue of Hitman
Does Ennis hate them or does he support them?
Considering he has Frank kill them I assume he hates them.
Probably because he's Irish.
>Fights for Northern Ireland to be return to Ireland and kick out the British colonizers
>Ennis hates the group that fought for that
Wow
What if Ennis lost a loved one to IRA bombing?
>foookin' catholics, foookin' religion!
Ennis was raised in N. Ireland during the Troubles but never actually saw the violence firsthand nor lost a loved one to it. Him being an ignorant atheist chalked up as "oh these people are fighting because they worship a made up being differently, how backwards." Before Punisher went to NI, he had a Hellblazer story that touch on the Troubles and it is such a surface level take on the conflict.
Wasn't the conflict over making Ireland whole again? How does it have anything to do with religion?
It has a lot to do with religion
>How does it have anything to do with religion?
It doesn't. One side just happened to be Catholic and one side happened to be Protestant. One happened to be working class and one happened to the ruling class. It would be like saying the Yugoslavian Wars were all about religion. It's a very stupid take and Ennis is a very stupid dude.
they were a large part about that though
How so
I was talking about Yugoslavia
Oh
There are far worse groups in the world for Frank to fight.
Again, just like North Ireland, Yugoslavia's wars were between people who happened to be Catholics, Moslems and Orthodox. Serbia wasn't even the Orthodox fraction because Serbian was an atheist state and most of the guys were advocated for separating were hardcore communists.
Slavs hate themselves and are fated to kill themselves in an endless war
True just like most people on the planet
It really wasn't. The IRA were socialist and took it upon themselves to fight for the people who were Catholic, but you never heard them fighting in the name of Jesus, Pope and the Vatican.
The conflict in Ireland has several different levels to it, and the way it's layered up over history means you can't really boil it down to one thing or the other. But basically:
>English vs Irish
>Protestant vs Catholic
>North vs South
>Richer vs Poorer
>Rulers vs Colonised
Pretty much, the people who summed it up as a black and white thing don't know what they're talking about. It's so complex.
I've been watching docs about it on Odysee.
One of his first stories is about The Troubles and it's well regarded. But you wouldn't know that because it's got nothing to do with super heroes.
Post it then
>One of his first stories is about The Troubles and it's well regarded.
So is The Boys. Ennis a dumb cunt and his fans are dumb cunts too.
>t. IRA
Both the IRA and Ennis are cunts, but at least the IRA had the genius idea of blowing each other up. Ennis was too dumb to get a clue.
Ennis is based, and his fans are based as well.
Emerald Isle or the one he did in Crysis?
This is going to be one of those threads, isn't it?
I was hoping to turn it into a Punisher thread, I was genuinely curious about why out of all the terrorist groups Garth used the IRA
Because he hates them
Nah, OP makes a good point. Ennis has a boner for the IRA, but comes emptyhanded when it comes to the Ulster paramilitary which was very buddy-buddy with the UK's army.
Someone post that panel of Frank tossing that woman who trafficked other women against the bullet proof glass window.
He also introduced kev by having him singlehandedly wipe out an IRA hitsquad
Is that an original work
Kind of. Kev was a character who was part of the Wildstorm universe but his series was self contained.
some kids call Midnighter a poof in it
It's his typical Ennis protagonist self-insert(?) character shoehorned into the Authority. It's maybe my favorite Ennis stuff.
Just like Billy Butcher, but full blown Self Insert.
At least Kev gets put into the hospital for calling Apollo and Midnighter poofs.
Does Garth hate superheroes
>just noticed Logan retracts his left and right claw to leave the middle one up in the last part
Wow.
All of them but Superman.
He'd fit right in on Cinemaphile then.
We stopped liking him after Bendis ruined him.
Right on
To be honest most superhero comics are very, very dumb. pic related, and don't even get me started on X-men.
also
>good luck, Pine Marten
lmao
pow
I love Frank's pose here
Tactical af
I think he has a soft spot for Spider-Man. Of all the Marvel heroes he got shat on the least, I think he appreciates a guy whose superpowers only make his life worse.
You just reminded me of that awful Thor comic he made.
>Still no Rambo/Punisher team up
Why
>still waiting on Frank teaming up with Stalker, Storm Shadow, and Snake Eyes in Nam
Best I can do is Frank and Eminem.
>why does he portray terrorists in a bad light?
>Heh if I change the question I'll make OP look dumb
>close-up of some guy wearing dark glasses smoking a cigarette saying "aye"
aye
Aye
Because Ennis is Irish and likes taking the piss out of the IRA, dumbass.
>Ennis is Irish
Ennis is from North Ireland, not the real Ireland.
Reminder that the Brits committed way more atrocities against Ireland than Russia did to Ukraine, yet we hear nothing about it. There are no donations, no billions of dollars in foreign aid, no weapons donation, no talk of reparations, nothing. Yet we have centuries of Ireland being tortured by the Brits.
Why does nobody care about the Irish?
Because we live in an anglo world, the british have commit all sorts of atrocities across the entire globe and we are all suppose to be on their side when they condemn some else for doing something much tamer.
really depends on where you live somewhere like Boston was very aggressive in its support and getting Donations for the IRA/ Irish republicans
Because the Latinx cartels and Haitian gangs who control the drug trade are a no-go, so comics people trot out boomer era white villains and pretend they’re still a thing.
I liked when Mike Parobeck would skirt around/make fun of this issue by having Batman fight ridiculous gangs with pompadour hairdos that looked like something out of West Side Story.
Because he grew up with them and the minute he moves to New York there's an endless stream of fucking plastic paddies celebrating them. Like he he has Brendan mouthpiece in that one issue of Hellblazer, try going back to Ireland and see what the fuck your ancestors were running away from.
>what the fuck your ancestors were running away from.
The Anglos?
>potatoes
>rain
>poverty
>poetry
>more rain
>marches
>gyppos
>Scotsmen who think they're Irish
>Irish who think they're Scottish
>more potatoes
>even more rain
And who was responsible for all that?
Part of it is God's. I mean, that whole area of the British isles is cursed.
It's been 800 years of British rule i'm still waiting for that so called luck Irish are said to have. lol. Americans wanting reparations are silly.
I'd take that, the fact that the Irish survived all the shit the English threw at them for centuries is due solely by luck.
God didn't put Prods in Eire.
The rain was all him, though,
The plastic paddies gets brought up in The Boys, and there's a similar, more PG sentiment on the nature of immigration in that Superman issue of Hitman
He's a buck-broken potatonagger, all that shitting on the IRA and ass-lapping the SAS is just his way to render tribute unto his English masters.