It could be pretty well argued that "the dialog and content just felt too forced and fake edgy" is pretty much Ennis in a nutshell. I liked Preacher when I first read it, but after reading some of Ennis' other stuff, after a while you just want to go "okay, I get it, you're edgy."

Someone elsewhere pointed out a really nice thing: Peridot says "Wow, thanks" to Steven's "I love you", because in an earlier episode she learned that that's what you say when someone gives you a gift.

Honestly glad I could help.

Hopefully this doesn't come off as sarcastic or ignorant or anything, but: speaking as someone who is a straight white male, that's how I learn about why things like this are really needed.

1. We accept gay relationships.
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3. THE DOWNFALL OF CIVILIZATION

Trump wasn't about to be President, no one cared where anyone else went to the bathroom, and cartoons were only about straight people.

I'm guessing we'll be adapting to "high amounts of background radiation and warring over guzzline and aqua-cola".

It's been a while, but I think there may have been a point where Laing does notice that nobody is coming close to the building at all; not even in the sense of friends/family, but stuff like food deliveries or repairmen. It's possible I'm mis-remembering.

One step at a time!

I just always have to roll my eyes at the idea of "shoehorning in" diversity, like real life doesn't have actual diversity all over the goddamn place and it's being made up or something.

High-Rise (the novel) isn't a book about "our insular society is falling apart, and we need to escape". In fact, I'd say that nobody in the novel (apart from Royal) sees the destruction and societal breakdown as anything out of the ordinary. Everyone is willingly riding the catastrophe curve from the first incident;…

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I will admit that Steve being upset that Wanda was under house arrest didn't sit right with me. Yes it was an unintended accident, but she was still responsible for the deaths of a lot of bystanders! She's lucky she's only under house arrest!

Ugh, yeah. Damage Control was such a great, fun series; it never deserved that braindead plot twist.

Not to mention that neither side is presented as objectively "right". Tony has a valid point (if a superhero screws up and gets innocents killed, who are they answerable to? How are they held accountable?), and Steve has a valid point (putting superheroes under the control of a political body can lead to situations…

In fact, comic book stories tend to fail pretty miserably when addressing these issues because real world logic just doesn't work too well in comic book settings where almost everyone with power who isn't already a superhero is either incompetent, corrupt, or secretly evil.

Civil War (the comic) got off on the completely wrong foot anyway with the ridiculous instant-escalation of everything. There's never any real discussion of "how can we prevent this from happening again?" or anyone but Tony coming up with solutions, instead we seem to go from the clean-up to SHIELD trying to arrest…

Too bad Monsterpocalypse went out of print like five years ago.

I remember seeing the trailer for this, and being completely unable to tell if it was supposed to be something that was played straight, if it was supposed to be a comedy offshoot, or if it was an Epic Movie style "parody".

"That's strange, our attempt to teach our A.I. to swim by throwing it in the deep end without any supervision or anything didn't seem to work. Now that we've fished her out of the pool, what should our next move be?"