The episode has two weak points: the telegraphed ending, and the cliched opener where of course the mother is going to die with Jimmy's name on her lips.

Chuck is the guy who puts his own ideas and ideals above people, and is then surprised that people — *gasp* — don't like him!

Silver Age DC, maybe. *Maybe.* Comics hand plot points on stupid coincidences like that, but usually not character turns.

When did learning someone's mother has the same name as yours become the basis for a crisis of conscience?

If only there were someone he could exchange protein strings with. But he does love human music.

No, that was Tara Strong doing her best Arleen Sorkin impression.

I'm most bothered by Will Smith doing "Will Smith action hero" instead of playing Ostrander's homicidal depressive version of Deadshot.

*plane explodes with the Joker onboard*
HARLEY QUINN: Puddin'!!!
BATMAN: At this point, he probably is.

Crispin Glover.

Bald Bull 1 also gives azway a lot of stars if you know when to punch. You can slug him in the face during certain windows in the windup animation to most of his punches — anything except the uppercut, really — to interrupt the attack and get a chance at a star.

But…Kingsley isn't dead! He sent a decoy to die in his place.

Nah. This really unsympathetic as a reading.

I'm old-school. It's a wrongpurae waiting to happen.

He does say he makes an exception for Superman as a genuinely utopian concept, the only one he has time for.

Ahem…Pinky and the brain.

Both of those books were, of course, under tighter editorial control in some ways. Ennis sort of had to rein in his worst instincts.

I'd say both of them indulge in some really gross portrayals of black people. I guess I feel like Punisher MAX usually pushed that stuff to the margins, while The Boys used it as significant plot points.

Read Marshal Law sometime. The Boys is basically Cliffs Notes of Marshall Law, only someone's drawn sad little doodles of boobs and dicks in the margins and written extra sweary language on every page.

No, he's said in several interviews over the years that he hates them. He's argued that unlike Judge Dredd, superheroes never have to make "real, difficult choices" and so are a silly copout.

Punisher MAX didn't have an adult man breastfeeding to get superpowers and then show his mother as some kind of barely human boob-tentacle monster.