Garth Ennis: Difference between revisions

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* ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]'' - A preacher with a [[Dark and Troubled Past]] finds himself the [[Right Man in The Wrong Place]], empowered with a [[Compelling Voice]] and makes a vow to use it to [[Calling the Old Man Out|Call The Old Man Out]] - [[Rage Against the Heavens|by the Old Man I mean God]].

* ''[[Hitman (Comic Book)|Hitman]]'' - An underrated series about Tommy Monaghan, a hitman with superpowers who operates in the mainstream [[DCU]].

* ''[[Crossed (Comic Book)|Crossed]]'' - ''[[~~Twenty Eight~~ Days Later (Film)|Twenty Eight Days Later]]'' meets "The Screwfly Solution"; a mysterious plague turns numerous people into psychotic rapists with crosslike scars on their face.

* ''[[Crossed (Comic Book)|Crossed]]'' - ''[[28 Days Later (Film)|Twenty Eight Days Later]]'' meets "The Screwfly Solution"; a mysterious plague turns numerous people into psychotic rapists with crosslike scars on their face.

* ''War Stories'' [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin]], with each issue focusing on different characters and their involvement in a campaign or battle of various 20th century wars.

* ''303'' - A Russian soldier discovers a well-kept secret about the American President and sets out to exact revenge, using an old Lee-Enfeld .303 rifle with one bullet left. Readable, but very much an anti-Bush II revenge fantasy.

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* [[Straight Gay]]

* [[Rage Against the Heavens]]

* [[Rated M for Manly]]: Ennis tends to give high praise to traditional masculine values, at the expense of more feminine values. As a result, many of his works have a conservative and sexist feel to them.

* [[Rated "M" for Manly]]: Ennis tends to give high praise to traditional masculine values, at the expense of more feminine values. As a result, many of his works have a conservative and sexist feel to them.

** This is a common criticism of his work, but at the same time, he manages to avert it in several of his higher-profile stories. The most recent example is in the ''Butcher, Baker, Candlestickmaker'' miniseries from ''The Boys'', where Rebecca successfully manages to talk Billy into breaking the cycle of violence that started with his father. One of the morals of ''Preacher'', in the end, is that Jesse's entire sense of self is mostly bullshit.

* [[Reality Ensues]]

* [[Shades of Conflict]]

** [[Black and Grey Morality]]

* [[Shout Out]]: Especially to movies like ''[[Where Eagles Dare]]'' and ''Kelly'sHeroes''.

* [[Shout-Out]]: Especially to movies like ''[[Where Eagles Dare]]'' and ''Kelly'sHeroes''.

* [[The Troubles]]: As one might expect from the best known comic book writer from the disputed area, he has addressed this in several stories.

* [[War Is Hell]]

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