it’s superhero slop penned by your average ‘i hate superheroes hehe’ writer (rob kirkman). It is neither truly good nor bad. Better than The Boys at least, but still falls prey to the same central flaw that centering your entire plot around “wow a superhero that kills ” results in a mediocre story at best.
spoiler
The comic ends with Mark being the Viltrumite Emperor with Eve & their kid and also his other child born out of sexual assault (he got assaulted not the other way around) for 500 years and thinking “this is what i’ll have after 500 years, dad” also there’s a whole time-travel sideplot where he gets to go back to when he first got his powers and fix a bunch of deaths he caused, because I think Kirkman realized ‘wait Mark really has killed millions’…like ok bro
it’s superhero slop penned by your average ‘i hate superheroes hehe’ writer (rob kirkman). It is neither truly good nor bad. Better than The Boys at least, but still falls prey to the same central flaw that centering your entire plot around “wow a superhero that kills
” results in a mediocre story at best.
spoiler
The comic ends with Mark being the Viltrumite Emperor with Eve & their kid and also his other child born out of sexual assault (he got assaulted not the other way around) for 500 years and thinking “this is what i’ll have after 500 years, dad”
also there’s a whole time-travel sideplot where he gets to go back to when he first got his powers and fix a bunch of deaths he caused, because I think Kirkman realized ‘wait Mark really has killed millions’…like ok bro 