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Jimmy Falun Gong

30 Mar, 15 tweets, 5 min read

I don't talk about it much, but I do read graphic novels sometimes, because I guess I hate myself and like to suffer. I recently read this piece of shit by Garth Ennis, the author of Preacher and a bunch of other comics.

there's heavy-handed anti-Soviet themes throughout, like here they're depicting the Red Armh torturing Nazis

they depict the political commissar as a shrill, obnoxious social climber

they show the female snipers getting catcalled by the Red Army constantly

oh yeah dude, if someone in the Red Army shows a moment of cowardice, show trial, absolutely. and the myth that the purge of the army led to their defeats

leaving your post that's about to be hit by artillery? execution

female snipers telling a Nazi POW that they're gonna rape his mother, yeah that definitely rings true to life

and we're supposed to believe a Soviet officer would have a Hitler stache

yeah at the worst moments of the Great Patriotic War, definitely the right time to criticize the regime, absolutely

soldier joking about breaking Geneva Convention rules, cool

taking a swipe at Stalin, a short king

the worst aspect of this novel: the underexplained revelation that actually, the Soviets destroyed her hometown, not the Nazis

the whole work is only like 150 pages so there's really not a whole lot else, this is such a dogshit graphic novel. you know why?

cause Garth Ennis is an Ulster jackass who said that the Troubles could be summed up as: it seemed like people were killing each other over "how to worship their imaginary friend

with that level of nuance, yeah, I can see how he butchered the story of female Soviet snipers so badly. what a shitty medium, man.

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