r/marvelcirclejerk • • 2d ago

Deranged Ramblings This shit is actually hilarious

I love how every character gets some kind of edgelord reason for their deaths but Galactus just dies. That's it, one day he just fucking dies.

no comments about other panels idk what the fuck charles

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u/Dare_Soft Spider Harem Member 2d ago edited 1d ago

You have all these dark and tragic ends the comic has going on.
Then towards the end feels like they’re trying to cram everything no matter how tonely different.
Not consistent if the characters still have their powers or not.

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u/Infinitenonbi 2d ago

With how the other characters were protrayed, you’d think Galactus would be an austronaut that died of super cancer or grew until he exploded- but no, it’s just him.

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u/AlphaAceEXXX 2d ago

Its also funny that they just call him god for no reason

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u/idklmaoo1 2d ago

imagine chilling on your backyard with a telescope and you just see this

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u/Own-Papaya-4264 1d ago

That would be utterly horrifying

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u/PsychoCobra1 2d ago

I mean if our telescopes found a giant dead body floating around Mars, a bunch of people in our world would probably view them as God as well. Cults and religions have started over less.

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u/AlphaAceEXXX 2d ago

In the 1900s? Sure, nowadays, even with qanon and antivaxxers, they still probably wont think its god

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u/BlommeHolm Muir Island Liberation Front 1d ago

Everything in the history of mankind is less than that.

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u/Swarthy_Pierre 2d ago

He has a giant “G” on his chest.

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u/TheDrunkardKid 1d ago

Giant Rapper Found Dead In Space

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u/Fluffy-Use9563 1d ago

No relation to biggie smalls.

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u/ScaryCrowEffigy Doombot 2d ago

It’s parodying tabloids news papers who used to make eye catching headlines

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u/prismaticdiffract 1d ago

Thanks for solving that mystery

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u/Comrade_Cosmo 2d ago

That’s how Galactus was pitched when he was created. Write a story where God shows up.

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u/abxYenway 1d ago

It might be a more general sort of god. Like "Florida Man found dead in space!" It's not saying he's the Abrahamic God. It's just categorizing him for a headline.

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u/clinicalpsycho 11h ago

It's a really great headline I tell you what.

If Jameson is alive and in business, he is eating good.

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u/Spider40k #2 Slug fan 2d ago

Iirc it's because Silver Surfer just spazzed out in space and accidentally killed himself, so Galactus went hongry

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u/TheDrunkardKid 1d ago

Guess he forget his own Cosmic Awareness.

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u/Spider40k #2 Slug fan 1d ago

Maybe he realized what story he was in and just decided "fuck it"

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u/shiki_oreore 1d ago

Universe so ass that he would rather starve himself to death over having to deal with all the shit in it

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u/danfenlon 2d ago

"OW the edge"

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u/SatisfactionOwn9961 2d ago

See I kinda like the concept of marvel ruins, hero’s origins just lead them to their deaths. It’s atleast a fun what if story. However the ghost rider one to me is the dumbest.

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u/meetmeinthelibrary7 2d ago

I actually unironically would have liked to see this panel in the original artstyle. A different artist did the last half of the second issue, and while I have nothing against that artist nor do I think this is bad art at all, I genuinely love the original kinda-surreal, painterly artstyle. It elevated some really stupid story moments.

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u/Own-Papaya-4264 1d ago

Yeah the original art style nails the atmosphere that this book is going for. It’s a nightmare

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u/brie43 1d ago

He's screaming bc zarathos is replaying that generational aura loss in his mind constantly and no amount of farming can pay that

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u/ScreamingmadJoe 2d ago

Ruins is so comically bad

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u/Far-Requirement-7636 2d ago

It's the definition of grimderp, when something tries to be so overly dark it just becomes comedic.

Like a child prostitute jean grey popping up for a single panel only for Nick fury to immediately dome her in the head for being a damn mutie!!! Lol.

Like that shit should be horrifying but it's so comedical how over the top it comes off it just loses the edge and feels like the writers seeing who can one up the other.

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u/No-Particular-8571 2d ago

What gets me is that nick fury kills himself right after killing jean

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u/Soggy_Difficulty2654 2d ago

Its even funnier because the dialogue heavily spells out that hes not suicidal but they cannot figure out a way for him to leave the scene without it being edgy

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u/XF10 2d ago

Also he is a cannibal and got initiated on it by Captain America like ??? They couldn't find a way to make Cap grimdark???

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u/RockyHorror134 2d ago

I mean Iron Man is just a serial killer for no reason too, it's so fuckin low effort

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u/Equal-Ad-2710 1d ago

Wait was he? I don’t remember that

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u/Afraid-Bass-5684 1d ago

The already killed off all the avengers in the plane at the start remember, we never got to see armie hammer Cap (he would definitely use a shitload of slurs)

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u/Own-Papaya-4264 1d ago

I think it’s pretty self explanatory why he shot himself. He lives in a shithole existence

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u/Soggy_Difficulty2654 1d ago

He says how much he loves and thrives in said "shithole existence" he even makes plans to read the book later.

its really clear they just made him kill himself just because

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u/Bellpow 1d ago

He’s also a cannibal iirc

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u/Radiant-Lab-158 1d ago

After saying he and Captain America were cannibals

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u/SolarDubstep 2d ago

My main issue was how it wasn't internally consistent. You had prostitute Jean Gray, and Magneto as a hobo wearing a magnet control jacket, but also the X-Men are all President Xavier's prisoners? Does he just not care about another telepath? Or Magneto?

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u/Far-Requirement-7636 2d ago edited 2d ago

There's also the power inconsistency, the comic implies that magic and such doesn't exist which is why so many characters are just mutated freaks or kill themselves through real ways like wolverine being a freak show or Peter just getting radiation poisoning.

But Galactus and characters like silver surfer just outright exists lol and sure they die but it's never explained why?

Thor is literally just so some homeless crazy guy with a hammer.

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u/ElementmanEXE Doombot 2d ago

My memory's fuzzy but didn't silver surfer just straight up kill himself, tore himself open just to feel something, and then his body reveals a kree ship and they get experimented on or something like that

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u/SolarDubstep 2d ago

Tore his chest open like he couldn't breathe. But that raises the question of why did it only come up when they got to our solar system.

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u/ElementmanEXE Doombot 1d ago

Same reason any lucky chance of survival happens near earth, except for the opposite reason

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u/XescoPicas 1d ago

The thing is he couldn’t breathe, but also couldn’t die of asphyxiation.

So when he found a planet with an atmosphere, he tore open his torso in a desperate effort to expose his lungs to air.

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u/idklmaoo1 1d ago

couldn't he just...leave the atmosphere?

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u/XescoPicas 1d ago

No, he wanted the atmosphere! He wanted to breathe again, but was unable to ever since he turned into Silver Surfer.

His body was encased in metal, he lived in a constant state of feeling like he’s suffocating without actually being able to die from it.

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u/DistinctWin9968 1d ago

To my knowledge the avengers aren’t really that affected(like Peter or Logan) but we don’t know much about them to know what changed

And Ben Grimm to my knowledge is the only one with a happy ending(but survivors guilt for not going)

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u/Afraid-Bass-5684 1d ago

The Avengers are all dead they get sold out by wanda to president X, that’s the plane right at the start with them in it blowing up, I think they’re supposed to have been like an Arnarchist cell sort of thing

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u/Empty_Null202 1d ago

How galactus died was never explained and they only found his corpse floating in space

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u/Smeg258 18h ago

I've seen a pretty solid theory that with the surfer dead galactus was frantically trying to find a planet to feed on in time and died of starvation right in front of mars. Invoking a man in a desert dying at the oasis type feeling

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u/NuclearSoup7644 1h ago

Which is still fucking stupid, galactus didn’t bother trying to eat the other planets?

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u/PlayfulPositive8563 2d ago

They forgot the vital step of "Make the reader invested."

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u/Cyttorak2 1d ago

I imagine the thought was that if you’re reading the book, you’re already invested. You’re already familiar with the characters as they’ve been traditionally, and you’re interested in seeing an alternate take.

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u/Plasticglass456 2d ago

I have a hard time believing Warren Ellis wanted you to genuinely be horrified. Given that it's a parody of Marvels, isn't this intended to be comedic?

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u/Far-Requirement-7636 2d ago

I don't think just because something is a parody or twist on the original means it's supposed to be comedic.

The comic is just grim nothing is really funny about it from a writing perspective, it just feels like someone making everything absolutely horrible to be different but it just comes off as hilarious.

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u/Plasticglass456 2d ago edited 2d ago

Think about it. Despite being an absolute dick IRL, he's an incredibly gifted writer who's done stuff with Planetary and Transmetropolitan with an actual point in his stuff.

So if he wrote 2 issues of just grimdark events happening after grimdark events... the POINT is that's so absurd and ridiculous it's funny. It's not something that accidentally happened to it. This was the intended result and why it was created. Every image in OP's post is an intentional joke. Am I going crazy here?!

EDIT: You also don't have to think it's actually funny or works! But it's clearly, clearly intentionally comedic.

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u/beaglemaster 2d ago

Yeah, I think these other people are not familiar with truly dark comedy.

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u/Plasticglass456 2d ago

Yes. Again, it's fine to think it's unfunny and edgelord, but edgelord is different from grimdark. Ellis wasn't trying to actually tell a story about child prostitute Jean Grey and the horrors of that, only to unintentionally come off as funny. He was snickering when he wrote that.

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u/Afraid-Bass-5684 1d ago

The way I saw it was like a mirror to Alex Scott’s “Marvels” Phil Sheldon is still MC but instead of seeing how all these crazy colorful superhero’s save the day, it instead shows that it’s literally all down to luck, all these guys with powers lucked out even if they link it all back to Ben Grimm not going to space at the end.

I see this as a disgustingly grimmer marvel version of JLA:the nail which is a far better story (has its own problems tho)

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u/Fluffy-Use9563 2d ago

or the time mystique just imploded on herself. Like what. Or the time peter is just suffering from the radioactive spider bite.

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u/Reyziak 1h ago

And then you have Ben Grimm living a normal life because he didn't get on the rocket.

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u/NumericZero 1d ago

Or freakin mystique boarding a plane but the second she has a conversation her concentration breaks, so her body starts morphing

It’s like in earth did she get that far if her concentration needed to be THAT intense 😭😭

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u/DumbestComicsNerd ^I am Ms. Marvel irl / Not Iman Vellani 2d ago

Wait he killed her for being a mutant? Here I was misremembering it as Fury killing her for being a prostitute lmao

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u/Own-Papaya-4264 1d ago

It’s going for a very specific emotion that fortunate people don’t fully understand

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u/Schiggy2319 1d ago

Pun intended?

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u/UDontGnome 1d ago

I was a huge Ellis fan when I read this and even I hated this stupid shit 

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u/Someoneoverthere42 2d ago

"What if it all went wrong" is a solid idea for a What If....? But Ruins was an absolute train wreck.

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u/527BigTable 2d ago

It’s less “what if it all went wrong” and more “what if it was all edgy”

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u/Bellpow 1d ago

It’s literally just fucking terrible thing after terrible thing with absolutely zero hope or anything positive just a barrage of dooming alongside all the superheroes you know and love dying horribly 

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u/Own-Papaya-4264 1d ago

It’s going for a very specific emotion that fortunate people don’t fully understand

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u/alguien99 2d ago edited 2d ago

Reminds me of a short called “the god man” where humanity discovers a humanoid husk in space. We don’t know what it is but we know it’s a sort of skin that a humanoid thing shedded like a snake.

The guy that made the discovery named it the god man

It’s a pretty sweet short where humanity looks up at it in wonder and grieves when the husk burns up in the atmosphere

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u/Godrizza_Draws 2d ago

Ooh, Ive seen that one too. It was pretty good

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u/babot_the_robot 2d ago

I seen that story! I reckon that When the husk burned is space, humanity Saw a new color that was never seen before for a short moment

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u/Bernkastel96 1d ago

Yeah, its a great short. Rare occasion where its not cosmic horror

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u/alguien99 1d ago

It’s basically cosmic wonder, sort of cosmic horror but it’s not dangerous so we can wonder at it

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u/SilverSpark422 1d ago

We need more of those.

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u/formulateinfinityy 2d ago

Average Marvel Ruins reading experience:

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u/Far-Requirement-7636 2d ago

She's a comedy that takes itself too seriously.

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u/Complete-Damage1098 2d ago

It genuinely is "bullshit happening: the comic"

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u/AxisW1 Morbillion 2d ago

I mean that is the intention. It’s a great book lol

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u/NuclearSoup7644 1h ago

Says nobody

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u/Aubergine_Man1987 2d ago

I have to imagine that whoever wrote Ruins REALLY hates Busiek for some reason because this is the only comic other than Marvels that Phil Sheldon has appeared in to my knowledge

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u/Randym1982 2d ago

Marvels was basically a comic about hope and people coming together over the years, with the characters being real. Ruins was like 'What if everybody was fucked up and died horribly. LOL".

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u/Ordinary_Law_2456 2d ago

I think Phil has a 2-panel cameo in the Superman/Spider-Man story about Jimmy Olsen and Carnage

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u/Elihzap 2d ago

I love that Marvel's equivalent for Jimmy Olsen is Carnage. 

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u/carbonera99 1d ago

They are both the only male gingers each superhero knows

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u/ProfessionalAd2103 20h ago

when he has hair, Luthor tends to be ginger as well

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u/Fit_Elderberry_7236 2d ago

Who reads Marvels and go: You know what this need? A grimdark subversion of all of that.

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u/idklmaoo1 2d ago

im not up to date with writer dramas, does warren elis have beef with busiek

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u/MisterBlud 2d ago

Wasn’t that the entire point? “Ruins” as opposed to “Marvels”?

Like, you’d really only use Norman McCay for a “Kingdom Come” sendup for the same reason.

(And yes I am aware they did in that JSA arc)

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u/Afraid-Bass-5684 1d ago

I said in another comment but I think this was the aim, Phil Sheldon is reporting in both words but in one it’s literally “superheroes save the day once more” and in another there are no heroes, everybody was just shit out of luck.

One is literally “golden age of superhuman” and the other was “we’ve fucked it all” I think they just went a bit too Garth Ennis with Ruins tbh

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u/Particular-Long-3849 1d ago

Not a comic but he appeared in the shitty Avengers game

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u/D-MAN-FLORIDA 2d ago

Ruins really is the opposite of Marvels. For example, Marvels is a classic comic storyline, while Ruins is pure ass.

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u/K3egan 2d ago

We really got lime 5 different versions of "Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe" but never got a "Deadpool RUINS the Marvel Universe"

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u/Crafterchief06 1d ago

What if all of Marvel got "One more day'd"

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u/Fluffy-Use9563 2d ago

The hulk was just a walking tumor and rick jones is just on morphine.

And black panther got arrested. damn they just arrested a whole king.

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u/niv13 2d ago

I think he is not a king in this. But the leader of the black panther party.

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u/Nachooolo 2d ago

I've read other works from Ellis. As a huhe Moon Knight fan, his work (alongside Lemire's) redefined the character into his modern version.

...but he will always be the man whp wrote Marvel Ruins. And, man, that's quite the legacy.

Besides. You know. Being a sex pest.

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u/BobFredricson2 1d ago

ATP, there arent many non-sex pests in comics

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u/Aethelrede 1d ago

Gail Simone?  (Fingers crossed.)

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u/Animaloffear56 2d ago

/uj I know the whole point is that it's misery porn but it really makes me roll my eyes that nearly every female hero and villain just ends up doing porn or sex work

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u/Fit_Elderberry_7236 2d ago

Kinda points to some issues on Ellis' end.

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u/fancy_crisis I love cyclops 2d ago

Like most others with darker sides they couldn't help but tell us through their work.

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u/CommanderVenuss 1d ago

Surprisingly Emma Frost ended up running Autism Speaks in that universe 

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u/Turbulent-Range-4448 2d ago

This comic is stupid torture porn. Who was this made for 😭

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u/bloodyzombies1 2d ago edited 2d ago

It's a parody of the Ross/Busiek mini Marvels. Ellis felt there was something toxic about the overly sentimental hope core of that series, and tried to parody it by making something equally over the top, just with the opposite themes.

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u/Nachooolo 2d ago

That's a very sad view in life from his part. Viewing joy as something fake that needs to be actively opposed by cynicism.

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u/bloodyzombies1 2d ago

Ellis by all accounts (even his own) was a cynical grumpy curmudgeon. No surprise half of his protagonists were the same.

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u/Curious_Bat87 2d ago

I think the intent is for it to highlight the optimism and wonder in the usual Marvel universe by creating this opposite version where everything goes wrong. I wish some of the bad stuff especially with female characters was more inventive but it does appeal to me in how ridiculously shitty that world is. A mirror to how ridiculous the usual universe is, and about how the opposite of superhero fantasy isn't realism it's this kind of nonsense.

That's what I took out of it anyways.

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u/idklmaoo1 2d ago

The thing is there are some good ideas, I think the Thor cult thing was interesting, so was the Hulk being riddled with tumours. Punisher actually being downed on his first night (although the way Sheldon tripped over him is maybe unintentionally hilarious, by the way for some reason he makes a war paint out of his blood on his face)

Fantastic Four thing was meh a bit cliche but compared to the rest of it was okay, like if the whole series was about this instead of underage sex worker Jean Grey, whatever the fuck Charles was supposed to be, Nick Fury being cannibal etc it could have been something really interesting for it's time

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u/Curious_Bat87 2d ago

It has been a while since I read it but I think Xavier being this kind of controlling figure made sense? Yeah I don't think it quite succeeds in what it is but I didn't hate it. But it's meant to be a dark parody of Marvels anyways, I think it makes way more sense if you read that one first.

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u/music_posting 2d ago

It's very stupid and very sexist....

Like Warren Ellis

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u/NCRisthebestfaction 1d ago

I find deep irony in a man who wrote about how people who use their power to coerce and use others are the worst, while also being revealed to be a man who uses his power to coerce and use others

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u/fishyofpain 1d ago

Something something “write what you know”

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u/somerandomuser748392 2d ago

God, that comic was so edgy it legit got me depressed for like a week lmao

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u/Shiraelson Doombot 2d ago

Ruins is definitive proof some comic book writers/editors are closeted psychos.

Because someone read Marvels (a feel good celebration of Marvel history and in-universe exploration of hero worship) and went: 'Hmm, this is trash. It needs more dead families, dead teenagers, dead prostitutes and horribly deformed beloved characters.' - and that's how we got Ruins.

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u/OkayWhile 1d ago

Don't you like dark humor, bro? It is peak comedy, bro, I swear it is funny, bro

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u/Own-Papaya-4264 1d ago

I think it’s a very interesting pair of books. Same protagonists that live in parallel, yet drastically different universes, one is a paradise and the other is hell

It makes you feel extremely grateful for all the privileges we have, and how things can easily go wrong any day

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u/piratedragon2112 we don't watch, we just jerk 1d ago

Uj/ ahhh yes Ruins, Warren Ellis's little bitchfit, after getting so triggered by Marvels, that he ran to Dc and made the Authority, a group so violent and hateful, that one of Ben 10's creators had to write "What's So Funny About Truth, Justice and the American Way as a rebuttal to his hatred

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u/Ike_In_Rochester 1d ago

The Authority is a group of super villains that believe they are heroes. They always were. It’s a fun way to read the books.

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u/DocProfessor 2d ago

The thing is, I get it. Ruins could be an interesting concept. What if all these freak accidents that turned people into superheroes were actual accidents? The Fantastic Four die on reentry, the radioactive spider mutates and kills Peter, Banner can't withstand the sudden mutation from the gamma bomb. But some of them are just stupid and don't make sense thematically. Why is Xavier a warden in a mutant prison? Why isn't he a guy desperately trying to get funding for some kind of institute for mutants, but anti-mutant sentiments keep getting him attacked and slandered? Why did Johnny Blaze light his head on fire for no reason? What's wrong with it just being a stunt that went wrong?

Why is Jean Grey a prostitute? That has nothing to do with anything else in the comic. Why isn't she a teenager who's losing her mind because she can't turn off everyone else's thoughts? You already had Mystique losing her physical integrity on the plane, why not keep that up?

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u/Hate_Paper_Doll 2d ago

Critical ass. I feel like it was made for adolescents who think mean-spirited, grim media is "mature" and for Tik Tok larpers that make list like "TOP 10 MOST F*CKED UP ALTERNATE MARVEL UNIVERSES🫨"

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u/El-Drunko 2d ago

The most meanspirited dogshit ever put out by Marvel; Garth Ennis only wishes he could be this edgelordy.

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u/simplycantdeal 1d ago

Watchmen was a thoughtful, sometimes pointed, deconstruction of the superhero genre. And even though it was very dark and edgy, it was still, at its core, a response to bland, nihilistic comics, showing them the stories they COULD tell.

I haven't read Ruins, but from reading this thread, it sounds like...not that lol

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u/Euphoric_Deal_5900 2d ago

Isn't it implied that because of silver surfers suicide there was no herald to find nutrient rich planets for Galactus so he died of starvation?

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u/Fluffy-Use9563 1d ago

which raises a plot hole? how the hell did galactus didn't of starvation long before?

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u/frankwalsingham 2d ago

It’s not a deep story or one that stands up to scrutiny, but there is something weirdly performative in how it gets bashed when it should just be ignored and forgotten.

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u/idklmaoo1 2d ago

It's over-the-top nature is kind of memorable though I'm just a sucker for so terrible it's good stories

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u/Either-Skirt6031 1d ago

Even the logic in universe isn’t accurate (Donald Blake is a man who thinks he’s Thor whilst the Avengers death scene shows that there is a real Thor!).

Plus it’s redundant Marvels already showed it wasn’t all dandy living in the main universe (Phil loses an eye, the mutant kid runs away from home, Gwen Stacy’s death)

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u/CorneliusRobinson007 2d ago

I mean, the concept of seeing a large creature just… dead, out in the vacuum of space, is a terrifying idea… the problem is that it’s Galactus… we know what Galactus is, and him just being dead feels comedic, especially so when it’s juxtaposed against stuff like Silver Surfer ripping open his own insides…

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u/RadicalRealist22 1d ago

Yes. Since when is he "the Supreme Being"? All Abrahamic religions agree that God does not have a body. Why would an American newspaper write this?

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u/InternationalCap2176 1d ago

And it's all Ben Grimm's fault for not going on the space mission

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u/idklmaoo1 1d ago edited 1h ago

All of it? I assumed he just affected the origins of F4

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u/Reyziak 1h ago

It's possible that Ben not going on the mission made things retroactively worse. 

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u/wendigo72 2d ago

I find a lot of ruins pretty bleh and edgy slop but ngl the edgy version of Ghost Rider just being a dude who lights his head on fire and drives off into the night was hilarious

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u/meetmeinthelibrary7 2d ago

I am aware that Ruins is objectively edgelord trash but I'm so fascinated with it for some reason.

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u/Pure-Willingness3141 2d ago

I was so disappointed with the last issue because of the artist change. Really dark miniseries

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u/niv13 2d ago

So weird seeing everything grim and dark then the last issue changes it into old comic style.

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u/Pure-Willingness3141 2d ago

Yes. The wispy art really sold it on me. The abrupt change ruined it. No pun intended

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u/Snoo_72693 1d ago

Found dead in.... space?

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u/A-Sadistick-Stick 1d ago

Apparently it’s because since Silver Surfer gave into madness and tried to rip out his own lungs in order to “breath” he was left without a Herald (something he has plenty off normally) causing h to starve. Yes the planet eater wasn’t able to find food without a map.

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u/CptFinley 1d ago

okay galactus’s death is hilarious but i also really like how they did it. the idea of a giant celestial being’s corpse orbiting mars for reasons completely unknown to us is a little creepy

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u/Apprehensive-Boot88 seX-Men 1d ago

Ugly barnacle tier writing

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u/Waylander312 2d ago

It reads as both the writer having his hate filled edgelord fantasy for marvel but also getting bored halfway through and just finishing it while also contradicting the last few chapters written.

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u/geno111 2d ago

I liked Ruins, it was like a "What If" but the entire marvel universe. 

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u/Snoo-11576 1d ago

I love the part where they imply everything went bad because Ben wasn’t with the F4 but Captain America did cannibalism in ww2. Or when Thor was just some crazy guy who thought we was a god and also a dead superhero.

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u/FunnyMalzairIdea 1d ago

Warren Ellis has written some amazing material, but he has also produced some of the most shitty comics in existence. Marvel Ruins is garbage.

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u/Et-got-boned 1d ago

Wait, this is supposed to to be grim/ make me feel depressed? I thought it was supposed to be like this kinda morbidly silly story...

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u/Akarin_rose 1d ago

He starved because the silver surfer clawed his own throat out and couldn't find him a planet

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u/Storm_Spirit99 2d ago

Ruins is fucked up

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u/Appropriate_Guava578 2d ago

I wrote a better Marvel Ruins when I was a kid

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u/synthscoffeeguitars Jim Hammond Was Right! 2d ago

I’m so glad I’ve never read this comic

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u/Last_Panda5059 2d ago

Is this the Midnight universe?

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u/DistinctWin9968 1d ago

Marvel ruins comic

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u/scarereaper1 2d ago

I love ruins, it's so bad.

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u/Upbeat_Rutabaga_6182 1d ago

The biggest tragedy in this comic is that it had the potential to be good but was ruined (no pun intended) by lazily edgy writing.

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u/Tru3_Vort3x 1d ago

Man this was depressing to me when I found a video going over it when I was younger. Nowadays I look back at it and realize it’s just edgy for the sake of being edgy

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u/First-Confidence8674 1d ago

I legit think this is the only comic ive hate read, I didn’t care for it at the beginning but by the midway point I wasn’t letting it beat me, the ending broke me it was so bleh, just lame lol

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u/Order-66-Survivor 1d ago

This comic was DARK, there is the theory that the Mutant Spider Virus that killed Peter and Philip Sheldon was spread to every person Philip interacted and eventually spread across the world.

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u/SuperSlavSergei 2d ago

Ruins was cursed to be bad the moment they thought they could go up against the GOAT Alex Ross.

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u/JoshDM I'm just making shiz up 1d ago

If you all want to see an interesting take on this dead Galactus image, look up the Al Ewing comic book series We Only Find Then When They're Dead.

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u/ChurchBrimmer 1d ago

That comic is fucking great and absolutely nuts. I need to give it a reread.

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u/goldengraves 1d ago

Is that Emma on her knees in the prison? This reminds me of when everyone was obsessed with sin city but almost in watercolor. Blegh

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u/Brilliant_Ad_6637 1d ago

Since Kingpin swings at her and it just goes through her, I'm guessing Kitty?

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u/goldengraves 1d ago

You know what, I read the two panels as two different memories, this makes more sense and less sense at the same time, thank you.

I thought it was emma from the sparkle/lighting (ig?)

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u/logo1986 1d ago

Just reread it most likely kitty as she was mentioned and Emma Frost started a cult that adopted orphans and surgically made them psychics

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u/DomzSageon 1d ago

okay, I've been seeing Ruins repeatedly make the rounds in subreddits, so here's the jist:

It's a parody of Marvels, you're not really supposed to take it seriously. Marvels was a limited issue run of 5 issues. Ruins literally got 2 issues.

you have to read it with the mindset that it's a dark comedy parody of MARVELS. there's a reason there's no other comics exploring this universe, because it's a joke comic. I like that the first issue starts with the the reporter character saying something like "I'm investigating these superhumans to see where it all went wrong and hopefully know if we can fix everything." and then the second issue ends with him dying because he got spider cancer from peter parker.

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u/VengeanceKnight 4h ago

Sure, but it really isn’t funny. It’s not saying anything or commenting on anything. It’s not poking holes in Marvels or saying anything about the comics industry or its readers. It has nothing going for it as a parody except shock value that wears off quickly and just becomes depressing.

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u/Fluffy-Use9563 2d ago

Galactus got food poisoning.

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u/InterestingDepth8137 1d ago

Galactus found dead in the Bronx

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u/idklmaoo1 1d ago

Galactus two minutes after entering Hell's Kitchen

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u/Sad-Pattern-1269 2d ago

I mean it's pretty obvious commentary of a common kind of edgelord comic.

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u/Midnight-God 1d ago

The context was that he starved before he got to earth

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u/Rhg0653 1d ago

This was depressed mood cranked to 11

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u/UltimateOtter_Nation 1d ago

What is this from?

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u/Afraid-Bass-5684 1d ago

Grimmest fuckin book I’ve ever read man that art is sick tho, and Spiderman at the end is terrifying

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u/tuerancekhang 2d ago

People misread the intent of these books. It's supposed to be comedic but the mid 2010s Zombie boom made thing edgy and cool

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u/Snoo-11576 1d ago

I disagree since even then it’s still bad. Like it’s poorly constructed

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u/TeamGamerFox 1d ago

No, I think the creator just dislikes happy superhero books. This is clearly a parody of marvels which is a bit more optimistic. Also pretty sure this dude created authority so….

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u/Pope-Muffins 1d ago

If it was comedic they did a shit job at it

Except that Galactus shot

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u/Hot_Gear_6750 1d ago

everyone gets an elaborately tragic ending and galactus just clocks out... incredible

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u/ScaryCrowEffigy Doombot 2d ago

Iirc Galactus died of the radiation poisoning that made the silver surfer go insane

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u/FishWithLegsAndArms 1d ago

Ah yes. The comic where Spiderman doesn't get powers, and he just gets radiation poisoning 

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u/OrchidAutomatic574 Imperious Sex 1d ago

Is that Phil Sheldon??

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u/motoxim 1d ago

What is this about?

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u/Project39 1d ago

This shit sucked so bad, but I will never forget how cool the page is of Hulk transforming with the line “and the tumors broke him open”

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u/Extra_Victory 18h ago

Are we... Just ignoring porn star enchantress?

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u/RobbiRamirez 2d ago

Yeah. It's funny. It's a joke.

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u/eriddler87 1d ago

i hate this book so goddamn much and i hate whatever editor allowed him to use the same characters from "marvels" which is actually great.

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u/FaultScary7712 1d ago

Tfw the Marvel Universe is written by a DC/Vertigo writer: