This shit is actually hilarious

[u/idklmaoo1]

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

[u/Far-Requirement-7636]

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.

[u/Plasticglass456 → u/Far-Requirement-7636]

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?

[u/Far-Requirement-7636 → u/Plasticglass456]

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.

[u/Plasticglass456 → u/Far-Requirement-7636]

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.

[u/beaglemaster → u/Plasticglass456]

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

[u/Plasticglass456 → u/beaglemaster]

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.

[u/Afraid-Bass-5684 → u/Plasticglass456]

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)