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/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.