Sunday, March 22, 2009

Garth Ennis LOVES disfigurement

I was just thinking about Garth Ennis' writing style and the kinds of characters he likes to make. Normally I don't consider him to be repetitive with who he creates, and he is definitely not a one trick pony by any means. However, one thing I noticed that was frequent was deformed characters, but in a 'funny' sense, or as much as human pain can be ( which is pretty much unlimited).


Arseface
First and most obvious would be Arseface from the Preacher series. No first named was ever listed, except the last name, Root. He was a huge loser in high school and only had one friend, and being the 90's the obvious choice in life was to become a grunge rocker. Him and his friend 'Pube' or Craig, as he's known to everyone else hang out and smoke weed and listen to Nirvana all day to escape the reality of his real life. His home life being filled with an alcoholic, pill-popping mother who loves Jesus and not her son and a traditional sheriff father, who beats him and gets drunk at night and shoots at the sky to kill the "African-American" aliens who he blames for pretty much everything. Once Root's idol, Kurt Cobain dies and him and Craig realize no one else in the world cared or even understood, Craig decided that the two of them should blow their faces off of with Arseface's dad's shotgun. Craig was successful in suicide, but six months and plenty of facial reconstruction later, Arseface became well, Arseface. A character that never failed to bring laughter to Jesse and Cassidy, even when he was pointing a gun in their faces.


Arseface


Buttview
Next, Ennis' Ghost Rider arc entitled "Rode to Damnation" illustrated all-shiny like by Clayton Crain (now on X-Force) brought to us another odd-character. Despite series tones in the book, such as an angel named Ruth making a child kill himself, and a big shot-business man killing the board of his petroleum company to summon a demon, we still get to meet a character named 'Buttview' who brought us more ass-related humor. A fat demon who drives a topless Cadillac named Hoss found himself being followed and then attacked by a group of ill-fated bikers. They had no idea who they were fucking with, so Hoss got a kick out of their harassment and decided to make all of their heads explode except for a green-mohawk sporting biker who was bleeding out in the road after a crash. He agreed to Hoss' terms to evade death, unknowing that he would become a ball of spine with an ass on top with legs and arms... and still, a mohawk. Now Buttview's speech is incoherent, but he can still drink beer, which is somewhat of a consolation.

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Fucknose
Dick jokes are still funny, and Garth Ennis knows this. In his series 'The Chronicles of Wormwood', the anti-christ Danny Wormwood, and actual Christ 'Jay' frequent a local dive-bar in New York. Jay (better known as Jesus Christ) is the victim of police brutality at a local anti-war rally. After half of his skull is caved in by an LAPD officer, he isn't very much like his former incarnation. Many of his only words in the first arc are "My pal" in reference to Danny. When seeing this, the stand-in bartender of the bar begins to inquire about Jay's condition. After telling Danny that 'his kind' or 'retards' are not allowed in the bar because they might relieve themselves in the bar, Danny decides to take advantage of his demon power on Earth to permanently change one thing a day. All of a sudden, the bartender's nose grows longer, and then into the shape of a dick. He immediately takes notice and checks his pants to find that his dick really switched places with his nose. The bartender then caters to Danny and sucks up in hopes of getting things switched back. He is the center of their misplaced aggressions, Danny and his talking rabbit calling him 'Fucknose'. When the real Whore of Babylon; who is a total babe, enters the bar, he shoots his, well let's call it 'snot'. At the end of the book, Danny switches things back, but unfortunately, his head takes the shape of a penis. Bummer.

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Moe Dubelz
Also, I haven't read the Hitman series yet, but I know that there is a villain in the series is a conjoined twin, of which is the only living one. Moe Dubelz swore vengeance on Hitman Tommy Monaghan after he kills the guy's twin. So basically half of his body is dead, an actual person stuck to him.

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