Bacon wrote:
The art doesn't bug me so much, it's the content. He has this thing about female characters almost getting raped, for one, and his character just grows more and more powerful without any sort of um, whatchamacallits, defects?
And then every single serious scene is ruined with a pun. Puns are fine, whatever. But for every daisies time something serious happens?
A) The only one to get raped was actually an attempt to save the life of said girl. It's complicated. [spoiler]Clan tribes were meant so that the write for marriage was intercourse, something usually meant for consenting adults. The girl's parents had just been killed and she was about to be executed because her tribe does not tolerate orphans. Thus, the neighboring tribe leader's son did the only thing he could do to save her life by taking her as his own right there on the spot. It's easy to see that she wasn't exactly willing.[/spoiler]
B) The characters do lose abilities.[spoiler] The main character loses a leg, his brother has his powers ripped from him, seems permanent. The only female protagonist to not really do anything has finally gotten recognition. And one of the warriors making progress in his life is brutally murdered and sentenced to Hell for transgressions in his past.[/spoiler]
C) The entire family/cast is dysfunctional, as such they, and influentially their friends/side characters, wind up making light of situations or be driven into some kind of depression. It explains why doctors come up with so many death jokes and the like.
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[Citation Needed] wrote:
This just PROVES that it is best to hunt landmines with a hammer.