I've just read the entire run and I must say that I'm not impressed at all. As a huge fan of Green Lantern, it pissed me off to see Kyle Rayner being made the butt of the joke, and the insults at superheroes made in jokers such as Nightfist and Section 8 were just appalling.
Section 8 wouldn't be so terrible were it not for two frankly disturbing members known as Bueno Excellente, who's nothing more than a one-note "creepy rapist" joke, and the Dogwelder, whose gimmick of welding dead dogs to people is probably the only concept for a superhero that's both stupid and needlessly horrific.
For me, the biggest and most flagrantly puerile middle finger at the superhero genre comes in the Justice League crossover that came out six years after the main series ended its run. Not only does Ennis have the tactlessness to imply that Bueno Excellente had his way with Kyle Rayner, but the story is overtly written to include a threat that the League isn't able to handle because of their powers not working, conveniently allowing Tommy Monaghan to solve everything by blowing the astronauts infected by alien parasites away. As if making the Justice League look ineffectual compared to Tommy wasn't enough, the heroes all dismiss every superhero created from the Bloodlines event other than Tommy to be useless (I thought Loose Cannon, Argus and Gunfire were actually pretty cool).
Before I gave Hitman a chance, I had a feeling it would be the last Garth Ennis comic I'd ever read. I had no clue how accurate that sentiment was, as I don't want to read another comic by Ennis ever again.
An overrated piece of superhero-bashing garbage
I've just read the entire run and I must say that I'm not impressed at all. As a huge fan of Green Lantern, it pissed me off to see Kyle Rayner being made the butt of the joke, and the insults at superheroes made in jokers such as Nightfist and Section 8 were just appalling.
Section 8 wouldn't be so terrible were it not for two frankly disturbing members known as Bueno Excellente, who's nothing more than a one-note "creepy rapist" joke, and the Dogwelder, whose gimmick of welding dead dogs to people is probably the only concept for a superhero that's both stupid and needlessly horrific.
For me, the biggest and most flagrantly puerile middle finger at the superhero genre comes in the Justice League crossover that came out six years after the main series ended its run. Not only does Ennis have the tactlessness to imply that Bueno Excellente had his way with Kyle Rayner, but the story is overtly written to include a threat that the League isn't able to handle because of their powers not working, conveniently allowing Tommy Monaghan to solve everything by blowing the astronauts infected by alien parasites away. As if making the Justice League look ineffectual compared to Tommy wasn't enough, the heroes all dismiss every superhero created from the Bloodlines event other than Tommy to be useless (I thought Loose Cannon, Argus and Gunfire were actually pretty cool).
Before I gave Hitman a chance, I had a feeling it would be the last Garth Ennis comic I'd ever read. I had no clue how accurate that sentiment was, as I don't want to read another comic by Ennis ever again.