A Train Called Love #5: "We Can't Rewind, We've Gone Too Far"

[superboyprime]

Comments

[locuatico]

okay, i am actually digging this, who is the......... Garth Ennis wrote this!?
I mean, reading the dialogue with him in mind, yeah, it sounds like Ennis, but the setting and the art style REALLY threw me for a loop here.

[leoboiko]

The change of airs is doing him great, isn't it? This is the best thing Ennis has written in ages IMO.

[captainbellman]

Enh, I feel like the whole "best friends but one of them's a lesbian secretly in love with the other, who's oblivious" plot was done well enough in Strangers in Paradise. Personally, I don't need to see it again.

[nyadnar17]

Every plot in here but the horse cock thing has been done before elsewhere. Its the hodgepodge of tropes that help make this book so charming.

I had almost forgotten what its like when Garth sets his hatred aside and writes something fun.

[rainspirit]

People keep talking about Garth Ennis as if his work in superhero comics--and on The Boys--are the only notable bodies of work written by him.

This is the guy who wrote Preacher. And say what you will about the violence in the first Crossed comic (and by what David Lapham did with it later, ew), the story had genuine heart in it. And he's done some fantastic things with historical comics set in World War II--and his work on Dan Dare, the comic that Espanolbot posted a while back.

People need to stop being surprised when Ennis writes good comics.

[locuatico]

I am more surprised by him writing.......well... something out of a romcom. Sure, he writes good comics, i had NEVER seen him writing this style of stories before.

[rainspirit]

I'll give you that! It's very entertaining, given the context of the writer's background. You almost expect it to turn VERY dark at any given moment. It's certainly toeing the line...

[nyadnar17]

I think most people know he is a great writer from his work on Punisher alone, but this Ennis. The fun, hopeful guy who wrote that amazing Hitman/Superman issue, when is the last book we had written by that guy?

I feel like its been ages.

[stolisomancer]

That's always been an occasional thing he throws into larger stories, rather than a single type of story. You could make an argument for Rover Red Charlie, a couple of serious gross-out moments aside, or the ending of The Boys.

[reveen]

I'm just highly bemused by Ennis applying his uh, "quirks" to writing a romantic comedy.

[commodus]

Why does everyone in this seem so unpleasant? Everyone acts standoffish, or downright rude. It's a problem with these more "realistic" comics, and it means I can't empathize with anyone, because they all seem to have a hair-trigger temper, or treat other people around them with scowling contempt.
I don't really get it.

[reveen]

Does it take place in New York? Because that would explain it pretty well.

Actually, you could say the same for a lot of cities, I guess the fact that nobody has been beaten up by the cops yet rules out Chicago.

[locuatico]

i don't think it's because it is trying to be "realistic", i think it is more the story trying to be "seinfeld-ish" in it's aproach to character interaction and humor. or to put it a different way, i am not personally inclined to meet these people in real-life, but i am highly amused by the crap they go thorugh.