The one unequivocally good thing about THE BOYS and GEN V — and I know some people here will bristle at this — is that comics creators Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson are getting paid.
Tumblr fans generally hate Ennis because of his laddish crassness, fixation on dumb macho horseshit, and obvious contempt for American superhero comics, which is fair, but also not the point. How many literal billion-dollar Nerd Media franchises have been built on the backs of comics creators who never get so much as free tickets to the premiere, and who then get shorted on royalties when the publisher reprints or repackages their work to capitalize on newfound interest?
If you want to have an ethical stance on labor (and especially if you fancy yourself some kind of progressive or leftist), it needs to include people whose work isn't to your taste or you're not going to get anywhere.
