Preacher writer Garth Ennis In The News

Just minutes after finishing that Preacher write-up, I stumbled across this comic news story about Ennis having to take his current series, The Boys, away from DC. Essentially, DC Comics cancelled the series that it had been publishing up until now, allowing Ennis to take his property elsewhere. Why cancel a series that was selling well? On account of Ennis crafting some rather disgusting and disturbing tales involving his own set of superheroes in the title. As summed up by one blogger, this means that normal people doing terrible things to each other, as in Preacher, is fine by DC; but don't have superheroes doing it, as that may be damaging to the corporate brand! Kind of reminds me of how movie ratings boards come down so hard on sexuality but don't really seem to mind violence much at all! One's all about creation; the other about destruction. Or, in this case, one's about more-or-less realistic people doing bad things while the other's about obviously-fictional folks doing likewise.. which one seems more dangerous, really?