Dune and Star Wars have elaborate world-building reasons why they fight with swords in a hyper-advanced tech society, but FG’s simple one makes more sense to me : Mongo is just a highly martial culture that values personal combat and dueling.

Who the fuck assumes we go on a social website to hear opposing viewpoints. If you hate Oasis and James Gunn, your opinions are the opposite of entertaining for me. Why would you assume I would ever want to read them in my free time?

There’s two years of stories and they’re all great.

The original Conan the Barbarian stories are the same premise - a poor thief travels the world meeting lesser ethnicities and besting them because he’s white

Trump was told by Xi and Putin that all three should control their “local sphere of influence” - so Ukraine goes to Russia, Taiwan to China, and so he wants to control Greenland, Canada, and S. America because they’ve convinced them he deserves to. It’s the new world order he wants to replace NATO.

And on threads it’s just randoms asking if they’ve seen Superman and challenging them with hot takes about how Be Here Now is actually a classic.

He’s the most like the books - he wasn’t funny or quippy but he also wasn’t haunted like Daniel Craig

What, if anything, from the X-Treme 90s influences your own art style?

Does Tony Stark showing up for the boss fight after losing in new armor count? Or only if the hero generally operates sans armor? Cause it’s been an iron man trope forever.