tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701602284718920546.post6129351673765731812..comments2024-03-27T17:14:54.791-05:00Comments on Glorious Trash: The Destroyer #15: Murder WardJoe Kenneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285576322579808153noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701602284718920546.post-64719833046732057392016-06-13T13:25:46.169-05:002016-06-13T13:25:46.169-05:00Thanks for the comments, everyone! And Steven, lu...Thanks for the comments, everyone! And Steven, luckily the ones you mention are volumes I have -- I'm especially interested in checking out Assassins' Play-Off one of these days. I have a feeling I'll much more appreciate the serious installments; for that reason I've been meaning to check out the second volume, which the authors supposedly weren't fond of but which by all Joe Kenneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03285576322579808153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701602284718920546.post-62081762364709355642016-06-12T13:15:22.720-05:002016-06-12T13:15:22.720-05:00As a big fan of the Destroyer series, let me agree...As a big fan of the Destroyer series, let me agree with you all right off: it's comedy. It's really only notionally an action-adventure series, and half the plots are just straight-up satire.<br /><br />Joe, you might appreciate #38, Bay City Blast, in which Remo and Chuin go up against thinly disguised versions of the Executioner, the Butcher, and the Death Merchant. <br /><br />But someSteve Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07988282336596273444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701602284718920546.post-63928865922850711322016-06-10T13:12:24.266-05:002016-06-10T13:12:24.266-05:00"A remorseless killing machine that doesn'..."A remorseless killing machine that doesn't even have a sex drive."<br /><br />I've harped on it already in the right comments section, but that's one more thing that I think Destroyer # 5 gets RIGHT - it comes this close to throwing that part of the Destroyer "canon" out completely. You're never told in so many words that he enjoys the twins, but it really Granthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09603892208775996594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701602284718920546.post-7561112402764929942016-06-09T12:32:54.488-05:002016-06-09T12:32:54.488-05:00I dunno, Tom...I'd rather get in trouble than ...I dunno, Tom...I'd rather get in trouble than waste my time. Thanks, Joe, for a review that mirrors my reaction. This series has so many gung-ho fans that I had to try a few. Not as bad as The Death Merchant, these books to me proved how subjective humor is and how "topicality" can age very quickly.Stephen Mertzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08531248810283345577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701602284718920546.post-21425981695713212302016-06-09T12:07:18.473-05:002016-06-09T12:07:18.473-05:00I put off reading the series until a few years ago...I put off reading the series until a few years ago. I was running out of stuff to read and decided to give them a try. Yes, they are kind of stupid, but I find them an easy read and a few hours spent with a stupid book is better than getting in trouble (G).Tom Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05594257113339405939noreply@blogger.com