Lol I love this. Coach McGurk is one of my favorite characters in anything ever.

It’s a really…awkward plot point to try to navigate. On one hand, it’s a pretty bold and respectable choice to depict a man being sexually assaulted by a woman, and to deal with mental and emotional effects of that. On the other hand…its all kinda predicated on a fantastical premise. She’s an alien soldier under orders to reproduce and violence is just how Viltrumites do it.

It’s like you’re supposed to empathize with Mark and his very realistically (relatively speaking) depicted trauma, but then let her off the hook because Sci-Fi bullshit. Like I personally, can just suspend my disbelief and take it at face value cause it’s a story. But a lot of people can’t/won’t, and when you’re dealing with such dark and potentially personal subject matter, they shouldn’t really be expected to.

I’m not sure if that’s the plan with the sequid invasion, but it makes sense and wouldn’t be a bad idea. The only “important” Mark moment in that arc is >! him deciding to kill the last infected guy!< but he has a half dozen or more similar moral crises in the comic. It kinda becomes the overarching theme of the series. So losing that one’s not a huge deal and >! out of all those moral crises that’s arguably the dumbest one, cause they literally had there backs against the wall and a very short window before they would lose control of the situation!<

Eeeh, ill agree with that in some cases. For example I don’t think it was necessarily a bad creative decision for Debbie to wallow in depression for a while.

Amber though I think is way way better in the show. She’s basically just a plot device to keep mark and eve from getting together for a long time. She doesn’t even have any dialogue until around where season 2 of the show starts. Then she’s basically just “Mark’s girlfriend” for a long time. “Feminist” or no, she’s a much more well developed character in the show.

I agree, I think it’s likely that they’ll cut the abusive boyfriend sub plot. Or it’ll be handled way differently if they do include it. Amber is a much better developed character in the show. She literally appeared in like 3 panels and had no dialogue up until basically around where season 2 from the show starts (aside from them doing the college stuff earlier in the show), and then had very little character aside from “Mark’s girlfriend”. Then they break up and she’s never seen again except to tell Mark about her scumbag boyfriend (I think she shows up in a couple panels after, but not in a speaking role).

I feel like the show writers aren’t gonna do this version of Amber like that. I suspect she’ll continue to be a prominent supporting character until the story starts mostly taking place in space and shit, and she’ll probably…have more agency during that time.