Comics were never reliant on quips, not until the height of the MCU and comic to film synergy. Comics were a lot more serious in the 70s 80s and 90s, the era that gave us demon in the bottle, the night Gwen Stacy died, Kraven’s Last Hunt, Death in the Family, Death of Superman, and Knightfall. Comic book movies can be more serious and not borderline comedies. Of course you wouldn’t understand since you don’t read comics
For the record, I’m not the one downvoting you. I’m interested to hear your take. I do read comics. Not from the 90s since I’m not that old. But I’ve read a lot of early 2000s comics (mostly DC). And this movie, thematically and tone wise felt way closer to those than marvel and other DC. I’ve also read most of Vertigo which is where I feel like DC got their movie tone from. But it was best served on one-off stories like preacher or sandman
That’s not what the movie was about. People are just using a real life conflict as exploitation to boost the movie up. Because Gunn had the script done before Israel and Hamas started fighting again AND there was a writers strike going on. So if anything, it’s a Russia Ukraine plot. Not Israel.