YMMV / The Chronicles of Wormwood

• Crosses the Line Twice: Pope Jacko and his penchant for coke-fueled orgies with scantily-clad nuns, Wormwood swapping a dude's nose with his dick, God as a constantly masturbating, levitating moron, killer eunuchs, every single TV show Wormwood's responsible for... look, it's Garth Ennis.
• Fridge Brilliance: In the final issue of the first series, Jay is cured by other means - and begs to be killed. In a cured state, he remembers all the things he went through, and how little it amounted to in the end. The only way he can stand to live is as a retard.
  Wormwood: Jay's suffered for the human race twice now. He's done his bit. And me... Well, as I never ger tired of saying, I am the Antichrist. So it looks like you'll have to sort out your own problems, folks. Because me and my pal Jesus? We're not about to do shit.
• Fridge Logic: Wait... Wormwood can't cure Jay's perfectly mundane retardation by getting HIT ON THE HEAD!
  • Heavily hinted in-story that Jay doesn't want to be healed, as going through the same "died for our sins" gig a second time around was too much to bear, especially since a) people somehow thought being terrible in his name was a good thing, and b) he now knew the truth about his father being a drooling moron.
  • Of course, Jay starts to recover naturally near the end of the second series and decides he does want to continue helping people.
• Funny Moments: Wormwood tracking Maggie down in The Last Battle #4.
  • Babs flipping off Nigel the Beast with Seven Heads and telling him "fuck off"
  • Or the ultimate fate of God and Satan, floating through space for eternity, impaled on the same spear. And God still won't stop masturbating.
  Satan: JESUS CHRIST, CAN'T YOU STOP IT!?
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Jimmy posts rumors about a Star Wars movie with a young Han Solo, which causes a Loony Fan to commit suicide. Then came Box Office Bomb Solo...
• Heartwarming Moments: At the end of a press confess where Wormwood and Jay are announcing a new series call "Revelations" where they will invite influential people like politicians, CEOs, stars, etc. to talk to Jay about what they really do, Wormwood was accused by a reporter of just using Jay as a Token Minority and Jay stops the argument by standing up, putting his hand on Wormwood's shoulder and saying, "This man is my brother. Thank you one and all".
  • At the start of Issue #3, a comic book store owner dies of a heart attack. He meets an angel, and realizes that "If you're here, then... I made it?" The angel confirms this, and when the man questions why he got into Heaven when he didn't do anything extraordinary, the angel explains that you don't have to be a saint to get into Heaven. The comic book store owner didn't do anything really bad, and spent his life making the world a little better at a time by introducing people to good literature. It's an incredibly comforting thought that all it takes to get into Heaven is just being decent.
  • At the end of The Last Battle, the third and last series, when Wormwood checks his newborn daughter for signs she might be another potential Antichrist... and realizes that she's just a perfectly normal, healthy human infant. His happy relief at knowing his progeny won't have to go through the same shitshow as him is palpable.
• Moment of Awesome: Even if you don't want to read the rest of the series, and you might not, it's worth tracking down issue #3 of the original series to see Wormwood's guided tour of heaven and hell.
• Nausea Fuel: When Brother One the killer Vatican eunuch undresses to show what's left of his crotch. It's ...not pretty. And during their fight he even shoves Danny's face in it. Ew.
• Nightmare Fuel: The visions of Hell that are shown to Paul Carnovitz in The Last Battle #1, particularly if you're a parent of young children.

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