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hussie is 100% up his own ass here
i still dont consider john trying to beat his loving father with a hammer to be a core part of the john egbert character experience
'brothers fight' is a trope as old as time and it was presented in a way that was overtly comedic and slapstick
then we get a bunch of cool bro moments (like dueling jack noir) and hes given the exact same reverence as the other guardians for pretty much all of the comic
THEN we're supposed to hate bro and call him a child abuser 5000 billion pages down the line because hussie thought he could tearjerk his audience by retroactively painting an earlier scene as something super serious and sad while ignoring any of the issues the other kids had with their guardians or lack thereof
unfortunately i just dont fucking buy it
if hussie wanted to make a bigger point about bro or daves upbringing somehow being fucked up and evil he shouldve been more explicit about cals influence