Life & Wisdom Quote by Garth Ennis

Ennis is making a craft argument that doubles as a quiet rebuke to the way modern entertainment stretches everything until it snaps. “Proper” does a lot of work here: it signals impatience with bloated ongoing runs and prestige-TV seasons that keep the door cracked open for renewal rather than letting a story end cleanly. Coming from a comics writer who’s lived inside both serial sprawl and tightly planned arcs, the mini series becomes less a format than a discipline: a finite container that forces choices, trims indulgence, and demands an ending that actually lands.

The line’s subtext is about control. In an industry shaped by IP maintenance, crossovers, and corporate incentives to never stop publishing, pacing isn’t just an aesthetic preference; it’s a form of authorship. “Closure” is the provocative word. It pushes back on the fashionable idea that ambiguity equals sophistication. Ennis isn’t pleading for neatness, he’s arguing for consequence: events should accumulate, characters should change, and the final beat should feel earned rather than deferred.

Context matters because Ennis’s own work often thrives on escalation and moral fallout. His stories aren’t gentle, but they’re engineered. A miniseries lets him build pressure with intention, then release it without having to reset the board for next month’s issue. The appeal is almost literary: beginning, middle, end - not as nostalgia, but as resistance to the endless-content treadmill that mistakes duration for depth.