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The Boys, Volume 10: Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker (2012)

by Garth Ennis(Favorite Author)

4.12 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1606902644 (ISBN13: 9781606902646)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Dynamite Entertainment

series

The Boys

review 1: Okay, this volume was good...but was it necessary? No. It won't shock anyone who's read the earlier The Boys comics that this is origin story of Billy Butcher--and that's all that it is. There's no advancing of the storyline to date. You don't learn anything shockingly new about any of the characters or about the Supes or about anything else. It fills in and fully explicates what you already know about Butcher. I think that Ennis wanted his readers to have a better understanding of the sadness of Butcher. A window to let us look past the utter badassedness that is the man. Yeah--he kind of does that a little. That said, for emotional impact and a feeling of the humanity and sadness of Butcher, the final pages of volume 9 (The Big Ride) are much more powerful, shoc... moreking and impactful. You can read this one, and you'll probably enjoy it. Or you can skip it, and I don't think that you'll miss anything. I'm glad that I read it but mostly I'm looking forward to picking up vol 11 in a couple of minutes.
review 2: Finally, we get the story behind Billy Butcher. Its been a long time coming but now we see why we've been kept waiting for so long. Bill's Revenge is the heart of the story and while we always knew the circumstances, putting you in the story of Bills' life makes it real.This is Garth Ennis on brilliant form. He's writing about Superheros, war and other acts of violence, but at the same time he's putting a lot of heart and feeling into the story, the Father / Son thing reminds me of Pride and Joy (one of Ennis's best by far) but obviously on a more negative tip. It works though, in the context of the books Bill is nobodies hero, in fact he's a bit of a cunt and here you see where he gets it from.This isn't brilliant literature or high art, its as much a revenge fantasy as the Superhero stories it lampoons (it is just a good bit smarter at it), but it is clever and dark and exciting and it whets the appetite for the coming finalé in the next two volumes, which cannot come soon enough. less

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