The Boys (15 books in series)
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review 1: Not for everyone - but great if you're a hardcore Ennis fan...
review 2: More of the same from the first volume...did I mention there is a character based off of Simon Pegg?
review 2: More of the same from the first volume...did I mention there is a character based off of Simon Pegg?
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review 1: Book #2 is a little calmer on the disgusting stuff. Still there though.As Book #1, its premise is one close to my heart: every time I read a comic or book (or watch a superhero movie), I always ask the question: "But what about the people that bomb killed?" or "but the train fell...
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review 1: Here Ennis fills out the backstory of Billy Butcher, leader of The Boys and the man with the most focussed hatred of the despicable superhumans of the comic's universe. A tale of an East End childhood, an abusive father, serving as a Marine in the Falklands (which gives Ennnis a ...
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review 1: The third volume in the series is more of a filler than anything else but unusually that is a good thing. The summary somewhat tells you what's going on but I wish they had gone into more about Frenchie (can't remember his name) and Female. Still this was a great entry and really...
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review 1: Päris hea. Esimene pool tegeles natsi-Saksa superkangelasega kes küll miskipärast kuulus Ameerika superkangelaste tiimi. Kiire kuid fataalse cameo tegi kommunistlik supersangar Armuvorst, hüüdega "Suck the Love Sausage, germanski pig!" saatel löödi supernats roundhouse-kick'iga k...
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review 1: This TPB of The Boys is all about sex. If that offends you, you could probably forego reading this one, and still be able to keep up with the plot of the series. You'll see depicted just about any sexual position available between consenting adults, animals and probably inanimate...
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review 1: Now for those who read my last post on The Boys Volume 1: Name of the Game know that this series is very hard to describe! The word intense comes to mind. The artwork and story line tend to be very graphic. The language can be crude, so if your sensitive to those types of things,...
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review 1: Never liked Darick Robertson's art, even Transmetropolitan, find it ragged and ropey, and while Ennis's obsessions with sex and violence can get tedious, at least he's really working with some strong themes in The Boys. That is, "who watches the watch men?" Who keeps an eye on th...
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review 1: Vol. 4 and we keep chugging along with our band on CIA-backed Supe-policers. Starting with the cover, this is a big tribute to Animal House, John Landis,and John Belushi (his character Blutarsky specifically). Hughie is sent undercover to investigate the G-Men (X-Men) and he star...
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review 1: Kuigi ilgelt palju oli rääkivaid päid ja tihedaid jutumulle, oli kaks liini mi smulle väga meeldisid. Esimene oli Vought Americani esimesed katsetused superkangelastega sõjaväljal, selline tragikoomiline veresaun kui näiteks lendav superkangelane hurraaga lennukipropellerisse len...
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review 1: The last volume: wraps up all ends, commits surprises, among many other crimes, makes one sad because of all the deaths, (this may be one of the most emotional and bloody of all the volumes), but at the end, the world goes on, sometimes happy, sometimes just keeping up with the d...
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review 1: Garth Ennis skips right past 11 and cranks it up to 20. It's full-on war, and that means there's blood on damn near every page, and the final twist at the end of the arc is only beat out by the over-the-top, double-triple gorey finale of the last few pages.If you've gotten queasy...
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review 1: Steps away from the action and intrigue of the main thrust of The Boys' narrative. Hughie's left The Boys (nominally) and gone home to smalltown Scotland to reflect on his work, and the revelation that his girlfriend is in fact a member of The Seven - the most powerful and most d...
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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 ab...
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review 1: Having read the conclusion, I think The Boys may be the best thing Ennis has written. It appears to be over the top satire of superhero comics, but it is so much more than that. A large part of it is a critique of certain forms of masculinity and how toxic they can be.There is pl...