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From the dark and twisted mind of Garth Ennis, co-creator of "Preacher" and "Hitman", and the savage pencil of Darick Robertson, artist of "Transmetropolitan", comes a darkly hilarious story that will change the way you look at superheroes forever!Meet Billy Butcher. He's not a nice man, and neither are his team: the Frenchman, Mother's Milk, and the Female. They hate "capes"...and so does Billy's newest recruit, Wee Hughie, whose girlfriend has just become collateral damage in a super-brawl. But does Hughie know what he's getting into?This hugely controversial new series - which caused an uproar upon original publication - explores the sordid side of superheroics! Warning: Adults Only!
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Garth Ennis is the award-winning writer of Hellblazer, Hitman, Punisher, Preacher, Pride and Joy and War Stories. He is much in demand for his hard-edged, wickedly humorous style. Darick Robertson is the critically acclaimed artist and co-creator of Transmetropolitan. He is also the artist on Fury and Punisher (both with Garth Ennis), and the creator of Space Beaver.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: The Boys Volume 1: The Name of the Game (Paperback)
Every year or so I discover some gem, and this is one. Great art, great characters, great story, totally readable and watchable. Special, different, in many ways, very important in a world that too often stops and starts itself with the same stories written and drawn in a different way.
This is not as seminal as Watchmen, but it is certainly a book and set of books that everyone should try. Give me more give me more give me more. Plus - one character is based on a real-life person alive today, and this adds to the enjoyment.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Turning comic book canon on its head,
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This review is from: The Boys: The Name of the Game v. 1 (Paperback)
Imagine if someone dared to pen a Hollywood Babylon for superheroes and the people who need to keep them in line? That's the premise of The Boys. Volume one sets the scene introducing to us to our players Wee Hughie - a Scottish slacker with a good heart looking for vengence after his girlfriend is ran over by a superhero. Mike Butcher and his bulldog Terror who leads a shadowy group called The Boys, Mother's Milk - a former US Ranger and conscience of Butcher, Frenchie - someone who you have little background on but pleasingly eccentric and The Female - who doesn't speak, but kills a lot.
Ennis creates characters as rich as his previous Preacher series and I am looking forward to the next volumes
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Tearing up the rule book,
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This review is from: Boys, Volume 1: Name of the Game (Paperback)
Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson have torn up the rule book with The Boys. A handpicked team of misfits lead by hard man Billy Butcher save the world from superheroes. These are not the caped crusader or Superman sitting in his fortress of solitude but spoilt, delinquent, degenerate and immoral people with super powers and a nice line in costumes who cause more trouble than they save.
Volume one covers issues 1 - 6 which introduces the members of the team: Billy Butcher, Wee Hughie - the newbie who saw his girlfriend get runover by supersonic superhero called A-Train, Mothers Milk - the conscience of the group and Butchers right hand man, The Frenchman - who provides muscle and is madder than a bag of cats and The Female - probably the most deranged and psychopathic member of the group. Ennis has provided an interesting twist on the super hero story, which is as creative in its own anarchic way as Gibbons and Moore's The Watchmen
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