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The Boys - Garth Ennis
Dublo7
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So, I'm a huge Preacher fan, and I've been thinking of picking up Ennis' other series, The Boys.
How is it? Is it worth the read?
How is it? Is it worth the read?
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most people will tell you it's shit but they just like to whine
it's just ennis
if you enjoyed preacher I imagine you will enjoy this
In fact I think Boys is my only Ennis book
I like Ennis a lot but I have a very high tolerance for his tics. If you don't absolutely love Preacher, Punisher, Hitman and War Stories and want more of the same, then you can comfortably give The Boys a pass. I don't think even the people who like it would argue that it's essential reading.
I'll try to make my opinions on the series less colored than most.
I dropped the book, today. Issue ten was the last I'll buy, and I only bought this far because I'm a completionist, and ''at the end of the second arc'' seemed like a good place to stop. I feel like I've gotten everything I could from The Boys; my $2.99 could be better spent elsewhere.
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His iteration on The Punisher is essentially every normal-esque idea he had for Hitman that he couldn't do because his series got cancelled.
Preacher is excellent, but it is a markedly different text than any of his other material.
That's unfair to quote as judgement - the entire sequence
Then he saw a construction site and noticed a wheelbarrow full of bricks falling, about to hit a woman and child.
He shoves them out of the way, then a meteor shower hits the city, and he goes on to regain his fame per the above images.
The one page that isn't shown is the final one, with Lil Hugie and Butcher reading the paper and commenting how it was best that the wheelbarrow offed "him" {Tekknight} so he didn't die from the massive tumor that was found in his head during the post-mortem autopsy.
The tumor possibly being the thing {after the fact} that forced TekKnight to fuck any hole he saw.
Essentially those page scans were taken completely out of context.
The point of massive immaturity still stands, out of context or nay.
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I mean I figure it's because he you knows but I don't see why that would make him explode in a non-metaphorical way
He doesn't. The meteor does. Probably because that's what happens when you do THAT to THAT portion of the space meteor.
Actually it's pretty tame for the series. I like to ignore context sometimes too.
That bit was the funniest thing I've read all week. If there's more like that I'm definitely gonna pick this up.
I would have found it funny 7, maybe 8, years ago.
All it did for me was make me think "... lame."
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That was awesome. Fuckin' hilarious. The laugh I got from reading that is worth $2.99 a month. Hell, it's worth more than that.
Well, at least Jody wasn't(right?) and he was one of my favorites. But yeah, perversion abounds in the series.
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