The Boys, Vol. 10 Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker by Garth Ennis

​The Boys are back at it; at it meaning they are looking for some small scandals to bring the Seven down. In fact, it’s almost like a recycling of a story, with Jack from Jupiter living up to his creepy visage with his unsavory sexual practices and the Boys trying to get him ousted for it.
It’s kind of tragic, if you think about it, that for all their swagger and all their talk, this is pretty much the best the Boys can do. Mess with the Seven one scandal at a time, only to get one supe replaced with another and the cycle continue. For all their testosterone, they are pretty impotent.
Also…Terror. Garth Ennis, I do not forgive you.
 
Even if you’re then going to turn around and wax poetic with Butcher’s background story, the violence and the love and all that had made him the man he is now. Even if that story is as sincere and heartfelt as the violence of the series is brutal and visceral.
Maybe Ennis was just looking for the opportunity to write about war some more, he certainly loves doing that.
Or I don’t know…for all my objections, for how crass and over-the-top and hypermasculine and hyperviolent the Boys series is, I’m still reading them, so there’s something. Or maybe it’s an in for a penny sort of thing. But in either case, this is book 10 out of 12, so almost finished with the entire series.