What? Did you think it was over? Did you think it would be that easy? The supes defeated would just scramble off with their tales between their legs, Vought-American rebrand their corporate image and that would be that?
Well, maybe you just didn’t realize who the real villain of the story is here? Or, more like, just how many villains there really are in The Boys. But this, this twist is a real doozy. Kudos to Ennis. To be fair, I was never really in love with this comic series. I read them because 1.I was a fan of the TV show and 2. I’m a completist and I love original twists on the superhero genre and 3. Our library had the entirety of them available digitally and 3. But the last couple of books had me positively riveted. Wow might be in order. It’s tragic, it’s messed up, it’s terribly bleak, but, then again, it’s so good. It makes perfect sense within The Boys’ world logic, it simply takes you further than you thought it was going to go, extending the natural trajectory to a place so freaking dark that it seems the sun never shines there and yet…at the very end, there it is, those beams, shining through after all. Giving the readers something dangerously close to the proverbial happy endings. The crazy thing is all of that, 12 graphic novels worth of stories, took place in The Boys universe over just two years. And having read them all, it’s difficult to judge them, difficult to recommend them, even. They are certainly not for everybody and not just because they are hyperviolent, dark and raunchy. But there’s a lot that’s right with them, from originality to the character development. And Terror, lovely, lovely Terror. So I suppose I’m glad to have read them. It’s been an experience, certainly. I’d be very interested to see what the TV show makes of it, provides it continues, because there’s so much material here and so far, the TV adaptation has been making strikingly interesting choices with it. Until then, Boys, it’s been real. Or surreal, Well, you know how it is.
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