I knew it was going to be impossible not to compare the books to the tv show, so I’m not even going to try. Wherein book one was a pretty close match, book two is something of a digression. It’s two Boys (own) adventures in one book with two self-contained arcs.
The first one takes on homosexual themes (some supers lean that way, some get murderous with it) with such a well-meant but strange and dated and brash aggressively-Boys style that it probably wouldn’t quite work for a modern snowflake audience and their PC sensibilities. The second is pure message-free fun as the Boys roll behind the Iron Curtain into a snowy Moscow for some fun under the winter sun, featuring Vas, a retired local super who looks like a giant, obscenely well-hung demented Santa. It’s all in your face, loud and foul-languaged sort of shenanigans you’ve come to expect from Boys, but overall on a much smaller scale than traditional Boys universe, which is to say these tales are more like offshoots from the story tree. Still fun, but looking forward to getting back to the main. Also, the art changes in like the very last comic/last art of the second story so weirdly and abruptly and not as an improvement, and makes Wee lad look completely different among other things. Get Some, but then go back to the origins.
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