The Boys, Vol. 4 We Gotta Go Now by Garth Ennis

​The Boys are back in town. Adventure #4. This time all in one seven comic arc. Killer cover, though the art inside varies and I believe it still has the same (different form the original) artist as the last book. It is disorienting and I kind of with the comics would stick with the same people. It’s like if the show suddenly changed actors midway through to the lookalikes. Sure, it makes the wee lad more handsome and distinctly less Simon Pegg-y, but you get used to one thing and then…
At any rate, in this adventure the wee lad goes undercover with a group of young superheroes stylized like a bunch of frat bros and all sorts of shenanigans ensue. As brash and brutal and raunchy as you’ve come to expect and just as fun too, though the fun does get somewhat tiresome after a while, which brings one to the inevitable conclusion that perhaps in this instance the show might have a leg up over the books.
It isn’t unheard of. The Umbrella Academy show is a huge supersized improvement upon the comics it’s based on.
With Boys the different is much less dramatic, but the show has more nuances, more intricacies and more tonal variety, wherein the books are just wild with testosterone and sass and vulgarity…and that’s basically the lot of it.
Nevertheless, it’s still plenty entertaining and I’ve every intention of reading more, but maybe not is such close succession.
The alternate covers addition is excellent and well worth checking out too.