The Boys, Vol. 9 The Big Ride by Garth Ennis

​Backstory, backstory, backstory. It’s all about the backstory in this volume. The wee lad who went on a walkabout in the last volume still hasn’t returned to the fold. Instead, he gets to sit down with an old man who doesn’t look it and hear a story of the early days of the company that made the supes and the supes that made the company. Ennis, who loves nothing more than a good war story, takes the readers back to WWII for a lesson in interfering.
And in the present day (of the yesteryear The Boys is set in), there are some grumbles among the Boys about the political powers that hold their strings. Things are a-changing, can The Boys stay the same?
This is Ennis at his most Ennis-y, the rough and tumble and oh so testosterony. Entertaining, though not my favorite. Military and/or spy fiction aren’t really my favorites usually, nor are tales of political intrigue, especially such hypermasculine ones, but then again that’s The Boys for you. And I seem to be determined to read them all, despite the fact that they don’t delight me nearly as much as the TV show adaptation. Because it is still kinda fun and has Terror and because it still beats Manga that our library is so obsessed with and buys in disproportionate amount to all other comics. So there.