Another violent yet compelling volume. I liked getting more background on the characters! I am definitely hooked.

Just a short review today. This one starts out pretty hard core with the Boys beating on another super team that has been in their sights. Later the Female goes out for one of her hits for the Mob and gets surprised by a Nazi superhero who puts her in a coma during their fight. The Boys go to check her out at the hospital and realize very late that it is a setup for the Nazi and his team to take them out. MM gets hurt really bad and Billy has Hughie get the team out while he deals with the supes...

superheroes aren't superheroes, they're superassholes. lather, rinse, repeat. this time out it is The Avengers that are parodied and torn to bloody bits, with the most sadistic treatment provided to the women of course. rinse, repeat. Homelander gets agitated; Starlight doesn't like her work life; a nazi superhero(villain) loses an eye; Hughie gets sick over all of the violence. repeat. i feel like i've read this before and it tastes rather like backwash.includes a lengthy backstory for Mother's...

Wow, talk about taking it up a notch. Just like I'd suspected a couple of books ago, the slow burn and character development they've been doing lately just increases the impact of balls-out action that we get here.Then we slow down again and get deep inside the origin stories (finally!) of most of The Boys. As fantastically absurd and over the top these stories each are, it's amazing to me how well Ennis weaves in emotional notes that really connect me with these characters. And Robertson evokes...

Ennis got his start in the mid to late 90s, establishing a reputation as an extremist in the comics community alongside Warren Ellis, though Ennis would become the Grant Morrison to Ellis' Alan Moore, with Ennis sometimes going to extremes without letting his story threads come together in a natural way. Does that mean Ennis is a bad writer? Of course not. He wouldn't be a favorite of mine if that were the case. While The Boys doesn't entirely reach the heights of some of Ennis' finer outings li...

I know, I know, I was going to take a pause form The Boys for a minute, but the thing is our library has inexplicably decided to only acquire manga now instead of proper graphic novels and I like proper graphic novels, even ones as improper as The Boys, and so here I am, back again…Book six features Stormfront, the Nazi superpowered evil f*cker who gets just one storyline here and gets to be the protagonist of the entire season 3 of the tv show. Albeit, unrecognizably so with a gender switch up....

Truth time: I read volumes 4-12 in a weekend, and here's the weird part: I'll score each one a 3, but overall it's a 4. How does this work?I guess I feel like the whole arc was fun to read. It was interesting, weird, pretty transgressive, and you become invested in seeing how it all plays out. And without spoiling a thing, I can say that it has an ending that's satisfactory. Things are wrapped up, which is great.So, while the individual parts are all a 3 for me, the whole is a 4. Go figure.

The Boys are back and still kicking ass.Seriously. They're just beating the shit out of everyone.Just when you think you're tired of Nazi bad guys, Ennis creates a douchebag racist enough to make it fun to watch as Butcher pokes his eye out. And really, isn't that what we all want out of our comics?You've got the ongoing story that's happening between the supes, Vought, and the Boys, which was very good. And then you've also got a few of the origin stories tossed in.Granted, some of the stories

More than three years ago I stopped reading this series, which is a send-up of superhero-comics, where a bunch of guys get to police the arrogant, out-of-control supes. I just thought the last one, Herogasm, was a bit of spinning its wheels, and I had by then gotten the point about super macho misogynist idiot superhero comics, as Ennis sees them. But for some reason I this evening decided to pick up volume six and I liked it a bit better. I like Butcher and the gang: Wee Hughie, The Female, Mot...

You could make an argument for the fact that the true focus of this story *is* the characters. Their relationships and how they change and grow. This is especially true of the relationship between Wee Hughie and Butcher. You could argue that the entire story is about the two of them. About their relationship. Though personally, my *favorite* relationship was probably between the Frenchman and the Female. (Continued in book 7.)

The Self Preservation Society is a triumphant return to the level of storytelling found in "The Name of the Game" and "Good for the Soul" after the misfire that was "Herogasm". Vought American decide to do something about The Boys and send their second best supes out to sort them out. Leading them is a Nazi superhero called Stormfront who takes out The Female and Mother's Milk leaving it up to Butcher to sort it out. A great character from earlier in the series shows up in the finale and it's su...

I'm apparently incapable of reading the phrase, "The Self-Preservation Society," without hearing the opening bars of the Kinks' "Village Green Preservation Society" in my head, because my brain runs on music references. And caffeine. And cheap puns. Just one of many crosses that I bear ...Two story arcs in this volume. First, Vought-American sends a team of supes after the Boys. Could this be the end? Of course not, silly. We get to see Butcher do what he does best. A familiar beard returns. And...

Another good volume. Back to fun.

This one speaks about the stories of boys, pretty interesting.

Both Vought American and the Homelander himself have had enough of The Boys, so one of the top powered being teams in the worlds is sent after them. The result is. CARNAGE! After reading this battle between a group of powered beings you'll never take Marvel or D.C. serious again. Ellis and Robertson almost lovingly create ultra violence on the page alongside a number of levels of dark comedy.Then amazingly they keep up the momentum in the 2nd half of the volume with some unsettling almost horrif...

Really liked this volume. We got backstories for Mother’s Milk, The Frenchman and The Female. And wow, I love a good backstory. I thought I liked Frenchie before, but now? Shii now I’ve seen him as a young man, and WOW IM SORRY BUT IM WHIPPED.The metaphors about WWII or anything in this volume are so well handled and executed.The friendships between Frenchie and The Female and between Starlight and Queen Maeve are everything. We get to see how Frenchie’s and The Female’s started, and how Starlig...

I'm sorry but PR teams who create comics for the supe's and use RAPE as an origin story is a no-go for me. Only Hughie and Marrie were it for me. I even lost every respect I had for Butch, even if the theory i have in mind about him and Homeland is true. I can't continue this...

I've skipped The Boys, Volume 5: Herogasm (which seems to revolve around a superhero sex retreat) and moved straight onto Vol. 6, 'Self-Preservation Society'. Vol. 5 was a mini-series event from the franchise that doesn't seem to have had much bearing on the storyline in this volume (Hughie only mentions 'Herogasm' once), so I don't think I've missed out on anything by leaping past it. If you're not really up for Vol. 5 either, but not sure if you need to read it for continuities sake - it's all...

Plot points:(view spoiler)[--Vought-American promises supergroup Payback a significant boost in status if they kill The Boys. The Boys slaughter most of the team, but literal-Nazi Stormfront is as powerful as Homelander. Ennis puts on a clever little re-enactment of WW2 to resolve the fight: Germany/Stormfront vs England/Butcher, America/Mother's Milk, France/Frenchy, and Russia/Love Sausage.--The Vought-American marketing team assigns Annie a new rape-victim backstory with a costume made out of...

Well now, THAT was damn entertaining, and moving. (Somehow a foul mouthed Brit wrote the best tribute comic to 9-11 that I've read). Here it's the Brooklyn Bridge, but the sentiments are the same, beautifully conveyed by Ennis (yes, beautiful and Ennis in the same sentence).Here we get a closer look inside of Mother's Milk, the Frenchman, and the Female. The Frenchman's is a little silly, but that's OK, MM's is great. There's also a huge throw-down with Payback, the #2 VA team. One of the team i...