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In The Boys, the above is a nice way of describing superheroes. If this series is any indication, the only way Garth Ennis could hate superheroes more would be to write page after page of them getting horribly mutilated and tortured to death over and over. Nearly every single one is a sex-crazed psychopath that treat everyday people like things that only exist for their pleasure. They save, or don't save, based on whims, and even can treat each other like pieces of meat. And it's graphic enough that I'm pretty sure PhotoBucket wouldn't be happy with me posting a lot of their sexual escapades that generally leave me crossing my legs and wincing just to look at it. Think "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" at various levels.
Most of the humor is definitely black humor, and sometimes the good guys don't act much better than the bad guys. But since the main protagonist shares skepticism about what pretty much everybody is doing... well. It's good, and is even blackly entertaining and funny in between bluntly graphic or just plain gory..
That's A-Train. An analogue of Flash, as a member of The Seven (analogue of the Justice League, only not) he started out his superhero career with their version of the Teen Titans if they were arrogant hedonists of the highest order. Remember what an asshole he is for later. He's blowing off the death of a bystander; one that's totally his fault.
The "final test" for a woman that wants to join The Seven. She does it, and regrets it for the rest of the series so far; in fact, she is presented as the only truly moral hero... but doesn't have the strength to stand up to her peers. At all. The "strong" female hero is a lush that doesn't appear to have the same moral problems. Does that have something anti-feminist in there? Maybe. I think it's just more of making it abundantly clear that the so-called heroes are bad, bad people.
Still nothing compared to what the Teenage Kix do in their spare time. Think musical chairs in a whorehouse, where the masked nymphos all win and the hookers all lose.
I was seriously creeped out by those last few pages. For so many reasons.
Meanwhile, the Teenage Kix at the movies...
Heh. Ewww.
Moving on, we see more DC analogues; this guy is a suspicious lot like Maxwell Lord if he was a different kind of evil.
So... what are the good guys like, you ask?
If you're asking yourself if that's his dick going down to his knee; yes, yes it is. That's why they call him Love Sausage.
It's no wonder the only moral person in the story loses her faith after a little while.
I feel more cynical already.
In The Boys, the above is a nice way of describing superheroes. If this series is any indication, the only way Garth Ennis could hate superheroes more would be to write page after page of them getting horribly mutilated and tortured to death over and over. Nearly every single one is a sex-crazed psychopath that treat everyday people like things that only exist for their pleasure. They save, or don't save, based on whims, and even can treat each other like pieces of meat. And it's graphic enough that I'm pretty sure PhotoBucket wouldn't be happy with me posting a lot of their sexual escapades that generally leave me crossing my legs and wincing just to look at it. Think "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" at various levels.
Most of the humor is definitely black humor, and sometimes the good guys don't act much better than the bad guys. But since the main protagonist shares skepticism about what pretty much everybody is doing... well. It's good, and is even blackly entertaining and funny in between bluntly graphic or just plain gory..
That's A-Train. An analogue of Flash, as a member of The Seven (analogue of the Justice League, only not) he started out his superhero career with their version of the Teen Titans if they were arrogant hedonists of the highest order. Remember what an asshole he is for later. He's blowing off the death of a bystander; one that's totally his fault.
The "final test" for a woman that wants to join The Seven. She does it, and regrets it for the rest of the series so far; in fact, she is presented as the only truly moral hero... but doesn't have the strength to stand up to her peers. At all. The "strong" female hero is a lush that doesn't appear to have the same moral problems. Does that have something anti-feminist in there? Maybe. I think it's just more of making it abundantly clear that the so-called heroes are bad, bad people.
Still nothing compared to what the Teenage Kix do in their spare time. Think musical chairs in a whorehouse, where the masked nymphos all win and the hookers all lose.
I was seriously creeped out by those last few pages. For so many reasons.
Meanwhile, the Teenage Kix at the movies...
Heh. Ewww.
Moving on, we see more DC analogues; this guy is a suspicious lot like Maxwell Lord if he was a different kind of evil.
So... what are the good guys like, you ask?
If you're asking yourself if that's his dick going down to his knee; yes, yes it is. That's why they call him Love Sausage.
It's no wonder the only moral person in the story loses her faith after a little while.
I feel more cynical already.
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on 2008-05-24 04:26 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2008-05-24 04:48 pm (UTC)Also, The Preacher.
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on 2008-05-24 06:41 pm (UTC)Love the Russian guy, though haha.