The Boys

May. 24th, 2008 11:27 am
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I'm playing with ScribeFire. There's good and bad about it, but XJournal kept crashing on me, so... we'll see how this works.



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..

( Love Sausage )

I feel more cynical already.
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My brother and I have this thing for the Army of Darkness movies, and I have always had this Thing for Xena. So I went into this hopeful, and was rewarded with a very good time.

Published by Dynamite, Army of Darkness/Xena: Why Not? is a four-issue series that merges the two worlds with surprising ease; the tone of both the movies and the series are kept intact by focusing on humor that verges into slapstick here and there, and don't think they miss the fact that Bruce Campbell appeared in both.



It all starts when a bunch of little Ash's are created; the smart one, that Ash calls "Ash-It" flees using a Mininomican (hee) and ends up in the middle of Xena and Gabrielle saving Autolycus from a Cyclops that Auto has pissed off in a big way. Then the real hijinks begin!

( I didn't go anywhere near his family jewels. )

#3 is due out next month, and boy am I excited. Don't go looking for deep character studies here; it's all sillyness, fights, and impending doom. But damn it's a good time. :D
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