The Boys Vol. 1: The Name of the Game
by Garth Ennis
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Author: Garth EnnisBrand: Dynamite Entertainment
Illustrator: Darick Robertson
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-04-08
ISBN: 1933305738
Number of pages: 152
Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment
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Book Review: Law & Order with big balls and a-hole superheroes
Summary: 4 Stars
It's that to the letter, plus the usual crude and cruel Ennis humor we all love him for. Ennis stated around the first some issues of the Boys that it would "out-preach Preacher" or something to that effect, and I think it could have the potential to. But the thing with Preacher is that it showed us an absurdly horrific world behind everything we know to be true in all western institutions and folklore. The Boys on the other hands is a throwback to all those superheroes just running amok without consequence, and they have no one to really to answer to except for the leader in their league or team or whatevermajig. Now, there are the Boys.
The Boys are a group of people who've taken a drug to enhance their bodies when combating or defaming or forcing superheroes to responsibility for their witless antics. Starring Simon Pegg, err, starring his face as one of the main characters named Hughie you get the hint that the humor is kicked up a notch. It is; there's a lot more Ennis-humor (I can't call it anything else). Consequentially, there is a lot more violence to it. Considering the universe we are dealing with, there is bound to be a lot more over-the-top violence, even moreso than any of his previous entries in comics.
Here's the Law & Order bit. You have the same characters of course, but they don't really make up a long running storyline, not even in Vol 2., which isn't a bad thing by any means. Again, you have the characters, and you get to know them and love them, even if some of them have a few hackneyed lines, you're going to spend time with two very fun ones for most of the time: Hughie and Butcher. They enliven the others. They feed off these guys and become more interesting.
The storytelling seems to be a larger pop-reference to current American magazines (the glamor and scandal of movie stars and celebrities in general). There's a pretty picture with lots of wrinkles behind the mask. The first volume is promising, as it shows you just what you are about to deal with in the subsequent volume, and it promises a potential storyline that well develop throughout this series. Unfortunately, you don't really get any wind of it in volume 2, but 2 is worth the read anyway.
Summary of The Boys Vol. 1: The Name of the Game
This is going to hurt! In a world where costumed heroes soar through the sky and masked vigilantes prowl the night, someone's got to make sure the "supes" don't get out of line. And someone will! Billy Butcher, Wee Hughie, Mother's Milk, The Frenchman, and The Female are The Boys: A CIA-backed team of very dangerous people, each one dedicated to the struggle against the most dangerous force on Earth - superpower! Some superheores have to be watched. Some have to be controlled. And some of them - sometimes - need to be taken out of the picture. That's when you call in The Boys! Collecting the first volume in the hit series The Boys by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson!Superheroes Books
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