That had a point. The reader is seeing how much unlike a traditional superhero homelander is, how much he falls short. Not only does he have no idea how to handle the situation, he has no poise and his prejuidices are shown. The wienerpit crew are in a position where they are in utter terror for their lives and the worlds greatest hero is showing them he's not only incapable of saving them, he's also an butthole who isn't trying. We see that terrified confusion in their faces.
>gets gaslit into thinking he ate and raped kids because LE EVIL CLONE
That was the stupidest shit in the entire book, not to mention the getting yoinked by a 50 cal machine gun.
>Original boys comic is a thinly veiled celebrity allegory, consumerism elevating and protecting fricking awful people and letting them do whatever they want because they're "heroes" >It is not actually a what-if-superman-bad comic, the capes are just a symptom of the real problem and small fry in the end >All anyone ever talks about in regards to the show is how good homelander is and how it's better than the book because the book was edgy
You're right, it is a little unclear.
What I mean is, there is no veil with Ennis. He puts everything right on the table and forces you to look at it. It's his biggest and weakest point as a writer. The celebrity shit and the military complex shit and everything else is explicitly stated as often as possible. You can't read The Boys without someone coming out and going 'frick Vought' or 'frick celebrities,' or 'frick the military (but only the part of it that Ennis doesn't like, soldiers are cool and badass.)'
Hell, just look at the epilogue he released recently, where it's revealed that Stillwell went absolutely insane after realizing that superheroes were a bad product; because Ennis doesn't do subtlety. It has to be explicit and it has to be in your face.
>The celebrity shit and the military complex shit and everything else is explicitly stated as often as possible.
Most critics of The Boys still miss this, though.
Nah, it is just about, "Capeshit sucks".
The Corpos are better people than most of the rest of the cast.
The Military Industrial Complex are the good guys.
Prometheus. It's from the same mini-series where he needlessly killed Arsenal's daughter just so Ollie and a bunch of other Leaguers could declare that it was time for the League to just simply kill the worst supervillains.
>kill hero's powerless child >cut off Arsenal's arm off in a way that even with comic medical magic it's always painful >falls back into drug abuse because of all of this >joins Deathstroke with the first job killing Ryan Choi, a character the writer probably gave zero shit about because they gave him a no name girlfriend instead of Giganta which was probably one of his biggest character hooks around that time
a cascade of edge
It's also easy to forget how annoying Prometheus himself was too. The worst kind of "all according to plan" wank. Like Batwank, but worse because he's just doing edgy shit. It's one thing when a story has a bunch of obnoxious ideas in it, and it's even worse an obnoxious character shows up to do it all.
I also can't believe anyone thought we'd be able to take this page seriously.
Kind of a dumb name for this kind of character. Chauvinist sounds like a rich guy villain name, not a crazed maniac. This is the kind of character who would choose something vulgar and stupid as a name, like b***h Stomper or something.
What's edgy about this
all ennisslop is edgy
>Haha White people are so racist
Got old real fast
but he was basically raised to be a racist all white blond haired blue eyed american, hes literally part of a eugenics programme
>implying you've never dropped an N bomb in frustration
OP is a homosexual
Stop these pointless whining generals
You'd know how to spot a homosexual, did you type this from the local glory hole?
5 whole minutes to think and you posted that
I hope you're a woman because damn
That's neither pointless nor edgy.
You already failed, OP.
lmao
that facial expression
Cope Ennisgay
bump
That had a point. The reader is seeing how much unlike a traditional superhero homelander is, how much he falls short. Not only does he have no idea how to handle the situation, he has no poise and his prejuidices are shown. The wienerpit crew are in a position where they are in utter terror for their lives and the worlds greatest hero is showing them he's not only incapable of saving them, he's also an butthole who isn't trying. We see that terrified confusion in their faces.
Aren't those hijackers
>S-superheroes d-don't see the naughty no no word
>you evil White devilsssss
Ennisgay.. I kneel
homelender is awesome as shit
>gets gaslit into thinking he ate and raped kids because LE EVIL CLONE
That was the stupidest shit in the entire book, not to mention the getting yoinked by a 50 cal machine gun.
The gaslighting bit was cool.
Homelander was killed by Black Noir.
>black guy fricks up and destroys a plane they’re trying to save
>homelander calls him a Black person
WHOAH. THIS IS CRAZY. TOO EDGY, HOMELANDER WOULD NEVER
Its anti Whiteism.
>Ennis is anti white
Genuine fricking illiteracy
>Original boys comic is a thinly veiled celebrity allegory, consumerism elevating and protecting fricking awful people and letting them do whatever they want because they're "heroes"
>It is not actually a what-if-superman-bad comic, the capes are just a symptom of the real problem and small fry in the end
>All anyone ever talks about in regards to the show is how good homelander is and how it's better than the book because the book was edgy
really makes it seem like a shit adaptation
Thinly veiled? Ennis doesn't do 'thinly veiled.'
well it's about the military industrial complex and that anon said celebrities first so
You do know what that means right?
You're right, it is a little unclear.
What I mean is, there is no veil with Ennis. He puts everything right on the table and forces you to look at it. It's his biggest and weakest point as a writer. The celebrity shit and the military complex shit and everything else is explicitly stated as often as possible. You can't read The Boys without someone coming out and going 'frick Vought' or 'frick celebrities,' or 'frick the military (but only the part of it that Ennis doesn't like, soldiers are cool and badass.)'
Hell, just look at the epilogue he released recently, where it's revealed that Stillwell went absolutely insane after realizing that superheroes were a bad product; because Ennis doesn't do subtlety. It has to be explicit and it has to be in your face.
>The celebrity shit and the military complex shit and everything else is explicitly stated as often as possible.
Most critics of The Boys still miss this, though.
lol you people don't know how dumb you really are.
Nah, it is just about, "Capeshit sucks".
The Corpos are better people than most of the rest of the cast.
The Military Industrial Complex are the good guys.
There is no critique.
Who did Ollie shoot
Prometheus. It's from the same mini-series where he needlessly killed Arsenal's daughter just so Ollie and a bunch of other Leaguers could declare that it was time for the League to just simply kill the worst supervillains.
I can feel the cut of a thousand sharp edges.
Wow nearly an hour and that's all you've got? Two can play this shit game frick heel.
>kill hero's powerless child
>cut off Arsenal's arm off in a way that even with comic medical magic it's always painful
>falls back into drug abuse because of all of this
>joins Deathstroke with the first job killing Ryan Choi, a character the writer probably gave zero shit about because they gave him a no name girlfriend instead of Giganta which was probably one of his biggest character hooks around that time
a cascade of edge
James Robinson basically killed the legendary writer status Starman and Golden age gave him with this.
I hate this kind of super-realistic artstyle while the character use goofy cartoonish outfits.
It's also easy to forget how annoying Prometheus himself was too. The worst kind of "all according to plan" wank. Like Batwank, but worse because he's just doing edgy shit. It's one thing when a story has a bunch of obnoxious ideas in it, and it's even worse an obnoxious character shows up to do it all.
I also can't believe anyone thought we'd be able to take this page seriously.
>machinegun cat
Kind of a dumb name for this kind of character. Chauvinist sounds like a rich guy villain name, not a crazed maniac. This is the kind of character who would choose something vulgar and stupid as a name, like b***h Stomper or something.
It doesn't get any worse than this.
Thats The Blob and The Wasp btw.
didn't Hank eat Blob immediately after this, too? Or am I misremembering?
yee
Jesus if I never saw this shit again it’d be too soon. What a god awful run
Your own fault for reading it.
>can't go a single thread without some loser crying about him
BatGOD lives rent free in the minds of many.
Did Arsenal come to life and frick James's wife/gf/whatever?