continuing "the Boys" storytime Previous threads:

>>85146369
>preptime this, wanker

>>85146369
Noice

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so how's everyone doing

>>85146369
Great cover

>>85146531
It's a bit more tied to the comic, but All-Star Naziman sticks in my mind more.

>>85146369
KEK, gotta love these homages

>>85146531
This series has pretty neat covers in general. Especially once you start noticing the ones with patterns.

>>85146563
Oh boy.

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black noir doesn't give a fuck

>>85146673
>P.R. requests, toys and comics
Synergy is a bitch.

>>85146805
This is where I thought Homelander has split personality or somesuch.

>>85146735
>A jackass trying to convince himself he's a total psychopath
heh

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same here

>>85146939
Wait, Lamplighter didn't die back in 9-11? He dies after?

>>85146962
Marathon died in 9/11. Lamplighter dies later.

>>85146549
>Not in front of the nutters
Fuck you, Butch.

I'd like to see a crossover between The Boys and Strong Female Protagonist. They are quite similar thematically, and deal with what would happen if superpowers were dumped onto fallible and realistic individuals that is less than capable of living up to the awesome responsibility, and how society would be different as a result. They also have some plot elements in common.

>>85147109
Isn't Strong Female Protagonist some SJW book

>>85147109
I'd like to see this not posted in every single thread.

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had to resize some pages

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>>85147109
please can you stop posting this ?

>>85146427
better now that you're here op!

>>85147109
Why DO you keep posting it? Is this the first time you had an original thought, that you need to repeat it ad nauseam, just to make sure everybody knows you had it?

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>>85147241
thanks

>>85147305
That's fucking sick, Butch.

>>85147428
AquaManta always looked fucking hilarious to me.

>>85147496
Well, I guess they chose who they're giving up

>>85147496
I like the foreshadowing in this page.

>>85147109
Every thread, Jesus Christ.

>>85147522
We already knew it going in.This is just fleshing out the details.

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>>85147650
oops made a mistake
this is the right page

>>85147570
Why would you shoot a man, before throwing him out of a plane?

>>85147650
Monkey is a hero to us all

>>85147691
Dammit...

>>85147691
Might want to delete it so it doesn't get confusing later when you need to post it.

>>85147656
Last panel is adorable.

did we already pass Butcher's origin story?

>>85147791
Not yet. I'm not really sure when would be the best time to post it.

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>>85147791
not yet

>>85147791
No

>>85147109
nobody is going to respond to you in the way you obviously crave

stop posting this

>>85147840
>nobody is going to respond to you in the way you obviously crave

That's what you guys are doing, though.

>>85147861
Oh Monkey

>>85147803
Last time they storytimed it they skipped it. I think they wanted to post it when
Hughie talks again with the old man

>>85147803
>>85147917
After "the Big Ride", before "Over the Hill with the Swords of a Thousand Men".

>>85147865
this

>>85148048
toppest kek

>>85148048
Where Monkey becomes a Butt Monkey

>>85148048
Jesus Butcher, have some mercy on old Terror. Don't make him fuck a monkey.

>>85148091
But fucking little bitches is Terror's fetish.

>>85148149
rekt

>>85148091
Monkey's not the monkey.

The monkey's that fucked Monkey's ears are

There's a point to be made about sloppy seconds, though.

>>85148236
Slut.

>>85148236
I cannot fucking believe this.

>>85146629
Don't fucking threaten to kill a woman's kids, Butcher.

>tfw read ahead
I'm gonna drink myself into a fucking coma.
They survived.
There were never any bodies.
Nobody can fucking prove otherwise.
,_,

>>85148426
Shit world to live in, senpai.

>>85148426
MM definitely left a body.

>>85148446
All you need is to find someone, apparently.
>>85148458
I'm just worried about MM's M. Who's gonna clean up that mess?

>>85146830
It's an interesting panel because, knowing the twist, it's even clear his attempts at a split personality are entirely an affectation. He's purposefully, consciously acting like he's talking to himself Gollum style to figure out why he can't seem to be a legitimate monster.

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>>85148426
i'm still sad :(

>being romantic as 14 y.o.
>write comic about war crimes and homo rape, so no one will ever know your secret

>>85148517
Anyone would go completely batshit neurotic in his situation. His case is especially bad because of the position he's in.

>>85146860
It's still somewhat amazing how well this cold motherfucker played her this entire time. He's like the personification of corporate.

>>85148609
He breaks at end, iirc.

>>85148630
Just a wee bit. It is in stark contrast to all the other things he ever reacts to, and perhaps the only real victory over Vought America in the end.

>>85147693
Because you want to make sure that motherfucker is dead.

>>85147525
You know, it struck me during this that his backstory turned out to be true, in the end. I had figured, reading through it, that it was another thing he did to play Hughie. That said, I never did read his backstory mini when I read this the first time, so there may be some surprises in store still. I don't think the main story ever actually addresses the specifics.

>>85148609
>>85148682
It's what makes the whole thing so juicy.
He's nothing BUT corporate.
So he may as well be the bad product he sells. Potentially forever.
It's a very special kind of hell, and it's beautiful.

>>85148738
Why would he be so obsessed with the mission if he was lying about it?

>>85148749
>Neuman

Nice. Never noticed this before.

>>85148258
Haven't you learned yet, anon? Hasn't Ennis made his intentions clear in this story? We're all here, just to suffer.

>>85148773
A challenge maybe?

>>85148773
I meant specifically the story he told Hughie. I had assumed he was lying about parts of it or it was a different tragedy. I figured there was still a motivating tragedy, but that it could easily be something other than what he explicitly said.

Butcher's entire game is playing the people around him with this sort of shit.

>>85148843
Oh god they are going to get slaughtered.

Ross Kemp will never play Butcher. I need this in my life.

>>85148749
Prescott Sheldon Bush is George Bush's father, and G.W. and Jeb's grandfather, and an actual historical figure, for those who didn't know.

>>85148893
Well fuck

>>85148914
Dubya himself is mentioned to have been Vought's first choice for a candidate instead of Vic until he took his head off with a chainsaw.

>>85148914
Figured. Not too many Bushs in congress at any point

>>85148889
>Guy Ritchie will never direct the Boys

>>85148952
Great fucking page

>>85148749
Henry Neuman anyone important?

>>85148995
Vic the Veep's last name is Neuman. Probably his grandfather.

>>85149026
Oh, right. Forgot name. They look alike, too.

>>85149048
fuck i hate em already

>time for war-timey ennis

dis gun b gud

>>85149032
Wait, wasn't Crimson Countess part of Payback and had the same powers? So is it a legacy character or is it her from WW2?

>>85149086
Probably a legacy character, these first guys seem like they'd die quickly from incompetence.

>>85149048
Soldier boy seems like he'd have trouble pouring water out of a boot even if the instructions were written on the heel.

>>85149086
If you notice, a lot, if not all, of the Supers here have modern day analogs or exact counterparts. Its clear Vought hung onto the names and images until they had a better shot at rolling them out.

>>85149086
Legacy characters. The Payback we saw earlier are based on this team. Apart from Stormfront, they're all the same heroes with different identities.

>>85148963
>Simon Pegg will never play Wee Hughie

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oh shit

>>85149172
Well, they got what was coming to them

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>>85149149
instead he'll be played by seth rogen

>>85149172
Welp, that answers the question about the Crimson Countess.

>>85149172
Damn, who could have seen this coming?

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stupid fuck

>>85149208
HAHAHAHAHAHA

>>85149200
The fact that it's literally impossible to not guess what's coming makes it even more depressing.

>>85149208
This one feels more like the cruelty of the universe. There's an entire sky, what are the odds he'd come out of the clouds right in front of that plane?

>>85149195
Let's hope not. Nothing against Rogen, but the part really asks for an incredulous Brit, and I'm not sure Rogen can pull that off.

>>85149251
Go on Ennis, tell us what you really feel.

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>>85149254
i know
simon pegg is the only one who could make the hughie justice

>>85149251
CAN'T MENNIS THE ENNIS

>>85149289
Let me guess, next page is some dumbass supe asking for help

>>85149289
Him, or Martin Freeman.

>>85149300
Well, shit

>>85149307
Do you know lottery numbers?

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>>85149310
yeah him too

>>85149251
A bit on the nose, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Reminds me of that quote from Butcher some issues back, something like "you were never in combat, and you're an insult to the folks that were."

>>85149353
Sure. 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42.

>>85149300
Still a better end than he deserved.

>>85149360
I think Ennis has explicitly made the same critique of Captain America in those exact words. I rather disagree with him, everyone fucking knows the difference between capes and Real American Soldiers. The former is not somehow erasing the latter. Fuck, the whining on about "who will remember them?" is a bit dumb, considering the vast, vast amount of American media lionizing the war and their efforts in it.

If there's one thing us Americans love, it's our soldier stories.

>>85149410
Don't know about Ennis and Cap, but in the context of The Boys I think it makes sense. Vought puts out a shitload of comics about how capes save the world and are the heroes, and Mallory finds it kinda disgusting, as he really is a war veteran and all that. Unsure if VA got to publish comics about heroes in the war, or if they covered it up like the Seven at 9/11.

>>85147411
He loaded the gun, maybe or maybe not knowing the hands it would fall into, he didn't pull the trigger.
I don't care for his behavior, but I'm just saying.

>>85149472
Oh no, it's perfectly fine in the story. I just get triggered when I think an author is going from "an interesting story in a fictional universe" to "no no, this is a serious point I'm making about real life." The only reason I think anything of it here is because I know what Ennis has said elsewhere, in interviews.

le m16a1 was universally hated misconception

>>85149648
Fuck

>>85146369

>Preperation

completely and absolutely ruined forever and ever

>>85149648
If there's one thing I found absolutely chilling it's the fact Vought has been consistently fucking America throughout its entire history. Just astronomical levels of greed and hubris.
And Stillwell survives it all just to keep doing the same goddamn thing.

>>85149715
It's better not to read The Boys as a serious sort of anything. Just a fun Ennis ride. Not that he makes that easy, sometimes. Easier other times, though.

Their whole universe is almost an edgier version of ours. An actually mentally retarded, might as well be a corporate pod person, presidential hopeful, rather than a merely poor at press events one. An even worse, more one-side catastrophe of military spending, rather than another in a long line of gray area fuck ups with plenty of blame to go around. It's not even a "realistic" take on Superheroes, it's a "what if everyone was as much of a good-for-a-gritty-story-as-possible, unrepentant asshole." It's just as fake a narrative as the one its taking the piss out of. It's all in service of a tone for entertainment.

Sometimes the serious lines work, usually when its introspection on the human condition over anything more pointed.

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>>85149804
fuck i ruined it

>>85149810
>You'll never sell supes to the military. What will you do?
>Why, something else.

>>85149843
For what it's worth I really don't think it was ever meant to be realistic.

>>85149870
The rage I felt when he said that was indescribable.

>>85149930
>Dat puddle

>>85149948
>I'm about ninety-five percent certain.

You know what they say about the five percent.

>>85149991
I don't, actually?

>>85150012
Dude, what's wrong with Blue Beetle now?

>>85150012
Poor Ted. Fixing to get killed.

>>85150051
Max's gonna axe him.

>>85149410
Ennis' hate for Captain America doesn't make sense to me. He says it takes away from the tragedy of the men who fought in the war but Kirby and Simon both fought in it.

>>85149843
oh yeah i agree completely. i'm just a sperg mate

>>85150078
puppy terror? AWAAAAA!

>>85150313
Good Hughie, get back in there.

>>85150355
Surprise, Butcher is a bit of a cunt.

>>85150413
Can someone refresh my memory, how did Maeve get her powers? I know about Homelander and Black Noir, but what made Maeve their equal?

>>85150413
Oh God, this arc.

>>85150541
Pretty sure she was another V baby, they keep saying the rest of the Seven are nothing compared to those three, and the rest all got their powers after birth.

>>85150541
The Seven are all lab grown

>>85150521
I've never read this before, but it seems pretty strange to just...zoom in on the dog like that. God help you Ennis if something happens to that dog.

>>85150521
>first panel
>I'm not being paid enough for this shit

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:^)

>>85150554
;_;

>>85150521
THEY FUCKING TELL YOU RIGHT THERE WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN

>>85150521
You went to Herogasm and he thinks that's worse? Granted, it's not like he was in the resort's basements or bedrooms where the really fucked up shit happened but did he not see the line of guys cumming on Shehemoth's hump?

>>85150572
He's fine Anon, don't worry.

>>85150569
But the other 4 have been stated as being nowhere near the trinity.

>>85150521
Such a good wee dug ;_:

>>85150609
Then maybe it's just the Trinity that are lab grown

Either way it's really just the Homelander and Black Noir that are the most powerful, Maeve didn't last five seconds against the Homelander

>>85150658
Non-Commisioned Officer