The Boys # 1 - The Name Of The Game (Part 1)
is a comic book published by Dynamite Entertainment & released on 10 / / 2006User Rating - 4 votes, 4.9 avg.
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'This book will out-PREACHER PREACHER.' - Garth Ennis Garth Ennis (Preacher) and Darick Robertson (Transmetropolitan), co-creators of two of the most thought-provoking comics of the last decade, introduce their first original collaboration for a new monthly series: THE BOYS - a dark, twisted look at super powers, super-people, and the men and women who make sure the world's 'heroes' never go too far. With a quarter-million super-powered beings in the world, someone's got to watch what's going on beneath all those masks and capes. In a U.S.A. uncomfortably like our own, that task falls to The Boys, a government-funded group of operatives dedicated to keeping the 'supes' in line. Team leader Billy Butcher, described by a confidential C.I.A. report as 'the most lethal individual ever encountered by this agency,' is on the hunt for new recruits - but it takes something special to join this outfit. You have to be smart. You have to be strong. And you have to hate supes with every ounce of black passion in your heart.
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In the Name of love
Reviewed by AgentOrange on June 1, 2009. AgentOrange has written 2 reviews. His/her last review was for The Name Of The Game (Part 2). |
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I loved this idea although it's not a new one, heroes existing in a realistic world where power corrupts and absolute power corrupts apsolutely. Like Marshal Law by Pat Mills 1987 and Alan Moore the watchman 1986 and so on but the boys is completely different to either and all others simply because Garth Ennis has his own individual cynical sarcastic style that deliberately delivers a demented demanding demystifying portrait of realistic post Human's with a super power's playing silly buggers. It's a fun entertaining and at times beautiful bit of work that I hope continues to impress
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