The Boys - An Amazon Prime adaptation of the Ennis comic series

[Bolo_the_Second]

The Boys the comic is a textbook example of a shitty work with just enough good stuff in it to make you wonder how so much better it could have been in actual competent hands and who's shittiness fades from view when you get a media adaptation that is the literal example of "worse case scenario" where they did such a horrific job that it single handedly makes the comic look all the better because it didn't suck as badly as the show did.

The shitty thing about the Boys, is that I think it started out okay.

Ennis' juvenillia aside (ha-ha, ass hamsters), the books were essentially about a comic nerd (Ennis) having fun about how shitty comic books are, and if you know anything about comics, is that comics books creators love being self-deprecating about comics.

So you get jokes like this motherfucker:



That you can only "get it" If you know the story behind the creation of Wonder Woman.

And there is probably a ton of references that flew right over my head.

But the point is, at least at the start, Ennis had a nice balance between jokes about comics, world building, and then some really harrowing turns, like the ending of the Godolkin storyline. Sure, if you just focus on Ennis being the edgy pisstaker that he's always tryharding about, sure, the Boys won't do much for you... but come on, at least I got a good laugh at the "Iron-Man/Batman" hybrid trying to fuck "Vision" in mid-air.

But at the tail ending of the Godolkin arc, more so at the St. Patrick's day chapter, time and space ripped apart right into Garth Ennis' ass and he was sucked into his own butthole, and from there we got nothing soap boxes, Hughie being a utter bitch, Butcher suck-offs and "the corporations maan!!" levels of socio-economic commentrary.

And.. come on Ennis, we were just having fun here, the fuck dude? Why you gotta be like this?



Okay, that was kinda funny.