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

[LORD IMPERATOR]

The difference is that the CW was always on a shoestring budget due to the abominable viewership numbers, meanwhile Amazon is a gorillion dollar company and The Boys is the most popular show they have besides Invincible.

That doesn't mean they won't cut corners now and then. Especially as they're rushing to the finish line.

Between the two, Invincible seems to have a better fan reception; the Boys always seemed to be too edgy, whereas the edgy shit in Invincible serves the theme of the show.

 

[The greater a'tuin]

When Butcher was talking about how the spice girl couldn't smile, and the camera panned to Boggedlight, lel

 

[Bolo_the_Second]

the writers and show runners have decided to make holy law one the most retarded aspects of the comic, which is that Voight has a monopoly on all super heroes and their creations and no one cares challenge them, not even world governments because fuck you that's why.

Does the show also wants us to believe that comics were supposed to be the medium to sell the public on the origins of super-powered people and their "exploits", just so the other issue they have parents selling their children to be injected with compound-V to be a cash cow and Supes being very public with their hedonic behaviour?

Obviously I get that Ennis didn't give two shits about logistics here, even if the motherfucker wrote entires books with nothing but exposition. The point of "The Boys" comics was simple: to shit on superheroes comics, so whatever, I guess Ennis took the path of least resistance and just made everything Vought centered to represent the whole comics industry. Dumb? sure, but I get it.

But the series seems to diverge from the comics, and seems more focused on...

That is a good question, what is this series about?

Like I said, the comics were pretty simple with it's premise: Capeshit comics and capeshit heroes sucks, Wasn't clear enough? here's the cover for the series last issue:


It's all shit.

But, what about the series? Again, what is this series about? Some half-baked orange-man is bad? Is the series even interested with the concept of super-heroes? or even comics?

Genuine question here;

 

[LORD IMPERATOR]

That is a good question, what is this series about?

Like I said, the comics were pretty simple with it's premise: Capeshit comics and capeshit heroes sucks, Wasn't clear enough? here's the cover for the series last issue:


It's all shit.

But, what about the series? Again, what is this series about? Some half-baked orange-man is bad? Is the series even interested with the concept of super-heroes? or even comics?

Genuine question here;

A little bit of both. They're just adding the "Orange Man Bad" to the message, but they pretty much portrayed superheroes consistently as scumbags and hypocrites, and the eradication of supes is pretty much a positive development from the show's perspective. The very franchise of superheroes is so toxic, even their James Stillwell stand-in, Stan Edgar, wants to do away with superheroes entirely and replace them with soldiers powered with Temp V. The show obviously took the comics' message of "superheroes are bad" and continued to run with it, just adding some modern pop-culture references to it, like how the first season made fun of Disney MCU fans.

Notice how every supe who went fully good discarded their costume and their identity and cut ties with Vought. And even the supes' boss sees the supes as retarded manchildren or old prostitutes.

 

[Not Funny]

Butcher escapes and lives alone peacefully in Hawaii.

So did they forget that without V, Butcher has super cancer? He couldn't live without it? His tentacle powers are a manifestation of that?

I guess they forgot one of the major plot points of season 4 huh. Not that it fucking matters.

Christ, this show really dropped the ball hard towards the end of Season 3. It's the same shit with game of thrones. The creators want out so they rush a shitty ending so they can go work on something else. Too bad for Benioff and Weiss their star wars project fell through. And nobody will want to work with them now since they ruined game of thrones.

Same thing is going to happen to Kripke. Guarantee it.

 

[MirrorNoir]

Does the show also wants us to believe that comics were supposed to be the medium to sell the public on the origins of super-powered people and their "exploits", just so the other issue they have parents selling their children to be injected with compound-V to be a cash cow and Supes being very public with their hedonic behaviour?

Obviously I get that Ennis didn't give two shits about logistics here, even if the motherfucker wrote entires books with nothing but exposition. The point of "The Boys" comics was simple: to shit on superheroes comics, so whatever, I guess Ennis took the path of least resistance and just made everything Vought centered to represent the whole comics industry. Dumb? sure, but I get it.

But the series seems to diverge from the comics, and seems more focused on...

That is a good question, what is this series about?

Like I said, the comics were pretty simple with it's premise: Capeshit comics and capeshit heroes sucks, Wasn't clear enough? here's the cover for the series last issue:

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It's all shit.

But, what about the series? Again, what is this series about? Some half-baked orange-man is bad? Is the series even interested with the concept of super-heroes? or even comics?

Genuine question here;

When the comic ended, for a couple of years afterwards, a popular hipster scum cancer within the comic community interpretation of the series and it's message was "toxic masculinity=bad" and Butcher's pre death monologue basically being him ascribing masculinity and being "manly" to being a "boy" and that people like Butcher were stunted man children who never grew up to be proper soy boy bitches and that Butcher envied how Hughie and his wussy soy boy nature was right even as Butcher only managed to get Hughie to kill him by manipulating him one last time like a beta bitch. Which is hilarious given that the final issue basically has Hughie turn into Butcher 2.0 and filling out Butcher style punishments and threats left and right....