All this short did was make me wish The Boys could've been animated the whole time. I know that's Monkey Paw shit considering how Invincible's visual quality dropped, but still.
>>153473565>Invincible's visual quality droppedInvincible has looked like shit from the get go
>>153473565>animated the whole timeWith the deviances from the show still in tact or more faithful to the comic?
>>153473771I was just thinking about making this thread, the boys should be relaunched as a direct animated comic adaptation to rehabilitate its reputation from Kripke's slop fest
So does The Boys ever go after the disease that is the megacorp, or does it chicken out and just focus on the "Superheroes"
>>153473845The comic is so much worse than the show. Garth Ennis is a hack.
>>153473853Fucking liar. I read the comics and they're no worse than the show. The show is full of actual faggot shit.
>>153473853The comic itself actually been getting another light by people who have read itIt's not treated as this acclaimed masterpiece and it's still wildly contentious but people are more willing to acknowledge what the comics did right
>>153473872The comics are just as full of fag shit, you retard. Hughie literally gets his anus fingered by Black Noir. Homelander forces Soldier Boy to have gay sex with him.
>>153473853No, the show is significantly worse.
>>153473771I was fine with the deviances in S1, so if they went more in the direction of that writing quality, I'd be fine with it branching away from the comic. The problem is that it's branched out so much it's basically an original property now that has completely lost its original premise of, "Normal humans need to find superheroes weaknesses to kill them". Homelander kills more supes than Hughie and Butcher do. I thought it was outrageous that Butcher was getting annoyed being forced to go after low-level supes because his obsession was just Homelander. From a writing perspective, that's so much weaker than Butcher finding great victory in any hero's downfall/death. Now there's no build-up to killing Homelander, instead, it's just constant failed plot after failed plot of Homelander ALMOST dying to the point of irritating audiences. We wanna see what clever way they were gonna kill A-Train, and The Deep, and Maeve, and anyone who dares replace them in The Seven. Everyone is either getting redeemed or killed by Homelander. How boring. Definitely think they should've kept the Black Noir being a clone, though. I have no idea how they would write around it because a TV show doesn't really know when it's going to end, and Noir is definitely a finale character. I know Homelander's son + Soldier Boy are filling in that role in a weird joint way, but it's not working for me.
>>153473892very little
>>153473565an animated series would be cool i dont really think animation would be a problem since if a straight adaptation of the comic with no changes everyone that have actually read the comic knows "super le epic fights" to the level of actual capeshit is not really even a thing in the comic and even the fights that are in the comic dont even last 2 pages or they are cut when is gonna get good by another scene or twist that ends the fight in one panel
There's no way Homelander could've kept that same "aura", for lack of a better word, if The Boys was animated. Surely people who hate the show can admit that's one of its best aspects .
>>153473847Idk, haven't kept up since mid-Season 2
>>153473892Why is he jerking him off?
>muh deviances from the comicthe comic is pure edgeslop. its just shock value with no positive qualities. the story does not even make sense. i have not seen the show, but the bits i´ve seen are enough to know that its also just shock value (for modern audiences)its all absolute trash. the literall bottom of the barell.
>>153473565What short is that?
>>153476559No, the comic has pretty good character writing. As bad as it is, it's better than the show and than most comics.
>>153473565The problem with making a super hero satire is making it a satire. Ultimately most people will still just make ansuper hero story. >The boys is a super hero comic where good guys wear black and the bad guys wear spandex.
>>153473853>the boys don't have comp v super strength from the start>not way worse
>>153473892>I’m somewhere else watching it happenKino
>>153473565it's funny, if The Boys was a animated show, they would have take out the nudity
>>153473565The Boys is Ennis’ like 5th best work and a 1:1 adaptation would still be too deep for the mouth breathers who watch the show.
>>153479047What's his 4th best?
>>153480704Marjorie Finnegan
>>153473565>>153473746t. Filtered
>>153473565Very fitting Butcher voice.
I was happy to see the comic versions.
>>153473853The comic is honestly a really fucking bizarre combination of, one hand, shittonne of tasteless, grotesque edginess and shock value that only a middle-schooler could possibly find compelling or amusing in any way and, on the other hand, somehow genuinely a quite decent story, well written characters, good commentary and sometimes even surprisingly mature outlooks on some serious topicsLike, you have to endure though cringiest, most vulgar sex jokes imaginable, but then you realise that for example Hughie and Annie's romance is in fact somehow written in a 10 times more mature, compelling and actually touching way than in the tv series and the same goes for lots of plots. And the story is, in fact, much more coherent and well written compared to shallow modern social commentary and characters just meandering around in the TV series, BUT you have to endure through all of the godawful pointless edgyness. It's a comic that I ended up genuinely enjoying much more than I'd expect, but I would absolutely never recommend it to anyone. Ennis is fucking weird.
>>153479039This. Do we REALLY want The Boys but without the nudity? Fucking insane that modern adult animation can show all kinds of gruesome violence, but the line is drawn at a character's genitals, even when it's in a nonsexual context! You would think it'd be the other way around, but live-action adult TV has no problem showing nudity. We live in a clown world fr
>>153485188The way I always looked at it was The Boys was an exercise in the destruction of sanctity. The idea that certain characters, certain stories, certain ideas, shouldn't have certain injuries, certain crimes, certain indignities happen to them. Huey is the hero and has not just cool terrible shit happen to him, but honestly kind of lame, pathetic, and humiliating terrible shit. Up until the very end, he is played, toyed with, and bent over into the mud. The stupid edginess is there to undercut the idea that there's anything grand or noble or honestly even that morally transcendent going on. And also to underscore the idea that even when things are that bad, there's still stuff that matters.It's easy to go "well, you still should try to be good and heroic when things are bad" when "bad" is just like, the cool edgy shit. It's a harder thing to stomach when it's living in a shitty apartment cause you've got nothing else, a guy is ejaculating blood under your door, you have friends laughing at you for having menstrual blood on your nose, when you have to squat there having some guy shove a thumb up your bum. Harder to think there's a grand fight to be fought when some guy turns into a tent to scare a woman taking care of retards. Or you french friend says insane bullshit.Whether that was done all that well or even whether that's a kind of story that even works to achieve this is a big question. But I like it, even if I would've probably constructed it differently.
>>153473983>Homelander kills more supes than Hughie and Butcher do.>>153479024>the boys don't have comp v super strength from the startThese are related, in case anyone is wondering. When you commit to the idea that The Boys are just dudes, you either have to jettison the entire concept of capes being pounded or have to deal with the fact that someone else will do it.
>>153485188>>153487704Pretty much.
>>153473565Titmouse Queen Maeve, my beloved~
>>153473746It looks better than the boys comic.
>>153489502Only half the timeRobertson is great, mcrea phones it in
>>153473565in an alternate timeline we got The boys Animated Invincible style while Invincible is the live action.God, maybe this timeline isn't the worst after all
>>153473892>>153479036fun fact IIRC jack from jupiter didnt kill the dog, i think it was black noir who framed him
>>153489954Butcher says he dosent care as he is torturing and Killing Jupter
>>153473892It's ironic because edgelord Ennis fags are the kind to go around killing pets and small animals.
>>153473853The comic is so much better than the show it would be genuinely shocking that the show is as bad as it is if they didn't change as much as they did
>>153476559The comic is hyper-focused on post-9/11 America, I wouldn't be shocked if it went over the heads of most zoomers
>>153487704When you read about how Ennis was affected by 9/11 it all makes sense. The Boys is one giant parable about how important it is to not let trauma turn you into a cunt. You WILL experience horrors and it is imperative you don't let it kill the light inside of you, as good as giving in to that may feel in the moment.
>>153489954Honestly I kinda wish the flashbacks in Dear Becky gave us more of the Seven's perspective when all that was going down. Between the Homelander pics and the troon brothel and Terror, Noir did all kinds of stuff that was meant to implicate other supes so he'd get to fulfill his purpose and it'd have been fun to see the fingers getting pointed. The idea that Homelander essentially got tricked into driving himself insane and flew into a rage when the reveal happened (implying part of him regretted all the things he'd done and that at some point he really DID want to be Superman) is so great
>>153479039The comic doesn't have nudity; it has sex scenes, but not visible genitalia.But you are probably talking boobies, and yes, they would probably take them out.
>>153489502Okay and the Invincible comic looks better than both so why watch the show?
>>153477435https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO8mSkbppE4
>>153473565Honestly The Boys show was superior to the comic until the stupid fucking finale of season 3.
>>153491606All the people I know that like Ennis are chill guys. The ones who kill small animals watch PBS cartoons.
>>153493158No. The comic was always better.
>>153493158i stopped watching the show the 1st episode when hughie was some american douchebag instead of a karl pilkington
>>153493158The show very quickly diverged from the source material to an extent that makes it hard to directly compare them for me, but at least the first 2 seasons, 3rd one arguably too, were genuinely good as their own thing. 4th had its moments but very clearly began losing direction. 5 literally feels like a parody of its former self
>>153473892I always try to read his lines like Michael Caine
>>153473746Season 1 was good, but then they had to fire the studio, and put Kirkman’s in house studio in charge.
>>153473853Wrong.
