How does The Boys comic compare to The Boys TV show?
It's kinda terribleWell, not really terrible, but compared to the Amazon show it's terribleEDIT: How did this become my most popular post?
>>220761891They're both slop, just a different kind of slop
>>220761915Yeah woketards get offended by the comicRightoids by the show.
>>220761891Depends on if you like edgy humor or woke humorThe comic unlike the show gets better and more serious as it goes on while the show does the opposite
>>220761891I don't know
What Black Noir did to Homelander in the comics might be the most ultimate form of gaslighting ever conceived in any fiction or anywhere period. Ennis was a gennis there.
>>220761891It's just edgy edge double hedge.No real plot, just gore boobs sex drugs and general degeneracy.Here's an example:There's a whole chapter about a batman parody hero that can't stop having sex, the final pages are that there's a meteor heading towards earth, and the only way to stop it is to literally insert a penis into its vagina-like weak spot, and cum inside it.The sex addict does exactly that, saving the world.It is revealed in the final panels that he had a brain tumor that made him hallucinate that whole scene and killing him.If you want to see kinda what the comics are about you can watch the cartoon released a few years ago, it's pretty loyal to the comics.>>220762229This is literally the only semblance of plot in the comics.
It's somehow worse than the show. Mildly better ending but still complete shit.
The comic is baiscally what a 12 year old Edgy Horny kid would have made uplol sex, lol penis, lol boobs, lol gore, lol drugs, lol I'm so edgy look I kill babies lol
>>220762468And the show is for 5 years old
the comics push the boundaries of violence, debauchery and right wing agenda to absurd retarded extremes and it makes it beyone hillarious. Show does the same with the deviance to modern left wing extremes, making it too cringe. Both are shit
>>220761891Comic was infinitely better because of how they wrote Butcher. The comic butcher would hate show Butcher for being a massive pussy. His character carries the whole comic and it makes him killing black noir extremely satisfying and his plot with the superhero genocide a lot more tragic.
>>220761891Both are dogshit but in their own unique ways. It's actually kind of incredible how two very different people can make two horrific products with the same premise / characters but horrible for thier own reasons.
It's not good but it's better than the jew show.
>>220762537>told the guy who spent the whole life doing macho shit >DEEP INSIGHTS BEFORE DEATHabsolute slop
>>220762537>'Cos all that macho shit-- that gunfighter, Dirty Harry bollocks-- it looks tasty, but in the end it's fuckin' self-defeatin'.Good Lord, Garth was the proto-redditor
>>220761891Show used to be better.But then writters decided Homelander should be a Trump stand in
>>220762596>"don't be like me so you don't end up like me"unironically 2d4u
>>220762722Hope you're being ironic about not getting that its a rib of that retarded cliché
>>220762661It was Trump that decided to be a Homelander stand-in not the contrary.
>>220762421Incredibly not written by a Jew
>>220761912pointless comment
>>220761891The TV series speaks truth to power. The comic is a chuddy power fantasy. It's kind of like Watchmen.
>>220763213Yep that totally sounds like something that really happened.
>>220763213I wish we got 1 season of President Homelander And 1 season of Jesus II Homelander. If done right there could have been so many Julius Caesar/Robespierre parables that it could have been Kino... we also needed Homelanders son set up as a vengeful Octavian.
>>220763371>there could have been so many Julius Caesar/Robespierre parablesnobody who watched this show knows who that is. the only person that can be satirized in contemporary media is le orange man
>>220763393>mocking The Orange Dictator is a bad thing now
>>220761891The comic reads like it was written by a Redditor that went off the reservation and decided to be edgy, but you can tell he's still a Redditor at heart.
>>220763393The show already made one Julius Caesar reference between Sage and Homelander, they could have leaned into it more.
>>220763481they did 2. homie mentions being stabbed in the back when in the church thing. they also did 2 star wars references with ryan (son killing father)
>>220763411>So assblasted he fabricates what he's reading right in front of himTrannies continue reaching new levels of delusion.
Better
>>220763481also mention march 15th a couple of timesalso the jesus imagery, really hit the dumb audience over the head that homie was going to die
>>220761891the comic is better. yes, its an edgy on the nose parody of comics in general but its far better then what the show turned into. the last 2 seasons of the boys were so bad I can never imagine wanting to watch the show again.
>>220761912He made that despite season 2 existing
>>220763213The only season Trump was majority president was Season 5
Homelander never should have taken over the country and ruled it for over a year. 1. never happens in the comics, he tries to do a coup and fails2. the show failed to raise the stakes after he took over the government. Its like they ran out of stuff for homelander to do so he spends 80% of the season looking for V1 which ends up being pointless
>>220761891Comics was schlock but entertaining kind. It was essentially just very poor quality Brat Pack but stretched for way too many issues.
The comic all the supers are such psychopathic, like pretty much ever one of them is cartoonshily evil.The show is just, "dude republicans are evil!! what if we made people that like Homelander republicans! Ha..orange man bad"Generally the whole IP is just bad
>>220761891i always thot it was actually really smart to make the stormfront character a jewish woman. both to recognize the crimes of nazi israel, and to get morons to consider: what if jews developed a toxic evil creed similar to german nazism, except this time with religious elements as well and better PR? how long might they get away with it before the morons caught on?
>>220763975Imagine thinking a Jew, like Kripe, is trying to "call out" the evils of Israel. Imagine also thinking Israel is as "evil" as Nazi Germany while simultaneously not thinking the Holocaust happened or not thinking that the Nazis were even evil for what they did. Like how many mental gymnastics are required to think Hitler was not that bad of a guy but ALSO Benjamin Netanyajoo is the new Hitler.
>>220763918Who are the republican's in the show?
i find it funny how a single video essay made people hate the comic without even reading it, goyim are literally braindead cattle
>>220763801>Homelander never should have taken over the country and ruled it for over a year.Brainlet.The best part of the season was seeing the Homlander concentration camp, the pro america propaganda, and the indoctrination efforts. Also all the President Homelander policy items>Patriotism camps>bans Cochella>bans almond milk>mandates brestfeeding
>>220764089im actually really glad that benjamin satanyahu is dead
>>220761891Judaized.
More edgy, very Bush era politics instead of Trump era
>>220761891I really like the comic, and 90% of the criticism saying it's "bad" are people who find the shock value icky. They can never articulate how it apparently tells the story words. Meanwhile, the only "better" aspect of the show was just season 1 itself and The Deep. Goes to show you that fleshing out characters isn't always a good thing when it's filler and retarded shit to distract from the main plot.
>>220764173and that was just the first episode. the rest of the season he did basically nothing besides try to get V1 and pretend to be God. poorly written dogshit is what the show was in the end
I liked how it showed people how much of a terrible idea it is to give random untrained people the power and responsibility of a superhero. Like this scene >>220763558 where none of the 7 know what to do and it all goes to shit because they're just LARPers and none of them have professional training.
>>220764125fuck you faggot, Trump is still your president
>>220761891They're not good but they are also very much overhated, mostly by people who haven't even read a page of it
>>220764419>mostly by people who haven't even read a page of iti dont need to read the comic to know its bad, there are dozens of youtube videos confirming the comics are bad kek
Any body has the page of the super teen that got fucked over by a lion during his frat initiation on the comic? The comic was retarded fun but was more consistent in quality than the show
>>220764439>I need youtube to tell me how I feel
>>220764439Get in your barn cattle, it's evening
Heres an example of the comic:Theres no translucent character on the show, instead the comics have a character on the 7 named jack from jupiter (martian manhunter parody) who regularly gets fucked by shemale prostitutes. eventually Butcher stabs him to death as he blames him for his dog getting killed
>>220762537The comic directly outs the futility of the wish fulfillment self-insert Charles Bronson bullshit, so of course the balding low test cucks get upset, lol
>>220764288Thankfully
>>220764819yeah. I hope he builds another golden statue of himself after losing the iran war
The only people I see who genuinely think the comic is worse than the show never actually read the comic. Usually they just googled a page or two and saw the ugly art and decided it must be trash.The comics plot was so much better
>>220764439and over half of those videos backtracked on their criticism of the comic the worse the show got lol
>>220762451no the ending was even worse in the comic
>>220764587That scene is kino though. Butcher just keeps on stabbing him while staring into his eyes and asking Jack why he killed his dog, until Jack's intestines are just falling out of him.
>>220764899just awful taste on full display
>>220764917I know its better. Instead in the show the dog just abruptly dies at the end for no reason? everything in season 5 was so cheap looking and weak
>>220764935they're both shit, one is just dog shit fermented in a swamp for a week and the other is dried out dog shit on a sidewalk
You're not special or cool for disliking something labeled as "edgy". Using that as a disqualifier is stupid because anything that is even slightly outside the line of sensible consumer friendly content aka the reproducible daytime brain rot that boomers continue to fund would apply. You didn't outgrow anything, it's just the standard contrarian copefest.
>>220761891The comic was either butcher fucking or long winded expositions between random violence or shock value stuff. Honestly the twist on HL in the comics is pretty enjoyable, from the reveal he's no longer as strong as he thinks he is to the lawn scene. Otherwise idk, like the back story about the kid whose powers activate and he can't the helmet off, to MM's origin they missed a lot and swapped out shit with generic sex jokes which was funny at first but absolutely over stayed its welcome>>220761922I don't think woke people read comics let alone would bother to read Boys>>220761944>The comic unlike the show gets better and more serious as it goes onNeither of these statements are accurate the comic is pretty consistently a hard mid. That's an opinion from someone who read is pretty much right away when it was still going on. >>220764962So I didn't miss anything from that viewing? I swore I had missed a line or something about Terror getting poisoned since it was a whole thing, but no?
>>220761891actually terrible and not in a really fun way but in a gay, actually gay way. the show was consistently worse and then swan dived into levels and levels of worse. i can't wait for hte Crossed tv show
I read it last week and it's a lot better than the show.Story makes more sense, characters are better and more fleshed out, etc
>>220761891Somehow gayer, but I prefer it
>>220764254Vought EASILY had the resources to train these people, they just didn’t because of some reason or other.
>>220761891The show is extremely gay and Reddit coded.
>>220762537Gynocuck comic
>>220766190I feel like it's only really faggy in the first, let's say ~100 pages. Then it tones down on the faggy tones until Jupiter Jack fucks trannies or Hughie gets his oil checked by Black Noir
>>220766174I did like this sub-plot and how they left the goofy retard hero group alone, that and the Hughie going back to Scotland arc were nice breaks from the usual edginess.
>>220766174>HAHAHA WHAT IF A SUPERHERO HAD TOURETTESBravo Ennis
>>220766229Klanker is unironically one of the funniest he created, besides having tourretes he also changes into random metal objects like an anvilAbsolute kino, way better than yet another cock&ass joke on the show
>there are people complaining about the kino subplot of Tek Knight Come on, you didn't laugh one bit when he mentioned fucking his niece's chinchilla or attempting to rape the psychologist's cat? Or fucking his Alfred's ear?
>>220766271no, it was much better when Tek knight was on one episode of the tv show as a lazy strawman for evil conservative billionaires
>>220766304In the comic he was at least not as much one-dimensional, in the end he wanted to fuck Laddio, but decided against it and told him to go on some adventures. Hell, lots and lots of characters in the comics are more important to the main plot and aren't used just as some comic relief. Love Sausage being a good example. In the show? Just a dick joke.
>>220766271this guy was too based to be adapted into the show
>>22076246812 year old horny kid has more interesting ideas than soiboi millennials
ryan is icsh
>>220766372but he was on the show, its just that it was so forgettable and dumb you dont remember
>>220766398ryan is another horrible show invention and a huge waste of screen time. the supe powered rape baby in the comics is killed immediately after being born.
>>220766407I don't remember, was he used for more than one episode in the show?I feel like the show itself ruined too many potential good storylines by going for the "let's introduce a new interesting supe and kill him in the same episode" bullshit. I know Tek wasn't a proper supe, but still.
>>220766437tek knight is in the episode from season 4 where hughie dressed up like the spiderman powered guy. Its tek knights mansion theyre at. I feel like nobody remembers season 4 at all, it was so fucking bad.
>>220766459It honestly feels like a lifetime ago with the previous seasons, especially because of how many characters got completely buried and not ever mentioned again or only used for one/two episodes. I mean, since I read the comic fairly recently at least I have no nostalgia/shit memory blinding me here - the comic might not be perfect and I'm not exaclty a big comic guy, but I'd say it's a solid 7/10. Has some really good moments, some funny, some disgusting. Still it feels more like a coherent storyline that was thought about from the start, not something you suddenly change mid seasons because you don't like [current year politics]
>>220766523niggerit wtf are you doing here
>>220766550What?
>>220764843Your son which you won't have will be in the AIPAC war because of Drumpf.
>>220766568why are you responding to an anti trump post with another anti trump post?
>>220762537we must be better The Boys™®...
>>220766591the bot is broken
>>220766593ayo so you be sayin...
>>220761891Mommy milkers
>>220763635Trump was president during the first 2 seasons
>>220766620mah boyyyy...
I read all the comics, but I literally can't remember anything except the ending. I have this with all comics I ever read. Really weird, maybe it's because of the medium. I have a great memory besides that.
>>220766670theres memorable parts. one of them being that starlight in the comcis blows A train, Homelander and Black noir all at once instead of the Deep like on the show.
>>220766716Not only blows, anon. She gets fucked by all of em
I would never understand the "comic is actually terrible" seems like it's something made up by someone scared of baddy bad words and rape. If anything everything that is good in the series is better in the comic>The group is much more fleshed out. They share a lot together instead of just being pricks with a lot of drama behind>Hughie has an actual personality. They don't make it a tech geek in order to make him useful, he is useful because he is smart and curious about everything>Butcher it's shown as a real manipulative asshole not as some wolverine rip off with a secret good heart>MM has an actual good backstory to his stupid nickname and he's way more useful than just being token black the character>Kimiko is not retarded and frenchie is not a faggot >political critique is not one sided, you have the warmongering party and the corporate party >They actually build up things. The comic takes it's time to show you why the whole world of supes is afraid of The Boys and why Homelander won't just go and kill butcher
>>220766625I meant more when they went full TDS since season 1 was actually trying to be a good show. They still weren't over it for 3 and 4, which made 5 go full TDS.
>>220766669Why is Hughie drawn as a middle-aged British pensioner again
>>220766728>it's something made up by someone scared of baddy bad words and rape.For some reason, some people refuse to rate anything they deem "edgy" to be anything but shit. I don't know why. It's like they're unable to understand that something can be both edgy and enjoyable. I don't know, complete pussies maybe? Or people who are so used to the "safe edgy" they start covering their eyes when they see Black Noirlander eat babies and act like a psycho? >>220766752Well, in the comics he is just a wee scottish lad
>>220766728Its similar to game of thrones. everything good in the show is from the books and all the shit the show did after surpassing the books sucked ass
>>220766752He is just Simon Pegg because the artist is a hack
>>220766825Storyline wise it makes more sense why Butcher would see a short scottish lad as a comparison to his brother (because they're both bri'ish) instead of some tall skinny fag from the US Also, Hughie in the comics is a lot better than the show, way less of a pussy.
>>220766229It's a team made up of disabled supes
>>220766850Not exactly disabled, they just have shitty powers and were never shown anything serious in their life
Are tablets any good for reading comics? So far I've been reading them on my phone but it kinda sucks.
>>220766842I always thought it was strange to cast a tall guy as hughie. theres a scene early in the show where hughie is standing next to homelander whos shorter then hughie is.
>>220766876I wouldn't buy a tablet just for reading comics but if you have one it obviously wouldn't hurt..Granted I don't mind reading on my phone, I just zoom in on the details and stuff if I need to.
>>220766728>why Homelander won't just go and kill butcherWhy? (didn't read the comic)
>there's a supe called Muzzletov who's an orthodox jew and his power is hypnosis>he also speaks backwardsWhy is the comic bad again? Because of gore and rape? Fuck outta here
>>220766917Boys had files/pictures of Homelander (Noir) doing heinous acts. As well as other members of the 7. Butcher had killswitches ready - if he's killed, all the shit is released to the public and all the supes' public image is ruined forever so they can't earn more money and Vought is all about that cash, baby. That, and Homolander, before he turns schizo, couldn't really say "no" to Vought on every single occasion. He HAD to be obedient at least to some extent.
>>220761891The Wolverine parody kills me
Kek, is it true that Queen Meave or whatever is wildy different in the comics? Like she gets killed in a single punch by another supe?
>>220766926I also liked how they made the middle eastern supe in the show have a super power that is conveniently blowing himself up without dying.Mind you I didn't watch past S2 but I thought you were supposed to get powers from some drug but they were completely random which is why there was a whole subplot in the comics about people locked up and hidden away because they had extremely shitty powers, so the fact they made a muslim guy have THAT superpower was extremely tongue in cheek
>>220766917basically Kompromat. Homelander never actually takes over the government or vought in the comics, so he cares about his public perception. The Boys have pictures of homelander doing horrible shit to blackmail him with if he gets too out of hand. That keeps homelander relatively contained most of the time
>Don't be a pussy laser my fucking titsSeriously, The Boys?
>>220766917Homelander doesn't personally care what The Boys do to smaller superhero teams. The Seven has a sort of truce going on with The Boys also due to them having a lot of dirt and blackmail on The Seven.So when The Boys start moving again at the beginning of the comics, Homelander is mainly just confused.
>>220766969>people locked up and hidden away because they had extremely shitty powersWho could ever forget... The Shitfoot!
>>220766967She does the turn at the end to help ze boyz but Homelander gets her. She's pretty simple in the comics, most of the time is just an apathetic alcoholic who has servants getting her drinks 24/7.
>>220766967yes. also shes a huge drunken whore
>>220766967Yes, spends most of her time drinking wine and is completely done with everythingIn the show they made her sympathetic, I assumed because they made her a lesbian and she's a woman so she has to be good, right?In the plane sequence they show her as someone who wanted to help while in the comics she was overwhelmed by everything and just wanted to bail and leave everyone to die
>>220766907But do the pages fit full size on a tablet, that's more what I was wondering. Having to zoom in gets pretty tiring.
>>220767025>>220767042She also tries to attack Homelander with a prop sword before being decapitated
>>220762421>you can watch the cartoon released a few years agothey made a cartoon? it isn't just the "fraction of our power" meme one?
>>220766964If he was black hed be sayin finna
>>220766967She also fucks a midget version of Stan Lee on the regular so that's funny
>>220767053I mean, just compare the size of a tablet to the size of a real life comic page.
>>220766967In the comics she was in a relationship with Stormfront, who was a male, but he beat the shit out of her and dumped her because she cheated on him with a black supe and gave birth to a black baby lol.
>NOOOO NOOOO YOU CANT SHOW DESPICABLE ACTS OF A CHARACTER WHO'S SUPPOSED TO BE PSYCHOTIC NOOOO THAT'S EDGY NOOOOOOO THAT'S NOT PG
>>220763635>pretends the media and libtards didn't discuss and sperg out over BLUMPF 24/7 from 2021-2024You should consider suicide.
>>220767097what the fuck did you just say to me?
>>220767042>yes. also shes a huge drunken whorei remember her being alcoholic but not a whore
>>220767138>fucks Stan Lee>fucks Noir & Homelander>shown fucking random big buff men throughout the comics>mentions having a few brown men in her room for the whole say
>>220767164>for the whole sayI'm retarded, it was supposed to be >for the whole stay at Herogasm
>>220767138herogasm arc was a quarter maeve getting fucked lmao
>>220767122I think he's confusing it with the fact that libtards completely stopped talking about Epstein in that timeframe.
>>220767164>>220767187i dont remember any of that, but i did read the thing like 20 years ago kek>>220767104>he beat the shit out of her and dumped her because she cheated on him with a black supe and gave birth to a black baby lol.damn, i blocked all of that then
>>220767187>injecting heroin mixed with bacteria from Maeve's labia>rolling joints from ground up fetusesHerogasm sure was something
>>220767209and the only memorable highlights are still hughie getting diddy'd and soldier boy getting weinstein'd (no homo)
>>220767228Honestly made me laugh hard at the whole sequence>SB has gay sex with Homolander>SB asks if what they did was gay>Homolander pretty much goes "naaah man why would you think that"
>>220761912How did this guy edit his post??
>>220766917First off the boys are actually fucking dangerous as fuck (except for hugie) They all have combat training and they all have compund V on them, MM it's a natural supe by the way. In comparisson most supes have almost zero battle experience. Homelander is afraid of butcher and Vought hates when they kill a supe because they have to orchestate a whole marketing stunt to cover for it. Then there is all the stuff they have on VoughtThe seven don't want to risk anything on a battle with the Boys. They let Butcher terrorize lesser groups if it means they won't go towards them
>>220767259need a 4chan gold account to be able to do that
>>220767282>First off the boys are actually fucking dangerous as fuckAnd supes are not as invulnerable as in the show. Most can be killed by enough firepower, or just a proper crowbar to the head
ya want gum?
>>220767316Yeah, the boys and love sausage just beat the shit out of Stormfront and kill him. The Deep is absolutely terrified of Butcher and avoids him at all costs because he knows Butcher will fuck him up.
>noone posted the petite russian mobster addicted to dildos4shame
>>220767316Which was the correct thing to do. The whole premise of the ip is that Supes are frauds that do half of the things people think they do. Thanks to the show making them more resistant to everything the writters had to rescue the characters from a certain death over and over again
>>220767110They could of done other edgy stuff if they wanted, that's a little cringy now ngl
>>220767407She's cute on the first parts of that and then just an uggo
>>220766197Vought is repeatedly shown to be an absolute shit company pumping out low quality products even before they had supes, how they became the biggest company in the world is beyond me
>>220767384>Yeah, the boys and love sausage just beat the shit out of Stormfront and kill him.And Butcher pretty much single-handedly kills the rest of Payback. I think the show would be better if it showed supes to be more vulnerable, instead of just their insides. It would make a better dynamic if some supes are simply more durable than others instead of almost all of them being nearly unkillable by normal people
>>220761891would
>>220767423Exactly. Supes, all of them, are Bad Product™ as mentioned by the Corporate Guy in the comics. They still haven't produced what they actually wanted. Making them pretty almost unkillable in normal settings is simply stupid. I mean, the whole storyline in the comics is nothing that special either, but it's a lot better than what we got in the show and it's really hard to argue with that.
>>220767437like what edgy stuff you'd enjoy anon?
>>220767366Shit I completely forgot about this guy lmfao
>>220767587Crossed
>>220767624who was he again?
>>220767678Gumchuma member of Team Titanic, he survives but most of the team is killed by Frenchie and Female when they go for the Vought Guy
>>220761891The comic is okay. Infinitely better than the show. In the comic the boys are all supes, including Butcher from the beginning. Hughie is given V when he joins them and becomes a supe too. Butcher's secret plan involves spraying the atmosphere with a compound that kills all supes, including himself, but he secretly hopes that Hughie stops him because he genuinely loves him like a brother. Homelander is quite nuanced and while he's a cunt, he is not comically bad. Just manipulated by Vought to be under control until he loses it. The biggest downgrade from the comic to the tv show is Mother's Milk. He's a pretty cool character in the comics.
>>220766271Didn't he also die saving someone from a falling piano? The guy was losing his mind, but he actually died a hero and they never implied he was evil like many super, just a degenerate.
>>220767829No, he imagined it.It was a wheelbarrow falling onto a woman with a child. In his mind he saves them and then fucks the meteor. What actually happened is the wheelbarrow fell on his head and he died.
>>220767816>comic MM is called mothers milk because he literally dies if he doesn't drink his mothers breastmilk>show MM is called mothers milk because he fucked a pigeon or something and hood rats thought it was kind of weird
>>220767850It's stupid how they took the entire MM's backstory and just kept his father fighting Vought in court. And the whole wife and daughter thing. I guess they wanted a more "wholesome" ending but I honestly think if they kept more closely to the comics it'd be better.
>>220767122Consider you suiciding or what?
>>220767850I don't get why they skipped the true reason too. His mom was working at a Vought plant and the pollution from V leftovers mutated her body. MM inherited it and had to take her milk to not die. They had a memorable ecogreen allegory on a silver platter and didn't use it.
>>220767924And they skipped his brother dying because his superpowers kicked in when he was wearing a handegg helmet and apparently his power was body expansion
>>220767259Press the edit button on the top left of the text box if you have 4chan gold EDIT: lol newfaggot
>>220766964What's going on in this page
>>220761891>people ITT just calling it edgyOf course it's edgy but that doesn't mean there's no substance whatsoever. You can tell here who got filtered and who actually lingered on the pages that weren't shock & gore
You're gonna make me read this shit all over again with this thread.
>>220767988I read it recently and it's quite enjoyable, in my opinion. Worth a re-read and if you compare it to the show you'll see how much they FUCKED UP with things they changed simply because they wanted them changed. They could've kept the main story the same but just filter out the nigger&faggot word so the mainstream doesn't get all uppity.
>>220767940That stuff was brutal. Pretty sad if you think about it. Kripke is a fucking hack.
>>220768043Reading the entire MM backstory I was thinking "man, why didn't they use ANY OF FUCKING THAT IN THE SHOW besides his father" Shit was good, brutal, tragic and PTSD-tier. The way it should be. Not some niggas giving him shit because he cared for a pigeon
>>220768069They tried to up it with the Female but I think her backstory was more tragic in the comic. Sure you can argue that being tortured and experimented on in some camp is horrible, but I found her falling to the V bucket as a little kid and then butchering everyone more impactful. She had a normal life of a kid until she didn't.
>>220768134>She had a normal life of a kid until she didn't.Not exactly, she was also shown kept in a basket under her mother's desk where she worked and was told to keep quiet. She was dehumanized from the start and her mother supposedly never fought for her and never really cared.
>>220767846Still more heroic than 99% of the heroes.
>>220768153Damn I forgot about it, I only remember her wandering around the offices of the corporate building. Maybe I should re-read the comic. But it makes the comparison with the show even worse. Shame we're never getting a faithful adaptation of Crossed either.
>>220768043Yeah, his brothers death was heartbreaking. Ennis may talk a lot of shit, but he can really pull your heart strings when it counts.
>>220768247She wandered because she was kept in a basket, doors were open and her mother didn't pay attention. >But it makes the comparison with the show even worse.Damn right. I first watched the show and then read the comics and with the amount of people shitting on the comics I thought it would be bad, but instead it's a lot better than what (((Kripke))) did. Story is more coherent. Makes more sense. Boys, and other characters are more fleshed out and their motives make more sense.
>>220761891Both are for söyboys
>>220766926Dont forget my boy Gumchum from the same group. He never stops offering people gum. Even in the middle of a massacre he's a Gumchum.
>>220768347...where does the gum come from?
>>220767850That little pigeon speech was one of the biggest wtf / fuck you's I've ever seen in television.
>>220768380It's a mystery!
>>220768347what was his power
>>220768381>they're spying on the enemy>can be easily found out>suddenly MM does a speech>a long one>it's about fucking pigeons
>>220761891Comic is OK, some highs and lows. I feel like Ennis said what he wanted with Hitman, and The Boys is just an edgier rehash.The TV show is unfiltered shit though, definitely worse.
>>220768317I liked Frenchies backstory in the comic even though I couldn't tell if it was true or if he was making it all up.
>>220768406He offers you gum.It doesnt have to be complicated.
>>220768257>>220768317I don't even get why people shit on the Boys comic so much. Was it as good as Watchmen? No. But it's an entertaining comic with soul. It's clear it was aa labor of love even if it's not going to change your life.
>>220766397>Kripke>Millenial
>>220768490I mean it's not some 10/10 best of all time comic but it's enjoyable and fun to read. And the story isn't completely retarded like in the show, too. It's perfectly serviceable for what it is.
>>220762537>let me tell you about Israel...
Do you think Butcher ever realized it's his own fault that Homelander raped Becca?That rude mother fucker couldn't help but shit talk the strongest man in the world behind his back and his wife paid for it.Homelander doesn't take pleasure in coercing people into sex but be made an exception just to fuck with the only mother fucker in the room that was neither afraid of him nor a fan of his but just rude to him.He probably does realize it which is why he is such a self hating fag.
>>220768616the show did a really bad job with this whole storyline. basically completely changed the whole circumstances behind the rape and Butcher's entire motivation. Fuck the show honestly, thinking back almost none of it is good.
>>220768616in the comics Noir rapes her for no real reason and his whole crusade against supes is because of the rape
>>220768616>>220768648>>220768656I thought that Rebecca fucked him willingly and got the ick or some other wymen moment bs and went back crying to Butcher while pretending she got raped. Can't remember if that was in the comics or the show. Am I getting close or misremembering some details?
>>220768648The first season is really good, the second is worse but still decent. The third dips in writing quality even more but it has Soldier Boy who is an amazing addition and has enough excitement overall to make up for its faults. The only good thing about the fourth is the last episode with Butcher toughening up but outside of that, both it and the last season are a waste of time.
>>220768694> The two eventually married and went on honeymoon to Miami, where they encountered the Seven on a public tour. That night, while Billy was out on a walk, Becky was raped by Black Noir (disguised as Homelander).
>>220768616How was it Butcher's fault>>220768656Almost poetic how it's Noir that gets killed by Butcher, last second he realized it was him who did it and Homelander wasn't his actual target all this time.
>>220768381No, it's just reddit's only exposure to angry tough black guys being Tyson. It is literally Tyson's pigeon speech slapped onto MM's background because akripkenis a retard born in the 70's and still thinks Tyson is a badass instead of a geriatric retard with health issues. Same reason they got SLJ, guy has been riding on Pulp Fiction for decades and people born back then still think he's tough because of it.
>>220768694In the comics it's blatant rape, like full on violent rape. In the show Becca in S2 reaffirms he raped her but based on what we show in the first season it seemed to be a "because of the implication" kind of rape
>>220768718I like how Butcher switches his hate from Homelander the moment he learns the truth. His line about being turned psycho by mistake completely fits. Because it's true. Also shown by the segment where Homelander talks to himself while looking in a mirror
>>220768808forgot pic obviously
>>220768830I haven't read the comics but this is so fucking kino
>>220768718>>220768808>>220768830To me the big reveal, while not that big or complex and seemingly ass-pulled out of nowhere, was really funny.All in all The Boys boils down to the biggest, simplest gaslight in history because not-Superman has an evil twin.
>>220768694No, she was legit raped. The embryo had Homelander's/Noir's strength and accidentally killed her.
>>220768830I forget, but did homelander not have X ray vision in the comics? How did he never see black noir's face?
>>220768871>>220768883>>220768830Unlike the show Homie goes down fighting like a beast as well. And from one point of view you could even argue that he died saving America.
>>220768906he did and he would only see a skull
>>220768830I like the implication that Homelander wasn't originally a piece of shit, like yeah he's an asshole for convincing himself to do those things "again" but here you can tell doing that shit tore at him sometimes because it wasn't in his nature
>>220768871The whole fight is kino, especially if you compare it to what you got in the show. Lots of supes being destroyed by the army. Lots of 'em.Also Oh Father was literally a pedo, kek>>220768883>because not-Superman has an evil twin.Technically yes, but truth is it's all because Vought's line was "to keep a supe from going rogue let's make a stronger supe who will kill him if necessary". While the plan might not be that bad, they didn't take into consideration that Noir might go fucking insane if he doesn't do what he was created to do. >>220768906His X-Ray vision was like X-Ray, he saw skeletons and fake tits.
>>220768808I like how the line equally applies to Butcher too>>220768906He knew. They used to play pranks on other people with their similar appearance. Homelander just didn't realize how much of a psychopath Noir was.
>>220761922>Leftists get mad at edgy writing >conservatives get mad when leftists target them and insult literally every single one of there beliefs Both sides are like totally the same
>>220761891readcomiconline is dead but you can access the backup at rcostation.xyz to read it
>>220768930He does but it would have only showed a skeleton to him if he did. He probably could see under it if he tried to do that specifically but he seemingly never did.He also has a sonic scream like ohfather in the show
>>220768938It feels like Homie was just a frat boy while also being one of the strongest supes on the planet before Noir started completely fucking things up. Not that he was completely sane before - I doubt things like Herogasm only started being created after he made them more money - but he certainly wasn't completely batshit insane. He thought he was because Noir made him think so. That's why he often had mental breakdowns or vomited.
>>220767456>how they became the biggest company in the world is beyond meapple and microsoft put out some of the worst products in human history, and have done so for, bare minimum, a solid decade. 2 of the biggest companies on earth.
>>220768946The irony is that Homelander would possibly be a good supe but Vought turned him into a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's a miracle he remained sane after he saw Noir raping a baby to death thinking he was responsible. You don't need to look at Kripke's early life.
>>220768993Works for me, but yeah they have a backup site
>>220762421>It is revealed in the final panels that he had a brain tumor that made him hallucinate that whole scene and killing him.The dude said it himself that he can't control wanting to fuck random things and that this urge came about suddenly. I personally read it like the tumor affecting his brain was the reason he started fucking things all the time. The hallucination is literally his death dream when he was crushed trying to save a mom and her kid from being squashed by some building materials. Even after his secret identity was exposed and was disgraced as a sexual deviant he still tried to save innocents. Tek-Knight is just a victim of shitty circumstances, he wasn't a bad guy, he wasn't even V'ed up.
>>220768992>People with any dignity and sentience get upset being repeatedly fed slop and told it's caviar.>Culture war mind rot fags will eat any slop put before themMaybe they really did finally find their modern audience.
>>220769106That's the thing. The main story of the comics is Vought, really. They always feel above the supes unlike in the show. And Vought keeps fucking up.
>>220766271not the cat, but tried to fuck his coffee>you got any burn cream?
>>220769157>Tek-Knight is just a victim of shitty circumstances, he wasn't a bad guy, he wasn't even V'ed up.Without the tumor he'd arguably be closer to Batman than they'd want
>>220769196I thought it was the cat because it ran away meowing loud, but I guess that makes sense. I thought the burn cream was because he mentioned fucking a hole in a wall. But I might be retarded
>>220762537Him tricking hughie into killing him and the way he went about doing it too is sorely messing the show
>>220769219well, that's because they pretty much changed all of Hughie as a character and his backstory
>>220767971wee hughie infiltrates the g-men because the boys didn't know anything about them other than one of them killed themselves in front of a ice cream shop. that wolverine parody is straight up just retarded basicallythen it is revealed g-men are all groomed and raped as children by pedo professor and hughie tries to save the newest memebers but they're so far gone that everything goes wrong
>>220769235it's also the only time vought teams up with the boys since the g-men are outside vought jurisdiction and control, you should post the frame where stillman does the clean up
>>220764587Jack also spreads AIDs and beats the lady boys which is why the Boys are there. What he did to Terror, well that's a man's dog mate, you get what you get
>>220769235then the government shoots and kills all of the G men all at once. the end
>>220761891Much better than this leftist slop
Am I just putting on rose tinted goggles when I think back on season 1 of the boys being kino?Like for the life of me I cannot remember it looking remotely as cheap as it does in s5.
>>220768616so you're saying as soon as he saw homelander he should have gotten on his knees and offered to suck his dick or eat his shit
>>220769268why'd kill me dog? why'd kill me dog? why'd kill me dog?
>>220769311season 1 was so much better. Im not sure why they killed off elizabeth shue so early in the show, she was great
>>220769311because you had more scenes outside, showing scenes in public, so onlast season was pretty much all warehouses, 7 tower, oval office
>>220761891TV show did one thing right and that was making The Boys normal people, but that's about it, in every other regard the show is absolute shit compared to the comics, the comics are also absolute shit by the way.
>>220763411It's been 10 years, you fags need to find a treatment for your TDS
The comic literally satirizes what the show and its idiot spinoffs are. Bad product.
>>220769311The production value was way higher and had way more action. Off the top of my head you had the translucent fight scene, the pilot plane scene, the plane crash, the kimiko vs noir scene, the syrian terrorist scene. It felt epic, and that was just supposed to be the beginning.But as the seasons went on the world felt smaller and smaller. Season 5 felt like a stage play.
>>220769408In the show it doesn't really make sense why Homolander wouldn't kill Butcher at the earliest possible moment. In the comics, it makes sense. And in the comics they all took V too - making their fight with supes more equal and less retarded.
>>220769311S1 & 3 were kino, S2 was boring filler and I had a hunch S4 onwards would suck so I didnt watch it, guess I was right.
>>220769464>wouldn't kill Butcher at the earliest possible moment.In the S1 finale its to gloat that his wife and son are alive. He wants to break Butchers trust in the CIA faggots.
>>220761891Some of the arcs are more funny, some are shit. Overal it's more consistent and there is a distinct lack of orange man derangement syndrome so it keeps focus on the initial premisse.
>>220769464You could still have this idea that The Boys had so much dirt gathered up on heroes that if they were taken out it would deal a massive blow to the vought public image. I mean even in the comic as strong as Butcher was he more or less says that him going up against homelander was a suicide mission, something along the lines of "I wanted to go out taking a few chunks out of him and then have the US army boys take out what's left".The show wrote themselves out of that by focusing mainly on The Boys vs The Seven and not just all superheroes. I don't remember much of Season 1 but I do vaguely remember one very tense scene where Homelander was patrolling near the area where they killed Translucent and it really spelled out how much of a cat and mouse game this was supposed to be, until they really wanted to have their constant staredowns and fragile truces between butcher and homelander.
Is Dear Becky any good? Seems kinda boring.
>>220769507Sure, but they interact a lot after and he could've just lasered him and have one less thing to worry about. He had a lot of chances.>>220769518>You could still have this idea that The Boys had so much dirt gathered up on heroes that if they were taken out it would deal a massive blow to the vought public image.I mean, it was not implied in the show besides the footage from the plane and they brushed it aside as fake AI news, so that went to nothing anyway.Which is retarded when you think about it, if they kept the same timeline it would make sense because it was almost 20 years before we got easily created AI videos.
>>220768490Ennis did Hitman a few years earlier though.
>>220769313All he had to do was not Mock the strongest guy in the world for like 15 minutes and everything would have been fine. Ultimately Butchers own ego doomed Becca.
>>220769311Season 1 was an actual tv show, regardless of your opinion on the decisions made, starting S2 it just became a compilation of political tiktok reels mashed together with a more than clear inclination, I remember some people saying that was as intented and that the show was smart by making fun of itself, but I call bullshit plus any shadow of the doubt died together with S2, everyone, even creators and the ones defending the show agreed that it was just a poorly done parody to own people they dislike, again, not a real show anymore.
>>220767110Yummers
>>220761891Can we admit that while you can hate the writer Kripke, he was The Oracle of Delphi for 2026 for Trump? We just didn't see him reach the point of begging to Iran yet. I am not linking Truth Social but his latest post was extremely crazy sounding. When Trump finally has his final meltdown and he will, everyone will call Kripke genius and they should.
>>220769606Pennis lol
>>220769653Bravo nolan
To me the most poorly done piece of writing the show came up with was making Becca be still alive, Butcher no longer had a reason to continue fighting after this, and out of nowhere they came up with "muh raperino" excuse at the end to justify any wrongdoing from Homelander on that aspect when there was no longer a motivation here, some people said it was to make Ryan more prominent character to the story but we all know that went nowhere.
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>>220768005I just wish someone would retype it without all the scottish and english spelling, it's a headache to read after a while
>>220761891Every single media created by gen x feels like it was made by people permanently mad at their parents for making them go to church or something.
whats the chinese ai kino everyone keeps talking about
>>220769756I had to Google what Ken means
>>220769760that is Gen X is a nutshell. The ironically detached, fuck you mom and dad, slacker generation. Its why ultimately they accomplished less then even millennials have
>>220769716kek ennis already poked fun at the show years in advance?also that mirror is straight up stolen from the end of mgs v
>>220761891I came very hard when she destroyed that section 8 housing apartment building full of black people and then proceeded to kill the Asian guy on the rooftop. It's almost as if the writers knew what would set me off. The crazy part is that I'm black and that scene would otherwise offend me, but it didn't. I came at the exact moment she snapped the niggas neck. I should probably seek therapy.
so, what was the point of the character of Ashley? wasnt in the comics, but shes in the entire show just wasting time, taking up space
>>220769925I assumed she was the show version of the woman employee who was groomed to be a patsy, especially when she started losing hair.
>>220769925one of the funniest things about the show is that Ashley (who was never attractive) by the end of the show is better looking then starlight, who got horrible plastic surgery for no reason.
>>220763213cope fag
>>220769967Starlight in the first comic looks bogged like in s5, I think thats kino
comic = edgy juvenile crap made for teenagerstv show = edgy juvenile crap made for teenagers
>>220761891The comic is pure trash. The first season or two of the TV series are better, but not "V for Vendetta" better. The source material is just so shit it was easy to surpass it.
>>220770002>both things are equally badmoronic, boring take. I dont care if you hate them both but theyre pretty fucking different
>>220770005What didnt you like about the comic
>>220770048why are you replying to bait
>>220770048It was ugly as fuck, the interesting hook about the powerless good guys against the omnipotent bad guys was missing from the start, the comic had no real plot and kinda did something like monster-of-the-week thing all the way up to the end. I kinda liked the Noir twist, but that's about it.
>>220761912Take all my gold and upvotes good sir
>>220770002>poopy poopy penis poopy gay lol poopy fellatio poop penis anus poopyThe comic might be for teens but the TV show was for toddlers
>>220770121I think you missed the point of the comic. It's corporations.
>>220769925She's funny
>>220767940Well it's unclear what his power is, but he is retarded so it's more likely he literally retarded himself to death by not knowing how to control the insane genome mutation he got thru secondary exposure
>>220770214>poopy poopy penis poopy gay lol poopy fellatio poop penis anus poopyabout the level of discourse i would expect from someone who enjoys either the show or comic
>>220767587It doesn't need to cater to me but I ATE A FUCKING BABY is a little annoyingly edgy in 2026 when it's not in a comic made for 18 year old lords. The point being is that I think they shied away from that story arc because of how some of what HL did is more just still in/outta high school edge, and they could have just had him doing other things.
>>220769464The show deviated so much from the comic book from the first issue on. Hell, they got rid of so much of what The Boys were - quasi-gov't agents specializing in wetworks to keep the 'supes in line - that I don't know why they made the show. Getting rid of the original satire, the critique on corporations and government intersection, its depiction of the darker side of fame and celebrity, the phoniness of the facade of culture. Just to make some watered down garbage that lazily became an anti-BLUMPF screed. Sad. The source material could have been a wild, actually risque show instead of goreslop and orange man bad.
>>220761891The comic is just Garth Ennis having a hate boner over modern Superman (at the time anyway).Did you know that in the comic the boys are already super powered? They're hypocrites in a way thats never touched on in the plot and it just makes all of them a lot less likeable.
>>220771038The comic did not have any substantive critiques of corporatism and the US government and you have to stop pretending like it did. It stopped being serious when the main motivation for Butcher to kill a supe was because he had tourettes and called him a cunt by accident. The whole comic is just a circlejerk about how nasty and pedophilic SUPER HEROES are, thats the focus. Not celebrities or the government or even Homelander, just the concept of super heroes
>>220771378>They're hypocrites in a way thats never touched on in the plot and it just makes all of them a lot less likeable.>never touched on in the plotretard
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>>220769518it's doubly retarded as well because (despite beating you over the head with the idea that 99% of supes are evil), it doubles down in S5 where all the supes are homelander's nazi campguards, there's literally only 4 supes that are fighting homelanderdespite all this, they are just allowed to continue to exist as normal, because hughie wanted his bogfu
>>220771590Well yea its an Eric Kripke show he only knows how to make vauge allusions to the Israel Palestine war."Even if the whole country wants to kill kids, a handful don't, so what do you say to that? They're both bad, liberal!"
>>220769925I don't mind Ashley, and she gets better after her V mutation. The biggest waste of fucking time in this show is that type of scene, present in many episodes, usually more than once, where Frenchie takes drugs and wallows in misery while Miko uses sign language and text messages to tell him he's actually a great guy and needs to cheer up. Frenchie is a dull character with a dull actor doing one very boring thing across multiple seasons. We get less of this shit once Miko's voice returns, but it goes on so long. Absolute filler. Oh, and for one season Frenchie becomes a shitstabber and we get uncomfortable gay scenes in addition to his self-pity scenes with Miko (who is super-supportive and seems to love the idea of him breaking the crust with Colin).
Objectively correct supe tier list as of the final season of the boys, Gen V characters included
>>220771450>never read the comic bookWhat a sad little man you are.
>>220769100>microsoftThey also have incredible products like excel and probably something else>appleSeveral of their peripherals are great.
https://youtube.com/shorts/x0k2gPEQ324?si=FaWZmlZ1IsRBVEJl
>>220768648As soon as butchers wife was revealed to be alive at the end of season 1 the show was ruined. At that point its like what is he even fighting for. It makes his character much less believable imo. Same with Hughie basically forgetting about robin after the first season as well. Their whole motivations for their hatred and taking down supes just disappear and they only really end up doing it so the show can continue.
>>220772511Nah that was completely fine. It resulted in a ton of great scenes with Homelander and ultimately only reinforced Butchers idea that all supes need to be gone. It also emphasized that Vought is the ultimate villain.
>>220768938i think homelander more just has a sense of detached apathy more than anything in the comics, other than for james stillwell. Hes a pretty evil asshole that does shitty things but he isnt a completely irredeemable monster like the show. He is shown in the panel anon posted to be just as much of a victim of vaught as anyone else. The show has way less empathy for his character than the comic.
>>220769756yeah it doesn't get mentioned a lot but i fucking hated it
>>220772586it sucked. The resulting storyline that came from it sucked. It ruined butcher's character. It ruined any kind of idea that homelander was a threat as it showed that butcher and the rest of the boys have plot armour. Why would butcher, who is soley motivated in his hatred of supes by his wife's death, give a flying shit about killing them all if it turned out that the consequences of a supe hadnt in fact killed his wife and that she was alive and well. Also on top of that she did not bother to try and contact butcher and instead spent her time raising her rapists son? The whole storyline sucks and is retarded.The show honestly should have kept the broad strokes of the comic. Because anything outside of that is just garbage. All of the best dialogue in the show is lifted from the comics anyway. It made my eyes roll when they got stan edgar doing stillwell's speech to homelander while confined in a cell and scared for his and his families lives. The whole point of the scene is that stillwell is genuinely not scared of homelander and sees him as the big brat he is. Stillwell should have been kept as the main villian, Vought should have been kept as a menacing megacorp who had genuine plans in place if supes went rogue. The show sucked in every aspect. Season 1 is maybe a 7/10 because of the novel concept. S2 is 5/10 s3 is 5/10, s4 is 2/10 s5 is 3/10
>>220770168>a majority of their crimes is them just being gayuhhhhhhhhhh
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>>220772871I think people are misunderstanding what Bombsight meant when talking about Clara.Especially after what we saw from the Vought Rising trailer, she is going to be a mentor figure of sorts for the new supes. So she was a figure they looked up to, at least to a certain extent. Which is why she mentions that even her favorite was Soldier Boy.
>>220761891Anyone post the AI version of the ending where HL fights the military?
I want to fuck her so bad bros
>>220773079Forgot pic
>>220768992Kek this butthurt reply
