A review by bloomandgloom
The Boys Volume 12: The Bloody Doors Off by Garth Ennis

2.0

The story of The Boys did drag along through done previous issues but I always managed to find something I liked enough to keep reading. Sadly, I wish I didn't keep reading because anything I could have imaged would have been better than the ending. All of the important stuff was rushed even though unimportant parts dragged on. I did like the twist but it didn't go anywhere. It was over within a few pages even though almost anything else would have been more compelling. Why build up Homelander as an invincible and unstoppable force if his stronger version can be destroyed so easily? Everything else was very sloppy. Mother's Milk, Frenchie, and the Female's deaths were pointless and Butcher's madness was very lazy. It was very obvious that Ennis knew that he didn't do enough to point out Butcher's descent into madness because he had to include the previous past mentions of it. Even though I know Ennis would complain about it in an issue, Butcher's "wipe out every supe even myself and the only people I have left that I care about" reeked of toxic masculinity. His wife was raped so he had to kill every single supe? Sounds like a plot from a bad 80's action movie. The book had so much potential and it was all wasted because Ennis couldn't find one compelling way to use all of the character interest that was built up. The art was as good as all of the previous issues, no complaints there.