A review by luana420
The Boys Volume 8: Highland Laddie by Garth Ennis
4.0
Dear lord am I happy Ennis redeems himself in this one by explicitly and emphatically condemning Hughie's misogyny in the last volume as a character flaw to be excoriated by the very woman who was on the receiving end of it, reducing the poorly conceived Simon Pegg lookalike to a mess of tears, rather than the righteous anger of a Nice, Regular Guy In The Face Of Foul Decadence.
While perhaps a diversion from the main superhero plot, small town Scotland and its simple-minded denizens are pretty close to what Ennis knows, and I found the low stakes drug dealer plot interspersed with scenes from Hughie's childhood pretty entertaining in all.
Big Bobby will probably send a lot of people running to the tumblr alarm bell, but in the opinion of this solitary non-binary person, I found her a fairly well-intentioned trans woman made to fit in the crudity of working class Ennis Scotland.
While perhaps a diversion from the main superhero plot, small town Scotland and its simple-minded denizens are pretty close to what Ennis knows, and I found the low stakes drug dealer plot interspersed with scenes from Hughie's childhood pretty entertaining in all.
Big Bobby will probably send a lot of people running to the tumblr alarm bell, but in the opinion of this solitary non-binary person, I found her a fairly well-intentioned trans woman made to fit in the crudity of working class Ennis Scotland.