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A review by crystalstarrlight
The Boys, Volume 4: We Gotta Go Now by Garth Ennis
4.0
Bullet Review:
Foul-mouthed. Violent. Gory. Obscene. Graphic. By this point, if those things don't bug you, you are in for a penny, in for a pound. I won't lie, it's at times too graphic for me, but I'm rather invested in Hughie's journey (him looking like Simon Pegg helps too).
In this volume, it's a direct hit at the X-Men and all the X-properties. On a good day, I barely know my way around Marvel or DC, but I didn't even attempt to touch any X-Men other than some of Storm's single issues, so I probably miss 90% of the digs (I did get the Wolverine knockoff though).
It's almost prescient how these comics were (and telling how this became a series on Amazon Video). The 00's and 10's saw the rise of the comic book movies, and I believe we may have just hit saturation peak with Avengers Endgame. I am no prognosticator, but everything comes in cycles, and it seems likely that the wave of squeaky clean superheroes will be making way for something more nuanced and sadly realistic. (I know, I know, I very much wanted to "hang out" with Robert Downey Jr's Tony Stark, Chris Evans' Captain America, Chris Hemsworth's Thor, and Tom Hiddleston's Loki too.)
Foul-mouthed. Violent. Gory. Obscene. Graphic. By this point, if those things don't bug you, you are in for a penny, in for a pound. I won't lie, it's at times too graphic for me, but I'm rather invested in Hughie's journey (him looking like Simon Pegg helps too).
In this volume, it's a direct hit at the X-Men and all the X-properties. On a good day, I barely know my way around Marvel or DC, but I didn't even attempt to touch any X-Men other than some of Storm's single issues, so I probably miss 90% of the digs (I did get the Wolverine knockoff though).
It's almost prescient how these comics were (and telling how this became a series on Amazon Video). The 00's and 10's saw the rise of the comic book movies, and I believe we may have just hit saturation peak with Avengers Endgame. I am no prognosticator, but everything comes in cycles, and it seems likely that the wave of squeaky clean superheroes will be making way for something more nuanced and sadly realistic. (I know, I know, I very much wanted to "hang out" with Robert Downey Jr's Tony Stark, Chris Evans' Captain America, Chris Hemsworth's Thor, and Tom Hiddleston's Loki too.)