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A review by crystalstarrlight
The Boys Volume 9: The Big Ride by Garth Ennis
3.0
Bullet Review:
WHEW, that was a LONG one, felt like a marathon! Would I ever get to the end? How much backstory elaborating how bad the supes are do we need? How much WWII can we inject into a "contemporary" story? (I haven't liked WWII fiction on the best of days, reliving it multiple times in the same comics is exhausting.) When will this Final Confrontation happen and how much more teasing can the readers endure?
There were some good parts, don't get me wrong, but, specifically, the long portions of Mallory relaying the history of supes and Vought-American again (but slightly different), the relationship woes of Annie and Hughie, and how Butcher is a bully to Hughie and Hughie doesn't like that (WAH - but seriously, Butcher is an @$$ to the guy) really drug on.
Also, we get it, supes are deviant in all manners of the word and somehow mentioning AIDS, abortions and trans people existing is funny.
Oh well, time for volume 10!
WHEW, that was a LONG one, felt like a marathon! Would I ever get to the end? How much backstory elaborating how bad the supes are do we need? How much WWII can we inject into a "contemporary" story? (I haven't liked WWII fiction on the best of days, reliving it multiple times in the same comics is exhausting.) When will this Final Confrontation happen and how much more teasing can the readers endure?
There were some good parts, don't get me wrong, but, specifically, the long portions of Mallory relaying the history of supes and Vought-American again (but slightly different), the relationship woes of Annie and Hughie, and how Butcher is a bully to Hughie and Hughie doesn't like that (WAH - but seriously, Butcher is an @$$ to the guy) really drug on.
Also, we get it, supes are deviant in all manners of the word and somehow mentioning AIDS, abortions and trans people existing is funny.
Oh well, time for volume 10!