Just found out Amazon made a series out of Garth Ennis' "The Boys" comic. It's about a world with a super corrupt corporate system of Super-Heroes, and a secret government black-ops group of superhumans keeping them in check.

I found the comics pretty amazing. Adapting this seems challenging, but even if they do this only half-right this should still be great!



Just to give an idea about the comic:



lol just read the above and got reminded of Love Sausage. OMG I hope they make enough seasons to get to Love Sausage! Ya'll are in for a treat!

It is out! Looks great so far. This is the black sheep of superhero series!

Started watching it last night, 2 episodes in and I like it. Looks like it can be really good.

This was good, I was sick yesterday and binged the whole thing. I never read the comics, but this did a real good job of worldbuilding and the action scenes do a great job of using their budget to maximum effect.

It's a show you can tell knew was getting a second season because they didn't really end the season on a natural story beat, it's not even really a cliff hanger so much as we're still in the middle of the plot.

Love Anthony Starr from his time in banshee

Fun watch

I quite liked it. I also appreciated Amazon keeping it at 8ep instead of Netflix's regular 13 which really dilutes the story.

If there is one thing they somewhat failed I think it was the scene with Deep and Starlight. I feel it didn't do enough to make the viewers utterly hate Deep, since from there on out he became pretty sad character whom you felt even bit bad for.

Deep becoming a pathetic loser was I think the intended arc but I think a bigger issue with him is how he didn't matter, at all, to anything after that.

I'm a fan of the comics and loved the show.

I'm not gonna spoil anything just list a couple differences:

- In the comics The Deep is basically just a background character who doesn't really get any development and is basically just there for the rest of the Seven to make fun of how useless he is.
- Queen Maeve is much more jaded in the comics, she basically spends the entire comic drunk, ****ing random nameless men and being basically numb to everything.
- Translucent was invented for the show. He takes the place of the comic character Jack from Jupiter, who is a Martian Manhunter/Shazam type of character.
- In general all the heroes are much more sympathetic than their comic counterparts.

The show moves very fast compared to the comics:



The cliffhanger at the end of episode 8 is completely different then the events in the comics, it basically doesn't happen. Comic spoilers (doesn't spoil the show):



The airplane incident is also very different in the comics. Comic spoilers:

Only read the OP but after reading that it is based comics by the same guy that did Preacher, (same Executive producers too) I'm really excited to check this out right after I finish rewatching season 3 of Preacher before the season 4 premier this weekend.

This show is bonkers lol. Really entertaining. The guy playing Hughie is very good in a tough role. Anthony Starr is amazing.

One thing I didn't like was that poor dolphin The Deep was trying to rescue.

And the Lobster, goddammit!

Just finished the season....very good. dark as ****.

Just started watching this show, very fun and dark. I think it's a cool take on the superhero genre and wouldn't expect anything less from Garth Ennis. Will continue to watch and enjoy.

very solid show

I ve watched it all and it was amazing, they finished filming season 2 before even releasing season 1, that show some balls from amazon

Season 2 was greenlit before they released season 1. It won't be done filming until November.

I ve seen some interview from comicon where they said season 2 was filmed already.

yes they did say at the comiccon panel that the cast was flown in from toronto since they are currently filming season 2

I finished the comic books. The TV show is so much better on pretty much every aspect. Kudos to the writers they did some crazy jobs.
Frenchie origin in the comic book was super weird and kinda explain one thing that bothered me about the casting the actor does not speak French which is obvious when you are French but would makes sense in the comic as he come from a fictional area where they speak English with a bit of French words here and there. The actor was great but the accent was a bit distracting for me.

Loved it. Wish it was more than 8 episodes and looking forward to another season. Will be interesting to see where they take it for season 2.

So many moments where I looked at my gf and was like "what the **** just happened?" and some truly laugh out loud moments like the dolphin and lobster.

loved it. one thing that bothered me in retrospect though was how butcher tells hughie homelander is all clean when in reality the main reason butcher is going after them is because of what homelander did to him.

Worth watching for someone who generally avoids all superhero related things at all costs?

Yeah you'll probably like it even more. It plays like someone read 70s superhero comics and went "what is this bs?!" then wrote this show.

Question about why Butcher says Homelander is "clean":