The boys. Vol. 7: Cara Becky

Eleven years after the last volume of The Boys was published the creative team are back with this '12 years later' catch up with The Boys' universe. Hughie is sent what appears to be Butcher's musing in his own words written in what was once his murdered wife Becky's diary. The volume covers the ear Leggi tutto

Set ten years after the events of the last book, Hughie and Annie are living a happy, quiet life in Scotland - a life suddenly disrupted by the delivery of Butcher’s notebook. A notebook full of letters to his long-dead wife, Becky - but what secrets does it contain, and who sent it? Dear Becky is an Leggi tutto

Not bad. Not good. I enjoyed going back and dipping my toes into the world but this honestly doesn't do much for the original story. The skinny gist is that some mysterious person sends Hughie Butcher's diary. Well, Becky's old diary that Butcher decides to write down all of his feelings in. So there Leggi tutto

I love the original run of The Boys, it’s probably my favorite series Ennis did (yes I like it more than Preacher and yes I’ll do a reread and review sometime down the line), and as most people who have seen my reviews before know, I am a HUGE Garth Ennis fan. I just jive with the dudes work, but ev Leggi tutto

I thought it was cool Garth Ennis was doing a sequel to The Boys . . . until I read it and discovered it was an unnecessary backstory intent on exploring the motivations of Billy Butcher in the original series through a mysterious diary about his one true love. Ummm, sure. It's padded out with some w Leggi tutto

A somewhat satisfying return to the world of the Boys, after the series' end a decade ago. You get to see more supes get what's coming to them. I read this in hopes of seeing more of that, so this is a win for me.

It’s giving “nothing.”

Here was the main problem with "Dear Becky": I just didn't care. I mean, let's be honest, The Boys was never high literature. But, it tended to keep my attention except when it grossed me out. This didn't. Hughie and Annie are just treading water. Their story doesn't go much of anywhere until the plo Leggi tutto

Well, this was... ok! I want to say it was mediocre at best, and half the time the flashback story was boring as hell, meaningless for The Boys and it basically didn't need to happen. I liked the stuff with Hughie and all, but talking about what was Billy like a thousand times is getting really old r Leggi tutto