Comments on: So long, Boys — Ennis's Statement

By: Jesus

Jesus — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:25:44 +0000

I really like The Boys, and I’m the son of God…

By: C_HUNTER

C_HUNTER — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:56:11 +0000

YOUR UNDETERRED FASCINATION WITH PURE, ABSOLUTE EVIL WILL BE THE END OF YOU – AND THEN YOU WILL KNOW THE TRUE MEANING OF “DAMNATION” AND “HELL” – ALL TOO LATE.

By: C_HUNTER

C_HUNTER — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:49:14 +0000

MOST OF YOU ARE INSANE IN THE WORST WAY POSSIBLE!

TO HELL WITH YOU!!!!!!!!!!

GARTH ENNIS IS A DEMON, AND SOME OF YOU EVEN PRAISE THE SHIT HE LAYS ON YOUR BRAINS!!!

By: D.

D. — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 12:42:58 +0000

Does nobody think it might have had more to do with the fact that DC is superhero heaven and Ennis got the urge to kill a bunch?

I think you’re all over intellectualising just a tad on the rape score. This isn’t the first instance of male rape in comics – The Authority, anyone? The only time Ennis has ever come over all touchy feely with sex (in general) was in Preacher. And that’s just because Jesse was all pussy whipped and in love (and fair play to him too).

I’m glad to hear The Boys has found a new home and look forward to picking up issue 7 soon.

By: spectrevk

spectrevk — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 20:16:18 +0000

That wasn’t rape. Nobody held her, or forced her, or even really coerced her with anything particularly compelling. There was nothing stopping her from going back to her old team and telling the Seven to go screw themselves, except for her own arrogance.

By: The J Man

The J Man — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 18:03:11 +0000

Gerhardt, to automatically assume that the hamster bit or the homosexuality was what got the book shit-canned is ignorant and typical of conspiracy-minded progressive McCarthyists, looking for intolerance anywhere they can find it. I can almost guarantee you that what got his book canned WAS the rape of that young female superhero who had to fellate the Superman analog to get onto the JLA analog superteam. The “glorious plot point” you think you see.

By: Comics Gal

Comics Gal — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:53:33 +0000

Any word yet on the new home for The Boys? I may rip on the series at times, but I’m still interested to see where it goes, and I love the art. (Does Hughie get the girl or what?) If nothing else, they should have a place where you can at least order them online, since they were already made, right? Or, do the printed issues belong to DC still? Not sure how that works.

Tyler0153: Now you’ve got me wanting to open up my two boxes of Catwoman to check. I vaguely remember something where a wife had to watch her husband get tortured or some such…but not sure on the cannibalism part.

And just in case anyone noticed…I realized my mistake after posting. Yes, it’s a hamster, not a gerbil. But pretty perma keeps the first title you post under, so it appears as gerbil in the above link to my blog that someone was so very nice to add here. (Thank you!)

By: Tyler0153

Tyler0153 — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:46:17 +0000

Just a question (and I’m not a D.C. fan really, with a few exceptions, so I could be wrong) but wasn’t there a Catwoman comic where some woman had to eat her husband, or watch while he ate parts of himself, or something involving canibalism?

I’m just saying…if that kind of thing can be done in a serious manner, what the hell is wrong with any of the stuff The Boys has done in a humourous manner?

The Boys was one of the best comics out in the last year. It was just cool. Just the thing to sit down and read once you’d read all the usual superhero comics.

I’m sure they will find another publisher, but until then I’m going to be in a perminent bad mood.

By: Comics Gal Reads » Blog Archive » I guess the gerbil was a bit too much.

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:34:50 +0000

[...] Just found out last night that The Boys is being dropped by Darkhorse. (See ICv2’s take on the matter and a related story with comment by Ennis by Heidi MacDonald for The Beat.) For me personally, I’m not terribly surprised. [...]

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 20:02:40 +0000

un beleivable. I was really getting into that.

“Im gonna fuckin ave you, you cunt”

By: Shay

Shay — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:37:37 +0000

Certainly, if Ennis and Robertson are quick about it, this could be the best promotion for the title since the ‘out-preacher preacher’ statement Ennis made.

I can see it now as a blurb for the back of the tpb “So awesome it got kicked out of DC”.

By: Great Comic Book News Site » The Comicology Comic Book Podcast

Great Comic Book News Site » The Comicology Comic Book Podcast — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 18:28:09 +0000

[...] The thing that I read there was this article that talks about how Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s Wildstorm series, The Boys has been cancelled by DC, effective with issue #6 of the series, which is currently on shelves. Issues #7-#10, as well as the trade collection – all of which have been solicited – will not ship. [...]

By: Jay

Jay — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 01:53:17 +0000

Hey Thomas-

You tell me you read “Identitiy Crisis” and THE plotpoint of that Story was the raping of a woman?
This was the only thing that stuck with you after reading that story? After you condensed it down, the whole story was about raping a woman?

I think MY head is about to explode.

By: Simon Fraser

Simon Fraser — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:16:04 +0000

‘Identity Crisis’ was a farce, that’s a kind of comedy …right?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:50:23 +0000

In “Infinite Crisis”, only the readers got raped…