Garth Ennis Disavows The Boys TV Show for Being Well Written, Coherent (hard-drive.net)

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“They’ve abandoned my original vision of a horrid edgefest,” explained the very badass and subversive writer. “I write dialogue like a twelve-year-old who just learned the F-word. Sure they curse a lot, but they aren’t using it as a crutch, like me. Also, where’s all the rape? There’s literally no way to indicate that someone is a villain, or even a morally ambiguous hero, without having them commit heinous sexual assaults. Instead they’re obsessed with writing ‘characters’ who have ‘motivations’. That’s not what The Boys is about. The Boys is about vapid, surface level parodies of superheroes that make you feel terrible and empty for having read about them.”

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[-] OrlandoDoom@feddit.uk 5 points 3 months ago

I've read the boys, newsthump are kinda on point here.

Especially towards the end, there were pages with more text than image, so many twists it was hard to keep up, wasn't the easiest read tbh.

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