Featured Release: The Boys #69
In comics, you normally commemorate issues divisible by 25: #50, #75, and on. But if ever there was a comic that would lovingly acknowledge Issue #69, it’s Garth Ennis’s The Boys.
First published in 2006, The Boys takes a… “unique” look at the life of superheroes. This team of superheroes are backed by the CIA to handle threats from other superhumans and are given an impunity for their own misdeeds. OF WHICH THERE ARE MANY! These guys have reached a certain level of superstardom and fully take advantage of all the benefits such celebrity grants.
The series kicks off with Hughie, a nice bloke with the girl of his dreams on a romantic date… That is until she’s accidentally flattened into a wall as two superhumans fight. It is through his eyes that we enter the world of The Boys. If you’re familiar with Ennis’ take on the horror genre in Crossed, The Boys takes an equally harsh and dark look into the world of superheroes. While not for the easily offended, if you like to see a different take on the clichéd tropes you see in many, many other comics I would highly recommend at least the first volume in the series (Editor’s Note: I say that because that is the only one that I’ve read thus far, but I did really like it.)
The Boys #69 arrives on store shelves today!
Top 20 “Most Pulled” Comics for the Week of July 29, 2012
Presented by Comixology
- Action Comics #12 (DC)
- Detective Comics #12 (DC)
- Avengers vs. X-Men #9 (Marvel)
- Animal Man #12 (DC)
- Swamp Thing #12 (DC)
- Invincible Iron Man #522 (Marvel)
- Daredevil #16 (Marvel)
- Ultimate Spider-Man #13 (Marvel)
- Earth 2 #4 (DC)
- X-Men #33 (Marvel)
- Red Lanterns #12 (DC)
- X-Factor #241 (Marvel)
- Avenging Spider-Man #10 (Marvel)
- Justice League International #12 (DC)
- Avengers Academy #34 (Marvel)
- Worlds’ Finest #4 (DC)
- Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #2 (DC)
- Stormwatch #12 (DC)
- Green Arrow #12 (DC)
- The Boys #69 (Dynamite)
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