G-Man gave me 5 or 6 issues of The Boys the other day. I read it last night and loved it. This is the type of comicbook that 'I' would like to write. Very smart and very gritty. It's going on my pullist.

Of course it is !!

And the fact that Darick is such a nice and cool guy makes it all the better. I don't know WFT DC was thinking by canceling it. They were probably too worried about getting letters from angry mommies. At least it's got a new home.

Now when is #7 gonna hit the stands?

As far as I've read, they got picked up recently by Dynamite but no official word is set for the publication of issue seven. The trade is expected sometime in March for the first 6 issues.
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In case anyone was curious, the trade and the rest of the series is picked up Dynamite officially and will begin printing June with issue 7 and the release of the trade.

Darick also mentioned that there will be a new cover to issue #7. He wanted something more eye-catching than what was originally planned.

I never questioned why DC got rid of them. I always questioned why they'd publish it in the first place. I mean, the same comic company that publishes Superman, the biggest boy scout comic of all time, publishes a comic where an obvious Superman rip-off demands oral pleasure from another hero?

The gerbil made me laugh though.

Yeah. Even though it was through Wildstorm, it was still close to DC. It's like why bother doing this if you're not gonna have the balls to keep putting it out. I could see if sales were low but they weren't. Did they not realize what they were getting with the series? I'm sure it was made perfectly clear.

HAHA! I am such a n00b. I'm wondering to myself why this book has been so late. I had no idea it was canceled which bums me out. But at least it shall be resurrected. Garth Ennis is proving to be a very entertaining fellow!

After some mentions from G-Man I got a few issues of The Boys and it seems very much like Team Achilles to me. Humans with a hatred for super humans and government permission to police and kill them. The Boys has more cursing, sex and British people, but overall I think they're very similar, and not just in the basic premise but in execution as well.

How old is Team Achilles? I love the grittier, more realistic supe genre of comics - the Boys and The Authority are both great. Is Team Achilles something that I'll have to search for, or are there still new ones being made?

that picture is so wrong, funny but wrong

seriously? just an entire comic about that?! o_O

aztek:
The series is much better than Herogasm, I think Herogasm would be kind of hard to fully understand without the full backstory.

My wife just got me vol 1 and 2 of The boys for our anniversary and I just finished #1 it was awesome I loved it and can.t what to read #2

yeah it's not bad.
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