The Boys, Vol. 4

Well they need 20 words... I have need of only one. Brilliant. As always, you read, you process, you swear you know where it is heading and then.... BAM! YOU DO NOT HAVE A CLUE. Still loving every page.

Book was in excellent condition

Garth Ennis has always pushed the envelope when it comes to his most popular work in comics. Some say he does more than that with The Boys, which is so viscerally nasty and gratuitously horrifying that you just have to love it! In this fourth volume of the series we find Billy Butcher and his gang of psychos going after a twisted nightmare version of one of Marvel's most popular superteams. The stakes in the game Butcher's been playing against The Seven and their parent corporation Vought American just got higher, and readers such as myself genuinely feel charged up with anticipation at the thought of the eventual showdown, which is hopefully still dozens of issues in the future. The storyline in this volume is entitled "We Gotta Go Now" and features Hughie going undercover as a potential recruit to the G-Men, the most lucrative superhero team and franchise in present day America. Needless to say, Hughie soon discovers some unspeakable things about said superheroes, and a terrifying secret that links each of them to their founder and mentor Godolkin (NOT a bald-headed guy in a wheelchair). Along the way we get some comic relief in the form of the Frenchman, the Female and a bloodthirsty game of scrabble. Butcher delivers a frightening warning to a very important person, while Mother's Milk does some Batman-style detective work. Homelander has to deal with Prank phone calls, possibly his greatest challenge, while Hughie has to survive the depravity of his frat roommates. My only gripe is that most of the violent superhero action takes place off panel, hence the four stars. Even so, Ennis' writing more than makes up for it. Pick up this volume and start reading! If it doesn't hook you, nothing will.

Up until now, I've had some pretty big concerns and reservations about The Boys, but volume 4's face off with the G-Men and various spin-offs (G-Force, G-Style, G-Coast, G-Wiz, etc.) in a vicious satire of the X-Men combined with the movie Animal House and made into a villainous pedophile kidnapping ring . . . Yikes! I still prefer the show, but this was pretty good . . .

We Gotta Go Now, the fourth collected volume of Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson's The Boys, finds Butcher and co. taking aim at some new superpowered adversaries this time around. Hughie goes undercover as a new would-be member of the supes franchise called the G-Men, and discovers some dirty and some plain old horrifying secrets in the process about their millionaire founder and leader. Naturally though, things don't go too smoothly for Hughie during his undercover time, as Ennis once again manages to pull out all the stops in an effort to disgust, shock, horrify, and tickle the funny bone of the reader. While The Boys so far has gleefully jabbed at mainstream superhero comics, Ennis' riff here on the mega-popular X-Men franchise is just too fun to pass up. Darick Robertson's artwork continues to be solid as well, which isn't much of a surprise either really. All in all, I've found The Boys to be endlessly entertaining since its inception, and with seeds being planted for some future uber-chaotic events on the horizon, here's hoping that the best is yet to come from The Boys.

The Boys continue to bring light to the origins of the supes. Garth Ennis’ characters are so different from typical superhero comics.

Definitely not for the faint of heart! Good stories for adults! One of the best sets in the series. Highly recommend.

This volume had an introduction of other groups of supes and had a lot of new names that was hard to keep track of. These groups were way better than the groups in volume 2, but I feel when time on the supes is not on the 7 then the story suffers some. At least in this volume they sprinkled in a little bit of the 7. I liked the behind the scenes of the corporate in Vought and the twist towards the end of this volume. Overall this was a pretty strong volume of comics.

Just what you have come to expect from the series. This new volume maintains the level of violence, humour and thrill that has become the title's trademark.

Love these comics, just wish they wasn’t so expensive per book. Great read. On to the next one. Cant wait!

It was very funny and entertaining as it had the g man team story line to tell and the way there were made.

I have the whole series. Garth Ennis is brilliant. The art-work is brilliant. I would definitely recommend it to everyone who likes reading graphic novels

Violência, criticas a sociedade, ao culto a personalidade, ao mundo corporativo e politico.. enfim.. garth ennis no se melhor. Diversao garantida... e polemicas tb