Outraging 1

Billy Butcher has permission to reform a group of superheroes called "the boys", funded by the CIA and whose mission is to take on superheroes who abuse their power and take their ease too. The action takes place in a world similar to ours, except that there is a drug called Compound V (or as blue) that acquires superpowers temporarily or permanently (when it is clean socket). First mission for this team UNCLE: put together in a team of young superheroes (sidekicks) that cause too much collateral damage.

In the second scene sets the tone: Wee Hughie, a young man walks to the carnival with his fiancée; a supervillain tumbles full amusement park, a superhero stops, and Hughes' Wee see that the two hands he held his bride have more body at the end of the forearm. This series is full of very graphic scenes of violence inadvisable to young people. Similarly, the drug appears to exacerbate Blue drives heroes and their sexual activity is thereby increased tenfold.

To contrast with this avalanche of extreme moments, the narrator adopts three complementary points of view: that of Wee Hughie who discovers the world of cons-heroism that January Annie, a young superheroine very white goose and going fast to face the cruel reality of his favorite superhero group (sensitive souls refrain), and finally that of Billy Butcher who restores The Boys team, cynical character, manipulative and sadistic.

Darick Robertson's drawings are meticulous and detailed. It makes graphic violence very credible and sometimes unbearable. Facial expressions are of high quality: varied, credible and emotionally charged.

After Preacher, Garth Ennis succeeds his bet with The Boys: push the limits reached earlier while continuing to tell a well-constructed story filled with very black humor and indecency.