This is very much a quiet issue, but it's one which sets up the current story arc well and also provides a great jumping-on point for those who missed out on the book in its previous incarnation. Less graphically violent or sexual than the issues which preceded it, this installment of The Boys is slightly more subtle in its mockery of the superhero genre, but it's no less effective. It also introduces a couple of characters who look like they will be enjoyable additions to the book's cast. The Boys has gone from being a one-note parody book to an involving story in a genuinely fleshed-out superhero universe in the space of just a few issues. I'm glad I stuck around to see where Ennis is taking it. Read Full Review

I dunno, this series had a good start. Not the best one, but it was still nice to read mostly and there was a story behind it. There is NO story... It's just... WTF, Ennis, can't you stop making everything come to sex? I mean... EVERYTHING is about sex here. And it's not good sex like Sunstone, where you could also even educate yourself about the BDSM stuff. No, it's just... It's just an abomination without any purpose, gross... Pure filth.

And also I start to think, that people of this universe do only things connected to the sex. I mean, in the first issue, when Butcher visited Monkey, he was jerking off... And now they visited that comic book guy, and he was with a hooker at work... That's just stupid and I already tired of that... It could be bearable if there was a story behind this all, but there's no story at all!

What was the point of this issue? To show that T.K. can't stop fucking things? Okay, I have no doubts he can't... And so what?

P.S. also this issue literally laughs at people who read comics and I know that it meant to be an ironic thing, but if all comics were like this one, I would think that it was not ironic. more