The Collection - The Boys: The Name Of The Game
From Dynamite Comics
Many, many moons ago, I was browsing in Forbidden Planet in London. I was unsure what I was looking for and was hoping for some inspiration to jump out at me. At this point, a helpful staff member asked if I wanted any help. I mentioned wanting to get something new but didn’t know what. The staff member (cleverly) asked what I had recently read that I enjoyed. I replied that I had been reading some of Garth Ennis’s run on Punisher MAX. To which the fatal question was asked…
“Have you heard of The Boys?”
Meet Billy Butcher. He's not a nice man, and neither are his team: the Frenchman, Mother's Milk, and the Female. They hate "capes"...and so does Billy's newest recruit, Wee Hughie, whose girlfriend has just become collateral damage in a super-brawl. But does Hughie know what he's getting into?
by Garth Ennis (Author), Darick Robertson (Author)
That must have been in about 2008/2009, and things in the world of The Boys have steamrolled since then with many more volumes and a TV Show (with a spinoff)
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