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Title: Did somebody touch Garth Ennis' penis when he was five?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on August 07, 2008, 06:54:42 PM

I picked up some TPBs that the manager of the local comic book shop threw in my pile - The Boys.  Apparently, it is "notorious" and there are definitely some funny parts, but the undercurrent of sexual perversion is pretty strong here.  It's like watching a molested child write a comic about superheroes.

Title: Re: Did somebody touch Garth Ennis' penis when he was five?
Post by: Eric P on August 07, 2008, 08:51:02 PM

the boys is horrible

whenever ennis does the sex stuff it's just....i don't know

the tone and puerile way he handles it is just fucking annoying.

it fucked up parts of Preacher, it's fucking up The Punisher stuff I'm reading now.

it's all over the Boys...

so yeah, i know exactly what you're saying

Title: Re: Did somebody touch Garth Ennis' penis when he was five?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on August 07, 2008, 09:05:29 PM

I can't fathom why the manager thought this was amazing.  He made it sound edgy.

Title: Re: Did somebody touch Garth Ennis' penis when he was five?
Post by: Eric P on August 07, 2008, 09:12:08 PM

i don't know what he reads normally

but i can see how it could be considered edgy if most of your exposure is to more mainstream cape stuff

Title: Re: Did somebody touch Garth Ennis' penis when he was five?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on August 07, 2008, 09:41:19 PM

Nah, he's pretty good with picks.  He reads a lot of indie stuff.

Title: Re: Did somebody touch Garth Ennis' penis when he was five?
Post by: Eric P on August 07, 2008, 09:44:25 PM

oh.  then i dunno.  different tastes or what have you.

Title: Re: Did somebody touch Garth Ennis' penis when he was five?
Post by: Cormacaroni on August 07, 2008, 11:35:00 PM

The Boys really is atrocious, bottom-scraping shite of the worst order. Ennis can be a great writer but when he's on puerile shock factor auto-pilot, his stuff actually nauseates me. Never, never NEVER read 'Dicks' or its sequels. And I say that as someone who lived in Belfast for many years and is accustomed to the dialect and 'humor' therein.

Title: Re: Did somebody touch Garth Ennis' penis when he was five?
Post by: chronovore on August 08, 2008, 07:27:55 AM

Yeah, no kidding. PREACHER verges on the inexcusable, and laughingly so, several times through its run, but it's absolutely brilliant.

Dicks / The Boys is like PREACHER with all the brilliance removed, and only the scatological humor remaining. GODDESS is shit, too.

Title: Re: Did somebody touch Garth Ennis' penis when he was five?
Post by: Powerslave on August 08, 2008, 07:28:16 AM

Ennis