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The Boys (comics)
''The Boys'' is an adult superhero comic book series, co-created, and written by Garth Ennis and co-created, designed, and illustrated by Darick Robertson. The first volume was published by WildStorm, which canceled it after six issues; the series was picked up by Dynamite Entertainment, which published the following eight volumes: '' Get Some'', '' Good for the Soul'', '' We Gotta Go Now'', '' The Self-Preservation Society'', '' The Innocents'', '' The Big Ride'', '' Over the Hill with the Swords of a Thousand Men'', and '' The Bloody Doors Off''. Debuting in October 2006, the series concluded in November 2012 after 72 issues were published. In the fourth volume, the series is revealed to be set in the same fictional universe as Ennis' previous 1995–2000 DC Vertigo series, ''Preacher'', with former vampire Proinsias Cassidy cameoing as a bartender. Three 6-issue spin-off limited series were also produced during the series' original run: ''Herogasm'', '' Highland Laddie'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Mother's Milk (character)
Mother's Milk, or simply M.M., is a fictional character and antihero appearing in the comic book series ''The Boys (comics), The Boys'', created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. Born Baron Wallis, he is a member of List of The Boys characters#The Boys, The Boys, a group of Central Intelligence Agency, CIA-sponsored black ops Espionage#Agents in espionage, agents led by Billy Butcher who observe, record, and sometimes liquidate "Supes" (i.e. super-powered individuals who often masquerade as superheroes) artificially created by the mega-conglomerate Vought. One of two "Supes" in the group alongside The Female (The Boys character), The Female, Wallis' mother was dosed with the superpower-inducing Compound V while pregnant with him, the result of which was her eventually mutating into a Cthulhu-like creature, and him becoming the first naturally-born Supe, Progeroid syndromes, prematurely aging (appearing to be in his 40s when in fact in his 20s). To stay alive, Mother's Milk req ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ben Abernathy
Ben Abernathy is a comic book editor and writer. He has worked at DC Comics as an Executive Editor and Group Editor of the Batman books. He was EIC and founder at Madefire, a company that creates motion books, and was previously an editor at Wildstorm, Dark Horse Comics and Marvel Comics. Biography Ben Abernathy broke into comics as an Assistant Editor at Dark Horse Comics in Portland in 1998 before jumping to New York to work as Creative Services Coordinator at DC Comics the following year in 1999. In 2000, he joined Marvel Comics in New York as Special Projects Manager for a year and change. In 2002, he moved back to DC Comics as Group Editor of DC Comics Digital for an entire decade, from 2002 until 2012. In 2012, he left DC to become co-founder and editor-in-chief of a new digital comics publisher, Madefire, with Liam Sharp, including writing the series The Heroes Club and bringing DC Comics to the platform. When that closed in 2015, he returned to DC Comics. First as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Superhero Comic Book
Superhero comics is one of the most common genres of American comic books. The genre rose to prominence in the 1930s and became extremely popular in the 1940s and has remained the dominant form of comic book in North America since the 1960s. Superhero comics feature stories about superheroes and the universes these characters inhabit. Beginning with the introduction of Superman in 1938 in Action Comics 1, ''Action Comics'' #1 (an anthology of adventure features) comic books devoted to superheroes (heroic people with extraordinary or superhuman abilities and skills, or god-like powers and attributes) ballooned into a widespread genre, coincident with the beginnings of World War II and the end of the Great Depression. Precursors In comics format, superpowered and costumed heroes like Popeye and The Phantom had appeared in newspaper comic strips for several years prior to Superman. The first fully-masked hero Clock (comics), The Clock first appeared in the comic book ''Funny Pages' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Adult Comics
The catch-all term adult comics typically denotes comic books, comic magazines, comic strips or graphic novels that are marketed either mainly or strictly towards adult (or mature) readers. This can be because they contain material that could be considered thematically inappropriate for children, including vulgarity, morally questionable actions, disturbing imagery, and sexually explicit material. Adult comics can be defined as intended for audience of 16 years or older. In English-speaking countries Early days Roger Sabin traces the history of adult comics back to the political cartoons published in broadsheets since the 19th century.Roger Sabin. Adult Comics: An Introduction (Taylor & Francis, 1993, , Routledge, 2005, ) p. 15 In the 1930s, there were clandestinely produced tijuana bibles – rectangular, eight page pamphlets with black printing on cheap white paper. The artwork ranged from excellent to utterly crude and the stories were explicit sexual escapades, usually ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Bloody Doors Off
''The Bloody Doors Off'' is a graphic novel written by Garth Ennis and illustrated by Russ Braun that was released in seven parts throughout 2012 by Dynamite Entertainment as the final volume of the American comic book series '' The Boys''. Part 1, ''I Cannot Let You Do This…!'', was released May 2, Part 2, ''Splendiddio…'', was released June 6, Part 3, ''Do You Know What I Hate?'', was released July 4, Part 4, ''Whose Woods These Are I Think I Know'', was released August 1, Part 5, ''The Name of the Game'', was released September 5, Part 6, ''The Scores on the Doors'', was released October 3, and Part 7, ''You Found Me'' (illustrated by Darick Robertson and Richard P. Clark), was released November 14 (all 2012). Following the death of the Homelander and the true mastermind Black Noir in the previous volume, having struck a secret alliance with the still-alive Jonah Vogelbaum, Billy Butcher unleashes his true nature and sets out to exterminate all humans with Supe DNA from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Over The Hill With The Swords Of A Thousand Men
''Over the Hill with the Swords of a Thousand Men'' is a graphic novel written by Garth Ennis and illustrated by Russ Braun that was released in six parts throughout 2011 and 2012 by Dynamite Entertainment as the penultimate volume of the American comic book series '' The Boys''. Part 1, ''The House of Cards Comes Tumbling Down'', was released November 2, 2011, Part 2, ''Interruptus'', was released December 7, 2011, Part 3, ''Assassination Run'', was released January 4, 2012, Part 4, ''A Lady of a Certain Age'', was released February 1, 2012, Part 5, ''One, Two, Three, Four, United States Marine Corps'', was released March 7, 2012, and Part 6, ''My Name––Is Michael Caine'', was released April 4, 2012. As the Homelander finally enacts his coup against the Vought-American-controlled White House, the Boys prepare for one last terrible battle, as Frenchie and the Female are unleashed on Vought-American, and Mother's Milk, Wee Hughie, and the Guy From Vought come to realise a thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Butcher, Baker, Candlestickmaker
''Butcher, Baker, Candlestickmaker'' is a six-issue comic book limited series by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. Originally published as a spin-off of ''The Boys'', set between issues #59 and #60, following villain protagonist Billy Butcher as he attends his father's funeral before thinking back on his origin story, serving in the Royal Marines, fighting in the Falklands War, meeting and then losing his wife Becky Saunders, and joining the CIA and in-turn the Supe-focused black ops group The Boys following her death. ''Butcher, Baker, Candlestickmaker'' was collected in trade paperback in March 2012 as the tenth volume of ''The Boys'', as ''The Boys: Butcher, Baker, Candlestickmaker''. ''Butcher, Baker, Candlestickmaker'' was adapted as the seventh episode of the second season of the Amazon Prime Video streaming television adaptation of '' The Boys'', with John Noble and Lesley Nicol portraying Sam and Connie Butcher, as well as to the third season episode " Here Comes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Big Ride
''The Big Ride'' is a three-part graphic novel written by Garth Ennis and illustrated by Russ Braun that was published by Dynamite Entertainment as the ninth volume of the American comic book series '' The Boys'', consisting of the four-part story arcs ''Proper Preparation and Planning'', released from November 3, 2010 to February 16, 2011, ''Barbary Coast'' (illustrated by John McCrea), released from March 2 to June 1, 2011, and ''The Big Ride'', released from July 6 to October 5, 2011, the latter from which the novel takes its title. In ''Proper Preparation and Planning'', Billy Butcher and the Homelander think back on the Boys' first encounter with the Seven in the aftermath of 9/11, in ''Barbary Coast'', Wee Hughie meets Mallory, who recounts his life story from meeting the first Soldier Boy during the Second World War to eventually joining the CIA and recruiting Butcher, while in ''The Big Ride'', the Boys' investigation into Jack from Jupiter leads them and the Seven tow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Highland Laddie (comic Book)
''Highland Laddie'' is a six-issue comic book limited series by Garth Ennis and John McCrea (with Keith Burns). Originally published as a spin-off of ''The Boys'', set between issues #47 and #48, it follows the story of "Wee Hughie" Campbell as in the aftermath of learning his ex-girlfriend Annie to be a Supe, he takes a sabbatical from the Boys and returns home to Auchterladle, the Scottish seaside town where he grew up, where he reunites with his mystery-solving childhood friends, Bobby and Det. ''Highland Laddie'' was collected in trade paperback in April 2011 as the eighth volume of ''The Boys'', as ''The Boys: Highland Laddie''. Storylines from the series would be continued in the 2020 ''The Boys'' epilogue series ''Dear Becky''. Elements of ''Highland Laddie'' were adapted to the Amazon Prime Video streaming television adaptation of '' The Boys'', in the adaptation of Starlight's backstory from ''A Young Man's Fancy'', and Simon Pegg and Rosemarie DeWitt portraying Hugh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Innocents (comic Book)
''The Boys'' is an adult superhero comic book series, co-created, and written by Garth Ennis and co-created, designed, and illustrated by Darick Robertson. The first volume was published by WildStorm, which canceled it after six issues; the series was picked up by Dynamite Entertainment, which published the following eight volumes: '' Get Some'', ''Good for the Soul'', ''We Gotta Go Now'', '' The Self-Preservation Society'', '' The Innocents'', ''The Big Ride'', '' Over the Hill with the Swords of a Thousand Men'', and ''The Bloody Doors Off''. Debuting in October 2006, the series concluded in November 2012 after 72 issues were published. In the fourth volume, the series is revealed to be set in the same fictional universe as Ennis' previous 1995–2000 DC Vertigo series, ''Preacher'', with former vampire Proinsias Cassidy cameoing as a bartender. Three 6-issue spin-off limited series were also produced during the series' original run: ''Herogasm'', ''Highland Laddie'', and ''But ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Herogasm
''Herogasm'' is a six-issue American comic book, comic book Limited series (comics), limited series by Garth Ennis, John McCrea (comics), John McCrea and Keith Burns. Originally published as a Spin-off (media), spin-off of The Boys (comics), ''The Boys'', set between issues #30 and #31, and centering on the Boys as they infiltrate "Herogasm", an annual party for Vought-American-sponsored superheroes to allow them orgy, orgies. ''Herogasm'' was collected in trade paperback in November 2009 as the fifth volume of ''The Boys'', as ''The Boys: Herogasm''. ''Herogasm'' was adapted as the sixth episode of the The Boys season 3, third season of the Amazon Prime Video streaming television adaptation of ''The Boys (TV series), The Boys'', with Jensen Ackles portraying Soldier Boy, a character introduced in ''Herogasm''. Publication history In February 2009, Dynamite announced the first Spin-off (media), spin-off Limited series (comics), mini-series of The Boys (comics), ''The Boys'' in '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |