It's a Twitter link, but I'll put a mirror up once I can find one.
YT Mirror:
EDIT: New trailer:
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First footage from Amazon's adaptation of "The Boys".
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It's a Twitter link, but I'll put a mirror up once I can find one.
YT Mirror:
EDIT: New trailer:
The Boys and The Crossing aren't shocking. I honestly can't think of an English word to describe them.
I feel this way. I know very little about this. Quick trailer was intriguing though.
I made the mistake of reading Crossed - I really regret doing so and I wish I could scrub it from my mind.
Wait the fish dude isn't inside and old time diver suit?
TRASH ADAPTATION!
I actually think that cutting around the shock and explicit stuff is possible, like the "batman" and "robin" side story from the start of the run is not needed or the full of herogasm.
TRASH ADAPTATION!
I actually think that cutting around the shock and explicit stuff is possible, like the "batman" and "robin" side story from the start of the run is not needed or the full of herogasm.
It would be an interesting story, one done a thousand times before but interesting but the edgelord shit really holds it back.
Ever wanted to see superheroes have an ernest conversation on if cutting coke with the menstrual fluid of a superheroine enhances the drug or not? The Boyz is for you
its not like I wasn't curious back then, but I was also reading Bomb Queen at the time so I was going through a lot of stuff internally.
One of the good guys gets his codenamed because at 35 he is
still being breast fed
The Boys didn't do much for me. None of the heart Ennis put in Preacher. It's just mean and bitter.
While I didn't get on with the Preacher TV show, I wonder if Rogen will actually change The Boys for the better. The very basic concept could be interesting, if handled well.
Who am I kidding?
While I didn't get on with the Preacher TV show, I wonder if Rogen will actually change The Boys for the better. The very basic concept could be interesting, if handled well.
Who am I kidding?
Remember that whole schtick about the wanton destruction that superheros tend to wreak in their escapades? The Boyz basically explores that, if all the super heroes are the actual assholes they would be in the real world, instead of being boy scouts like Superman. It definitely treads on edgelord at times, many times. I'm curious how the show turns out.
The Boys came after his Punisher MAX run right? Cause it seems right, since Punisher's violence was bad but purposeful, this one just existed to see who could squirm.
The first vol was free to read on Amazon I think. So I've just recently read it. I enjoyed what I read. Not enough to pay full price for more volumes, but I'd check them out if cheap enough. That said, I'll check the show out. I've already got Prime, so why not.
What? no, The Boys is legit the work with the most heart from him.
There is legit love between the characters in the run.
I got through the first TPB and dropped it. It's not so much about the relationship between characters (he's always great at that), it's more the cynical world around them. As fucked up as Preacher got, there was a pervasive optimism throughout it.
If you want to expirience it yeah you need the russian arc at least. The first 2? tps is setup and random evil heroes if I remember right.
Yeah, pretty much. You get to see the guy based on Simon Pegg join the crew and, yeah, random baddies. I really didn't get on with it. I really like a lot of Ennis' other work too.
After Preacher I'm incredibly leery of any comic adaptations they're doing
The Boys is amazing. Shame on you.
You too >:(
Finally a kindred spirit. I felt really sad when the final arc unfolded. Sad for Billy, and Hughie specially.
you know it!
offers handshake with no suspicious substance present in the hand.
And a macho man putting the female boss in her place as a sex object and female characters regularly treated as sex toys and being gay treated as a perversion.
The Boys might gain a lot by a TV transformation, losing all that excess that prevented it to be memorable. The premise and some points were interesting, let's hope the series turns it into something more digestible. Crossed, on the other hand, is just childlish and unsalvageable.
Ooph that's a bummer but maybe this adaptation won't be that misogynistic, like how the preacher tv show improved on Tulip's portrayal in the comic.
Thats what I remember. Hard pass for me, I'm too old for this. (Could be ok I guess)
Seems to have the tone of Preacher show, which is the really the only way to go.
As a fan of edgy grimdarkness I'm looking forward to this. I want to see the G-Men scene.
As a fan of edgy grimdarkness I'm looking forward to this. I want to see the G-Men scene.
I dunno. I liked the comic (with many of rhe same misgivings as you all) but, not sure I like the take here. While the comic was preposterous to say the least, the underlying character motivations and mysteries kept it grounded where this looks like they are going for pure 'edge'.
Funny enough the trailer makes me think they are borrowing a page from The Preacher afaptation where they take the juvenile and offensive humor and improve on it, at the expense of the underlying drama and darkness so all ya left with is weird and quirky. This just looks like a straight comedy.
ill give it a go tho; comics being so uniquitous something that takes a piss at em in a new medium
Funny enough the trailer makes me think they are borrowing a page from The Preacher afaptation where they take the juvenile and offensive humor and improve on it, at the expense of the underlying drama and darkness so all ya left with is weird and quirky. This just looks like a straight comedy.
ill give it a go tho; comics being so uniquitous something that takes a piss at em in a new medium
I fuckin hate The Boys. Footage looks fine I guess, looks more comedic than anything, which is probably the most pragmatic direction to go in if you're going to try to adopt that thing.
We get it Ennis, you don't like superheroes.
I actually think he's pretty talented but I really dislike the majority of his stuff, and while I'm at it Preacher sucks too. The Boys is just straight up yuck. Admittedly I never finished it but I highly doubt my opinion would have changed reading another three volumes or whatever it was.
We get it Ennis, you don't like superheroes.
I actually think he's pretty talented but I really dislike the majority of his stuff, and while I'm at it Preacher sucks too. The Boys is just straight up yuck. Admittedly I never finished it but I highly doubt my opinion would have changed reading another three volumes or whatever it was.
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