As Dynamite prepares to relaunch Ennis and Robertson’s The Boys, Wizard talks to the creators about their end at DC and their beginning at Dynamite:
It was a Friday night. That much Garth Ennis distinctly remembers. ’Twas the night he learned about the cancellation of his comic series The Boys.
After hearing that DC Comics, which published the book through its WildStorm imprint, would no longer carry the ultra-violent, ultra-raunchy epic about a team of renegades keeping the world’s superhero population in check, the writer behind similarly graphic hits such as Preacher and The Punisher had only one place to go.
“I was on my way to the pub,” says Ennis, who co-created the series with artist Darick Robertson. “And I started laughing. ‘Here you are again, right at the heart of the sh–storm,’ I thought. ‘Exactly where you knew you were going to be… At first there was no immediate sense that we’d be cut loose; I was more worried about having to carry on at DC with the book in some neutered form,” says Ennis. “Once they told us they’d give the rights back, I knew we’d be okay. The publicity alone would have a dozen publishers knocking at the door.”
