Comments on: Herogasm: A Review

By: Small Bathroom Renovations

Small Bathroom Renovations — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 23:05:10 +0000

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By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:48:15 +0000

Wonder if Ennis ever gets hate mail and death threats from riffing on the likes of Cappy and Superman?

If he does, I’d love to see Ennis post them on the internet or something. That’d be just as big of a riot as this gem.

By: Brett

Brett — Wed, 20 May 2009 14:21:42 +0000

‘The Boys’ doesn’t appeal to me at all. To me, it’s another of Ennis’ failures to complete a good idea without falling into his standard tropes of goofy violence and stupid perversion. I’m not offended by the content of his comics, I’m offended at the poor quality of the writing. It’s lazy, cheap laughs that ruin his otherwise amazing ideas. He can be a great writer if he didn’t (sometimes literally) emasculate his characters to an extent that it renders them little more than puerile punchlines. “This super-hero has to hump everything he sees! Hurrhurr!” “This villain gets his head cut so he looks like a penis, then his leg gets eaten by backwoods cannibals, and his nards get bit off by a dog! LULZ!” “That dog has huge balls! Wooo!” “He had a hamster up his butt the whole time! *wheeze* i can’t breathe!” The more I read of Ennis the less I like him. He destroys his own writing talent. If he wrote more stuff like his “War Stories” he’d be one of my favorites.

By: Nate Horn

Nate Horn — Wed, 20 May 2009 13:42:11 +0000

fernald,

Yeah, gee, how silly of Cisco to expect a direct market store that’s supposed to specialize in selling comics to have a comic series for sale. Doesn’t Cisco know every business requires customers to specify exactly what they want 3 months ahead of time?

The direct market is such a joke. The way they view their customers, as an inconvenience to be treated like dirt, is exactly why the majority or readers left are sad, old babymen who can’t let go of their childhood.

By: Curt

Curt — Wed, 20 May 2009 12:40:42 +0000

No way THE BOYS is just a series of puerile jokes about superheroes. Those are there in abundance, but Ennis weaves them into some very gripping stories. I honestly expected to hate this title, and now it’s one of my favorites.

By: Jimmy Aquino

Jimmy Aquino — Tue, 19 May 2009 23:55:36 +0000

I think the reason it’s a spin-off is that it didn’t fit into Garth’s full story arc. He has said from the beginning that THE BOYS will be 60 issues total. So, perhaps this storyline popped in his head that he wanted to tell, but it would have disrupted the flow of the regular book. Yet, it’s probably there to add to the main story (as you suggested).

By: wombat

wombat — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:10:53 +0000

i agree, on what the other poster said. you can only say so many times “superheroes are silly”.

and that comes from someone who thinks Ennis is one the greatest contemporary writers in comics. and if you really want some laughs read the exploits of sixpack and gang (dogwelder)

By: elvee

elvee — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:05:41 +0000

It’s worth reading if you’re interested in what the comics world would look like without altruism. Have a seat on your favorite couch with a double feature of Geoff Johns’s Flash or Superman and The Boys. I enjoy both because they’re so different.

Sarah- did Walter Fisher come up with anything that you could use for analysis? I’ve only taken one class, but I recall liking what he had to say.

By: nando

nando — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:41:32 +0000

you guys must live in some ass backwards country cities or something.
even in houston this stuff sells well enough for the stores to stock it w/out me asking them to.

i think the only special order i’ve ever had to do with them was with Ubu Bubu from slave labor.

just about everything else they’re cool enough to stock.
and here i was thinking houston was conservative.

but any book where the protagonist keeps a gerbil that was stuck up the villians rear always gets good points with me.
points as in my money.

money shot.

By: fernald

fernald — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:53:40 +0000

Re: Cisco

Your LCS wasn’t motivated enough to order it WITHOUT you ASKING for it? Are you kidding me? As a LCS worker you know that once we order it we HAVE to PAY for it, and if it turns out you don’t want it, we’re STUCK with it.
If YOU can’t be motivated to order something that YOU want, how is that THEIR fault?

just wondering

fernald.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:47:40 +0000

I don’t know GQ. I didn’t think I would enjoy it for all the same reasons you dislike it, but I ended up finding it quite entertaining, and not for the humor which i’m usually not that interested in.

There is something horribly tragic about some of the characters that makes the potty mouthed obscenity a little more acceptable for me.

By: DMC

DMC — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:34:57 +0000

Herogasm? Oy Vey

It’s only gonna get worse

By: GQ

GQ — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:08:34 +0000

I honest to God HATE The Boys. There is nothing worthwhile in it at all. I find its “hur hur superheroes are TEHGAY!11!!” humour to be something only a 12 year old Xbox Live using child would find amusing and the stories to be cliched nonsense.
So, yeah, I won’t be buying this spin-off either.

By: Cisco Kid

Cisco Kid — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:39:23 +0000

I heard about this title, but didn’t know until recently that it was a Boys spinoff. My LCS probably wasn’t motivated enough to order it for me without asking either.

TPB here I come