Issue Description

'This book will out-PREACHER PREACHER.' - Garth Ennis Garth Ennis (Preacher) and Darick Robertson (Transmetropolitan), co-creators of two of the most thought-provoking comics of the last decade, introduce their first original collaboration for a new monthly series: THE BOYS - a dark, twisted look at super powers, super-people, and the men and women who make sure the world's 'heroes' never go too far. With a quarter-million super-powered beings in the world, someone's got to watch what's going on beneath all those masks and capes. In a U.S.A. uncomfortably like our own, that task falls to The Boys, a government-funded group of operatives dedicated to keeping the 'supes' in line. Team leader Billy Butcher, described by a confidential C.I.A. report as 'the most lethal individual ever encountered by this agency,' is on the hunt for new recruits - but it takes something special to join this outfit. You have to be smart. You have to be strong. And you have to hate supes with every ounce of black passion in your heart.

The Boys (2006)

Publisher

Dynamite Entertainment

Volume Description

Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson bring you THE BOYS.

Wee Hughie was an average guy with everything going for him. A fiancee at his side, things were perfect...at least until every thing was torn away by a super hero!

In this world, the superheroes are ungrateful uncaring asses. The comic follows the story of Wee Hughie as he is recruited too and later joins "The Boys", a CIA black ops team dealing with super powered threats. The team consists of five super-powered beings made to deal with the incidents just like Hughie's. Butcher (a man who's wife was raped and killed by a super hero), Mothers Milk (a man who is forced to feed off his own mother's breast for his powers), Frenchman (a strange animal like man with unknown origin), the Female (of the Species) (a mute but deadly assassin with no past) and of course...poor Wee Hughie.

In an interview, Garth Ennis had stated the series "may last up to 72 issues" and that it "will out-preacher PREACHER".

Publishers

#01-06: WildStorm (DC Imprint)#07-Current: Dynamite Entertainment

Spin-Offs

The Boys had three spin-off minis, they were collected as volumes in The Boys series rather then as stand-alone stories.

HerogasmHighland LaddieButcher, Baker, Candlestickmaker

Trade Paperbacks

Volume One: The Name of the Game (#01-06)Volume Two: Get Some (#07-14)Volume Three: Good for the Soul (#15-22)Volume Four: We Gotta Go Now (#23-30)Volume Five: Herogasm (The Boys: Herogasm #1-6)Volume Six: The Self-Preservation Society (#31-38)Volume Seven: The Innocents (#39-47)Volume Eight: Highland Laddie (The Boys: Highland Laddie #1-6)Volume Nine: The Big Ride (#48-59)Volume Ten: Butcher, Baker, Candlestickmaker (The Boys: Butcher, Baker, Candlestickmaker #1-6)Volume Eleven: Over the Hill with the Swords of a Thousand Men (#60-65)Volume Twelve: The Bloody Doors Off (#66-72)

Definitive Edition Hardcovers

Volume One (#1-14)Volume Two (#15-30)Volume Three (#31-38 and The Boys: Herogasm #1-6)Volume Four (#39-47 and The Boys: Highland Laddie #1-6)Volume Five (#48-59 and The Boys: Butcher, Baker, Candlestickmaker #1-6)Volume Six (#60-72)

Digital Omnibus

Volume One (#1-22)Volume Two (#23-47)Volume Three (#48-72)

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