Read to find the hamsters secret hiding place!From murderous stale croissants, to inter meta human relations, Garth Ennis’ The Boys, has been setting the bar for story and art that scares the reader from ever being able to look a hamster in the eyes, and shows them a world where the paragons that are so cherished and loved, are to be judged with the rest of humanity regardless of their gifted abilities.

Since it’s time with Dynamite comics The Boys, have been evolving from seemingly mindless obscenity, to extreme obscenity with compelling plots.  This world created by Ennis tears down the super hero standard and encompasses the world of fantasy with the truths of mundane and harsh realities of human existence. This poses the questions that comic writers through the ages have been too scared to ask. What if Superman was a womanizing megalomaniac? The Flash an immoral, self-righteous jerk, who cared for no one more than himself? Wonder Woman a sold out wino, that sulks around all day sipping her way into a coma? That every crisis these “heroes” have faced, were staged business endeavors to promote comic sales?

Yea...He went there.Looking at these super hero stories, with this foreboding sense of corruption, that every masked vigilante has the very real potential to become a power hungry celebrity bent on getting their next bonus, or big public debut, is a feeling that any comic lover should try tasting. This sense of reality that Ennis brings to the comic, strikes at the core seeing through the perspective of the everyday people living in a world ruled by metahuman “supes”, and that the truth is a reality more absurd and horrible than the lies. “The Boys” are the men and female fighting back to keep the “supes” in check, doing the dirty work that no ordinary man could even imagine to do, with a gruesome method that disregards morality and is concerned only with keeping the balance. Through the help of the chemial compound V, that gives these metahumans their super abilities, this ragtag group of degenerates take the fight to the capes, and do so with the grace and class that Ennis is so famously known for.

I mean come on, who among us comic dorks, hasn’t spent a day thinking to them self, what if Hitler had super powers, or contemplated the question, how do dead superheroes keep coming back to life, and what happens to the individuals unlucky enough to be in the path of a superhero the size of a freight train being tossed clear across the atlantic? (they die). This book takes the awe inspiring and might I say badass fight scenes we readers cherish and love, and details them to a cold truth that is no more heroic than a terrorist bombing. If you love dark humor, obscenity, and more dark humor then this book is for you.

The books been around for a little while now, but its never too late to catch up.

So next time you find yourself asking the nitty gritty what if’s about the behind the scene life of these men and women wearing capes. Pick up the boys, and be prepared to see the very horrible (graphic, obscene, sexual, and dirty) truth that is the world of Garth Ennis and The Boys.