The Boys #7
The Boys #7
Writer: Garth Ennis
Penciller: Darick Robertson
IT'S BACK. After a cancellation from Wildstorm, The Boys are back under Dynamite Entertainment's label. So the question is, is this series still good? If this issue is any indication...eh...not so much
From the start of this series, I have been a big supporter. Though overly violent and sexually explicit at times, these aspects of The Boys always served some facet of the story, which is what made this series such a fun read and why so many people enjoyed it. This issue is not a good.
Simply put, this #7 of The Boys, is one big Batman Gay Joke. Seriously. If you spend 2.99 on this, 90 percent of it is only that. Most of the story is centered around TEK-Knight, who is pretty much a thinly-veiled Batman, I mean he has a boy sidekick, his previous sidekicks' name is Swingwing and there are LOADS of other little things that scream Batman. It's just not funny The whole story of TEK-Knight having trouble controlling his sexual urges and speaking with a therapist about it, not only was it really not that funny, it wasn't even all that interesting.
The issue other then the whole TEK-Knight storyline is pretty much filler. I understand that Ennis is trying to go a different route with Dynamite, you know, maybe start fresh, but this is not the direction for it. I enjoyed all the jokes and such in previous issues, but this whole issue just feels forced and void of any feeling other then the hatred of super-heroes. Maybe I am being too critical, I don't know. I just expected more. Oh and do we not get a resolution for the whole Seven vs Butcher Crew thing? Or did I miss an issue. Overall, Robertsons' art keeps pace well with the story but Ennis' story is just lacking.
C-
I don't think Ennis is going in a different direction. On some podcast interviews, Darick Robertson said he had 7 & 8 penciled before the cancellation, and that Ennis had a lot of issues already written before that.
Yeah I know, Darick even mentioned it on the ep we had him, I was just really hoping otherwise though.
I thought the whole coffee cup thing was pretty funny, but other than that...
Just kind of seemed like filler. Not a lot of plot advancement, and this storyline has been pretty decompressed to begin with. It just seemed nothing really happened. And why should we care about Tek-Knight who's in some super hero group that the series hasn't even mentioned to this point(if they did, I missed it)?
Ah well, the series has been so damned fun, I guess you can give Ennis one mulligan.