Just a great show. Starts amazing and I’ve not seen any fall off so far.
You definitely need to do so. The first four episodes of this year have been great so far.
Preacher is pretty disgusting too. I watched part way into season 3.After The Boys, Garth Ennis's second-most-well-known work's probably Preacher. You should read a few issues sometime if you haven't already.
The Boys ventures further than just hard R. They creep right up to the edge of X and only stop short on a technicality. And it's all homosexual. I had heard that Human Centipede is one of the grossest movies in history. But The Boys decided to go there. I'm stating this spoiler as a public service. Some things you can't unsee.I've never seen the show, but I read the comic (and its spin-offs) monthly starting with issue one the week that it was released until the final issue in 2000.
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=1596&page=gallery
Frankly, love it or hate it, the comic's an absolute cultural milestone.
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I can testify as a primary source -- a lifelong comic book reader and collector (I started my addiction before kindergarten) -- that the impact that books like Preacher had on the comic book industry were massively and permanently game-changing. DC and Marvel had both been slowly but steadily chipping away at the industry's self-imposed censorship since the '70s (gotta keep those keep sales up -- "Systems either change or die!", to quote a favorite villain), and when DC's "Suggested For Mature Readers" Vertigo imprint was forged like a hammer from hell in '93 (by editor Karen Berger), it shattered that damned dam that had been holding back content like Preacher's completely and irrevocably. I was 17 and just a few months away from graduating high school when the first issue of Preacher came crashing into comic shops in early '95, so for kids like me, the timing couldn't have been more perfect: we went from reading mostly PG and PG-13 books our entire lives to hard R content as we turned old enough to vote in what seemed like a flash.
Personally, I very much dislike some of the terms that came with that change: "mature readers" (I know a lot of cool comic fans, but I also know a lot that are anything but) and "graphic novel" (to me, they'll always be just silly little ol' comic books!!)...
...and I never use either -- but still, the late-80s to mid-90s was a weird and wonderful time to be a comic book fan, and we'll probably never see such a particular transitory era like it with something so quietly relevant to our culture ever, ever again.
[/rant! Sorry, can't sleep, so it's time to binge more of The Boys]
As much as you talk about I’m pretty sure you have caught the gay from watching the show.
I don't suffer fools, and an ignorant jackass like that doesn't deserve a moment of my time. I was having what I thought was a meaningful discussion and everything I said was precise and accurate.
Lol. I've never been wrong on this board ever. It's really only for the top 1% of posters. The paddock is where us geniuses come to mingle with the commoners and less privileged.
The way they're supposedly "making fun of it" is to spam it as graphically and extremely as possible while simultaneously mocking conservative and Christian straw men? Mmmkay, you're bending yourself into a pretzel to spot that 4-D chess move rather than the obvious that the show's goal is to mock Christian conservatives and expose as much male on male porn as possible without getting tagged with an X rating. Never mind that the show's producer actually ADMITTED that's what they're doing. Go ahead, defend it. It's fascinating to see people stand up for this filth. A human centipede chain graphically depicted? Yeah, clearly just mocking Hollywood. LOL
You say that like it's a bad thing. It isn't. Hating gay people is wrong, as is treating them poorly. But being gay isn't normal. It's an outlier and if being gay was normal, then humanity would cease to exist. So seeing acts of homosexuality as disgusting makes perfect sense simply from an evolutionary perspective. Straight people are supposed to be repulsed by it so that they are attracted to the opposite sex and reproduce. That's ingrained in our species. People can love whoever they want and do whatever they want. I'll be kind to them regardless. But I don't have to pretend that being gay is normal or something that's enjoyable to watch. But some people like torture porn and that's messed up too. To each their own but making fun of someone who doesn't enjoy seeing it actually makes you the weird one.
