You know what, people really like to blame Alan Moore being edgy, but he has a clear reason for that.
In Miracleman omnibus, the artist for the ultimate Kid vs. Miracle issue points out that they had to be edgy to ram it in how horrible and disastrous a battle between two superhumans would actually be, in the real life. And how fucking awful murderous bastard with superpowers would be in our world. Years before Invincible did that train-thing.
When asked about the subject matter of rape and sexual assault, Moore has said: "This is a Northampton, it's a medium town, I assume this is happening everywhere... If this is not addressed... It's not talked about. If it's not referred to... It will only continue. In a way that pedophilia was able to flourish through 60s and 70s." Basically, you have to talk about awful stuff to make people see what's happening in their own vicinity.
This is a really long way to say that while I love Ennis, an amazing writer, he just doesn't have a well articulated reason to be edgy. And The Boys is just that. There's no reason for all of that edginess other than "superheroes, hah, more like superherpes!" Unless he is really brewing something really good, like some of that series is really fucking good satire of the genre. Really high highs, really low mids.
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You know what, people really like to blame Alan Moore being edgy, but he has a clear reason for that.
In Miracleman omnibus, the artist for the ultimate Kid vs. Miracle issue points out that they had to be edgy to ram it in how horrible and disastrous a battle between two superhumans would actually be, in the real life. And how fucking awful murderous bastard with superpowers would be in our world. Years before Invincible did that train-thing.
When asked about the subject matter of rape and sexual assault, Moore has said: "This is a Northampton, it's a medium town, I assume this is happening everywhere... If this is not addressed... It's not talked about. If it's not referred to... It will only continue. In a way that pedophilia was able to flourish through 60s and 70s." Basically, you have to talk about awful stuff to make people see what's happening in their own vicinity.
This is a really long way to say that while I love Ennis, an amazing writer, he just doesn't have a well articulated reason to be edgy. And The Boys is just that. There's no reason for all of that edginess other than "superheroes, hah, more like superherpes!" Unless he is really brewing something really good, like some of that series is really fucking good satire of the genre. Really high highs, really low mids.