Talk:The Boys (comics)

"American" Creator Owned Comic
As the writer is from Northern Ireland I'm not certain that this phrase is credible. (Bat King 21:52, 15 January 2010 (UTC)).
 * Would "Creator Owned American Comic" be preferable? Since American is supposed to modify "comic", not "creator".Walterego (talk) 12:15, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

"out-Preacher 'Preacher'"
I'm wondering how to properly cite this. It's part of the background information in the Robertson interview at the bottom of the article. It's also on the promotional poster at my local comics shop. It doesn't appear to be in dispute that Ennis said that, but I'm not overly comfortable with either of those sources. It would be great if someone could find where Ennis originally said that. Stilgar135 03:03, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
 * http://www.newsarama.com/WWLA06/DC/EnnisBOys.htm - The first result in Google for '"out preacher preacher" ennis'. --Mister Six 22:15, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Destroyed bridge
In issue 3, when Butcher is showing Hughie around New York, is it a real-life bridge that's been destroyed and has helicopters buzzing around it? If so, what is it? Stilgar135 22:36, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I re-read the comic a couple of minutes ago to answer your question. It looks a lot like the Brooklyn Bridge to me. I assume that it was destroyed by a super hero. --Hndsmepete 22:46, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Cool. Thanks a lot. Stilgar135 22:54, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

It's the Brooklyn Bridge, and it appears that it was destroyed on 9/11 when The Seven accidentally knocked one of the WTC aircraft out of the sky. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.33.202.98 (talk) 15:48, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Blarney Cock
The short bio on the character states: "Blarney Cock. Irish and extremely racist. Along with his best friend Whack Job, he stole painkillers from a children's hospital. In issue six he was accidentally killed by Wee Hughie, after which it was discovered that he had a hamster taped up and kept in the back of his pants. He was given a hero's funeral." I hate to break this to the writer of this bio, but the hamster wasn't in the back of his pants. It was actually in his ass and was voided out of his body along with feces after he died. If you re-read issue number 6 you can clearly see the brown stains running down his legs after Hughie punched the hole in his chest. Just making sure that everyone understood that it was actually a sexual thing (that probably happened in issue 5 off page) & not simply Blarney Cock placing it in his pants.--Hndsmepete 10:53, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Why is Blarney cock the only one tagged as racist? while he no doubt is, the first racist comment comes from Shout Out —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.40.243.108 (talk) 19:33, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Superpowered?
I'm thinking the sentence "The series follows a superpowered CIA squad, known as the Boys, whose job it is to keep watch on superheroes and, if necessary, intimidate or kill them." should be modified somehow. After all, the characters are only temporarily superpowered, and only when in need of them to lay down the law with supes.--Unregistered User 3:20, 2 September 2007 (CST)


 * It's not clear if it's temporary or not. 'Blue' has permanent effects when pure, and it's not stated whether they took pure Blue or not.68.107.83.19 02:08, 1 October 2007 (UTC)


 * i am pretty sure, they are not only temporary powered. it seemed to me that Hugh Campbell was powered only many hours after he got his blue, in the fight were he accidentally killed someone. (and i think billy butcher would have gotten his hands on some not pure form of blue without contacting the woman from the intelligence agency) 194.76.29.2 (talk) 12:55, 11 December 2007 (UTC)


 * It's clearly stated in the book itself that the Boys all took pure Compound V courtesy of the C.I.A., except for Mother's Milk who was born with his powers, and the Female who drank pure V at the Japanese lab that was synthesizing it.

New and more detailed info
Okay I just wanted to mention that after spending about 30 minutes on edits while logged off I couldn't make any major edits that would stick like add in more detailed info about the teams and members people might have skipped over such as swingwing how Tek Knight died and alittle more detail under both the "boys" and "Seven" sections about what happened to starlight directly after she had to give "oral sex" to the three guys and was in the bathroom puking--Change is coming and potter should have died I might be Trolled and I just don&#39;t care 08:33, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Tek Knights Tumour
The way I read it, the asteroid thing was a fantasy he had moments before dying of a wheelbarrow falling on his head. 118.90.115.136 (talk) 23:45, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Picture at top
I'm fairly positive that, based on the description later in the article, the characters in the picture are mislabeled. The label reads "Clockwise from the lower left-hand corner: Billy Butcher, The Frenchman, The Female, Mother's Milk, Wee Hughie" but it seems that at least Mother's Milk and The Female are flipped. Can someone familiar with the comics please confirm this for me and correct the label? Thanks Crito2161 (talk) 19:54, 14 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Well spotted - I've changed it. (Emperor (talk) 20:06, 14 July 2008 (UTC))

Pretty sure hughie and the Frenchman are flipped also Blade21292 (talk) 18:00, 28 July 2019 (UTC)

Change of Artists
I'm reading the second trade at the moment, and I've noticed that Darick Roberson doesn't do all the artwork (Issues 12 and 13 at least I believe). I've heard from a friend it was due to time constraints and him working on a Marvel comic. I've also heard that he's set to go back and redraw the issues so bring back a better flow to the comic. I don't have any proper information on this, but if it's all true, then I think it's well worth adding to the wiki page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Roskelld (talk • contribs) 14:10, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Blarney Cock is not The Legend's son.
There seems to be an edit-war situation (it follows my reading - as below - at the moment) on the page where someone thinks that Blarney Cock is The Legend's son based on what The Legend says at the end of issue #22. My read, which I believe is correct (obviously) is that a) Blarney Cock is directly (but accidentally) killed by Hughie (in issue #6) before Hughie (and the audience) meets The Legend. This is important because The Legend implies that his son's death is the direct result of him having asked a favor of Hughie. b) When Hughie does meet The Legend (issue #7) he asks Hughie to investigate the murder of a gay man. The Legend specifically says "You'd be doing me a favor." It's this favor, the only one The Legend has ever spoken of, that is referred back to in issue #22. The outcome of Hughie's (and Butcher's) investigation is the discovery that Swingwing is responsible for the gay man's murder. Upon having made this discovery Butcher surreptitiously removes a screw from Swingwing's jetpack, which causes Swingwing's death. Later, in issue #22, The Legend informs Hughie (in responding to a question about his second son) "Him? You killed him. I told you you'd be doing me a favor!" Hughie is astonished not only because he's been talking to the father of a man whose death he had a hand in, but also because The Legend knew that by requesting an investigation (to which he already knew the resolution in terms of who was guilty and what would be done about it), he would cause his only living son's death.

What possible argument is there for Blarney Cock being The Legend's son? Fourthman (talk) 16:32, 7 October 2008 (UTC) Fourthman


 * But when Legend sends Hughie to kill the reanimated Blarney Cock, he again says "You'll be doing me a favor", so that's the origin of that comment. It seems very unlikely that Legend would credit Hughie with killing Swingwing, considering that, well, Hughie didn't kill Swingwing. Knocked him a good one in the jaw, but that's about it. There's a debate over whether Butcher killed him or not, but there's no circumstances under which Hughie gets credit for his dead. Blarney Cock is the only person Hughie has ever killed, erego it seems very unlikely that anyone else was the Legend's son. That's how it seems to me at least. -ALB —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.5.86.55 (talk) 05:50, 25 October 2008 (UTC)


 * You're right, I'm wrong. Fourthman (talk) 19:18, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

The central fact is that it doesn't make any sense at all for Blarney Cock to be The Legend's son. The Legend is old enough that the one son that we're CERTAIN of died during Viet Nam. Let's assume The Legend was 20 or so when he had Son A, which would have made him 40-ish when he Son A dies in Viet Nam. Blarney Cock is portrayed as not only Irish, (which is confusing in and of itself unless The Legend took a sabbatical to Ireland to have a kid) but also appears to be 18-20 years old. That means The Legend would have had to have fathered him at age 60 or so. Certainly possible, but not all that likely. Frankly, the whole "You killed my son" thing has a spur-of-the-moment feel to it, as if Ennis tossed it in as one of his trademark "This storyline wasn't quite vile enough, so let's sleaze it up more" moments. Because heaven forbid he should limit his slandering of Stan Lee to parodying him as a footless, impotent midget with a foul mouth and a hooker fetish. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.33.202.98 (talk) 16:02, 25 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Nevertheless, the facts remain that the Legend says Hughie killed his son, and Hughie has killed only once person in the series, erego Blarney Cock must be the Legend's son. Doesn't matter whether it makes sense or not, that's the clear intent of the writer. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.5.84.29 (talk) 07:43, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

volume 6 release date
i edited it to march 2010 instead of may as While i dont have the exact date this volume is available in the uk in both titan and dynamite editons emaning the us release should have also occurs.

at the moment i dont have a source to cite as at work and unable to get a reference but will do when i am able to check this info. but i can assure you the aforementioned volume is on my self as we speak ```` —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.169.59.1 (talk) 10:40, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

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The Boys #1
Issue #1 is available online and for free at Comic Book Resources I suggest adding it as an External link. -- 109.76.220.28 (talk) 14:15, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
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Presumably
Wikipedia is supposed to be an encyclopedia and is not supposed to speculate or presume. Please change the opening paragraph of this article so that it does not presume anything. The quote could be removed and replaced with a better quote from Ennis, or the existing quote could be rephrased to avoid making any presumptions. -- 109.76.158.143 (talk) 12:45, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 3 September 2019
The caption under the header picture of The Boys reads, "Clockwise from bottom left: Butcher, the Frenchman, the Female, Mother's Milk and Hughie." This is incorrect; the characters are listed in counter-clockwise order.

I suggested edit to the caption is, "Clockwise from bottom left: Butcher, Hughie, Mother's Milk, the Female, and the Frenchman."

An alternate edit would be changing "Clockwise" to "Counter-clockwise," but I think telling readers to read in the clockwise direction allows for a more intuitive read. You could even start "top left" with "Hughie" and ending with "Butcher." Dormio558 (talk) 01:37, 3 September 2019 (UTC)


 * ✅ as clockwise from top-left (plus general caption style fixes). –Deacon Vorbis (carbon &bull; videos) 02:15, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

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