Garth Ennis says superheroes ruined comics. With 'The Boys,' he's fighting back
The tone of "The Boys" is set from the start: Its inciting incident is a person being run through at super speed, exploding in a mass of body parts and blood.
The subversive Amazon series, adapted from the comic book created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, lives at the intersection of power (corporate and supernatural), celebrity and media: Its heroes are regular people on a mission to take down and expose the truth about The Seven, a group of corporate-sponsored, spotlight-hungry superheroes, and Vought, the multibillion-dollar conglomerate that manages them and covers up their dirty secrets.
In other words, "The Boys" - whose sprawling ensemble cast includes Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Laz Alonso, Chace Crawford, Tomer Capon, Karen Fukuhara, Jessie T. Usher and Elisabeth Shue - deconstructs the superhero tales that now dominate the entertainment
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