I find the whole situation surrounding The Boys to be completely retarded... I mean, they get pitched a book from Ennis, who has never made it a secret that he absolutely despises the stereotypical tights-wearing superhero shtick. They promote it as outdoing Preacher in terms of offensive content, and then some fuckwit is surprised when that's exactly what Ennis and Robertson do. Admittedly the series got much more graphic and offensive in issues 4-6, but it was never tame. I don't know if the hamster thing in issue 6 was the final straw or what, but it certainly wasn't the most fucked up thing in the book to date. IIRC it was the second or third best-selling Wildstorm book too.
At any rate, the good news is that Dynamite Entertainment has picked it up. No word yet on when the first trade will be out or when issue 7 will be published though, but it's apparently not going to be too long. Only thing I don't like about Dynamite is all the fucking variant covers they do. On the bright side, they can probably get away with just about anything short of graphic sex on an indie publisher like DE.
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