The Boys Volume 2: Get Some TPB

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Product Description
The second volume of Garth Ennis and Darick Roberston's acclaimed series The Boys is here! BIGGER! THICKER! UNCUT! (not that Garth would ever allow this gang of idiots to cut anything!) Get Some collects issues 7-14 of the critically acclaimed series and is an excellent companion to Dynamite's best-selling Volume I trade "The Name of the Game! These issues feature the legend the story of the Tek-Knight and the team's journey to frozen Russia!

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5 out of 5 stars

You have to read this to believe it March 21, 2008
5 out of 7 found this review helpful

No matter how I describe Garth Ennis' The Boys, nothing said will do it fair justice. What is contained in the pages of this second collection of Ennis' controversial series must be seen and read to be believed to be sure. As Get Some opens, Butcher, Wee Hughie, and the rest of the crew learn some more shady going's on with a prominent, Batman-esque superhero; whose former sidekick may be linked with a hate-crime murder. Things don't get any simpler for The Boys either, as they soon depart for mother Russia, with deadly foes already waiting for their arrival. The Boys is filthy, hysterical, and perfectly displays Ennis' disdain for the superhero genre, while Darick Robertson provides more solid artwork as well. While Get Some isn't as memorable as the first volume, The Name of the Game, make no mistake that you will be laughing out loud after the first few panels. All in all, The Boys continues to impress, and this further proves that this very well may be Ennis' next, great, series that will be cherished for a long time coming.

3 out of 5 stars

Not for kids, or indeed, almost anyone. March 18, 2008
2 out of 9 found this review helpful

You're either the kind of person that likes vile, homophobic, juvenile comics or you're not. Ennis has really limited his potential reader base here, and it's too bad because there's the germ of a great series hidden somewhere underneath all the filth. That being said, the only people who really even know about this series are the people who do indeed like that sort of thing, and those people won't be disappointed.

5 out of 5 stars

Hilarious March 19, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

Garth Ennis continues what he started in Vol. 1 of THE BOYS. Which is skewering the cliches of the comic book super-hero genre. In this one he absolutely destroys a Batman/Iron Man type character by making him a sex addicted psychological wreck. His take on the "Robin' type character is LOL. The same cast of characters from vol.1 are in play here as they attempt to keep the'capes'in check. There are 2 story arcs in this book which features a lot of dialogue between 'the Boys' as they go about exposing the hypocricies of super-heroes and their images. There is a scene wher BUTCHER and WEE HUGHIE go to a comic book store to meet up with an operative and as they peruse the comics on display BUTCHER gives a scathingly hilarious narrative describing the heroes true nature's- "She's got a c*ck, he's a poof,he's a kiddie fu**er, etc." and on and on it goes. Some of the funniest stuff I've ever read. I showed this book to a buddy of mine who is not into comics at all and he found it to be completely hilarious. If you liked vol.1 of THE BOYS, you need to pick this one up as well.

4 out of 5 stars

Boys vol. 2 April 7, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

Classic Ennis, as is typical of his more current work you have just about an even split between funny, and "that just ain't right" moments. In this volume he continues to develop his characters and there world, and as always makes you like them for their flaws instead of despite them. Being a fan of Ennis's sense of style I would have given this five stars, however in the last chapter in the book the art gets cartoony and vaguely annoying. I tend to ignore crappy art in his earlier work like Hitman, because when you are starting out you have to take whoever is given to you to get your inks done and your stuff on the shelf. At this point it seems like he could have a little integrity and demand on decent help. Anyway it's probably not the sort of thing that will bother you, if your just looking for more awesome writing, but hey I'm an art snob and for me it was a let down. Here's hoping it was just a one issue snafu. All around it's enjoyable and worth the dough.

5 out of 5 stars

An Absolute Must-Buy April 26, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

The second edition of Garth Ennis' new comic series The Boys is absolutely sterling. Now that the first book has established who these characters are, what they do and what kind of world they're living in we start settling in to just what their day-to-day life involves. The first story where The Boys rock up against thinly-veiled Batman-analogy Tek-Knight is definantly the stronger of the two halves, and abolutely hilarious, but the second half and of course the character of Love Sausage is well worth the rereading as well.

Thank God for Peter Snejbjerg, or I wouldn't have anything to complain about. At least, I assume it's him who takes over art-duties in the last couple of chapters where the art suddenly goes very... Archie and Jughead. The story stays consistantly strong and the art, although very cartoony, isn't terrible, it just doesn't stack up against the art of Darick Robertson. Robertson's art in The Boys is beyond compare, his attention to detail and mastery of facial expression are a big part of the reason this series should be soaking up the spotlight, and I sincerely hope the cartoony switch in the last couple of chapters isn't an indication of more sharing between artists in the future.

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