TO HELL WITH YOU!!!!!!!!!!

GARTH ENNIS IS A DEMON, AND SOME OF YOU EVEN PRAISE THE SHIT HE LAYS ON YOUR BRAINS!!!

I think you’re all over intellectualising just a tad on the rape score. This isn’t the first instance of male rape in comics - The Authority, anyone? The only time Ennis has ever come over all touchy feely with sex (in general) was in Preacher. And that’s just because Jesse was all pussy whipped and in love (and fair play to him too).

I’m glad to hear The Boys has found a new home and look forward to picking up issue 7 soon.

Tyler0153: Now you’ve got me wanting to open up my two boxes of Catwoman to check. I vaguely remember something where a wife had to watch her husband get tortured or some such…but not sure on the cannibalism part.

And just in case anyone noticed…I realized my mistake after posting. Yes, it’s a hamster, not a gerbil. But pretty perma keeps the first title you post under, so it appears as gerbil in the above link to my blog that someone was so very nice to add here. (Thank you!)

I’m just saying…if that kind of thing can be done in a serious manner, what the hell is wrong with any of the stuff The Boys has done in a humourous manner?

The Boys was one of the best comics out in the last year. It was just cool. Just the thing to sit down and read once you’d read all the usual superhero comics.

I’m sure they will find another publisher, but until then I’m going to be in a perminent bad mood.

“Im gonna fuckin ave you, you cunt”

I can see it now as a blurb for the back of the tpb “So awesome it got kicked out of DC”.

You tell me you read “Identitiy Crisis” and THE plotpoint of that Story was the raping of a woman?
This was the only thing that stuck with you after reading that story? After you condensed it down, the whole story was about raping a woman?

I think MY head is about to explode.

Maybe the issue is that in The Boys it’s being played for comedy.

Just maybe…

I love it when people don’t bother with looking at context.

Yes, I have read the book, actually I have read BOTH series, I find both of them equally DISGUSTING. And if you don’t see the hypocrisy here (which is not only good for comic book companies, but good for the entire country, it appears), then hey, I invite you to watch THIS FILM IS NOT YET RATED, where e.g female rape is ALWAYS a glorious plot point, but anything that is directed against men, esp. in a sexual way?

How awful! How disgusting! Let’s not show it to an audience!

And not for nothing, but no one portrayed the rape in Identity Crisis as “all right”. I was a horrible despicable act performed by a deranged villian. Now you can argue whether the story has merits due to content, but no one in the story for a second ever portrayed the rape as an “okay” event.

This sucks. I did my part. I bought every issue and enjoyed the hell out of it. DC then turns around and cancels it because it turned out to actually be what it was hyped to be. That’s just wrong.

Maybe Wildstorm needs to think about changing it’s name. Perhaps Tamestorm or Publishers-Without-a-Spine-Storm. Something like that.

So it is objectionable to have something that is nasty (and it is nasty) towards male superheroes and somewhat gay done to a male superhero (please replace the hamster with a gerbil and you are three quarters there).

I mean, that is almost as bad as taking the Lord’s name in vain on broadcast TV, right?

But hey…

Raping a woman? That’s great! That’s entertainment! That’s a plot point! Heck, that is THE major plot point in Identity Crisis (and if anybody is going to tell me that that was “tastefully done”, then my head will explode).

Where is Matt Albie when you need him?