The Boys (Comic by Garth Ennis & Darick Robertson)
The Boys is an American creator-owned comic book series, written by Garth Ennis and illustrated by Darick Robertson. It was originally published by Wildstorm before moving to Dynamite Entertainment. The series is set in a contemporary world very much similar to real one, with one notable exception: a number of people have some form of superpower. The series follows a superpowered CIA squad, known informally as "The Boys", whose job it is to keep watch on superheroes and, if necessary, intimidate or kill them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boys_(comics)
The Boys (Dynamite Comic) Issues # 1 - 24 [MU] 289 MB
Alternative Links @ http://bdcomics.bdgamers.net/2007/01/07/the-boys/
Here's a summary of the Issues ...
The Name of the Game (Issues 1-2)
Billy Butcher learns of a directive made by The President of the United States to have the CIA monitor all superheroes and uses this to get the backing required to reform 'The Boys', a black-ops team designed to keep superheroes in their place. He brings together Mother's Milk, the Frenchman and the Female of the Species, but their fifth member, Mallory, refuses to return as his grandkids were murdered due to his involvement with the group. Requiring five in the team, Butcher recruits a Scottish conspiracy nut named Wee Hughie, whose girlfriend was accidentally killed by A-Train, a member of major superhero team the Seven.
Cherry (3-6)
Wee Hughie meets the team for the first time in their new headquarters in the Flatiron Building, New York. There, Butcher reveals that their first mission is to intimidate teen superhero group Teenage Kix. The Boys spy on the group, gathering dirt on each of its members. Butcher sends them surveillance images and a note telling them that he will expose all of them to the media if they do not choose their own sacrifice victim. During surveillance work on Teenage Kix, it is revealed that all superpowers come from a drug called Compound V, or "Blue", invented during the Second World War by Nazi scientists. If it is taken in its pure form, the drug gives permanent superpowers that can be passed on genetically. Judging that he is suitable to join the team, Billy injects Hughie with a specially formulated mix of Blue that gives him super-strength and durability - but Hughie doesn't take kindly to this. Meanwhile, Annie January, a.k.a Starlight, is recruited from the Young Americans to join the Seven, whom she soon discovers to be a lot less clean-cut than the press make out. Hughie encounters Starlight, although neither are aware of the others' team. The Teenage Kix are forced to boot a member, and decide that Shout Out will out himself, on the grounds that nobody will publicly criticize a black homosexual and that his loss will hurt the team the least. Homelander informs the Kix that the Boys are responsible. Blarney Cock is killed in the ensuing fight.
Get Some (7-10)
Butcher takes Wee Hughie to meet a man called "The Legend" - comic book magnate and a source for Butcher. The Legend has the Boys investigate the mysterious murder of a young gay man which was apparently at the hands of a superhero. The trail leads to Tek Knight, a man of machinery, who is suffering from an unusual problem that has left him without a butler, sidekick, superhero team and several inanimate objects. Hughie and Butcher's murder investigation delves deep into the Tek-Knight's background, as well as that of his former sidekick Swingwing. Hughie is the one who cracks the case, as well as being manipulated by Butcher into getting over his fear of killing another person in battle when he's forced to take down Swingwing. While the crime is solved and Swingwing dies in a jetpack accident (Butcher removed a screw from it and thus may have caused it, even though he was blackmailing the super into working for him at the time), Hughie is depressed that there is no real justice for the dead man. He is, however, able to bring a gay couple back together.
Glorious Five Year Plan (11-14)
The Boys travel to Moscow, where the local supes are mysteriously exploding. Working with Vas and being targeted by Russian organised crime head Little Nina, they discover that Vought-American is working with Little Nina to engineer a coup - an army of 150 East European/Russian supers, organised by Nina, will ravage the country before she remotely detonates them all via their altered metabolisms and rises to power based on "saving" Russia.(Vought are just using her as a pawn and have another figure they want in charge). The Boys stop this plot and Butcher detonates the supers, while Hughie bonds with Vas and is disgusted by the group's willingness to torture. However, when Butcher gives the information to the CIA, he finds Director Rayner isn't going to do anything about it - she's worried Vought-American will sic their superheroes on the CIA, and possibly even the US itself.
Good For The Soul (15-18)
Hughie visits The Legend, determined to find out more about the Boys - their history, their personalities, and their mysterious hidden agenda. Annie January (alias Starlight) has her own doubts about membership of the Seven. Hughie must also deal with the return of Blarney Cock as a brain damaged zombie and his new romance with Annie January, as the Boys get closer to finding out about their relationship.
I Tell You No Lie G.I. (19-22)
Hughie learns the true origins of the Supers while the rest of the Boys meet with members of the Seven for a discussion. The Legend goes on to reveal the history of Vought-American, concerning their contributions to both WW2 and Vietnam. He then tells Hughie about their first major success regarding the Supes, the creation of the Homelander, the Seven, and his own past experiences working for Victory Comics, Vought-American's publishing company, specialising in fabricating VA's superheroes deeds. The Legend then reveals the Seven's part in the destruction of the Brooklyn Bridge on 9/11 and how it led to the creation of the Boys. Afterwards, The Legend elaborates on the death of Mallory's grandchildren and Lamplighter's death/ressurection as a brain-damaged zombie. Meanwhile, as the rest of the Boys meet with the Seven, A-Train attempts to rape Starlight, only to end up being blinded in one eye.
The Boys is an American creator-owned comic book series, written by Garth Ennis and illustrated by Darick Robertson. It was originally published by Wildstorm before moving to Dynamite Entertainment. The series is set in a contemporary world very much similar to real one, with one notable exception: a number of people have some form of superpower. The series follows a superpowered CIA squad, known informally as "The Boys", whose job it is to keep watch on superheroes and, if necessary, intimidate or kill them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boys_(comics)
The Boys (Dynamite Comic) Issues # 1 - 24 [MU] 289 MB
Code:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MWRJU11BAlternative Links @ http://bdcomics.bdgamers.net/2007/01/07/the-boys/
Here's a summary of the Issues ...
The Name of the Game (Issues 1-2)
Billy Butcher learns of a directive made by The President of the United States to have the CIA monitor all superheroes and uses this to get the backing required to reform 'The Boys', a black-ops team designed to keep superheroes in their place. He brings together Mother's Milk, the Frenchman and the Female of the Species, but their fifth member, Mallory, refuses to return as his grandkids were murdered due to his involvement with the group. Requiring five in the team, Butcher recruits a Scottish conspiracy nut named Wee Hughie, whose girlfriend was accidentally killed by A-Train, a member of major superhero team the Seven.
Cherry (3-6)
Wee Hughie meets the team for the first time in their new headquarters in the Flatiron Building, New York. There, Butcher reveals that their first mission is to intimidate teen superhero group Teenage Kix. The Boys spy on the group, gathering dirt on each of its members. Butcher sends them surveillance images and a note telling them that he will expose all of them to the media if they do not choose their own sacrifice victim. During surveillance work on Teenage Kix, it is revealed that all superpowers come from a drug called Compound V, or "Blue", invented during the Second World War by Nazi scientists. If it is taken in its pure form, the drug gives permanent superpowers that can be passed on genetically. Judging that he is suitable to join the team, Billy injects Hughie with a specially formulated mix of Blue that gives him super-strength and durability - but Hughie doesn't take kindly to this. Meanwhile, Annie January, a.k.a Starlight, is recruited from the Young Americans to join the Seven, whom she soon discovers to be a lot less clean-cut than the press make out. Hughie encounters Starlight, although neither are aware of the others' team. The Teenage Kix are forced to boot a member, and decide that Shout Out will out himself, on the grounds that nobody will publicly criticize a black homosexual and that his loss will hurt the team the least. Homelander informs the Kix that the Boys are responsible. Blarney Cock is killed in the ensuing fight.
Get Some (7-10)
Butcher takes Wee Hughie to meet a man called "The Legend" - comic book magnate and a source for Butcher. The Legend has the Boys investigate the mysterious murder of a young gay man which was apparently at the hands of a superhero. The trail leads to Tek Knight, a man of machinery, who is suffering from an unusual problem that has left him without a butler, sidekick, superhero team and several inanimate objects. Hughie and Butcher's murder investigation delves deep into the Tek-Knight's background, as well as that of his former sidekick Swingwing. Hughie is the one who cracks the case, as well as being manipulated by Butcher into getting over his fear of killing another person in battle when he's forced to take down Swingwing. While the crime is solved and Swingwing dies in a jetpack accident (Butcher removed a screw from it and thus may have caused it, even though he was blackmailing the super into working for him at the time), Hughie is depressed that there is no real justice for the dead man. He is, however, able to bring a gay couple back together.
Glorious Five Year Plan (11-14)
The Boys travel to Moscow, where the local supes are mysteriously exploding. Working with Vas and being targeted by Russian organised crime head Little Nina, they discover that Vought-American is working with Little Nina to engineer a coup - an army of 150 East European/Russian supers, organised by Nina, will ravage the country before she remotely detonates them all via their altered metabolisms and rises to power based on "saving" Russia.(Vought are just using her as a pawn and have another figure they want in charge). The Boys stop this plot and Butcher detonates the supers, while Hughie bonds with Vas and is disgusted by the group's willingness to torture. However, when Butcher gives the information to the CIA, he finds Director Rayner isn't going to do anything about it - she's worried Vought-American will sic their superheroes on the CIA, and possibly even the US itself.
Good For The Soul (15-18)
Hughie visits The Legend, determined to find out more about the Boys - their history, their personalities, and their mysterious hidden agenda. Annie January (alias Starlight) has her own doubts about membership of the Seven. Hughie must also deal with the return of Blarney Cock as a brain damaged zombie and his new romance with Annie January, as the Boys get closer to finding out about their relationship.
I Tell You No Lie G.I. (19-22)
Hughie learns the true origins of the Supers while the rest of the Boys meet with members of the Seven for a discussion. The Legend goes on to reveal the history of Vought-American, concerning their contributions to both WW2 and Vietnam. He then tells Hughie about their first major success regarding the Supes, the creation of the Homelander, the Seven, and his own past experiences working for Victory Comics, Vought-American's publishing company, specialising in fabricating VA's superheroes deeds. The Legend then reveals the Seven's part in the destruction of the Brooklyn Bridge on 9/11 and how it led to the creation of the Boys. Afterwards, The Legend elaborates on the death of Mallory's grandchildren and Lamplighter's death/ressurection as a brain-damaged zombie. Meanwhile, as the rest of the Boys meet with the Seven, A-Train attempts to rape Starlight, only to end up being blinded in one eye.
