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Bezig met laden... The Boys Volume 5: Herogasm (origineel 2009; editie 2009)door Garth Ennis
Informatie over het werkThe Boys Volume 5: Herogasm door Garth Ennis (2009)
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Garth Ennis, John McCrea, and Darick Robertson bring another tale from TheBoys with The Boys, Vol. 5: Herogasm! An evil so profound it threatens allmankind! The mightiest heroes on the planet uniting to defend us all! A secretcrisis of such utter finality that a countdown to civil or infinite war seemsunavoidable! But have you ever wondered what really happens during Crossovers?The Seven, Payback, Teenage Kix, Fantastico, and every other superhero on Earthteam up for an annual event like no other - and where the superheroes go, can acertain "five complications and a dog" be far behind? But as the fun and gamesbegin, it seems our heroes have set their sights on bigger game than usual.Secrets and blood are spilled in equal quantities, as the Vought-Americancorporation prepares to make their move - and the truth behind a great Americantragedy is finally revealed. For those left standing- and unscarred - the worldof The Boys will never be the same again. The Boys Volume 5: Herogasm LimitedEdition HC is the hardcover collection of all six issues of the first-ever TheBoys spin-off mini-series, Herogasm, by Garth Ennis and Hitman artist JohnMcCrea, and features all of the covers by The Boys artist and co-creator DarickRobertson! Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Once a year, the comics run a big teamup event where all the superheroes get together to save the world from a terrible threat. Except... of course they don't. Instead, they go to an island resort and have a giant super-orgy.
As if we needed more reasons to distrust the supes. It's interesting, they take the 'absolute power corrupts absolutely' and amps it up. I think it would be more realistic if they were just people: some good, some bad, some great, and some terrible, but I suppose that wouldn't be as good a story.
It's quite the diversion and more than a little gratuitous (in both violence and especially nudity this time around), but that's about what you'd expect from the Boys.
And hey, people are realizing that Homelander is terrible:
And Stormfront:
Who is comically terrible. This is one place where the series really shines over the comics: TV Stormfront being at first a relatively likeable anti-hero and only later you find out