358 reviews for:

The Boys, Vol. 1: The Name of the Game

Garth Ennis

3.63 AVERAGE

theonewho_writes's review against another edition

4.0

fast-paced

whocanthisbe's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark funny lighthearted tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

mx_parall_el's review against another edition

2.0

adventurous challenging dark fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

tweedlesmart's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

rorifett's review against another edition

5.0

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Over the top, offensive, ridiculous, never takes itself too seriously and all the better for it

rainydays08's review against another edition

2.0

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Holy fuck. I haven't been so conflicted on what to rate a book in a long time. While I highly enjoyed the overall plot of this, I found it very hard to get over how every single woman is treated in this book. The toxic masculinity in this was so overwhelming I could smell Axe body spray every time I flipped a page. I'm just SO PISSED because I really loved hating these characters. I'll read the next volume to see if it gets any better but if it doesn't there's plenty of other brutal bloody goodness for me to get into.

gemma17's review against another edition

3.0

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God this took forever and there’s just so much writing. I think it’s definitely good and has important elements but I feel like the writing needs to be cut down or the format changed because as a comic it just doesn’t quite work sometimes and there’s so so much going on

gamz's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark funny tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

romelander's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark funny fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

nodgarden's review against another edition

5.0

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The Boys is a particularly interesting combination of the talents of Garth Ennis (Preacher) and Darick Robertson (Transmetropolitan). Featuring a band of agents WITH government ties AND unlimited resources, faced with the task of keeping the ranks of super"heroes" in check, this book's a keeper.

Can't wait to see the live action film, with Simon Pegg playing Wee Hughie.