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jessioats's review against another edition
3.0
This has been my least favorite of all the trades in this series so far. Although the last 7 pages or so of the book were superb. The last two issues in this saved this book from a lower rating.
bookishjaybird's review against another edition
2.0
The series is finally starting to pick up again, and not feel like the same never ending stuff. I was mostly meh about this volume, but there were parts that I enjoyed about it and the artwork was fun as usual. Mostly, the plot felt like it was finally getting to where it needs to be and where the boys need to be.
kingjason's review
3.0
I've hit a bit of a wall with this series, it really needs to have been wrapped up by now, this volume feels much longer than any of the others so far. Instead of getting closer to a conclusion the volume is full of background info on VA, the origin of the boys and the sexual exploits of super heroes.
Full of peaks and troughs of violence, gruesomeness and long dialogue I am glad to have made it to the end and hoping that the next volume is better.
And don't get me started on the ending of this volume, I am so angry, of all the characters to get killed off why that one?
Full of peaks and troughs of violence, gruesomeness and long dialogue I am glad to have made it to the end and hoping that the next volume is better.
And don't get me started on the ending of this volume, I am so angry, of all the characters to get killed off why that one?
guiltyfeat's review
3.0
Getting near to the end and it's starting to drag a bit, if I'm honest. I know we're building towards something big, but I wish we could just get there already. Hughie is such a whinge and Butcher is becoming campily butch rather than scarily so.
I'm kinda over the whole back story device as well which just seems to get in the way of the plot.
I'm kinda over the whole back story device as well which just seems to get in the way of the plot.
alanbaxter's review
5.0
Garth Ennis is one of my favourite writers and I’ve been loving this series. The Boys is about a world where superheroes exist and they’re a bunch of dangerous, narcissistic prima donnas and The Boys exist to keep them in line. If you like your graphic novels to be powerful, irreverant, digusting, offensive, thought-provoking and just downright fucking brilliant, you should read The Boys. In fact, you should read everything by Ennis. And volume 9 knocked me sideways. The end of the book just takes your guts and wrenches them out. Stunning. And for the comic book nerds out there, check out the cover and think about The Dark Knight Returns. Classic.
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