And once their fighting stops, they're reckless, merciless, violent, and sexually charged bastards with no concept of human life. In one scene our great teen superhero team engages in a gang bang in a bordello, and a new recruit for "The Big Seven" is ordered to give all of her male teammates blowjobs in order to earn her way on the team. In either case, the world's greatest superheroes are absolute bastards who have to be controlled and put down. This is where "The Boys," come in, a small team who infiltrate, manipulate, and blackmail the super teams. When all else fails they proceed to kill one or two of them just to keep them in line. They're led by "The Butcher" a tough British man with a bulldog named "Terror" who is called back in to duty to stop the supers by the CIA. After proceeding to engage in rough anal sex with his female superior, he gathers up the old team again and recruits Wee Hughie. After a shocking and rather darkly hilarious opening, Wee Hughie realizes that the superheroes of Earth are doing much more harm than good, and The Butcher proceeds in recruiting him and showing him the underworld of people who hunt superheroes and make sure to show them they're not gods. Though there are a few supers who genuinely want to fight crime, the rest are perverse monsters taking advantage of the government and The Butcher is scared. He knows once they wise up, they can take over the world and no one can do a damn thing about it.

Every character has their back story and The Butcher's connection to a super is rather sick and twisted, but he's given one of the most complex back stories of the entire gallery who knows how to play the game and knows full well how to manipulate his friends and his superiors to do his bidding and get the supers in line. Wee Hughie is a great individual with a lot of depth, one of a few who has seen what damage the supers can inflict and what little remorse they have in doing so. He's tempted and lured by The Butcher to help in their cause and put a stop to these menaces, and on the flipside we get to meet three genuinely psychotic motherfuckers in "The Boys." There's Frenchie, a poetic Frenchman who will click and inflict violent harm on anyone who makes him angry, there's Mother's Milk, a cold calculating but genuinely good guy who has to deal with a daughter who disrespects him, but only seeks to do right by her, and The Female. Without a string of dialogue to be found, The Female is oozing with character, a girl who simply does not like to be touched or grabbed and proceeds in inflicting utterly violent rage on anyone who touches her without her permission.

Her introduction is fantastic as she proceeds in engaging in a hit for the mob where she stands in front of a group of mobsters near tears and grows angrier and angrier in each panel as they scream at her, eventually pushing them inside their house and slaughtering the lot of them. As with most of these series that work outside of the conventions of superheroes, there are a lot of jabs and references to be found on the cheesiness of superhero comic books and the big Seven are obvious spoofs of "The Justice League," all of whom are led by Wonder Woman, Superman, and Batman knock offs. They even engage in an argument with an aquatic superhero who complains that he's mocked more than he is praised. Der, it's Aquaman, get it? Otherwise once the first few arcs pass, "The Boys" is a fairly interesting and entertaining series working as a cop show of some kind where Butcher and Hughie investigate murders committed by supers, and Butcher's inevitable confrontation with the head of the Big Seven. All in all this is Guy Ritchie mixed with Stan Lee and I dug the hell out of it.