The Boys
I've was reading Volume 7 of Garth Ennis's and Darick Robertson's comic The Boys, and musing on the fact that it always seems to be the British (and Irish) comic writers that come up with the best combinations of black comedy and wildly over-the-top violence, and wondered what it was about 2000 AD that created such an enjoyable combination, so I nearly laughed myself sick when I turned the page and saw The Frenchman's method of keeping The Female's appetite for violence assuaged. Vintage Thrillpower indeed.
That prog-based joke aside, I've been enjoying the rest of the series too. Ennis has manage to combine a saga of black comedy and over-the-top violence with a savage indictment of the superheroic tropes, the superhero comics industry, US politics, corporate malfeasance, tragedy, and blatant farce (the Frenchman's origin story as an example of the later). And you get issues drawn by other products of the 2000 AD stable, like Ezquerra and McCrea. Recommended.
That prog-based joke aside, I've been enjoying the rest of the series too. Ennis has manage to combine a saga of black comedy and over-the-top violence with a savage indictment of the superheroic tropes, the superhero comics industry, US politics, corporate malfeasance, tragedy, and blatant farce (the Frenchman's origin story as an example of the later). And you get issues drawn by other products of the 2000 AD stable, like Ezquerra and McCrea. Recommended.