Herogasm #2 - Dynamite Entertainment

I know . . it was bad enough that I picked up issue #1 of this series . . with all it's sex and hedonism . . but then I continue to follow it with this issue? My comic guy already had these books bagged and boarded by the time I got to the shop Wednesday. He said there was some publicity about how 'dirty' and 'raunchy' this title was, he couldn't take the chance of some kid walking into the shop and picking it up. When did the day arrive that we have to be carded to buy comic books? This isn't the norm. The Boys story-line just happened to go in this direction, and Garth Ennis decided that he wanted to push the envelope a little farther. With all the sexual innuendo and promiscuity of the Boys series . . tell me you didn't see this coming somewhere along the line? And, you know in the end, all the media is really doing is driving up the resale value of these books. Thanks for that . . by the way. Besides all the obvious porn . . this book does actually serve to further the Boys story-line. After you work around all the pictures of naked 'supers'. We find out this issue that this whole thing is put together yearly by Vought-American. It's a way for their 'agents' to unwind. And this year they have a special guest . . the VP. Anyways, Vought has decided to send another group, Payback, after the Boys, unaware that Butcher and company are already there watching all the proceedings. So the Boys are the target of Vought, obviously, and the target of the Boys? The VP. After seeing Darick Robertson's pencils for so long in the regular title, John McCrea's fall kind of short. It's very cartoonish. I'm not discounting John's style . . it's just very different from Darick's. With Garth writing it, the story, obviously, could have just run through the Boys title. But . . for obvious reasons, it can't. If you can just take the story for the story . . it's an ok book. The gratuitous sex, and violence and naked 'supers' is a bit over the top, but . . this book is set up as a way to spoof the super-hero genre . . this just takes it one step farther.