the Boys #35 - Dynamite Entertainment

Thankfully Darick Robertson returns to the pencilling this issue. I mean, the story didn't lose any of it's feel or momentum while Darick was out . . Warren was still at the helm, so . . things flowed along pretty much the same. But . . Darick is the man for this book. I don't care who they bring in here, or how good they are . . in my eyes, Darick will always be the person for this book. Period! Anyways, this issue Mother's Milk gives Hughie his origin story. Sort of. I'm sure he didn't give him all the details, or he left some stuff out, but . . overall . . he finds out how this guy came up. It's kind of a sad story, really. His mother worked in a canning factory, part of Vought-American . . these guys are into everything, I guess. But before it was a canning factory, it was the place where they made Compound V. You know those little blue pills that Vought-American developed that give people the super-powers. Anyways, like the people that work in asbestos lined factories, some of it leaked in to the workers systems. His brother came out retarded, and he was tethered to his mother permanently . . literally. If he didn't get his mother's milk, hence the name . . he would wither away to nothing until he did. When the compound his his brother, he ballooned up past what his body could take, and he suffocated. Michael got off a little easier . . but not much. He was in the boxing ring when his powers manifested. He ended up taking the other guy's head off. Shortly after that is when Butcher recruited him. Anyways, he's telling Hughie all of this because Butcher thinks that Hughie is about to hit the curb. He gets along pretty well with Vas, but . . ever since the G-Men, he's been kind of fed up with all of this stuff that they do. He doesn't know whether he can stay on this path. Anyways, next issue we'll get the rest of Michael's story. I liked this one. It's about time we started getting some of the background on these guys. And you just know it's not going to be like any other secret origin you ever read. Whether it's a big seller or not . . I still like this book. It's different. It's irreverent. And it's one of my favorites.