{"id":4190,"date":"2013-11-11T05:23:56","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T11:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=4190"},"modified":"2014-01-27T04:27:52","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T10:27:52","slug":"the-boys-self-preservation-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=4190","title":{"rendered":"The Boys: Self-Preservation Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/boys6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4193\" alt=\"boys6\" src=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/boys6.jpg\" width=\"325\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/boys6.jpg 325w, https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/boys6-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/a>My research indicates that, having finished <a title=\"The Boys Vol. 6: Self-Preservation Society by Garth Ennis, at Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Boys-Vol-Self-Preservation-Society\/dp\/1606901257\/\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 6 of \u00a0Ennis&#8217; The Boys series<\/a>, I am halfway done. (Also, that all of them are published, so that&#8217;s nice.) This particular volume is pretty much just going through the motions, with no real plot development to speak of.<\/p>\n<p>Which, okay, it&#8217;s not an especially fair claim, but I can&#8217;t help being disappointed in a book which, when all is said and done, provides no real movement. Sure, the author has ticked off his &#8220;I&#8217;d better parody the Avengers&#8221; checklist, including the spectacularly over-the-top inclusion of a Nazi super-soldier as their leader.[1] And yes, it&#8217;s nice to get origin stories on the three supporting members of our titular band of ne&#8217;er-do-wells. (Except for how I found the Frenchie&#8217;s origin to be actively annoying. But I could be biased.) But that&#8217;s just not enough.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s strange to realize, I guess, that the most interesting story and character development occurred among the bad guys this time, is all.<\/p>\n<p>[1] Probably I&#8217;d be less irritated if it hadn&#8217;t felt exactly <em>like<\/em> a tickbox instead of an actual event. Also, if it hadn&#8217;t seemed so nakedly steeped in shock-value. Also, if there had been consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My research indicates that, having finished Volume 6 of \u00a0Ennis&#8217; The Boys series, I am halfway done. (Also, that all of them are published, so that&#8217;s nice.) This particular volume is pretty much just going through the motions, with no real plot development to speak of. Which, okay, it&#8217;s not an especially fair claim, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8,17,22],"class_list":["post-4190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-black-comedy","tag-graphic-novel","tag-superheroes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}