7 Brutal Comics to Read While You Wait for Season 5: The Boys
Supercops, superheroes, and clever detectives are the typical characters found in comic books, but certain comic books, like The Boys, are not exactly what you want your child to read. These comics had a considerably darker backdrop and were intended for an older readership. Here are seven comic books that are similar to The Boys that you should read if you have finished reading The Boys or watched the The Boys Season 4 finale but still can't shake the taste it left on your tongue.
First, The Walking Dead
Photo Credit: Walking Dead WikiThe Walking Dead is an action-packed, comedic, emotionally charged, and devilishly gory comic series that will satisfy all of your reading cravings. This comic book series was written by Tony Moore and Robert Kirkman and debuted in 2003. The Walking Dead introduced us to a world in which zombies as we know them from fiction do not exist. But then there's a zombie apocalypse and everything falls apart in this planet.Rick Grimes, a sheriff's deputy who was wounded and fell into a coma, is the main character of the comic. After waking up to discover that Walkers, or zombies, had taken over the globe, he set out to find his family and save his humanity amongst all of this chaos.
2. Unstoppable
Credit for image: IMDbThe only comic book that comes close to matching The Boys in terms of gore and depravity is Invincible. The main distinction is that instead of focusing on a struggle between people and superpowered entities, it revolves on superheroes. Robert Kirkman developed Invincible for Image Comics. The main character of this comic book series is Mark Grayson, a youngster who discovers he is a strong Viltrumite, much like his father Omini-Man, the strongest person in the universe.Soon after donning a costume and turning into a superhero, he learns the terrible truth about his background, which sparks a fierce argument between father and son. It's fair to assume that you won't miss Homelander tearing people apart with the sufficient quantity of gore and grim stuff in this comic run.
3. Educator
Photo Gratitude: Preacher(Comic) WikiThe DC Comics imprint, founded by Vertigo Comics, caters to fans who are older. The protagonist of this comic book series is a preacher named Jesse Custer who lives in Annville, Texas, a little town. Following a sequence of events, Jesse is become the most powerful creature in the world when he is coerced into voluntarily being possessed by an entity known as Genesis. It is subsequently revealed that Genesis is the offspring of an angel and a demon, making it the most powerful entity in the cosmos overall.The Preacher comic series is highly recommended if you appreciate reading suspenseful stories with hints of terror, mad cruelty, and gore.
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Judge DreddPicture Source: AD 2000This comic series will give you a serious competition if you like Robocop. The 1977 premiere of Judge Dredd took place in a dismal future. This cartoon introduced us to a society that has grown into megacities and is seeing an increase in crime. The judiciary has been reduced to a body of supercops known as Judges, who are empowered to immediately arrest, try, and execute offenders. The main character of the comic book series is Judge Dredd, who wears a helmet at all times. As of right now, this comic has amassed a sizable mythos and world all by itself.In 2012, a live-action film based on the comic book was also produced. Billy Butcher, better known as Karl Urban, portrayed Judge Dredd in the film. You won't miss The Boys comics at all after reading the comic run, I assure you.
5. Brat Pack
Grand Comic Database provided the image.Bratt Pack is the comic run that will give you the impression that you are reading something straight out of The Boys world if you want to read something that is precisely like The Boys. The fictitious city of Slumburg, Pennsylvania, the home base of a group of superheroes known as the Black October, is the setting for this comic book. They murder all of their sidekicks in a plot orchestrated by the evil Doctor Blasphemy, and they now seek young adolescents to be their new sidekicks.But whatever they do is driven entirely by personal financial gain and corporate agendas. The young recruits are subjected to severe mistreatment, including humiliation, harassment, abuse, and every other kind of devaluation you can imagine. Brat Pack will provide you with whatever you want if you are unable to escape the zone The Boys have placed you in.
6. Nextwave: H.A.T.E. agents
Picture Source: WikipediaThe events of this comic book run coincide with the well-known Avengers civil war, and Agents of H.A.T.E. is placed in the main Marvel chronology. In this comic, we meet Highest Anti-Terrorism Effort, a private military agency designed to compete with S.H.I.E.L.D. This comic presents us with a group of oddball heroes who have a very flawed moral compass.The crew is commanded by a man known as "The Captain," who is very immoral and relatively indestructible. He does, however, inform us that he was once known as "Captain ☠️☠️✠️✠️.” (The skulls are a big swear word) but when he used this moniker to introduce himself to Steve Rogers, he was beat up and abandoned him in a garbage with a soap in his mouth with a warning to watch what he said. Ever then, he has been known as just "The Captain." Sounds similar to Agents of H.A.T.E, which is also ridiculous, violent, and centers on a group of misfits that must cooperate with one another?
7. Observers
Wikipedia provided the image.One of the most well-known comic novels ever published is Alan Moore's Watchmen. This comic book has a dark and gritty tone, a grim sense of humor, and a lot of gory scenes. Watchmen transports us to a another universe that was developed in 1938 as part of the Manhattan Project and gave rise to Doctor Manhattan. In this other universe, President Nixon is still in power and the United States prevailed in the Vietnam War.Following World War II, superheroes proliferated; but, subsequently, vigilantism was outlawed in the US, forcing all of the heroes from service. But the death of a superhero named The Comedian compelled his erstwhile comrades to return to duty and look into what was going on, with Rohach serving as the main investigator. The dark flavor you had while reading The Boys will be heightened by the tension and thriller aspects in this comic.
