The Boys #1
Writer: Garth Ennis
Artist: Darick Robertson
$2.99

More dark and unsubtle humor at the expense of superheroes from Ennis, this time apparently involving a U.S. government sanctioned (or maybe not?) group of stone cold hero hataz who take out capes for a living.

Ennis (and Warren Ellis and Pat Mills and Grant Morrison and…) has traveled this road before and The Boys sometimes feels about 5-6 years too late, especially with the requisite English tough/cool/nihilist/violent military guy being the main-ish character. That said, it’s fitfully amusing, well paced, and contains some of the best work Robertson’s ever done — although the one character’s extreme resemblance to Simon Pegg is somewhat distracting.

If Ennis can relax his penchant to be confrontational and shocking just for the sake of being confrontational and shocking, he may have something here.

KFR Rating: B

The Savage Brothers #1
Writers: Andrew Cosby and Johanna Stokes
Art: Rafael Albuquerque
$3.99

The zombie comic craze continues with The Savage Brothers, a book about two rednecks driving around a post-apocalyptic Georgia killing and capturing the undead for money.

This (overpriced) first issue starts off predictable and average, but picks up steam and gets weirder towards the end. “Weirder” is a compliment. Some nice, if a little spare, art, too.

KFR Rating: B

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