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The Boys, Vol. 8: Highland Laddie (The Boys #8)
Out of Dynamite Entertainment's critically acclaimed title, The Boys, comes a special story featuring everyone's favorite pint-sized Scotsman, Hughie, with The Boys: Highland Laddie, written by Garth Ennis, with covers by Darick Robertson and art by Herogasm artist John McCrea. Mind reeling from recent events in The Boys, Wee Hughie heads home to Auchterladle - the semi-id...more
Paperback, 144 pages
Published
April 19th 2011
by Dynamite Entertainment
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While collected under the "The Boys" series, this book was actually a 6-part parallel mini-series, dealing with Wee Hughie's crisis of conscience and return to his Scottish home town. Typical Garth Ennis dark hilarity ensues regarding how things have changed back home, and when one of the parts of his life he was fleeing catches up with him, Hughie has to decide if he will ever return to the Boys.
It's a quieter tale than most of the Boys' outings, with very little of the title's over-the-top vio...more
It's a quieter tale than most of the Boys' outings, with very little of the title's over-the-top vio...more
"The Boys" is a peculiarly uneven series both in tone and quality. At times it reads like a superhero comic parody, at times like a nihilistic tale of hate and violence, at times like a clever political allegory. Recently, the saga has gotten more serious and ambitious in its storytelling, delving into the grey, morally ambiguous shades of its characters. In "Highland Laddie" Garth Ennis takes a break after the dramatic events of the previous volume and gives us a calm character story about Hugh...more
I find it fascinating how Ennis can take some seemingly mundane, everyday situations and infuse them with such energy, bizarre and vivid storytelling. The characters are so real and fleshed out, just by virtue of the detailed stories they tell each other, and they're like people I instantly know (and at the same time have many secrets and layers yet to reveal).
Then Ennis adds to the mix a few details of weird, hard, mean people/situations and just let's them slowly find their way to our main cha...more
Then Ennis adds to the mix a few details of weird, hard, mean people/situations and just let's them slowly find their way to our main cha...more
I don't know how he's done it but Garth Ennis has turned one of the most promising series of recent years into an uninspired, meandering, dull mess. When the series started I knew Wee Hughie was going to be the character the readers were supposed to see the series through but to be honest he isn't interesting enough to warrant his own book, and "Highland Laddie" is evidence of this.
One of the side stories to the series has been Hughie's relationship with a supe in the foremost supe team and nei...more
One of the side stories to the series has been Hughie's relationship with a supe in the foremost supe team and nei...more
The Boys, Vol. 8, is all about Wee Hughie, his childhood, his hometown, his close buddies, and why he is how he is. Excellently written, drawn with clarity, we're left with a mystery (just WHO is the older man he meets in a chance encounter in his old home town?) and he might even be on the mend with his most recent girlfriend, who's finally told him ALL. Hughie, however, has held back important facts; I think, when she finds out, she just may respond like did when he found out she was a Supe. ;...more
I particularly enjoyed this volume. I know it's not a crucial part of the story, being a side-story of the main series, but I really liked it.
We get to see a little bit more of Hughie's Scottish background, his hometown in Scotland, his childhood friends, his family. We also get to see some of his personal struggles. A really good storyline.
The artwork was jaw dropping. The Scottish landscape is amazing and we really get a feel of being there.
We get to see a little bit more of Hughie's Scottish background, his hometown in Scotland, his childhood friends, his family. We also get to see some of his personal struggles. A really good storyline.
The artwork was jaw dropping. The Scottish landscape is amazing and we really get a feel of being there.
recently I have felt that Garth is spinning the boys out way too much. I have heard that said about #8 as well but I thought it was pretty good, the multiple story lines kept the whole book swinging along and it reads well on second and third re-readings (which is emphatically not the case for some of the others).
The characters are surprising and arresting: Garth does charcters well and in this volume I think he was getting interested in the characters he was writing again. It seemed pretty dam...more
The characters are surprising and arresting: Garth does charcters well and in this volume I think he was getting interested in the characters he was writing again. It seemed pretty dam...more
You generally know in the broadest terms what you’re going to get with Garth Ennis — violence, outrage and sentiment — and yet he never fails to surprise. The Boys, Vol. 8: Highland Laddie (Titan, pb, c.144pp), by Ennis, John McCrea and Keith Burns collects a six-issue miniseries following Simon Pegg lookalike Wee Hughie back home to his home town of Auchterladle. Little Wee Hughie was quite the Nancy Drew. A friend from New York follows him there for a chat, and he makes the acquaintance of a s...more
Another interesting volume. This one focused completely on Hughie. I loved seeing him in his hometown with his parents and old friends. I guess I didn’t realize that he was adopted. Did I miss that in a previous volume? Or was that a new reveal in this one? Hmmm… anyway it gives a bit of information that helps to explain why Hughie is the way he is. I also liked the reappearance of Annie. He still hasn’t revealed his big secret, but they’ve had a great talk about superheroes and lost dreams. And...more
3.5 stars. Have some mixed feelings about this one, but I think over all I like it. Now, I've told myself I can't read volumes 9-12 until I catch up on my other books.
Pas de super slips mais un Hughie qui cherche à se reconstruire dans son Écosse natale. Dessins laids mais une histoire très humaine.
Not much of a story about The Boys as it is Hughie trying to sort out his life. While I like the author Ennis, I felt the story easily padded out to the TPB. That is, the story could have been done in half as many issues instead of the typical 6 issues.
There were a lot of talking heads in this one. But Ennis makes those heads talk interestingly and the whole thing just..... works.
Good McCrea art too.
Good McCrea art too.
Against my general type, I've typically enjoyed The Boys. This arc did nothing for me, and probably could have just been an issue or two of its own, not a six issue arc. I get it, but it was just really drawn out for me.
In the home stretch of this series, though...
In the home stretch of this series, though...
Was long and unecessary in the overall story. Bit of a waste of time.
I love these characters so much. I don't want The Boys to ever end!
Surprisingly tame compared tot he other volumes.
Really, a 2.5. Not much of a story
Garth never disappoints me.
Me gustan las historias tranquilas y relajadas que sirven de puente entre sagotas, pero acá se pasan un poco con lo cotidianoide y mundano. Hasta que meten mafias, asesinatos y toda la bola. Niempedo es el mejor tomo de la saga pero sigue manteniéndome enganchado.
reading this as the issues come to me. almost done...
a right nice read, as i rather like wee hughie, but i'd be lying if i said i'm not squealing with delight at the prospect of butcher's upcoming miniseries.
a right nice read, as i rather like wee hughie, but i'd be lying if i said i'm not squealing with delight at the prospect of butcher's upcoming miniseries.
I really liked this - the flash backs are gold. I can't wait for vol 9 to get back into the main story line.
It doesn't end here?!
The series is still going on?!
But I need to know how it ends...
The series is still going on?!
But I need to know how it ends...
What a waste of time!
May 18, 2013
Mike
marked it as to-read
May 10, 2013
Man Solo
marked it as to-read
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Ennis began his comic-writing career in 1989 with the series Troubled Souls. Appearing in the short-lived but critically-acclaimed British anthology Crisis and illustrated by McCrea, it told the story of a young, apolitical Protestant man caught up by fate in the violence of the Irish 'Troubles'. It spawned a sequel, For a Few Troubles More, a broad Belfast-based comedy featuring two supporting ch...more
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