Garth Ennis continues his series with a second volume containing two stories. The Boys Volume 2: Get Some, with art by Darick Robertson, continues the skewering of the superhero genre with "Get Some" and then turns the Boys into almost heroes with "The Glorious Five Year Plan".
With "Get Some" Ennis turns to all those jokes about Batman and his young ward. Using Tek Knight, his side kick Laddio, and his former side kick Swingwing to stand in for the non-powered playboy billionaire and his ward the story sets the Boys to investigating the death of a young, gay man. It's an interesting idea to explore comic books in a world where super heroes exist but once again Ennis assumes the worst. The epilogue took the story over the top and really didn't need to be written.
In "The Glorious Five Year Plan" they travel to Russia to be CIA operatives. It was a much different story than what had been being told up to this point. They're not really just spying on the heroes to get the dirt on them and then maybe have a bit of a dust up. They're being secret agents. Again, in Ennis style some things were way over the top, but Love Sausage? Really?
This one gets a 4 because it made me laugh. It might be a lower 4 but I've given myself a scale without too few gradations.
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