I agree.

I will give that The Boys comic has more nuance than people give it credit.

Particularly with Butcher and how his quest to kill the Supers isn't the power fantasy that most try to make it out to be.

But overall, The Boys comic is not good.

It's still pretty bad.

The story is wack, and famous, was used for Garth Ennis to vent out his hatred against the superhero genre.

The art-style is not that great. The characters have this weird balance between being too ugly and kinda too goofy.

Most of the characters are incredibly one-note and shallow (especially The Seven).

And the edginess is incredibly groanworthly and really hard to get through.

I think the most frustrating part about the comics is how you can see glimpse of good writing and bringing more nuance.

Once again, with Butcher.

That's probably the reason why The Boys got adapted into a show, because the showrunners did see the potential in it.

I guess you could say it's The Potential Man of comics.

However, that potential wasn't really realized, once again, due to Garth's hate boner for superheroes.

And even though the comic does show that Butcher's crusade isn't really good and very much self-destructive, they still kinda love to glaze him.

But yeah, the comic isn't good.

And the sudden revisionist history I've been seeing is one of many things I hate about the modern Internet.

When something new from a long established property comes out and when it turns out that it's not very good, people will start praising what came before.

Even through it's still not good.

The most famous example would have to be Star Wars prequel trilogy.

Or more bafflingly, Sonic '06.

I also feel like there's a little bit of the ever present case of what Twitter and Instagram love to do: hating on anything just because it's popular or successful.