Originally Posted by
Gallahadd
To be fair, this is based on a comic by Garth Ennis, who does actually write shit like that pretty well and has been doing it for a while. He cut his teeth in the late 80s/early 90s writing for Judge Dredd, before moving on to one of the best Punisher runs, as well as Preacher (which is currently a series on Amazon).
So while generally I agree that the current "Err Meh GERD, my name is Grimdark Edgelord!" stuff is usually pretty shit, I have high hopes for The Boys.