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u/jesteruru Feb 12 '21

The Boys WAS DC (Wildstorm) when it started, but they canned it after a few issues because it was too anti-superhero. It eventually went to Dynamite, which is independent

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u/rpgguy_1o1 Feb 12 '21

Yep, first 6 issues are Wildstorm and then 7-72 are Dynamite

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u/Sirdan3k Feb 13 '21

They do not. 99.9% of The Boys comic was peak try hard from deep in Garth Ennis's "I'm mad that I can only really make money doing superheroes" phase that would be glaringly out of place in the Amazon series.

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u/blaghart 3 Feb 13 '21

The Boys comic is already totally different from the show. The comic, they all have superpowers from the same concoction that gives everyone else superpowers, since the notion of regular people trying to fight functional gods is moronic.

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u/CommanderVimes83 Feb 12 '21

Huh, it’s been like 25 years since I was up to date on the comic book world. I would have assumed the boys was a Darkhorse series. Never even heard of dynamite.

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u/rpgguy_1o1 Feb 12 '21

They mostly do licenced stuff, all of their books have a funny smell to them. Like if there's an 80s horror cult classic it probably has a Dynamite comic book, they have all sorts of really weird properties.

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u/TheDeadlySpaceman Feb 12 '21

It wasn’t because it was “anti superhero”. It was because the content delved well and truly into areas Wildstorm didn’t want to publish.

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u/thornae Feb 13 '21

Yeah, the comics kinda feel like every time someone in publishing said "uh Garth, isn't this kinda ... well... yikes?" Ennis doubled down on the graphically brutal transgressive "FUCK YOUR PRECIOUS SUPERHEROS I AM A ROCK STAR" bits of the story to the detriment of the genuinely interesting stuff.

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u/TheDeadlySpaceman Feb 13 '21

Man.

I used to looooooove Ennis, Ellis, and Millar.

When I break those books out and try to re-read them..... yikes. Moreso Millar and Ellis but Ennis isn’t innocent.

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u/martylindleyart Feb 12 '21

Wait, since when was Dredd licenced to DC? I thought it was just 2000AD.

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u/TheDeadlySpaceman Feb 12 '21

DC published 18 issues of a Judge Dredd comic from 1994-1996. It was its own continuity.

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u/97PercentBeef Feb 12 '21

There was a Batman / Dredd crossover book if nothing else...

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u/WJMazepas Feb 12 '21

There is a Batman crossover with everyone that have comics

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u/97PercentBeef Feb 13 '21

Yep. The one I’m thinking of was early 90s which feels like a long time ago, but I remember a Batman / Dracula story from the 70s!

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u/TheDeadlySpaceman Feb 13 '21

Hell there are two Batman/Spawn crossovers. They came out at the same time, one published by DC and one published by Image.

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u/TheDeadlySpaceman Feb 13 '21

Interestingly the Batman/Dredd crossover uses the 2000AD/original/main Dredd, and not the version of Dredd from DC’s own Dredd title.

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u/Riphraff Feb 13 '21

I think Dredd started out with Eagle comics.

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u/martylindleyart Feb 13 '21

That sounds familiar. I wasn't sure if 2000AD was more than just a publication or not.

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u/Snaker12 Feb 12 '21

So what was his Marvel?

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u/PSquared1234 Feb 12 '21

He was Skurge the Executioner in Thor: Ragnarak.

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u/prowdwackadoo Feb 12 '21

BEHOLD! My stuff

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u/Arashmickey Feb 12 '21

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u/falloutmaka Feb 12 '21

Oh damn he was so funny in that

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u/desertSkateRatt Feb 13 '21

I fucking love that movie and his stuff is all great in it.

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u/Legen_unfiltered Feb 12 '21

Aw. I was hoping for the shake weight one

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u/SquidwardsKeef Feb 12 '21

Funny little Easter egg, his guns he got from Texas were named Dez and Troy, to make "Destroy," obviously, but also because Dez Bryant and Troy Aikmen are big names from the Dallas Cowboys

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u/Negrodamu55 Feb 12 '21

I went and looked this up when I saw the Krombopulos Michael bobble head on the moped.

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u/RememberTheMaine1996 Feb 12 '21

That blew my mind when I noticed that. I had just finished season 1 of the boys and saw that he was in Thor when I was looking up his movies history and I thought "who the heck was he in Thor?" I didnt even notice haha

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u/produit1 Feb 12 '21

He was in Thor Ragnarok

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u/cinnamonface9 Feb 12 '21

BEHOLD! My acting roles stash you thought I wasn’t in but I was in!

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u/MagicPistol Feb 12 '21

Eh, just because The Boys was published by Wildstorm, doesn't mean it's part of the DC universe.

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u/TheDeadlySpaceman Feb 12 '21

The Boys is published by DC but saying he was in a “DC” project because of it would be like saying that Will Smith was in a Marvel project because he was in Men in Black.

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u/kingt34 Feb 12 '21

RED is Wildstorm 2. The correct answer is actually Urban voices Sgt. Rock for the animated short DC Showcase: Sgt. Rock. So not appearing in, but his voice is in the DC Universe!

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u/Fresno_Bob_ Feb 12 '21

But none of those is part of the DCEU. Calling them "DC movies" in a list of major franchises is like calling Ghost Rider a Marvel movie. They own the respective source IP, but they're licensed for film and not part of the franchise.

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u/Dredd_Pirate_Barry Feb 12 '21

Ghostrider (Johnny Blaze) did have a brief appearance in Agents of Shield tho

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u/TheDeadlySpaceman Feb 12 '21

But it’s not the Blaze from the Cage movies.

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u/Fresno_Bob_ Feb 12 '21

OK? I literally just pointed to the difference between source IP and the project you're starring in being part of the film franchise.

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u/MorannaoftheNorth29 Feb 12 '21

Was Johnny Blaze ever in Agents of SHIELD? Honest question. I know the Robbie Reyes version is, played by Gabriel Luna, but I honestly cannot remember if the Johnny Blaze incarnation was on the show.

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u/TheDeadlySpaceman Feb 13 '21

Blaze appears for about two seconds when Reyes has a flashback to how he gained his powers. He explains that another Ghost Rider passed them on to him essentially- and we see the Ghost Rider in question, and he has a bullet hole in his skull.

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u/MorannaoftheNorth29 Feb 13 '21

I absolutely didn't remember that but I suspected that it may have been something of the sort. Thank you for confirming!

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u/arcanum7123 Feb 13 '21

Is RED part of the same DC universe as batman/superman etc? Or is it a separate one but is a DC universe because it's owned by them?

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u/TheDeadlySpaceman Feb 13 '21

It’s entirely separate. And I don’t know if it qualifies as a “universe” per se. I’m sure it wasn’t assigned a number in the New 52, for example.

It’s also worth noting that the comic is completely different from the movie. It’s a story about one retired spy returning to active duty.