#this is preparation for a longer writeup in response to something another user said that I was signaled to weigh in on

[artbyblastweave]

Rather than being uniformly edgy and nihilistic about the human condition more broadly (as is often claimed), The Boys had I think two (2) specific, measured and reasonable thematic through lines- that you shouldn't be a genre fiction protagonist and that corporations suck- which get buried in the popular perception and discussion due to Garth Ennis's contrarian edginess but are nonetheless blindingly obvious if you actually read the comic. The show actually improves on the corporation thing in certain ways while, by it's nature as a prestige streaming service adaptation, mostly bins the genre-fic protagonist thing