The secret to The Boys being one of the best comic book adaptations and superhero deconstructions is that it barely adapted its original comics. Minus the core premise, characters, and extreme violence, Amazon Prime's hit series had almost nothing in common with Garth Ennis' and Darick Robertson's comics. Given the fact that the comics did not age well at all, major differences between The Boys' comics and the live-action version were expected. That, and this, was the reality almost any kind of live-action adaptation faced. But unlike its fellow comic adaptations, Amazon's The Boys was superior precisely because it diverged so much from its source material.
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