The Death Knell

"The Boys" (The Boys), also known as "Hero Nemesis", "Boy Gang" and "The Seven Scavengers", tells the story of a group of super villains wearing the skin of superheroes and doing bad things back and forth in the United States. The stories of the victims’ families, as ordinary people, wearing black clothes and confronting them.

The superheroes on this earth are all public figures in the spotlight. They are collectively run by a company called Walt, which sells peripherals and entertainment products for the heroes, or rents out superheroes to work as city security guards to gain wealth and make a living. Circle economy, secretly trying to control American politics through something called 'Compound No. 5'.

The superheroes here are all man-made. Injecting No. 5 into human beings at an early age may cause various mutations. Then the Vought Company will use talent shows to select their pre-determined targets to join different teams and continue to put on a show to make money.

The so-called compound No. 5 is a very unstable drug. You can refer to Marvel's Super Soldier Serum, but it has no effect of making good people good. The probability of turning the injected person into a bad person or a psychopath is 99.99%.

Therefore, these superheroes are basically psychotic madmen. If Batman came here and saw them, he would probably smile because of their madness?

In short, these guys called superheroes acted wantonly in the city and caused a lot of tragedies, but the Vought Company used money to suppress the news.

Just like an umbrella company in a certain world sells biochemical weapons for profit, Vought's business model is leasing. These superheroes are brand-name bioweapons. The key to making products in modern society is to create a brand. If the reputation is ruined, it will not work. It's easy to sell, so if superheroes cause a scandal, they have to come out and settle the matter.

Within their company, superheroes are divided into different levels. The most famous among them are the "Fantastic Seven", which can be regarded as a high-imitation version of the Justice League, but they are far from the same in terms of human nature.

The Fantastic Seven are superstars and do not need to go to other places, while other second-tier superheroes will be assigned to various parts of the United States to serve as government security guards.

For example, if the public order in a city is not good, then I will rent you a third-tier superhero for US$300 million per year, and he will help you maintain public order in the city.

But given that these superheroes are all users of Compound No. 5, there are basically no normal people. There is always blood everywhere they go. Ordinary people are similar to bugs in their eyes. Don’t expect people to be interested in bugs. How gentle.

The members of the black robe picket team are basically the victims of various superhero accidents. Some of them had their whole families killed by superheroes, and some had their wives raped and killed by superheroes. These people are unwilling to compromise with the company's coercion and inducement, so With the cooperation of the CIA, the Group of Seven began.

But to say that they are not normal people, they are more like another group of madmen whose brains have been burned by revenge and rage.

The CIA did not take action against Vought to maintain national stability, because they were supported by the traditional arms industry alliance.

Compound No. 5 is only owned by Vought, and only they can produce biochemical weapons called superheroes. This is not good news for traditional arms dealers, and hostility arises from this.

There is no doctrine at all, everything is for business, and the black-robed pickets are just the "suicide squads" they collected.

Su Ming had read the comic "Black Robe Picket" in his previous life. He heard that a series was going to be made, but he traveled through time without taking a fancy to it, and he didn't know which version of the current earth it was.

But it shouldn't be a big problem.

Speaking of the "Black Robe" comic, there is a little story. The first six chapters were published by DC Comics. The editor is Garth Ennis. He is also the author of "Preacher" and "Demon Knight Etrigan" and also collaborated with Neil wrote the Hellraiser story together.

However, Neil's works are under the label of Valve, and Gallas's works are under the label of Wild Storm. Although they are both branches of DC Comics, the fate of the two sides is not the same.

The former is very famous. A copy of "The Sandman" directly determines its status in the art and literary circles. However, "The Black Robe" painted by Gallas is obviously to dismantle its own brand, so the distribution method is far inferior to DC's channels.

Six episodes into the story, DC executives saw the "Fantastic Seven" and thought it was a reference to the Justice League.

The story is ideological, and the dark style has a DC flavor, but if you tell a story against superheroes in the DC universe, there is no way to explain it to readers.

But having said that, this comic is still good, and stories with independent ideas should not be buried.

So DC Comics returned the copyright of "Black Robe" to the author himself, and helped Garth introduce Dynamite Entertainment, a publisher that specializes in publishing for various companies or individual cartoonists. Works printed with permission.

Dynamite Entertainment has many works under its umbrella. The more famous ones include "RoboCop" and "Tarzan" which were authorized by other companies, and they also drew an issue of "The Evil Dead".

His family has a very good relationship with DC, and he was also authorized to draw the stories of "The Claw" and "Elvira". These two characters are DC Bronze Age heroes. Later, "Dynamite Factory" and "Wild Storm" were also Co-produced "Freddy vs. Jason".

However, their own copyrighted comics are also very good, such as "Jungle Princess", "Vampire Princess", "Red Sonya" and other comic series, which can be regarded as a model for the physiological enlightenment of European and American teenagers.

In short, "Black Robe", a work full of color jokes and violent scenes, was successfully printed and distributed by Dynamite Factory. After its author Gallas made money, he gradually embarked on the path of a free man in the comics industry. He almost All comic companies provide articles, and even get involved in Hollywood.

The movie version of "Hell Detective" was written by him.

But having said that, the power level of the world in "Black Robe" is not high, and there is not even a planet-level superhero. Everyone's main target is DeSaad, who doesn't know how to sneak here, or Darkseid. Lurking somewhere?

In short, let’s sort out the world first and make some preparations for taking it into our own hands. After all, the universe of ‘Dynamite Factory’ is also a new one, so let’s use this place as a bridgehead.

If it is the earth in the comics, the number here is Earth-UU001. In addition, Su Ming also knows the stories of several other earths in this multidimensional world, such as 006 and 008.

After gently toasting to Polaris, Su Ming recalled the story he knew in an instant:

"Lorna, we are going to meet a little girl later. She is the only conscience left on this earth. She hopes to become a superhero. I want you to take her to play with her."

"Me?" Polaris pointed to his nose, looking a little flustered: "I'm not a superhero myself. In the past, people called me a freak or a murderer. Are you sure I can do that?"

"Relax, don't be nervous. Harley is right. What you need is to have some fun, and now there is an opportunity. The original plan was to take you somewhere to play after the mission is over, but this earth is just right. Let’s play, let’s start now.”

Su Ming, who crossed his legs and looked like a domineering president, patted her on the shoulder and refilled the wine glass:

"Besides, the lifeblood of superheroes on this planet is marketing. Anyone can be hyped as a superhero, and no one knows how to surf the Internet better than the Adjutant. Adjutant, have you found Annie's address in Ohio?"

Through strangulation's silent communication, the work had already been arranged with the adjutant.

The doll girl's head floated out from the navigation screen and came to the rear compartment like a ghost:

"The target has been locked, the global network takeover is completed, and the transmission is completed. Please follow the vehicle navigation."

Along with a ray of light, the car and people appeared on a small road in the town. There was a beautiful little white house not far away. The front door looked very lively.