Garth Ennis Is PenningThe Boys‘ Prequel Comic

Bythe end of its first time of year , it was obvious that Amazon ’s live - activeness adjustment of Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson ’s The Boys was break to be a wildly unlike beast than the strip that inspired it , considering how it worked its way through most of the source material ’s major plot stop . But just in clock time forthe show ’s return , Ennis is recall to The Boys ’ world .

Speaking with The New York Times , Ennis explained how his desire to write The son : Dear Becky , which premieres in April , came from the fact that Becky Butcher does n’t in reality seem all that often in the original comics , even though her death at the hands of one of the Seven is one of the events that adjust the larger tarradiddle in motion . There , Becky is raped by a member of the Seven and dies when the genetically enhanced child she becomes significant with proves deadly for her to carry . Devastated , Billy sets out to avenge Becky ’s death and eventually he comes to form the Boys , which Ennis emphasized is what makes the narrative of her life history so authoritative .

“ Butcher ’s wife was someone I enjoyed writing . She was only in two issues of the comics , but cast a very long phantom , ” Ennis said . “ Her fate tie into all of Butcher ’s actions . ”

The cover of The Boys: Dear Becky.

The cover of The Boys: Dear Becky.Image: (Darick Robertson)

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Given how The Boys encounter out , the bulk of Dear Becky — exemplify by Russ Braun — will be set in the yesteryear and concentrate on events that took place before the original series . But given the rather lurid Becky - centrical turn of events that was bring out in the season one finale of The Boys series , Dear Becky might also have some surprising things to say about the future , too .

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Image: Darick Robertson