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Gen V S2 (Amazon Prime, 2025)

If you didn’t watch Season 1, you really should go back and watch it. The “Previously on” won’t give the full flavor of what you need.

After having watched S2, I think it is ESSENTIAL for those who are watching The Boys to watch before the final season comes out. It’s still coarse and with graphic violence but the hero’s journey the main (and even peripheral) characters take is interesting TV.

I am impressed that the creators and writers (and actors) have made the show as compelling as it is. The movement of the characters from crass a-hole college students to nascent heroes is probably the weakest link for the show, but I am now very interested to see what happens when The Boys airs.

Original Short Take for Season 1 (November 3, 2024):

This is a spinoff in “The Boys” universe. For best effect watched between S3 and S4. I watched it after. There’s an S2 planned. It is worth watching if you like the main show. It’s coarse and graphic at times but there is some serious commentary and satire in there as well. I assume S2 will come out before S5 of the main show and since I am caught up I will be able to watch everything as it comes out, whenever that ends up being.

WW84: The Junior Novel by Calliope Glass (2020)

I know that some of you will accuse me of having junior humour, and you’re not exactly wrong! But this was the ONLY adaptation of the WW84 film, and curiosity got me. I don’t know how long the linked review will stay on the internet, but it goes into detail about what is “wrong” with the adaptation. Basically, the story leaves out a lot.

I will disagree on one point. Steve Trevor’s ‘resurrection’ always felt really foolish and verging on the edge of “mind rape,” so this adaptation glossing over it actually makes the story seem better!

As a 149-page retelling this has no addition detail from the film and very frustratingly stops before the film (and story) climax! Maybe they had a hard stop at 150 pages but that doesn’t explain why there are 5 blank pages at the end, then!

No one needs to look this one up unless you are a hardcore WW collector, in which case you already have it.

Wonder Woman by Nancy Holder (2017)

While travelling visiting family this past Spring, I found this book in a used book store. It’s a sad fact that movie-tie-in novelizations aren’t being done any more, except for those aimed at younger kids. I hadn’t realized this one had come out, and Nancy Holder is a veteran of many adaptations. I really enjoyed her work in the Buffyverse.

As I expected, this is a solid telling of the story. What I usually love about novelizations is that they are done from a final script which often has more details than make it into the film. Sadly, I didn’t learn anything “new” from this one. I enjoyed the movie and I enjoyed reading the book after not having seen the movie in many years. It was a nice diversion on a dreary Fall day.

When I stop to look over what I have collected over the years that’s comics-related, I have a surprising amount of Wonder Woman books. I am going to add this one into the collection.