The Boys: Herogasm - All You Need To Know About Season 3's Superhero Party
Warning: The following contains SPOILERS for The Boys: Herogasm comic book mini-series.
The Boys season 3, which premieres on June 3, is adapting Herogasm, a storyline from The Boys comics centered around an annual superhero orgy. It's an infamous miniseries from Garth Ennis's comic book storyline and one that The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke has been building to since the show premiered. Surprisingly, the biggest difficulties in adapting Herogasm from page to screen may lie not in how the show presents the incredibly adult subject matter, but in how it adapts the storyline to fit this world in The Boys season 3.
The Boys was a controversial franchise long before it became Amazon Prime's most popular original series. Originally published under DC Comics' Wildstorm imprint in 2006, the series was abruptly canceled after six issues due to its extremely graphic content and the satirical strikes made against the idea of superheroes in general. Thankfully, the publisher allowed ownership of the series to revert back to writer Garth Ennis and artist Darick Robertson so they could try and sell the series to another company. It was later picked up by Dynamite Entertainment, who published another 66 issues of the monthly The Boys comic, as well as four tie-in miniseries.
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Herogasm was the first of The Boys' miniseries releases and it proved to be controversial, even by the standards of The Boys. Beyond the fact that the story contained obvious parodies of many popular superheroes engaging in practices that were kinky at best and illegal at worst, the storyline also added context to one of the most shocking moments in the comic's original storyline and the role
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