Source: comicvine.gamespot.com

1. We Gotta Go Now

(The Boys #23-30)

This isn't the most meaningful or dramatic or important Boys story. But it is the most The Boys story.

If you need to hand someone a single trade to show them what the book is all about, this is the one to hand them. Gotta Go Now features The Boys looking into Professor Godolkin's G-Men, a school full of various G-teams that is an allegory for…Okay, if you're reading this on a comic book news website, you should really be able to put this together on your own.

Anyway, the plan involves embedding Hughie in with G-Wiz, one of the younger G-Men teams. Meanwhile, Frenchie and The Female keep tabs on him, Butcher runs the whole thing, and Mother's Milk works on investigating the suicide of a former G-Men team member. The bold-faced mocking of the X-Men is pretty funny here. The ridiculous number of teams, Godolkin being a weirdo, a Wolverine parody who's basically mute aside from one vaguely threatening word. It's silly, not all the jokes land, but it's a fun read. And that's The Boys in a nutshell.

And there you go. The Boys. The best of (or worst of). Again, this series is very much not for everyone, and I don't even know how good I think it is as a whole. But it's one hell of a guilty pleasure.