If what grabbed you was how Billy Butcher recruits Hughie after the speedster turns Robin into a smear, and then pushes him into dirty, ends-justify-the-means work, you’ll click with Vicious. Victor and Eli make themselves “EOs” through lethal experiments, then wage a personal war where vengeance, manipulation, and collateral damage are the norm. Like the early takedowns of Teenage Kix, every move here tests how far you’ll follow a protagonist who’s frighteningly capable—and frighteningly right about how corrupt the superhuman world can be.

If you relished how Vought-American scrubs The Seven’s image, stages photo-ops, and sells heroism while bodies drop off-panel, Soon I Will Be Invincible skewers that same PR machine. Split between the archvillain Dr. Impossible and the cyborg hero Fatale, it lampoons team roll calls, rebrands, and damage control with the same sharp wit that runs through the Boys’ dossiers and Butcher’s snide asides. It’s the send-up you wanted when the capes in The Boys smiled for cameras after a disaster.

If the splatter and bone-crunch of the Boys’ ambush on Teenage Kix and Butcher’s no-hesitation brutality had you turning pages, Nemesis goes even harder. A brilliant, bottomless-resourced masked terror treats cities like playgrounds for escalating, gruesome set pieces. It evokes the same “I can’t believe they went there” shock you felt from issue one’s speedster accident and the team’s merciless cleanups—only this time, the carnage is the point.

If what hooked you was seeing The Seven operate above the law while Vought shields them—and the Boys forming a black-ops counterweight—Steelheart nails that dynamic. The Epics are untouchable tyrants; the Reckoners are a clandestine crew studying weaknesses and executing surgical hits. The same tension you felt as Butcher ran Hughie through dossiers and setups fuels every operation here, asking who gets to use power—and who pays when it’s abused.

If you couldn’t look away from Billy Butcher’s charisma—his manipulation of Hughie, his take-no-prisoners approach to supes—Jorg Ancrath will hook you the same way. He leads with charm and cruelty, making brutal calls that echo the Boys’ willingness to cross lines for their mission. You may not approve, just as you didn’t when Butcher escalated against Teenage Kix, but you’ll keep turning pages to see how far he’ll go—and why you’re still rooting for him.