Cool Comics Characters : Billy The Butcher

The Boys, written by Garth Ennis and drawn by Darick Robertson, is the most disgusting, puerile comic book being published today.
However, it’s also one of the most fun.
And if you dig deeper beneath the nudity, the feces and other bodily fluids, it’s not totally morally bankrupt.
Like a lot of Ennis’ previous work, it places a lot of emphasis on loyalty and camaraderie.
It also has 2 strong protagonists, in the shape of Wee Hughie and Billy the Butcher.
Wee Hughie (physically modelled after Simon Pegg) is a regular guy from Scotland. He’s perfectly happy with his new girlfriend, who has just declared to Hughie that she loves him. A few seconds after that, though, the girl was killed by a super-hero called A-Train, an innocent bystander-turned-casualty when the super-hero was trying to capture a super-villain. In the world of The Boys, the ‘Supes’, as they’re called, are not the upstanding moral citizens we read and love. They’re awful, stuck-up guys, who care more about themselves and the money they make than the actual lives they’re saving. A heart-broken Hughie was forced to sign a letter saying that he will not press charges against A-Train.
Along comes Billy the Butcher offering Hughie a job, to keep these ‘Supes’ in line.
While Wee Hughie is the only true innocent in the cast, Billy the Butcher is the most intriguing of them all. His principle can be summed up succintly in the words of his team-mate Mother's Milk:

"He don't hate anyone if there aint no point to it"

If you don’t do anything wrong, he has no reason to knock you down. If you’re bad, however, you’re screwed.
It’s simple, but it provides a sound ethic in a book that’s filled with all kinds of corruption.
And though he puts up a tough front, we found out the reason and motivation:

(PANELS SLIGHTLY REARRANGED FOR EMPHASIS. APOLOGIES TO THE ARTISTS)

The Boys’ stories have a default setting of ‘Too Much and Too Far’. They take the dirtiest thing we can think of as a starting point then take off from there. Where else can you find a Batman/Ironman amalgam dry-humping a meteorite the size of Texas? Or a chain-smoking Wonder Woman analog telling an aspiring hero to “F%*k off”?
It’s not for the squeamish, but for those who can stomach the filth, It’s a great read, and truly one of a kind.