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Via DenOfGeek:

The story of The Boys depicts a bleak world filled with power-imbued superheroes who have become reckless, selfish and hedonistic, leaving citizens in danger. Thus, an angry, ultra-violent Englishman named Billy Butcher puts together his own team of ex-military personnel with black ops experience to watch the proverbial watchmen, calling themselves, you guessed it, the Boys.

Thus, in an extreme version of the Marvel Civil War scenario, the Boys run roughshod on corrupt costumers in a brutally sadistic manner. The comic series launched in 2006 under the DC-connected Wildstorm imprint, only to be quickly cancelled, purportedly due to its anti-superhero themes. Ennis would eventually continue the series with indie publisher Dynamite Entertainment, publishing the last series in the end of 2012.

A very cool plot, if you ask me. With all of the hub-bub about the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and DC trying to get in on the game with their connected Justice League movies, it's nice to see a story that is more-than-somewhat anti-hero.

But what really caught my eye is the casting:

The Boys made a surprise addition to its cast at New York Comic Con. Simon Pegg (of the Star Trek, Mission: Impossible series, and more) crashed the show's panel to announce that he is joining the series. Pegg will play the father of Hughie (Jack Quaid), a role that gives a nod to Pegg being the original inspiration for the comics version of the Hughie character for artist, Darick Robertson.

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Pegg joins a cast already headlined by Star Trek mate Karl Urban. Urban will be playing the role of Billy Butcher, the irate ringleader of the Boys team, whose surname was created to describe what he does to those who prey on the powerless, conventional criminals and otherwise. Billy is nursing a brutal secret agenda to change a world filled with corruption, where even its costumed superheroes need to be checked, recruiting a deadly array of highly-skilled people, dangling the proverbial carrot of vengeance.

I was sold at Karl Urban - but throw Simon Pegg into the mix and I can guarantee that I'll be ready to binge "The Boys" when it comes out on Amazon Prime.