If you happen to thought “The Boys” despised superheroes, take a look at “Marshal Regulation.” In 1987, British creators Pat Mills and Kevin O’Neill introduced a seething hatred of the superhero style to comics lengthy earlier than it was trendy to take action. 

The sequence follows a former supersoldier who gleefully accepts a job as a leather-and-barbed-wire-clad super-cop with the intention to police his fellow super-veterans. His largest case comes when he takes on Sleepman, a “hero” who’s raping and murdering girls dressed like a sure superheroine. The great Marshal suspects the villain is de facto America’s biggest hero, the Public Spirit. Scathing in its commentary and ultra-political, “Marshal Regulation” might not be to everybody’s tastes. Nonetheless, it shares quite a bit in widespread with “Invincible” in its grit, bombast, and violence. It even takes the entire teenage superhero trope to process. 

“Marshal Regulation” went by means of many publishers in its time. It started at Marvel’s Epic imprint, then bounced round a number of different corporations, together with Darkish Horse and Picture. Alongside the way in which, it crossed over with different comics properties, together with “Hellraiser,” “Savage Dragon,” and “The Masks.” The final new adventures for the character have been revealed at a now-defunct early web comics web site, Cool Beans World, in 2000. DC Comics revealed an omnibus version of the sequence in 2013 — leaving out the crossovers with different corporations’ characters, after all.

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