But way back when, before it was an upcoming TV show, The Boys was just a comic series with a rocky trajectory. Shortly after it was released, the series was canceled. At the time, it was being published by WildStorm , which used to be an imprint of DC Comics. However, DC wasn’t too thrilled with the “anti-superhero” message of the series, and according to Ennis who told Publisher’s Weekly in 2007 , “When you have comics that, even superficially, look a bit too much like the company’s regular output, and the characters in them are doing the most ghastly things and behaving in the most awful way, and blaspheming and swearing and so on, that creates a real problem... That, more than anything else, was what brought an end to The Boys time at DC.”