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2 stars
A high four stars for the first book, with the batman parody and Stan Lee stand-in and a kinda/sorta nuanced take on homophobia, and hooooo boy the final scene with T.K. and the asteroid!
A low two stars for the second book with the Russian mafia. Totally out of place. Felt like filler, and nothing but an excuse for a bunch of dick jokes.
Actually, this whole volume was really an extravagant amount of dick jokes.
Edit: I'm docking this a star because I'm still thinking days later about how much I hate the way Little Nina is written. Literally her only character trait--besides being small and angry--is her sexuality, which is only ever presented as though it is comedic or grotesque, and I think was only in the story in the first place so that it could be the vehicle for her ultimate destruction at the hand of The Boys. Misogyny for the sake of misogyny.