I haven't read the comics and you shouldn't have to in order to watch the show or have an opinion on it. That said.

The whole "superheroes but edgy" genre is getting a little stale in 2024, but The Boys is enjoyable enough to continue on despite this, mostly due to the absolute joy that is seeing Karl Urban (Billy Butcher), Antony Starr (Homelander), Jensen Ackles (Soldier Boy) and Giancarlo Esposito (Stan Edgar) chew up Kripke's dialogue. Fine cinema this is not, but it's enjoyable. It's violent and crude without being solely shock jock tripe.

Where The Boys stumbles is the direct, on the nose parallels between Homelander and his fans/allies and the Trump presidential campaign of 2016, which was already getting stale in 2019 when season 1 hit Prime. The references would be obvious to anyone and Kripke himself has said Homelander is supposed to be a Trump figure. It is the year of our lord 2024 (2023 when season 3 debuted) and Kripke is leaning even further into the Trump/Homelander thing. Idk about you but I 1) watch TV to escape reality, not be reminded of the political circus of the modern era and 2) am sick and tired of hearing about Trump.

Hopefully (but unlikely) Kripke starts devoting more time to the genuinely interesting things he could do with this property, instead of "Trump's an evil Nazi, ok guys."