Highland Laddie (comic book)

For other uses, see Highland Laddie.
Highland Laddie
Publication information
PublisherDynamite Entertainment
FormatLimited series
Genre
Publication dateAug. 2010 – Jan. 2011
No. of issues6
Creative team
Created byGarth Ennis
Darick Robertson
Written byGarth Ennis
Artist(s)John McCrea
Keith Burns
Penciller(s)John McCrea
Keith Burns
Letterer(s)Simon Bowland
Colorist(s)Tony Aviña
Collected editions
Highland LaddieISBN 978-0857681454

Highland Laddie is a six-issue comic book limited series by Garth Ennis and John McCrea (with Keith Burns). Originally published as a spin-off of The Boys, set between issues #47 and #48, it follows the story of "Wee Hughie" Campbell as in the aftermath of learning his ex-girlfriend Annie to be a Supe, he takes a sabbatical from the Boys and returns home to Auchterladle, the Scottish seaside town where he grew up, where he reunites with his mystery-solving childhood friends, Bobby and Det. Highland Laddie was collected in trade paperback in April 2011 as the eighth volume of The Boys, as The Boys: Highland Laddie. Storylines from the series would be continued in the 2020 The Boys epilogue series Dear Becky.

Elements of Highland Laddie were adapted to the Amazon Prime Video streaming television adaptation of The Boys, in the adaptation of Starlight's backstory from A Young Man's Fancy, and Simon Pegg and Rosemarie DeWitt portraying Hughie's parents.[1][2][3]

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