Highland Laddie (comic book)
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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.
Highland Laddie | |
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Publication information | |
Publisher | Dynamite Entertainment |
Format | Limited series |
Genre | |
Publication date | Aug. 2010 – Jan. 2011 |
No. of issues | 6 |
Creative team | |
Created by | Garth Ennis Darick Robertson |
Written by | Garth Ennis |
Artist(s) | John McCrea Keith Burns |
Penciller(s) | John McCrea Keith Burns |
Letterer(s) | Simon Bowland |
Colorist(s) | Tony Aviña |
Collected editions | |
Highland Laddie | ISBN 978-0857681454 |
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]