Butcher, Baker, Candlestickmaker

Adapted as the seventh episode of the second season of the Amazon Prime Video streaming television adaptation of The Boys, with John Noble and Lesley Nicol portraying Sam and Connie Butcher, as well as to the third season episode "Here Comes a Candle to Light You to Bed", with Jack Fulton portraying Lenny Butcher.

• Limited — y • Superhero — y • Publisher — Dynamite Entertainment • Startmo — July 20 • Startyr — 2011 • Endmo — December 21, • Endyr — 2011 • Issues — 6 • Writers — Garth Ennis • Artists — Darick Robertson • Pencillers — Darick Robertson • Inkers — Darick Robertson • Letterers — Simon Bowland • Colorists — Tony Aviña • Creators — Garth Ennis Darick Robertson • Tpb — Butcher, Baker, Candlestickmaker • Isbn — 978-1784537487 • Subcat — Dynamite Entertainment • Sort — Butcher, Baker, Candlestickmaker

After attending the funeral of his estranged father, Billy Butcher begins talking to the corpse about his time spent serving in the Royal Marines, fighting in the Falklands War, from the heights of love to the depths of tragedy, revealing the terrible nature of the forces that drive him.

In 1982, on the desolate Falkland Islands, young Royal Marine Billy Butcher finds his calling. On the war's end, he begins to indulge his love of conflict in civilian life, leaving it locked on a grim course until an unexpected source brings him a chance at salvation.

Finding love with Becky Saunders, turning his life away from one of crime, Billy Butcher explores a life of joy.

Over the course of two years, Billy Butcher set up home in 1980s Britain under the reign of Margaret Thatcher, living with Becky, before she suddenly grows distant, and months later, gives birth to a Supe baby, the process of which kills her. On seeing this, Billy beats the baby to death.

Arrested for Becky's murder, Billy Butcher is recruited from solitary confinement to the CIA by Colonel Mallory, and on reading his wife's diary, believes he has discovered the identity of the one responsible for her pregnancy and subsequent death.

Beginning a new life in America, which turns out to mean life ending for a good many unsuspecting superheroes. Billy Butcher embraces his destiny as the enforcer of keeping Supes in-line as part of the CIA black ops group "The Boys".

In September 2020, Eric Kripke, the showrunner of the Amazon Prime Video streaming television adaptation of The Boys, confirmed that Butcher, Baker, Candlestickmaker would be adapted as the seventh episode of the series' second season (starring Karl Urban as Billy Butcher), featuring John Noble and Lesley Nicol portraying Sam and Connie Butcher, characters introduced in Butcher, Baker, Candlestickmaker. Unlike the source material in which Sam Butcher is depicted as having died, and Billy Butcher returning for his funeral, Billy returns to find his mother had lied to him about his father's death, in an attempt to have the two reconcile before his father actually dies. In addition, Butcher's family history from the series is adapted to the third season episode "Here Comes a Candle to Light You to Bed", with Jack Fulton portraying Lenny Butcher.