Dear Becky

The series received a generally positive critical reception.

• Limited — y • Superhero — y • Publisher — Dynamite Entertainment • Startmo — June • Startyr — 2020 • Endmo — December • Endyr — 2020 • Issues — 8 • Writers — Garth Ennis • Artists — Russ Braun Darick Robertson (cover art) • Pencillers — Russ Braun • Inkers — Russ Braun • Letterers — Simon Bowland • Colorists — Tony Aviña • Main Char Team — Hugh "Wee Hughie" Campbell Rebecca Anne "Annie" January • Tpb — Dear Becky • Isbn — 978-1-5241-1990-4 • Subcat — Dynamite Entertainment • Sort — Dear Becky

• Hugh "Wee Hughie" Campbell: A former CIA black ops agent, the series follows Hughie as he "struggles with the trauma of his time with the Boys while trying to get his act together to marry Annie". • Annie January: Hughie's longtime fiancée, a retired superhero who discourages him from dwelling on his past with Butcher. • Big Bobbi: Hughie's childhood best friend and a former member of his mystery-solving team, who is a muscular trans woman. • William "Billy" Butcher: The deceased leader of the Boys, whom Hughie was forced to kill years prior after he plotted to wipe out all supes and supe-adjacent humans, numbering at billions, after Butcher had personally killed Mother's Milk, the Frenchman, and the Female. Butcher appears through flashbacks detailing his time with the Boys in their first incarnation, around 1999/2000, over which sequences, Butcher himself remembers his time with his wife Becky, back in the mid-1980s. • Becky Butcher (née Saunders): Butcher's red-haired deceased wife, to whom he addresses the entries of his diary. • Greg Mallory: The founder of the Boys, previously an active member before Hughie joined. • "Beezer" Holmes: The bartender of McCluch's pub in Auchterladle, Scotland. • Reverend Jimmy Dandy: The mentally ill local priest of Auchterladle. • The Children of Stormfront: A Vought-American superhero team the Boys took out before Hughie joined. • Vikor: The team's leader, a Viking-themed supe and former informant of Butcher's. • Julian Baxter-Pugh: The head of MediaCorp, a British offshoot of Vought-American officially attempting to expand into the superhero industry, Baxter-Pugh aiming to have them move beyond the entertainment industry. • Howard "Monkey "Kessler: The current director of the CIA and Butcher's former contact. • Susan L. Rayner: The former director of the CIA and Butcher's ex-lover. • The Skorchers: An experimental team of sexualised "anti-heroes" put together by MediaCorp. • The Vought Guy: The insane former puppet master behind Vought-American, who now runs a pineapple plantation.