Yeah, there was another comic book Martial Law (made by the creator of Judge Dredd), which also dealt with similar subject matter, which was also inspired by Watchmen, but Boys and Martial Law definitely come off as much more hateful toward superheroes, made by the people who always hated the genre (in case of Garth Ennis, The Boys creator, with some exceptions, like Superman) while Alan Moore was someone who liked superhero comics when he was younger and simply got bored of them, so even in The Watchmen you can sense melancholy and nostalgia for those more innocent times. Meanwhile in Martial Law and The Boys superheroes are depicted as either psychopaths with too much power, incompetent or both at the same time. Watchmen by comparison have definitely much more human protagonists, in The Boys and Martial Law characters sometimes felt (at least for me) more cartoonish.Is that where The Boys took the idea?