The Boys is going back to the beginning: The prequel series Vought Rising, starring Jensen Ackles and Aya Cash, was announced at the show’s San Diego Comic-Con panel on Friday.
Ackles, who plays the original supe Soldier Boy on The Boys, helped reveal the news with a surprise appearance on stage in Hall H, while Cash (aka Stormfront) appeared via video.
Ackles made his debut as Soldier Boy during The Boys Season 3 and recently reprised the role in the show’s Season 4 finale mid-credits scene, during which Homelander discovered his biological father is still alive (but on ice, so to speak).
Vought Rising is the third offshoot of the Boys franchise, following the animated anthology The Boys Presents: Diabolical and the supes college-set Gen V, which is slated to return for a second season.