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You Shall Die By Your Own Evil Creation! (2009)

by Fletcher Hanks(Favorite Author)

4.07 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1606991604 (ISBN13: 9781606991602)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Fantagraphics

series

The Complete Works of Fletcher Hanks

review 1: As much as I enjoyed the first volume of Fletcher Hanks' work, I feel like they already used up most of the wild, out-there material by the time they decided to make a second. While there are still some extremely uncomfortable, Axe Cop-style insanities thrown at you (particularly in the second half of the collection), you'll see the same napkin-thin plot used again and again, the same phoned-in artwork, and after the first book I'd already gotten over the shock factor of it all. More interesting, I found, was the tragic biography of Hanks provided in the foreword; as I read along I couldn't help but wonder what kind of life this abusive comic jockey was leading as he scrawled out the adventures of "Space" Smith and Big "Red" McClane, and the epilogue just concluded the who... morele Fletcher Hanks experience perfectly.
review 2: Fletcher Hanks is an unlikely genius. Beyond the apparent crudeness of his work (both in the drawing and the writing), there is a relentless energy. After finishing each comic in this volume, I was buzzing with excitement. It is the kind of work I wanted to show my friends (and did show my friends, who thumbed through the illustrations, pointing and laughing and "holy shitting"). It's sad that this is the last volume of Hanks' collected comics, but I can't recommend it enough. This and the first volume should be on the shelf of any fan, casual or otherwise, of pop culture. It is culture in its rawest form, original and unedited and, now that it is removed enough from its own era, untainted by context. These are comics from before anyone decided what exactly comics were. I hope more people discover Hanks' work and use that as an influence on what comics will become. less

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