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Megg, Mogg & Owl #1
Megahex
Megg is a depressed, drug-addicted witch. Mogg is her black cat. Their friend, Owl, is an anthropomorphized owl. They hang out a lot with Werewolf Jones. This may sound like a pure stoner comedy, but it transcends the genre: these characters struggle unsuccessfully to come to grips with their depression, drug use, sexuality, poverty, lack of work, lack of ambition, and their complex feelings about each other in ways that have made Megg and Mogg sensations on Hanselmann's GirlMountain tumblr. This is the first collection of Hanselmann's work, freed from its cumbersome Internet prison, and sure to be one of the most talked about graphic novels of 2014, featuring all of the "classic" Megg and Mogg episodes from the past five years as well as over 70 pages of all-new material.
207 pages, Hardcover
First published June 30, 2014
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Simon Hanselmann
80 books675 followersSimon Hanselmann is an Australian-born cartoonist best known for his Megg, Mogg, and Owl series. Hanselmann has been nominated four times for an Ignatz Award, four times for an Eisner Award, once for the Harvey Award and won Best Series at Angouleme 2018.
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February 13, 2015
I'm hesitant about recommending Megahex to people, because it's so weird that people will either really dig it or think I'm insane for suggesting it. Megahex is a collection of Simon Hanselman's Life Zone comics, which follow Megg, a witch, Mogg, her cat-lover, and Owl, their deadbeat roommate. They are all terrible people who terrorize each other endlessly. Sometimes this is very funny. Sometimes it just made me feel bad.
The vulgarity made me uncomfortable--some drawn-out and graphic jokes about sexual assault, or even just images of the trio's filthy apartment. It's definitely supposed to make you squirm. At times I felt like it tried to be edgy just to be edgy, in the vein of Zap! comics. But some single panels are so fucking funny. One of my favorites is a panel of Megg at a children's birthday party, black robes drawn up over hair legs as she sits on a pony. "I'm a fucking rich bitch," she says with a cigarette poised by her mouth.
I love this frame. I want to make it a patch and sew it on my favorite jacket. I want to print it out as a poster and hang it above my bed.
That's my problem with Megahax: taken in pieces, I absolutely love it. Taken as a whole, it feels a little trying. It's the same way I feel whenever I binge-watch Always Sunny--after one too many episodes, I just can't handle another 20 minutes of horrible people being horrible to each other.
I think the book really shines in the section where Megg mourns the pending loss of her sick mother (only mentioned, very briefly). Her depression, depicted in a series of increasingly surreal panels and splash pages, rang surprisingly true. In one scene, she dances in the living room as the lamp reflects the sequins on her miniskirt. It's beautiful and heartbreaking, a simple moment crystallized in beauty and grief. The page is a feat.
So maybe I would recommend the book after all, albeit with a warning. It's not a nice book, but it's a book that stays with you.
The vulgarity made me uncomfortable--some drawn-out and graphic jokes about sexual assault, or even just images of the trio's filthy apartment. It's definitely supposed to make you squirm. At times I felt like it tried to be edgy just to be edgy, in the vein of Zap! comics. But some single panels are so fucking funny. One of my favorites is a panel of Megg at a children's birthday party, black robes drawn up over hair legs as she sits on a pony. "I'm a fucking rich bitch," she says with a cigarette poised by her mouth.
I love this frame. I want to make it a patch and sew it on my favorite jacket. I want to print it out as a poster and hang it above my bed.
That's my problem with Megahax: taken in pieces, I absolutely love it. Taken as a whole, it feels a little trying. It's the same way I feel whenever I binge-watch Always Sunny--after one too many episodes, I just can't handle another 20 minutes of horrible people being horrible to each other.
I think the book really shines in the section where Megg mourns the pending loss of her sick mother (only mentioned, very briefly). Her depression, depicted in a series of increasingly surreal panels and splash pages, rang surprisingly true. In one scene, she dances in the living room as the lamp reflects the sequins on her miniskirt. It's beautiful and heartbreaking, a simple moment crystallized in beauty and grief. The page is a feat.
So maybe I would recommend the book after all, albeit with a warning. It's not a nice book, but it's a book that stays with you.
February 2, 2021
Pretty good if you dig constant cruelty and bullying among friends, and find owl rape amusing, which is made even funnier by the fact that the owl's best friends, Megg the witch and Mogg the cat, are watching, and his other friend, Werewolf Jones, is the one doing the deed. It was all just a birthday prank for Owl, so it's okay. Hilarious. Owl forgives them though since they acted kind of sorry. Then they all drink and get high all day, are depressed sometimes, the end.
Maybe I just wasn't in the proper mindset (high and drunk and tripping), but I just found all this more downbeat and mean-spirited than funny. Perhaps that was the point, but it's hard to have any empathy for depressed characters when they're pretty much monsters, both in the literal and figurative sense. Owl gets a pass though, he's okay in my book*
On the plus side, the art was nice.
*He totally should have ditched their demented asses. And called the cops. At least that could have turned into something that was actually interesting, but no dice. Just horrible "people" acting horribly.
Maybe I just wasn't in the proper mindset (high and drunk and tripping), but I just found all this more downbeat and mean-spirited than funny. Perhaps that was the point, but it's hard to have any empathy for depressed characters when they're pretty much monsters, both in the literal and figurative sense. Owl gets a pass though, he's okay in my book*
On the plus side, the art was nice.
*He totally should have ditched their demented asses. And called the cops. At least that could have turned into something that was actually interesting, but no dice. Just horrible "people" acting horribly.
April 5, 2016
Megahex is hysterical - I loved this comic. It’s a stoner comedy that you don’t need to be a stoner or high to enjoy and there are some big belly laughs in this book.
Ostensibly parodying Jan Pienkowski’s Meg & Mog kid’s books, Megahex stars Megg and Mogg, a witch and a cat who’re boyfriend and girlfriend, and their housemate Owl, a six foot humanoid owl, whom they torture mercilessly. The book is made up of strips of varying lengths from one pagers to longer stories, most of them purely comedic but some dealing with more serious themes like depression, growing up, and trying to make something of yourself.
I appreciate creator Simon Hanselmann giving the comic more dimensions by addressing substantial ideas but I loved the book because of the silly humour in it that had me laughing like cray. One scene has Megg and Mogg knock-out Owl with a rock, strip him naked, put sunglasses on him, load him into a shopping cart and push him into traffic towards the cops; Owl’s reaction was priceless.
Owl is my favourite character - he’s such a poor, stupid bastard. One time he’s biking home from the mall, gets a boner, and the blood drain from his head causes him to crash his bike! Another time he tells Megg and Mogg that he’s attending AA so they decide to secretly get him drunk and watch him pick fights in the mall.
It’s pretty edgy humour at times too. On his birthday, Owl’s friends take him to an empty room and simulate raping him! In another story he gets off with a girl he didn’t realise was 13 years old. There’s also a character called Werewolf Jones but I’ll let you discover him for yourself (think Steve-O from Jackass).
Megg and Mogg are such tremendous arseholes too. Owl gets his dream job so they deliberately sabotage his first day so he gets fired. Another time they lock him out of the house when he really needs to use the toilet so he has to crap in the yard. And then there’s the trauma of the New Year’s story… poor Owl. Heh.
I really liked Hanselmann’s understated art style too. It’s a very simple, traditional comics layout, all grids, but he tells his stories within them perfectly - he knows exactly what to show in each panel and how to pace things to make the jokes work. The colours are just wonderful too.
If none of what I’ve described so far has even made you smile a little bit, Megahex is definitely not for you. I was howling with laughter more often than not though and had a blast reading it. Not all the jokes land but many do and some of them are killer. I highly recommend Megahex for a mega fun time!
Ostensibly parodying Jan Pienkowski’s Meg & Mog kid’s books, Megahex stars Megg and Mogg, a witch and a cat who’re boyfriend and girlfriend, and their housemate Owl, a six foot humanoid owl, whom they torture mercilessly. The book is made up of strips of varying lengths from one pagers to longer stories, most of them purely comedic but some dealing with more serious themes like depression, growing up, and trying to make something of yourself.
I appreciate creator Simon Hanselmann giving the comic more dimensions by addressing substantial ideas but I loved the book because of the silly humour in it that had me laughing like cray. One scene has Megg and Mogg knock-out Owl with a rock, strip him naked, put sunglasses on him, load him into a shopping cart and push him into traffic towards the cops; Owl’s reaction was priceless.
Owl is my favourite character - he’s such a poor, stupid bastard. One time he’s biking home from the mall, gets a boner, and the blood drain from his head causes him to crash his bike! Another time he tells Megg and Mogg that he’s attending AA so they decide to secretly get him drunk and watch him pick fights in the mall.
It’s pretty edgy humour at times too. On his birthday, Owl’s friends take him to an empty room and simulate raping him! In another story he gets off with a girl he didn’t realise was 13 years old. There’s also a character called Werewolf Jones but I’ll let you discover him for yourself (think Steve-O from Jackass).
Megg and Mogg are such tremendous arseholes too. Owl gets his dream job so they deliberately sabotage his first day so he gets fired. Another time they lock him out of the house when he really needs to use the toilet so he has to crap in the yard. And then there’s the trauma of the New Year’s story… poor Owl. Heh.
I really liked Hanselmann’s understated art style too. It’s a very simple, traditional comics layout, all grids, but he tells his stories within them perfectly - he knows exactly what to show in each panel and how to pace things to make the jokes work. The colours are just wonderful too.
If none of what I’ve described so far has even made you smile a little bit, Megahex is definitely not for you. I was howling with laughter more often than not though and had a blast reading it. Not all the jokes land but many do and some of them are killer. I highly recommend Megahex for a mega fun time!
December 21, 2019
A book about a bunch of stoner assholes sitting around getting high all day. There was a lot about the book I could identify with from my younger days. Hanselmann is spot on with the whole stoner culture aspect. What I couldn't get past is how shitty these people are to their friends. I spent the whole book feeling bad for Owl and wondering why he put up with Megg and Mogg's shit. It wasn't ever funny, just mean. If I would have lived with these two, someone would have ended up in jail. either myself, for stabbing them to death in their sleep or the two of them for when I had them arrested for all the shit they pulled.
February 17, 2015
This is only superficially a "fantasy" comic in that a witch, Meg, and her talking cat, Mog, torment their roommate, Owl. Basically it's a stoner comic with sad but likeable-in-spite-of-themselves characters who are sometimes Beavis and Butthead funny or "funny" (so funny I forgot to laugh sort of funny)… sophomoric, dumb, silly and sad as the main characters are basically mean to Owl just for the hell of it, because they are just aimless and bored. These characters are in fact bored throughout this, though in the end, there is movement, there is a slight indication of change for one of them, at least, though that's ultimately bittersweet sad, too. So, a story for and about slacker/sideways stoners.
Why read this if you are a functional adult? The art and humor seems sort of Matt Groening inspired. I have no excuse, really to explain why I read it and even liked it, but I just did. I smiled at it in various places, but there is one incident that he tries to make funny that isn't funny, it's bad and sad, and there are other places that may offend some other readers, but that is kinda the attraction of this kind of comic. But it's not so offensive that it is seriously off-putting, in my opinion. I mean, Meg and Mog do bad things to Owl but then they try to make it up to him. I don't know. I liked it quite a bit, in that Groening way, though it is devoid of politics and so someone 40 years younger than me and smoking a lot of pot will find it effing hilarious, I bet. Even I laughed from time to time.
Why read this if you are a functional adult? The art and humor seems sort of Matt Groening inspired. I have no excuse, really to explain why I read it and even liked it, but I just did. I smiled at it in various places, but there is one incident that he tries to make funny that isn't funny, it's bad and sad, and there are other places that may offend some other readers, but that is kinda the attraction of this kind of comic. But it's not so offensive that it is seriously off-putting, in my opinion. I mean, Meg and Mog do bad things to Owl but then they try to make it up to him. I don't know. I liked it quite a bit, in that Groening way, though it is devoid of politics and so someone 40 years younger than me and smoking a lot of pot will find it effing hilarious, I bet. Even I laughed from time to time.
November 10, 2015
I didn't get it. The book itself is really well made and the art work is very impressive but the content is kind of awful. I like indie, I like weird, I like dark, but this just missed the mark for me in every way. Unfunny stoner ennui nonsense and poorly judged rape jokes just aren't my bag.
December 3, 2017
You know what's not funny? This book. I did laugh a few times and the art is pretty funny. But, I can't help feeling that being mean to others as entertainment is pathetic and shitty and often masks a lack of intelligence (at the very least, a lack of legitimate wit). This book is full of bully humor. There is a tremendous difference between pulling awesome pranks on your friends and being assholes.
I'm giving this book 2 stars b/c it disappointed me. If Hanselmann's purpose was to point out how disappointing people can be, then maybe I should give it 5 stars. But, no, 2 stars seems right.
I'm giving this book 2 stars b/c it disappointed me. If Hanselmann's purpose was to point out how disappointing people can be, then maybe I should give it 5 stars. But, no, 2 stars seems right.
June 23, 2024
Tragicomic stoners existing in a negative feedback loop of nothingness. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll despise all of them. The weirder shit, I think, is pure drug-addled fantasy—just roll with it. Or don’t. Poor Owl, though.
I laughed probably too much. Because I can relate to the depression, chemical escapism, and years spent in the tragicomic otherworld and weird company of bugged-out wasteoids. Sometimes they’re your best friends, other times you wanna kill them. But everyone, in moments of spontaneous stupidity, makes mistakes and feelings get hurt—often in the deepest, worst way possible, and often to the nicest person in the room. Escaping the American hellscape for daytime nightmares is what it’s all about, and it’s as equally hilarious as it is depressing.
I laughed probably too much. Because I can relate to the depression, chemical escapism, and years spent in the tragicomic otherworld and weird company of bugged-out wasteoids. Sometimes they’re your best friends, other times you wanna kill them. But everyone, in moments of spontaneous stupidity, makes mistakes and feelings get hurt—often in the deepest, worst way possible, and often to the nicest person in the room. Escaping the American hellscape for daytime nightmares is what it’s all about, and it’s as equally hilarious as it is depressing.
October 2, 2019
✦MY THOUGHTS ✦
Well, I had to think about my words here.. I kind of have some mixed feelings about this one. In the beginning of the book, I found some things funny and interesting. However, as I was reading on, I found some things weird and to be honest, I felt uncomfortable reading about it.
The book is all about alcoholism, drugs, and rape and I don't think that it's something that we should make fun of. We shouldn't joke about it. Those are serious things that require serious talks and solutions. It is clear that this is a very sad story and I really liked the concept of it, but I didn't like how the author represented all the things in the book.
My favorite character is definitely Mogg, the cat. However, I had a good laugh several times while I was reading this book and I think it's fair enough to give it a three stars.
Well, I had to think about my words here.. I kind of have some mixed feelings about this one. In the beginning of the book, I found some things funny and interesting. However, as I was reading on, I found some things weird and to be honest, I felt uncomfortable reading about it.
The book is all about alcoholism, drugs, and rape and I don't think that it's something that we should make fun of. We shouldn't joke about it. Those are serious things that require serious talks and solutions. It is clear that this is a very sad story and I really liked the concept of it, but I didn't like how the author represented all the things in the book.
My favorite character is definitely Mogg, the cat. However, I had a good laugh several times while I was reading this book and I think it's fair enough to give it a three stars.
February 22, 2015
This is what you'd call a "love it or hate it" kind of book. I had a little bit of both reactions.
October 14, 2019
Even with all the "warnings" from other reviews, this was still a tough read.
There were regular laughs, and the times when the strip acknowledged Megg's depression more directly hit home. That said, I have a real low threshold for bullying and cruelty, so I was ready to ditch the book halfway through.
But I kept going, and I was moved by the ending.
(And I'm disappointed in myself for finding Mogg cute, eventhough he is obviously an asshole.)
There were regular laughs, and the times when the strip acknowledged Megg's depression more directly hit home. That said, I have a real low threshold for bullying and cruelty, so I was ready to ditch the book halfway through.
But I kept going, and I was moved by the ending.
(And I'm disappointed in myself for finding Mogg cute, eventhough he is obviously an asshole.)
February 15, 2019
Comics with a green-skinned, drug addicted, zoophile young witch and her talking, drug addicted, rapist, pedophile animal friends. I'm not sure if they were born this way or if the drugs atrophied their brains. Everything is on an unbelivable, almost inhuman, level of stupid. This comic makes Beavis and Butt-Head look good. I have no idea who the target audience is, but it's certainly not me.
The comic is a series of independent stories featuring the characters getting wasted. That's it. I laughed three times. I counted carefully. I was as bored reading this as the main character is in most of the scenes. Oh, and the artwork and text font are the definition of crap. I looked it up in the dictionary. I'm regretting having deleted my 'crap' shelf.
Actually, you know what? Let me be the devil's advocate for the next paragraphs.
It's a great book. I can't allow myself to give it more than 1 star because I don't do drugs. The real reason it's good? It shows you just how much YOU SHOULDN'T DO DRUGS. It's perfect for that message. They should line the walls of the rehab center with this stuff.
One other thing I figured out from watching all the Youtube videos about psychology is evident here. Megg and Mogg are unsalvageable. Owl is occasionally trying to improve himself, but the other two dushes screw up his plans. The psychological element here is the fact that the two a-holes don't want to lose their friend, no matter how amazing dicks they are to each other. This is similar to a mother not allowing her child to grow up, mature and become independent from her because that means he can move away from home and leave her alone. Owl finds freedom only after leaving the two ass wipes behind. That's not to say mothers are ass wipes... but they need to allow their baby to live his or her life. Having adult babies around isn't much fun.
The comic is a series of independent stories featuring the characters getting wasted. That's it. I laughed three times. I counted carefully. I was as bored reading this as the main character is in most of the scenes. Oh, and the artwork and text font are the definition of crap. I looked it up in the dictionary. I'm regretting having deleted my 'crap' shelf.
Actually, you know what? Let me be the devil's advocate for the next paragraphs.
It's a great book. I can't allow myself to give it more than 1 star because I don't do drugs. The real reason it's good? It shows you just how much YOU SHOULDN'T DO DRUGS. It's perfect for that message. They should line the walls of the rehab center with this stuff.
One other thing I figured out from watching all the Youtube videos about psychology is evident here. Megg and Mogg are unsalvageable. Owl is occasionally trying to improve himself, but the other two dushes screw up his plans. The psychological element here is the fact that the two a-holes don't want to lose their friend, no matter how amazing dicks they are to each other. This is similar to a mother not allowing her child to grow up, mature and become independent from her because that means he can move away from home and leave her alone. Owl finds freedom only after leaving the two ass wipes behind. That's not to say mothers are ass wipes... but they need to allow their baby to live his or her life. Having adult babies around isn't much fun.
April 20, 2020
Synopsis: Megahex is a stoner comedy graphic novel from Fantagraphics Books revolving around witch and cat couple Megg and Mogg and their roommate Owl who is always an unfortunate victim of the duo's mishaps and pranks.
My Thoughts: There is a gallimaufry of adjectives I can use to describe this book including absurd, ribald, repulsive, surreal, and wholly twisted which is not holy at all (pun fully intended). Judging from my description, one might assume I disliked it and inadvertently rated four stars when I really intended to give it one or two. However, in reality, I found the weird admixture of surrealism, blue and black humor a wild, hysterical romp which was the most I've laughed at a graphic novel in a while to the point I had to restrain my laughter before the other customers at my local book store thought I was a madman. The art was colorful and psychedelic like many stoners comics. That being said, as gut-busting as this book was for me, I would not recommend it to someone who is easily grossed out or offended by off-color and gallows comedy and advise not to think too deeply about some of the sketchy content depicted here since quite a bit of the comics were pretty disturbing.
Final Thoughts: Overall, Megahex is a crazy, screwed up acid trip worth getting high on if you're into dark surreal humor which will induce uncontrolled laughter.
My Thoughts: There is a gallimaufry of adjectives I can use to describe this book including absurd, ribald, repulsive, surreal, and wholly twisted which is not holy at all (pun fully intended). Judging from my description, one might assume I disliked it and inadvertently rated four stars when I really intended to give it one or two. However, in reality, I found the weird admixture of surrealism, blue and black humor a wild, hysterical romp which was the most I've laughed at a graphic novel in a while to the point I had to restrain my laughter before the other customers at my local book store thought I was a madman. The art was colorful and psychedelic like many stoners comics. That being said, as gut-busting as this book was for me, I would not recommend it to someone who is easily grossed out or offended by off-color and gallows comedy and advise not to think too deeply about some of the sketchy content depicted here since quite a bit of the comics were pretty disturbing.
Final Thoughts: Overall, Megahex is a crazy, screwed up acid trip worth getting high on if you're into dark surreal humor which will induce uncontrolled laughter.
October 21, 2014
Normally I would think that comics about terminal stoners would be the last thing I'd want to read, but Simon Hanselman's work is too sad, too ennui-infused, too frighteningly-relateable, too nonetheless funny partly for all of these reasons to be held back in any way. If the beginning seems sophomoric, it only means that you haven;t spent enough time with these characters for them to really get under your skin yet, but they've got a remarkable ability to do so, considering. Interestingly, this offers a tie-in point for an independent mini that might actually be my favorite single MM&O story, which shedding eerie light on it.
June 26, 2022
★ 2.5 Stars ★
This book is a collection of short comics about stoners Megg and Mogg and their friends.
It's sometimes funny, sometimes offensive, sometimes sad and on a couple of occasions it made my insides turn. Would never recommend the book as a whole to anyone hahaha, but might show a couple of the lighter comics to someone.
This book is a collection of short comics about stoners Megg and Mogg and their friends.
It's sometimes funny, sometimes offensive, sometimes sad and on a couple of occasions it made my insides turn. Would never recommend the book as a whole to anyone hahaha, but might show a couple of the lighter comics to someone.
January 12, 2015
Human misery.
February 14, 2016
Pretty much perfect.
May 4, 2024
I was in it for the random stoner/witch vibe — but there was a lot of SA going around as a joke. Thinking of the real world, alot of people treat others the way Owl was treated.
That man was their punching bag every single day, poor guy. Anyhow - this was a random read. But I’m good off these comics. On to the next ✨
That man was their punching bag every single day, poor guy. Anyhow - this was a random read. But I’m good off these comics. On to the next ✨
December 9, 2014
Decently fun. Despite the fantasy trappings, this is basically about a group of stoners. Meg, the witch, and her cat Mog live pretty much to get high and torment their apartment-mate, Owl. Hanselmann brings a deadpan wit to the story and art. I can't speak for everyone, but I recognize the characters from my college days, though I was never close friends with any of them. I found myself caring about the characters in spite of the fact that I deplore their lifestyle. Towards the end of the book, Hanselmann starts throwing some deeper issues into the mix and it's all surprisingly affecting. In the end, this is pretty good stuff, better than I was expecting after the first few chapters.
September 2, 2014
Were pedophiles
January 12, 2021
I can see why some people would be offended/put off by this, but I love it. Dark, weird, hilarious, and definitely fucked up. If you liked Always Sunny, Bojack, Harold and Kumar, etc., you might like this. Immoral type stoner characters in a dark comedy. If you read all the way to the end, everything comes together. ). I found the art to be delightful and the stories to be hilarious or depressingly realistic.
We shouldn't censor books, but I don't ever want to be insensitive to someone else's trauma, so here's a content warning.
CW: bullying, fake rape, depression/anxiety
We shouldn't censor books, but I don't ever want to be insensitive to someone else's trauma, so here's a content warning.
CW: bullying, fake rape, depression/anxiety
June 2, 2019
The human experience in a not so human form; 18+ warning.
Peeking through Megahex you may have noticed a few of the characters. A witch, a cat, an owl and werewolf being the stars. I was expecting it to be this crazy stoner fantasy filled with crazy out of this world adventure but it turned out to be much more real. Almost too real.
Megahex is about a group of friends living together and trying to make life work. It would be much easier if everyone had their shit together, but much like the real world, no one really knows what they're doing. The main character Meg spends most of her time with the cat Mogg (who is also her lover). They spend most of their time smoking and coming up with ways to prank Owl. They are not always cute pranks though. There were a few times were I felt too "P/C" for this. The indecent with Owls birthday being the worse. Addiction is another big component in this book but it talks about how yours effects those around you. Almost everyone in this book seems depressed and some aren't willing to change, others want nothing more.
Its not all bad though! I really liked Mog and Meg's relationship. They have some really cute banter and adventures together. Although seeing a cat give a girl a rim job was pretty weird.
The best part of this comic was how strange it was. It pushed boundaries, it made me uncomfortable at times. But I couldn't stop thinking about it! It also had moments that I felt I could really relate to and that was kind of scary.
overall, a little gross, really rude but a lot of fun.
Peeking through Megahex you may have noticed a few of the characters. A witch, a cat, an owl and werewolf being the stars. I was expecting it to be this crazy stoner fantasy filled with crazy out of this world adventure but it turned out to be much more real. Almost too real.
Megahex is about a group of friends living together and trying to make life work. It would be much easier if everyone had their shit together, but much like the real world, no one really knows what they're doing. The main character Meg spends most of her time with the cat Mogg (who is also her lover). They spend most of their time smoking and coming up with ways to prank Owl. They are not always cute pranks though. There were a few times were I felt too "P/C" for this. The indecent with Owls birthday being the worse. Addiction is another big component in this book but it talks about how yours effects those around you. Almost everyone in this book seems depressed and some aren't willing to change, others want nothing more.
Its not all bad though! I really liked Mog and Meg's relationship. They have some really cute banter and adventures together. Although seeing a cat give a girl a rim job was pretty weird.
The best part of this comic was how strange it was. It pushed boundaries, it made me uncomfortable at times. But I couldn't stop thinking about it! It also had moments that I felt I could really relate to and that was kind of scary.
overall, a little gross, really rude but a lot of fun.
November 19, 2015
What's intelligent that I can say about this book... It was funny, gross, with an undercurrent of heart (y'know, deep down...). The day-to-day lives of stoner roommates (a witch, cat, and owl-- the usual) that don't really give a shit about anything, and kind of pay the price for it. There isn't much of an overarching plot, it's more about the smaller scenes of young adults pranking each other and struggling to... find themselves? That might be a reach for a comic that has *insert any disgusting scene here*, but I think it's apt. Pathetic at times, laugh out loud at others, and even a touching moment or two-- as well as a few 'inappropriate touching' moments. Although the script is overall very funny and strangely interesting, the art/design of 'Megahex' was the selling point for me. It's very clever, imaginative, and pretty. This Simon Hanselmann fellow is very talented, and I look forward to reading more.
February 11, 2020
My intro to Simon Hanselmann’s soft watercolor adventures of Megg, Mogg, and Owl, Megahex is a really funny, sad, strange saga. It is a stoner epic, and it is a lot to consider. The basic idea is that life is unbearable, and so much more so when drowned in drugs and booze. The fantastic, fantasy elements are a popular front for modern entertainment. The success of every-day-ing fantastic creatures—a witch, a cat who dates witches, and an anthropomorphized Owl, among others—is case-by-case. But here it seems to drip into the deranged fantasy of what is otherwise seen as all too real, and all too depressing. I really enjoyed this on an episodic level and as a whole. Go check it out, comix fanz!
August 12, 2024
3.5 Stars!
Now I’m not someone who has ever found stoner material particularly funny, it has always been one of those subjects riddled with one-dimensional clichés and a source of many cheap, crass gags that you can see coming a mile off.
But I have to say there were a good few times during this book when I enjoyed some real good laughs, so overall it’s hard to grumble. The drawing is decent, the colouring fun and some of the characters were really funny and memorable and overall this was a pretty good read.
Now I’m not someone who has ever found stoner material particularly funny, it has always been one of those subjects riddled with one-dimensional clichés and a source of many cheap, crass gags that you can see coming a mile off.
But I have to say there were a good few times during this book when I enjoyed some real good laughs, so overall it’s hard to grumble. The drawing is decent, the colouring fun and some of the characters were really funny and memorable and overall this was a pretty good read.
did-not-finish
January 1, 2020Ha! The IRCB reading challenge is over, so I don't need to read this book anymore! Stopped at page 96.
The author was kind enough to provide all the appropriate content warnings. Everything about this book screamed it was not for me. The ONLY reason I picked it up was because of that challenge and I am very happy I decided not to read it.
I didn't rate this book, because I feel it wouldn't've been fair, since I knew I wouldn't like it from the start.
The author was kind enough to provide all the appropriate content warnings. Everything about this book screamed it was not for me. The ONLY reason I picked it up was because of that challenge and I am very happy I decided not to read it.
I didn't rate this book, because I feel it wouldn't've been fair, since I knew I wouldn't like it from the start.
September 19, 2014
Hanselmann's comics have been one of my favorite discoveries of the past few years. I really enjoyed this, despite (or because of?) how dark and disgusting it could get. His work knocks me out.
March 5, 2020
Cheer up Meg! More bad behaviour from the gang.
July 1, 2020
Nihilistic and apathetic stoner "humor". It's a hard no from me, dawg.
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