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Megg, Mogg & Owl #6
Zona crítica
En marzo de 2020, gran parte del planeta Tierra entra en confinamiento. El dibujante Simon Hanselmann decide entonces heroicamente que lo que el mundo más necesita es comedia, jolgorio con cipotes, y emprende la creación del mayor webcómic jamás concebido…
La pandemia crece más allá de lo humanamente imaginable, y Zona crítica crece en paralelo, en tiempo real. Nuestros adorados baluartes del cómic alternativo, Megg, Mogg, Búho y Werewolf Jones, se ven arrastrados al interior de un torbellino político, mental y sexual, para dar forma a un relato vodevilesco que oscila desenfrenadamente entre la comedia, el horror, los subgéneros de acción, los estudios de género y el culebrón sentimental. Zona crítica no levanta el pie del acelerador en ningún momento, mientras nos precipitamos hacia un destino ignoto... (Pausa)… Ejem... Hola, ¿estás leyendo esto en 2067? Bien, pues este es el registro de lo que sucedió en 2020. ESTO es lo que pasó. Verás qué risa.
La pandemia crece más allá de lo humanamente imaginable, y Zona crítica crece en paralelo, en tiempo real. Nuestros adorados baluartes del cómic alternativo, Megg, Mogg, Búho y Werewolf Jones, se ven arrastrados al interior de un torbellino político, mental y sexual, para dar forma a un relato vodevilesco que oscila desenfrenadamente entre la comedia, el horror, los subgéneros de acción, los estudios de género y el culebrón sentimental. Zona crítica no levanta el pie del acelerador en ningún momento, mientras nos precipitamos hacia un destino ignoto... (Pausa)… Ejem... Hola, ¿estás leyendo esto en 2067? Bien, pues este es el registro de lo que sucedió en 2020. ESTO es lo que pasó. Verás qué risa.
296 pages, Hardcover
First published August 17, 2021
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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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September 9, 2021
COVID strikes so the gang all move into Megg, Mogg and Owl’s place to weather out the pandemic - with hi-larious consequences! Who’ll get the ‘vid? How will the deadbeats make money? What happens when they run out of weed? It’s all kicking off in Crisis Zone!
Simon Hanselmann delayed the follow-up to Bad Gateway, Megg’s Coven, once the pandemic hit and decided to do a webcomic instead, posting the strips daily to Instagram, all of which are collected here (with a lot of extras - the gram only allows a maximum of 10 panels per upload and most of the pages here are 12 panel grids). Crisis Zone is heavily influenced by the daily bonkers happenings of 2020 and it feels very reactionary and thrown together.
Not that this is a bad book - I don’t think Hanselmann can make one of those - but it does feel overstuffed with silliness and unstructured and haphazard in a way that makes it easy to put down and quite wearying to read.
There’s too much Werewolf Jones keraziness. Some of it is sorta funny like the Sodomy Squad part, where the gang venture out into the hellscape world to rescue one of Jones’ disgusting boys, and some of it is elongated tedium like the Netflix Tiger King parody Anus King (it’s Werewolf Jones so nearly all the material is butt-related stuff).
The Ass Blaster skit is really funny but there’s so much unhinged Jones material that I ended up siding with perennial straight-man Owl and hating Jones. He’s a brilliant side character but he becomes tedious when given centre stage. Oh look, he’s doing more drugs and more butt stuff. Again. And again.
The book overall isn’t that interesting but there are lots of little moments that are really great. Like when Owl loses his job and decides to “break bad” by pimping out Jones, so he puts on his “Heisenberg hat”, and when Jennifer (Mike the Wizard transitions) sings Queen’s I Want To Break Free. A lot of the running jokes are brilliant too like Ian the Bear constantly getting shot even though he’s a bystander, the numerous thong funerals, Mogg being called Carrot Bottom, and the whole David Choe thing.
And parts of the narrative are compelling like Mogg’s journey in the COVID world after he breaks up with Megg, and Owl’s arc in becoming the legal guardian of Jones’ kids - Owl really shines in this book, becoming much more than the punching bag he usually is (though he’s still kind of a tool). There’s just a lot of disjointed stuff mixed in too that’s not really very interesting - the whole Dracula Jr Jr thing, Jones’ horrible wife Susan returning, and seeing all the stuff from 2020 again (Animal Crossing addiction, toilet paper/grocery shortages, working from home, etc.).
It does end on an interesting note that might signal the impending end of the series after Megg’s Coven (unless the character’s death is redacted, kinda like other characters’ “deaths” in this book). And I’m blown away as I always am at how insanely productive Hanselmann is - he manages to write, draw and colour an entire book (this is 286 pages, 12 panels a page!) every year, which are almost always amazing in quality too. It’s incredible.
There’s also 12 pages of Hanselmann’s commentary included at the back to explain the numerous references throughout which might be of interest to future readers who didn’t live through 2020, but I didn’t need to read that as I got nearly everything that was referenced. Especially given that this is an oversized paperback and the text is tiny, so the 12 pages is a very dense and cumbersome add-on to wade through at the end. Does anyone need to read a summary of the book they just read right after they finish it?
Crisis Zone is a mixed bag of semi-interesting skits and storylines and a lot of other stuff that’s kinda boring. The last couple Megg and Mogg books were genuinely unputdownable so I was surprised that I actually had to force myself to get to the end of this one as I really wasn’t into it. I think Crisis Zone was made up as Hanselmann went along and it shows. It’s one of the weakest books in the series so far but hopefully Megg’s Coven will be worth the wait.
Simon Hanselmann delayed the follow-up to Bad Gateway, Megg’s Coven, once the pandemic hit and decided to do a webcomic instead, posting the strips daily to Instagram, all of which are collected here (with a lot of extras - the gram only allows a maximum of 10 panels per upload and most of the pages here are 12 panel grids). Crisis Zone is heavily influenced by the daily bonkers happenings of 2020 and it feels very reactionary and thrown together.
Not that this is a bad book - I don’t think Hanselmann can make one of those - but it does feel overstuffed with silliness and unstructured and haphazard in a way that makes it easy to put down and quite wearying to read.
There’s too much Werewolf Jones keraziness. Some of it is sorta funny like the Sodomy Squad part, where the gang venture out into the hellscape world to rescue one of Jones’ disgusting boys, and some of it is elongated tedium like the Netflix Tiger King parody Anus King (it’s Werewolf Jones so nearly all the material is butt-related stuff).
The Ass Blaster skit is really funny but there’s so much unhinged Jones material that I ended up siding with perennial straight-man Owl and hating Jones. He’s a brilliant side character but he becomes tedious when given centre stage. Oh look, he’s doing more drugs and more butt stuff. Again. And again.
The book overall isn’t that interesting but there are lots of little moments that are really great. Like when Owl loses his job and decides to “break bad” by pimping out Jones, so he puts on his “Heisenberg hat”, and when Jennifer (Mike the Wizard transitions) sings Queen’s I Want To Break Free. A lot of the running jokes are brilliant too like Ian the Bear constantly getting shot even though he’s a bystander, the numerous thong funerals, Mogg being called Carrot Bottom, and the whole David Choe thing.
And parts of the narrative are compelling like Mogg’s journey in the COVID world after he breaks up with Megg, and Owl’s arc in becoming the legal guardian of Jones’ kids - Owl really shines in this book, becoming much more than the punching bag he usually is (though he’s still kind of a tool). There’s just a lot of disjointed stuff mixed in too that’s not really very interesting - the whole Dracula Jr Jr thing, Jones’ horrible wife Susan returning, and seeing all the stuff from 2020 again (Animal Crossing addiction, toilet paper/grocery shortages, working from home, etc.).
It does end on an interesting note that might signal the impending end of the series after Megg’s Coven (unless the character’s death is redacted, kinda like other characters’ “deaths” in this book). And I’m blown away as I always am at how insanely productive Hanselmann is - he manages to write, draw and colour an entire book (this is 286 pages, 12 panels a page!) every year, which are almost always amazing in quality too. It’s incredible.
There’s also 12 pages of Hanselmann’s commentary included at the back to explain the numerous references throughout which might be of interest to future readers who didn’t live through 2020, but I didn’t need to read that as I got nearly everything that was referenced. Especially given that this is an oversized paperback and the text is tiny, so the 12 pages is a very dense and cumbersome add-on to wade through at the end. Does anyone need to read a summary of the book they just read right after they finish it?
Crisis Zone is a mixed bag of semi-interesting skits and storylines and a lot of other stuff that’s kinda boring. The last couple Megg and Mogg books were genuinely unputdownable so I was surprised that I actually had to force myself to get to the end of this one as I really wasn’t into it. I think Crisis Zone was made up as Hanselmann went along and it shows. It’s one of the weakest books in the series so far but hopefully Megg’s Coven will be worth the wait.
August 10, 2021
A poignant and revolting masterwork. A perfect encapsulation of a micro-dark age. Ideally, no other art from the year 2020 will survive and this will be the only historical document available for future scholars.
September 24, 2021
So, while the majority of us lay stunned by the pandemic, Simon Hanselmann found yet another gear and created a daily webcomic about his profoundly, terrifyingly and hilariously damaged crew: Megg, Mogg, Owl and WereWolf Jones, who takes his place front and center as the most offensively disgusting comic book character in the series (and maybe in comics history). The group has always been falling apart, and Hanselmann travels the line between outrageous hilarity and despair (with Megg and her depression front and center).
Crisis Zone answers the question you maybe didn't want to know the answer to: What happens to a group of people that were already close to madness and tragedy as they get slammed the pandemic? And the answer, not surprisingly, is not pretty. Look at that amazing cover; look at sad Megg and Booger and Owl and you know, it can only has gotten worse with Covid. And what is Hanselmann's response to all this? To focus on the most despicable character, WWJ, and his kids. No, not to be gentle and caring, of course, but angry and outraged and to use the darkest humor he can dredge up from the gutter to scream his denial. And I can't even write about what WWJ drags the crew into, but involving Booger's many boxes of thongs collection is just the beginning. It's almost as if he is psychically screaming screw you to the universe as his characters face it all down.
Ok: Even if I get the point, it was too much WWJ, too offensive. And yet I give this four stars??! I guess it is for the achievement of it as a reflection of Covid 2020, enacted in real time, now one of Hanselmann's dozens of depictions of his world. And I like it that Owl takes a more substantial role, and isn't just a doormat (of course he would be the only one of them to wear a mask as they all get Covid). And I love Megg and feel so sorry for her and her paralyzing depression. And yes, real death and dying happens in this very long, 286 page volume I had to read in fits and starts because it was so outrageous. NOT recommended for any but the strong of stomach and for those with depraved senses of humor. But even as I say that I see that the line-crossing here mixes with his genuine caring for his characters that is admirable in some sense. Yes, I will read on, even into the valley of the ten thousand butt jokes.
Crisis Zone answers the question you maybe didn't want to know the answer to: What happens to a group of people that were already close to madness and tragedy as they get slammed the pandemic? And the answer, not surprisingly, is not pretty. Look at that amazing cover; look at sad Megg and Booger and Owl and you know, it can only has gotten worse with Covid. And what is Hanselmann's response to all this? To focus on the most despicable character, WWJ, and his kids. No, not to be gentle and caring, of course, but angry and outraged and to use the darkest humor he can dredge up from the gutter to scream his denial. And I can't even write about what WWJ drags the crew into, but involving Booger's many boxes of thongs collection is just the beginning. It's almost as if he is psychically screaming screw you to the universe as his characters face it all down.
Ok: Even if I get the point, it was too much WWJ, too offensive. And yet I give this four stars??! I guess it is for the achievement of it as a reflection of Covid 2020, enacted in real time, now one of Hanselmann's dozens of depictions of his world. And I like it that Owl takes a more substantial role, and isn't just a doormat (of course he would be the only one of them to wear a mask as they all get Covid). And I love Megg and feel so sorry for her and her paralyzing depression. And yes, real death and dying happens in this very long, 286 page volume I had to read in fits and starts because it was so outrageous. NOT recommended for any but the strong of stomach and for those with depraved senses of humor. But even as I say that I see that the line-crossing here mixes with his genuine caring for his characters that is admirable in some sense. Yes, I will read on, even into the valley of the ten thousand butt jokes.
December 9, 2021
When I am old and my grandchildren ask me "Grampa Ghost Dog, what was the Pandemic of 2020-202X like?" I'll show them this book, and nothing more.
December 21, 2021
Depraved, yet ultimately heartwarming? 4.5 stars rounded up.
July 4, 2022
the amount of online-poisoning required to enjoy this is terrifying even to me
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August 25, 2021this is like south park but funny, genuinely laughed a fair amount. insightful commentary at the end as well.
I don't agree with some of the politics but that's an intellectual disagreement more than anything else, the book is filled with sincerity and heart and encapsulates the bewildering horror of 2020 — a year I experienced predominantly through twitter.
I don't agree with some of the politics but that's an intellectual disagreement more than anything else, the book is filled with sincerity and heart and encapsulates the bewildering horror of 2020 — a year I experienced predominantly through twitter.
December 30, 2020
Fantastic webcomic. Can’t wait to read Crisis Zone in print
November 14, 2023
Meu livro favorito de não-ficção.
June 30, 2022
Miserably bad, annoying and blandly crass. For people who have lost even the last shred of humor and now only laugh when the big flashing sign tells them to
January 3, 2022
Weird first book of the year. Really takes you back to 2019, what a time. I did struggle a little with reading this in book form, as opposed to daily on Instagram, just a bit too much on the eyes for a long sitting.
January 31, 2025
me he reído tanto… suelo odiar cualquier cosa ambientada en 2020 pero representa tan bien la locura colectiva
February 3, 2022
[3/5]
-sigh- I like this book. I guess. When I read Megahex, I just assumed that Simon Hanselmann was gay, or like some sorta queer. But I know things about him now I can't unknow which is unfortunate. I get the same feeling out of watching Family Guy that I get from reading Simon Hanselmann. Like it's definitely funny--I laughed out loud at times--but the sort of edgelord cancel-culture-is-ruining-comedy We Need to Turn Our Phones Off pandemic narrative is.. certainly tiring. Especially since this book is actually pretty long if you read it cover to cover. Idk it just gets grating. There's a reason why Family Guy episodes are like 13 minutes or whatever. He just started to show his ass by the end of this. But again I really actually like it for the most part. I found it funny and entertaining. So sure like why not
-sigh- I like this book. I guess. When I read Megahex, I just assumed that Simon Hanselmann was gay, or like some sorta queer. But I know things about him now I can't unknow which is unfortunate. I get the same feeling out of watching Family Guy that I get from reading Simon Hanselmann. Like it's definitely funny--I laughed out loud at times--but the sort of edgelord cancel-culture-is-ruining-comedy We Need to Turn Our Phones Off pandemic narrative is.. certainly tiring. Especially since this book is actually pretty long if you read it cover to cover. Idk it just gets grating. There's a reason why Family Guy episodes are like 13 minutes or whatever. He just started to show his ass by the end of this. But again I really actually like it for the most part. I found it funny and entertaining. So sure like why not
January 7, 2023
As always(save for Bad Getaway which is only tragic lol), these books have had me laughing out loud, cackling even - desperately trying to catch my breath. I can’t recommend this enough, but I also cannot recommend this to almost anyone I know in real life.
That said, I want to own this series now. It is so wacky, juvenile, clever, cynical, and downright ridiculous that it’s got me hook, line and sinker. This one might be my favorite, tied with Megahex.
That said, I want to own this series now. It is so wacky, juvenile, clever, cynical, and downright ridiculous that it’s got me hook, line and sinker. This one might be my favorite, tied with Megahex.
September 26, 2022
It was kind of fun at the beginning, with all the COVID and toilet paper hoarding references, but the constant jokes about sex and the political commentary (criticizing all political views, actually) get old pretty quickly, and it ends up feeling quite tedious.
Extremely crass over all, and some times pointless, I wasn't aware of the fact Megg, Mogg and Owl is actually a series of graphic novels, but if this one is an example of the rest, I sure am not interested in diving deeper on it.
Extremely crass over all, and some times pointless, I wasn't aware of the fact Megg, Mogg and Owl is actually a series of graphic novels, but if this one is an example of the rest, I sure am not interested in diving deeper on it.
April 11, 2022
El mejor producto cultural durante la pandemia y sobre la pandemia.
OBRA MAESTRA: 300 páginas de desfase absoluto y loquísimo, incluyendo una sección de comentarios página a página del autor y un maravilloso epílogo que no había publicado.
OBRA MAESTRA: 300 páginas de desfase absoluto y loquísimo, incluyendo una sección de comentarios página a página del autor y un maravilloso epílogo que no había publicado.
April 6, 2022
A modern classic
May 10, 2022
Reading this was probably what it's like to have generalized anxiety disorder. I met Simon Hanselmann at a zine fair in 2021 and he tried to get me to buy Dogecoin.
July 1, 2022
I don't have the words to express how terrible this was.
February 21, 2022
Unbelievably vulgar, filthy and horrific, yet somehow mesmerising.
No naked anuses was ever drawn without accompanying flies to signal it’s odour. I appreciate that kind of detail.
And it was funny too, I did in fact laugh several times. Tons of stinky sex and drugs. Despicable characters, completely over the top in every way yet it’s still the best pandemic book I’ve read. I feel like I have new friends in Megg, Mogg, Owl, Jones, Jennifer, Booger etc, albeit friends I never want to meet. It spiraled towards the end losing some of it’s poignance, and I feel like it went on and on (just like the pandemic itself).
No naked anuses was ever drawn without accompanying flies to signal it’s odour. I appreciate that kind of detail.
And it was funny too, I did in fact laugh several times. Tons of stinky sex and drugs. Despicable characters, completely over the top in every way yet it’s still the best pandemic book I’ve read. I feel like I have new friends in Megg, Mogg, Owl, Jones, Jennifer, Booger etc, albeit friends I never want to meet. It spiraled towards the end losing some of it’s poignance, and I feel like it went on and on (just like the pandemic itself).
January 23, 2025
Lindo, doentio e triste
January 27, 2025
Najpierw przegapiłam premierę Kwarantanny i byłam niepocieszona, a to był PALEC BOŻY.
No bo w końcu odkryłam, że jest kolejny tom, kupiłam go w ciągu następnych 5 minut, czytałam 1,5 miesiąca. 1,5 miesiąca! Komiks! I nawet nie mogę uczciwie powiedzieć, że skończyłam, bo tzw. komentarz reżyserski odpuściłam sobie po 3 stronach.
1 gwiazdka to prawdopodobnie niesprawiedliwa ocena, ale mam to w dupie. Jestem zawiedziona i zła.
Niniejszym przedstawiam państwu listę żalów oraz narzekań (a.k.a. 10 Things I Hate About You Książko):
1. Najśmieszniejsze jest to, że czytałam kolejne odcinki publikowane na Instagramie i było fajnie. W ramach 10 kafelków nie trzeba się skupiać na strukturze, zmienianiu poziomu napięcia i innych takich zabiegach, ale jako całość to w ogóle nie ma energii i jest mniej więcej tak ekscytujące jak 3-godzinne porno.
2. Kolejnym moim problemem, który oczywiście nie dla wszystkich musi być problemem, jest fakt, że w serii, która się nazywa Megg, Mogg & Owl głównym bohaterem zostaje Wilkołak Jones. Nigdy go za bardzo nie lubiłam. Hanselmann pisze o nim jako o rozszalałym id, a dla mnie od początku był on wyrazem edgelordyzmu autora. Fakt, że stał się centralną postacią, mówi całkiem sporo rzeczy i żadna z tych rzeczy mi się nie podoba.
3. Jak napisałam wyżej, nie doczytałam komentarza reżyserskiego, ponieważ trudno było z niego wynieść coś ponad to, że Hanselmann po tych latach tworzenia został po prostu starym dziadem podobnym do wszystkich innych starych dziadów.
4. Zresztą już sam fakt zaistnienia komentarza kurwa reżyserskiego jest stuprocentowym dowodem na starodziaderstwo.
5. W ogóle South Park vibe jest silny w tym tomie. South Park też kiedyś bardzo lubiłam, a potem się okazało, że to – no, zgadnijcie – stare dziady, którym się wydaje, że są ostatnimi rozsądnymi ludźmi na świecie, a poprawność polityczna zabija komedię (!!!!!1!!11one).
6. I tak całkiem na marginesie – z jakiegoś powodu długo mi się wydawało, że Hanselmann jest trochę queerowy, ale po Kwarantannie i np. tych całkiem randomowych zmianach tożsamości płciowej różnych bohaterów zaczynam mieć nieprzyjemne wrażenie, że może być, ekhm, odwrotnie. W sensie że ta czarownica to tak naprawdę po prostu śmieszne przebranie. Żaden tam Rocky Horror Picture Show, tylko Paranienormalni. Ale może przesadzam, tak bywa, gdy się ma złamane serce.
(Teraz kończę żale na Hanselmanna, a zaczynam na polskie wydanie).
7. Z tak złym tłumaczeniem nie miałam do czynienia nigdy, a czytałam różne książki Soni Dragi. Miałam jakieś tam swoje uwagi do Marcelego Szpaka, ale teraz jestem gotowa zapisać się do jego fanklubu albo go nawet założyć. Z mojego krótkiego researchu wynika, że Robert Popielecki nie jest w ogóle tłumaczem literatury, więc wszystkim zainteresowanym gratuluję odwagi. Panie Robercie, to niby młodzieżowe słownictwo przestało być młodzieżowe jakieś 30 lat temu. Wciskanie wszędzie polskiego kontekstu wyszło z translatorskiej mody jeszcze dawniej.
8. Jeśli daje się przypis do Anity Sarkeesian, to może warto dać też do „carrot bottom”. Gdybym stworzyła kwarantannową listę niekonsekwencji, kontrowersyjnych decyzji i zwykłych błędów translatorsko-redaktorskich, mogłaby się okazać dłuższa nawet niż komentarz reżyserski (dla porządku: str. 271–282).
9. A najbardziej kontrowersyjne jest użycie słowa „śpiulkolot”. No błagam.
10. I jeszcze ad. 8 – oprócz porządnego tłumacza tej nieszczęsnej książce poskąpiono też porządnej redakcji. Nie będę się wyzłośliwiać, bo wiem, jak ta praca wygląda, ale jedna rzecz mi do tej pory podnosi ciśnienie: ktoś, ktokolwiek powinien wyłapać, że Strachu nie tylko jest regularnie misgenderowana, ale też sama się misgenderuje. (Co się zapewne niechcący, ale nadal nieprzyjemnie dokłada do mojego zażalenia nr 6).
Poprzednie tomy były bardzo śmieszne i bardzo smutne. Ten jest już głównie krindżowy. Być może Marceli Szpak po prostu nie chciał mieć z nim nic wspólnego.
No bo w końcu odkryłam, że jest kolejny tom, kupiłam go w ciągu następnych 5 minut, czytałam 1,5 miesiąca. 1,5 miesiąca! Komiks! I nawet nie mogę uczciwie powiedzieć, że skończyłam, bo tzw. komentarz reżyserski odpuściłam sobie po 3 stronach.
1 gwiazdka to prawdopodobnie niesprawiedliwa ocena, ale mam to w dupie. Jestem zawiedziona i zła.
Niniejszym przedstawiam państwu listę żalów oraz narzekań (a.k.a. 10 Things I Hate About You Książko):
1. Najśmieszniejsze jest to, że czytałam kolejne odcinki publikowane na Instagramie i było fajnie. W ramach 10 kafelków nie trzeba się skupiać na strukturze, zmienianiu poziomu napięcia i innych takich zabiegach, ale jako całość to w ogóle nie ma energii i jest mniej więcej tak ekscytujące jak 3-godzinne porno.
2. Kolejnym moim problemem, który oczywiście nie dla wszystkich musi być problemem, jest fakt, że w serii, która się nazywa Megg, Mogg & Owl głównym bohaterem zostaje Wilkołak Jones. Nigdy go za bardzo nie lubiłam. Hanselmann pisze o nim jako o rozszalałym id, a dla mnie od początku był on wyrazem edgelordyzmu autora. Fakt, że stał się centralną postacią, mówi całkiem sporo rzeczy i żadna z tych rzeczy mi się nie podoba.
3. Jak napisałam wyżej, nie doczytałam komentarza reżyserskiego, ponieważ trudno było z niego wynieść coś ponad to, że Hanselmann po tych latach tworzenia został po prostu starym dziadem podobnym do wszystkich innych starych dziadów.
4. Zresztą już sam fakt zaistnienia komentarza kurwa reżyserskiego jest stuprocentowym dowodem na starodziaderstwo.
5. W ogóle South Park vibe jest silny w tym tomie. South Park też kiedyś bardzo lubiłam, a potem się okazało, że to – no, zgadnijcie – stare dziady, którym się wydaje, że są ostatnimi rozsądnymi ludźmi na świecie, a poprawność polityczna zabija komedię (!!!!!1!!11one).
6. I tak całkiem na marginesie – z jakiegoś powodu długo mi się wydawało, że Hanselmann jest trochę queerowy, ale po Kwarantannie i np. tych całkiem randomowych zmianach tożsamości płciowej różnych bohaterów zaczynam mieć nieprzyjemne wrażenie, że może być, ekhm, odwrotnie. W sensie że ta czarownica to tak naprawdę po prostu śmieszne przebranie. Żaden tam Rocky Horror Picture Show, tylko Paranienormalni. Ale może przesadzam, tak bywa, gdy się ma złamane serce.
(Teraz kończę żale na Hanselmanna, a zaczynam na polskie wydanie).
7. Z tak złym tłumaczeniem nie miałam do czynienia nigdy, a czytałam różne książki Soni Dragi. Miałam jakieś tam swoje uwagi do Marcelego Szpaka, ale teraz jestem gotowa zapisać się do jego fanklubu albo go nawet założyć. Z mojego krótkiego researchu wynika, że Robert Popielecki nie jest w ogóle tłumaczem literatury, więc wszystkim zainteresowanym gratuluję odwagi. Panie Robercie, to niby młodzieżowe słownictwo przestało być młodzieżowe jakieś 30 lat temu. Wciskanie wszędzie polskiego kontekstu wyszło z translatorskiej mody jeszcze dawniej.
8. Jeśli daje się przypis do Anity Sarkeesian, to może warto dać też do „carrot bottom”. Gdybym stworzyła kwarantannową listę niekonsekwencji, kontrowersyjnych decyzji i zwykłych błędów translatorsko-redaktorskich, mogłaby się okazać dłuższa nawet niż komentarz reżyserski (dla porządku: str. 271–282).
9. A najbardziej kontrowersyjne jest użycie słowa „śpiulkolot”. No błagam.
10. I jeszcze ad. 8 – oprócz porządnego tłumacza tej nieszczęsnej książce poskąpiono też porządnej redakcji. Nie będę się wyzłośliwiać, bo wiem, jak ta praca wygląda, ale jedna rzecz mi do tej pory podnosi ciśnienie: ktoś, ktokolwiek powinien wyłapać, że Strachu nie tylko jest regularnie misgenderowana, ale też sama się misgenderuje. (Co się zapewne niechcący, ale nadal nieprzyjemnie dokłada do mojego zażalenia nr 6).
Poprzednie tomy były bardzo śmieszne i bardzo smutne. Ten jest już głównie krindżowy. Być może Marceli Szpak po prostu nie chciał mieć z nim nic wspólnego.
December 26, 2023
piekne slodkie ale 4.5 za centryzm
September 12, 2022
Pre-script: nihilism-burgers grilled in an Oculus Rift atop the world's ashes. Like, á la Great Reset conspiracies or that one season of Adventure Time where they see the internet podworld apocalypse-town.
Extremely artful, but I think the work stares itself in the anus a little too much. Anus gazing. An anus-shaped window into the fun house reflection of...not so much reality in 2020, but rather the internet version of reality in 2020. I did not read this during its free run on instagram, and thus I feel distant from a lot of the context surrounding this work's release and construction, which occurred simultaneous with the crises that rippled and spanned across both meatspace and artificial "reality."
To me, the most relatable aspect of the work was the atmosphere of, "everything has changed, the old world is dead, and perhaps we can never enjoy frivolous shit ever again." Directly after establishing this overhanging reality, the comic derails into aggressively frivolous parody of some of the least frivolous happenings throughout the year. Its satire is an eclectic mix of gloomy, sober reflection on decay and troll-baity toxicity porn. As I slowly acquiant myself more and more with Hanselmann's work, I come to understand that these are inevitabilities, consistent with the work's internal world and logic. But I'm a bit sick with the dripping cynicism and individualism that infect this particular work, especially as it attempts to wrap itself around current events. Its screaming, heavy-handed self-label of "apolitical" becomes more and more political with every page. It is indeed impossible to remain comfortably agnostic to the inevitable growth of "extremism," when reality itself has become extreme. Sorry, but your house is not an ivory spaceship floating above the decaying landscape. It rises from the ground and obeys gravity's laws, just like everything else.
If I were reading this comic during its serialization, idk if I would've kept up with it. I DON'T want to see trite pap or virtue signaling from these characters, their behavior during the pandemic is credible to their character development over the course of years. But perhaps Simon could've turned his direction at least *somewhat* toward how people have attempted (and at times materially succeeded in) building solidarity with each other. It's just alienation all the way down, with no humanity left, a pastiche of smoggy grey with none of the glitters of beauty that Simon is sometimes known for in his other work. How sad, to look at our present and future, and to look for not a single glimmer of even a world-weary hope, that we could perhaps fight to find with each other.
Extremely artful, but I think the work stares itself in the anus a little too much. Anus gazing. An anus-shaped window into the fun house reflection of...not so much reality in 2020, but rather the internet version of reality in 2020. I did not read this during its free run on instagram, and thus I feel distant from a lot of the context surrounding this work's release and construction, which occurred simultaneous with the crises that rippled and spanned across both meatspace and artificial "reality."
To me, the most relatable aspect of the work was the atmosphere of, "everything has changed, the old world is dead, and perhaps we can never enjoy frivolous shit ever again." Directly after establishing this overhanging reality, the comic derails into aggressively frivolous parody of some of the least frivolous happenings throughout the year. Its satire is an eclectic mix of gloomy, sober reflection on decay and troll-baity toxicity porn. As I slowly acquiant myself more and more with Hanselmann's work, I come to understand that these are inevitabilities, consistent with the work's internal world and logic. But I'm a bit sick with the dripping cynicism and individualism that infect this particular work, especially as it attempts to wrap itself around current events. Its screaming, heavy-handed self-label of "apolitical" becomes more and more political with every page. It is indeed impossible to remain comfortably agnostic to the inevitable growth of "extremism," when reality itself has become extreme. Sorry, but your house is not an ivory spaceship floating above the decaying landscape. It rises from the ground and obeys gravity's laws, just like everything else.
If I were reading this comic during its serialization, idk if I would've kept up with it. I DON'T want to see trite pap or virtue signaling from these characters, their behavior during the pandemic is credible to their character development over the course of years. But perhaps Simon could've turned his direction at least *somewhat* toward how people have attempted (and at times materially succeeded in) building solidarity with each other. It's just alienation all the way down, with no humanity left, a pastiche of smoggy grey with none of the glitters of beauty that Simon is sometimes known for in his other work. How sad, to look at our present and future, and to look for not a single glimmer of even a world-weary hope, that we could perhaps fight to find with each other.
September 30, 2021
The six stages of reading a Simon Hanselmann collection:
Laugh hysterically
Think about people like this existing in the real world
Get real sad and bleak
Power through the the characters repeated mistakes
Allow yourself to feel hopeful in the moment
Know that this is temporary
It happens to me every time and I never fail to come back for more.
This collection has all the same well-worn antics of this group of dysfunctional, drug-addicted "friends" but with the added pains of 2020: pandemics, protests, police brutality, and toilet paper shortages. The real world connections makes it hit harder and and sharper, but its still great stuff.
Laugh hysterically
Think about people like this existing in the real world
Get real sad and bleak
Power through the the characters repeated mistakes
Allow yourself to feel hopeful in the moment
Know that this is temporary
It happens to me every time and I never fail to come back for more.
This collection has all the same well-worn antics of this group of dysfunctional, drug-addicted "friends" but with the added pains of 2020: pandemics, protests, police brutality, and toilet paper shortages. The real world connections makes it hit harder and and sharper, but its still great stuff.
November 15, 2021
The best book yet written about the pandemic.
With such lax attitudes to good taste, decent storytelling or compelling characters--we have found the antidote to these shitty two years--and it's a graphic novel!
Reminiscent of John Waters, South Park, and real life, this may be one of the funniest (chortle-worthy!) books I've ever read. And those are rare! Especially outside a comedic autobiography, especially because it is so recent.
I had a wonderful time with this one.
P.S. Anal sex is basically a character of its own... So... you know. Just like in real pandemic life. KIDDING!
With such lax attitudes to good taste, decent storytelling or compelling characters--we have found the antidote to these shitty two years--and it's a graphic novel!
Reminiscent of John Waters, South Park, and real life, this may be one of the funniest (chortle-worthy!) books I've ever read. And those are rare! Especially outside a comedic autobiography, especially because it is so recent.
I had a wonderful time with this one.
P.S. Anal sex is basically a character of its own... So... you know. Just like in real pandemic life. KIDDING!
November 4, 2021
What a gift, this book. Consider me a huge fucking fan of Simon Hanselmann. What a beautiful, glorious, disgusting book - a perfect representation of 2020.
May 18, 2024
Third read through. He’s undefeated. I still don’t know how he does it. I’m perpetually in awe. I never want to forget the surreal feeling of reading the daily drops of this during the pandemic. Because it truly felt like we’d all been dropped into a Meg Mogg Owl comic for that entire year. But then Simon managed to raise his own bar and schlacked on yet another layer of plausible ludicrousness. If anyone but him tried to parody the pandemic it would be dull and less weird than the actual thing. He was the only man for the job.
I want to bark at anyone that ever takes him for granted, he’s always made writing good stuff look so easy. Those characters are so real to me, it sometimes feels like they live in those books, not that they came out of someone’s pen. He’s that good!
I wouldn’t understand the world properly if it wasn’t for Simon’s comics, they’re so embedded in me now it’s like the air I breathe. I paid $50 shipping for a German newspaper print out of his illustrations that cost $12 to frame around the house. I’m a loser! I’m a fucking sucker!!!! He’s the best!!!!!!!!!
I want to bark at anyone that ever takes him for granted, he’s always made writing good stuff look so easy. Those characters are so real to me, it sometimes feels like they live in those books, not that they came out of someone’s pen. He’s that good!
I wouldn’t understand the world properly if it wasn’t for Simon’s comics, they’re so embedded in me now it’s like the air I breathe. I paid $50 shipping for a German newspaper print out of his illustrations that cost $12 to frame around the house. I’m a loser! I’m a fucking sucker!!!! He’s the best!!!!!!!!!
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August 19, 2021a truly filthy masterpiece - crisis zone gazes into the gaping anus of 2020 and emerges as a perfect encapsulation of that time. It now reads as a sort of "greatest hits" of the collective insanity of the beginning of the pandemic year and while this will age it - some of the dialogue of the kids for instance already comes off as slightly corny - this is to its credit. It truly does capture the exact feeling of living through the event. The confusion, the media addiction, the ennui, the constant idiocy, the new directions in life we all had to take...
Fearless and transgressive, Crisis Zone puts its middle finger up to good taste, shoves it right up its anus and laughs madly. Hanselmann is the people's comic poet.
Fearless and transgressive, Crisis Zone puts its middle finger up to good taste, shoves it right up its anus and laughs madly. Hanselmann is the people's comic poet.
May 31, 2022
Hanselman sigue tan bruto como siempre en esta nueva entrega de las aventuras de Megg y Mogg. En esta ocasión arremete contra Internet, la filosofia woke, las redes sociales, only fans, realities y la estupidez del ser humano durante la pandemia del covid. Es gracioso encontrarnos a sus personajes viviendo lo mismo que experimentamos todos pero pasado por el tamiz de Hanselman.
Como no podia ser de otra manera toda la pandilla acaba en la casa de Megg durante la pandemia y Buho es el único que intenta ser responsable y seguir las normas anti covid ante el caos que le rodea.
Situaciones descacharrantes como entierros de tangas, drama por perder partidas de la wii y borracheras inundan las páginas de un cómic que cada vez es más radical y realista si cabe.
Como no podia ser de otra manera toda la pandilla acaba en la casa de Megg durante la pandemia y Buho es el único que intenta ser responsable y seguir las normas anti covid ante el caos que le rodea.
Situaciones descacharrantes como entierros de tangas, drama por perder partidas de la wii y borracheras inundan las páginas de un cómic que cada vez es más radical y realista si cabe.
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