![]() ![]() Volume III, we’ll submit, is not quite as funny or viscerally pleasing as the first two volumes, but it captures a stage of life-the onset of adulthood-as well as or better than the original comics captured being young and dysfunctional in the days of grunge. Don’t get me wrong: Buddy’s solution to his financial woes is buying a dump, and his more sordid past keeps turning up like a bad penny (literal skeletons, as one he thought was buried needed to be re-buried in this volume…twice). There’s a degree of realism in the aging Buddy trying to provide for a family and dealing with other issues of getting older that the ‘90s HATE didn’t have (or need). In the ‘90s version of HATE, Peter Bagge’s stock-in-trade was parodying societal norms through Buddy’s increasingly outlandish misadventures and gaffes.ĭomestic life with Buddy isn’t quite as over-the-top, but the stories are a bit more poignant for it. ![]() Buddy Baker’s life is less frenetic, having settled down with the certifiable Lisa Leavenworth and started a family. The past decade-plus worth of HATE comics certainly are paced differently than the prior volumes. ![]()
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