He has a style whose specificity exists in complete opposition with his scattered body of work, and while I haven't made it my mission to track down everything he's done, Hectic Planet has been "one of those comics I'd like to get to someday" for probably a decade. Why all the special attention on this, a somewhat spotty first volume of an admittedly rough-around-the-edges series in the early career of Evan Dorkin, a writer who straddles mainstream and indie comics without making huge splashes in either? I dunno I've always thought that at his best, Dorkin is one of the most capable renaissance men in the biz, able to draw and write his way around most of his peers and make it look easy. And YAY! I liked it (I better, since I throw most books at the wall if I don't like the first page.) But finally tonight I got through the whole thing in one uber-focused sitting. I've been starting and re-starting this book for over a week, getting through sections of it, forgetting where I left off and starting again.
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