But some single panels are so fucking funny. At times I felt like it tried to be edgy just to be edgy, in the vein of Zap! comics. It's definitely supposed to make you squirm.
The vulgarity made me uncomfortable-some drawn-out and graphic jokes about sexual assault, or even just images of the trio's filthy apartment. They are all terrible people who terrorize each other endlessly. 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. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and in spite of yourself, you may just gain some perspective on this absolute shit show of a year.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. Looking forward to August 2021, Fantagraphics will be publishing the Crisis Zone collection, which will include plenty of yet-to-be-released material: each page of the comic is 12 panels, but only 10 can be posted on Instagram at a time, so over 550 panels remain to be seen.īeyond that, the Fantagraphics collection is sure to garner even more attention for Crisis Zone – you can look forward to seeing it all over the “ Best Comics of 2021” lists next year.īut for the next week, you still have a chance to say that you spent some of 2020 with Werewolf Jones.
Last week, Crisis Zone was included among The Beat’s Best Comics of 2020, and yesterday, December 22 nd, 2020, Hanselmann posted the final page of the nine-month-long narrative to Instagram.īut while Hanselmann may have posted the final page of Crisis Zone, the story isn’t quite over yet. However, through the highs and lows, Crisis Zone is always, devastatingly engaging, and in a year when the world outside your window might literally be in flames, a little bit of distraction could be just what you’re looking for. But, like all of Hanselmann’s work, Crisis Zone is also filled with tragedy: zero punches are pulled in this comic. But as the year wore on (and Simon continued to deliver 10 panels nearly every single day, a monumental feat), the ongoing insanity of current events continued to have consequences for the characters… and, trapped in quarantine like the rest of us, the characters continued to find themselves forced to confront themselves in ways that they never expected: multiple characters come out as trans over the course of the narrative.Īt times, Crisis Zone is laugh-out-loud funny, featuring some of the best visual gags Hanselmann has yet to deliver (no small feat, as readers who are familiar with his comics can attest). In the beginning, Megg is enraptured with Animal Crossing and Mogg can’t stop getting his news from YouTube.
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