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HEY,
BUDDY!
Buddy Bradley Stories from HATE,
Volume One |
| by Peter Bagge |
Paperback: 120 pages
Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1560971134 |
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$12.95
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| If there could
be such a thing as grunge comics, this is it. In fact, even Seattle Weekly
said, "Twenty years from now, when people wonder what it was like to be
young in 1990s Seattle, the only record we'll have is Peter Bagge's Hate."
Hey Buddy! collects the first five issues of Bagge's Hate, a hip account
of the life of Buddy Bradley. This book is a must for the coffeehouse crowd. |
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Here are more
adventures of young Buddy Bradley and his pals, collected from the pages
of Hate. This volume concentrates on the problems of love in the 1990s.
Is it possible to form a meaningful relationship in a society where love
is cheapened by advertising and popular music? Is love itself simply an
expression of gender-specific power structures, maintaining the phallocentric
obsessions of an oppressive patriarchy? Would Buddy be more successful
with girls if he took a bath? All of these questions and more are explored
in this collection. Every page is as rude and funny as you would expect
from Peter Bagge; it's like watching the wildest sitcom every created,
and Buddy's attempts to forge a relationship with the utterly insane Lisa
are not to be missed. As a matter of fact, he does take a bath, with unexpected
results.
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From the publisher, Fantagraphics
Books:
Alternative Comics!
Generation X finds the biographer
it deserves in Peter Bagge's HATE comics. HEY BUDDY reprints issues #1-5
of HATE and is stuffed with stories of pathetic drunks, lousy rock 'n'
roll, psychotic love affairs, and minimum wage hell.
--Chris
Jacobs
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BUDDY
THE DREAMER
Buddy Bradley Stories from HATE,
Volume Two |
| by Peter Bagge |
Paperback: 120 pages
Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1560971541 |
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$12.95
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| Peter Bagge
is the Geoffrey Chaucer of Generation X. The adventures of Buddy Bradley
and his friends skewer the heart of 1990s post-adolescent culture more
accurately than a hundred documentaries or Time magazine articles could.
Set in Seattle, Washington, the Buddy Bradley stories follow the lives
of a group of friends as they deal with sexual inadequacy, self-loathing,
and a bleak, empty future. It's all extremely humorous. |
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| Bagge uses a
wonderfully elastic, aggressively cartoony graphic style; his characters
spend a considerable amount of time slouched on old sofas, but when they
explode with emotion, they really explode, bugging their eyeballs and stretching
their limbs. This volume contains the extended story "Follow that Dream,"
in which the revolting Stinky and his band (managed by Buddy of course)
become stars, sort of. |
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FUN
WITH BUDDY & LISA
Buddy Bradley Stories from HATE,
Volume Three |
| by Peter Bagge |
Paperback: 114 pages
Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1560971754 |
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$12.95
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| Don't let the
red hearts and wide grins on the cover fool you. Peter Bagge is at it again
in this third collection of his ever-popular comic book HATE. Buddy Bradley,
the suburban teenage everyman, keeps doing his thing even while his relationship
with the neurotic Lisa disintegrates into "drunken misery." |
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Bagge's cartooning
style has an energetic elasticity to it, which combined with his crisp
writing has won him legion fans including Matt Groening (THE SIMPSONS),
Mike Judge (BEAVIS & BUTT-HEAD), John Kricfalusi (REN & STIMPY),
and CRUMB director Terry Zwigoff, who is producing the animated HATE for
MTV.
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FUN WITH BUDDY & LISA
is the comic book rendition of all your teenage/early adulthood fears,
but with side splitting humour thrown in to sweeten the mix. Buddy is,
tragically, the joe on the street. Victim to a world that will not slow
down enough for him to catch up. The art is fluid and psychotic, the writing
makes you feel as if you are an uneasy eavesdropper and the characters
are hyperactive, paranoid creatures who, with a sudden shiver down your
back, you suddenly recognise as all too familiar. Warning! This is not
for kids or the easily offended! |
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BUDDY
GO HOME!
Buddy Bradley Stories from HATE,
Volume Four |
| by Peter Bagge |
Paperback: 120 pages
Seven Hills Book Distributors
ISBN: 1560972769 |
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$16.95
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| The further
hilarious adventures of a slacker named Buddy
Peter Bagge takes us back
to where it all began: the suburban New Jersey home of the Bradley clan.
Babs is now a single mother of two too cute/too annoying kiddies, Butch
is an oafish simpleton, Mom is drunk, Dad's almost dead, and Buddy &
Lisa are still in hate with each other. |
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| Bagge's talent
for charaterization and his hyperactive comic style shine in this volume.
The subject matter is a little more serious than in previous HATE stories,
but it is still consistently hilarious and reminds all of us grown-up slackers
how lucky we are to be out of the house. |
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BUDDY'S
GOT THREE MOMS!
Buddy Bradley Stories from HATE,
Volume Five |
| by Peter Bagge |
Paperback: 128 pages
Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1560973358 |
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$16.95
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| Must-read
literature for understanding the '90's.
This installment of Peter
Bagge's great comic "Hate!" finds Buddy Bradley living at home in New Jersey
following the death of his father. The title refers to the matriarchy Buddy
finds himself living under: his dysfuntional single-mom sister, his own
grief-stricken mother, and his insane girlfriend Lisa. |
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| Nervy comedy
based on edgy battle-of-the-sexes obsevations will have you howling with
laughter and feeling anxious at the same time. One critic said "Hate!"
is like "Stranger Than Paradise" meets the Three Stooges. |
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