| | | |  | Apocalypse Nerd TPB
Written and Art by Peter Bagge.
Software engineer Perry and his friend Gordo are two average suburban guys who just wanted to go camping in North Cascade Mountains near Seattle -- but Kim Jung Il had other plans. Now Seattle is a smoldering nuclear wasteland and Perry and Gordo are about to be put to the test in ways they have never imagined. From the mind of acclaimed artist Peter Bagge comes a post-apocalyptic tale which will have you both laughing and gasping in horror!
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|  | Buddy Does Seattle
Writer/Artist:Peter Bagge
BUDDY DOES SEATTLE collects the entire 'Seattle' arc from the pages of Hate, and is the first time the entire saga has appeared under one cover! Bagge more or less cemented his association with the Grunge subculture in 1992 when he devoted two issues of Hate to a story where Buddy Bradley manages his best pal Stinky's grunge band, Leonard and the Love Gods, whose original lineup included three guys named Kurt. Bagge's characters are some of the most fully realized in comics — Buddy, the slacker antihero; Valerie, Buddy's Prozac-normalized ex; Lisa, his masochistic, worm-eating latest flame; Stinky, his selfish, venereal-warted roommate; and George Cecil Hamilton III, the resident "intellectual," who sits in his room scribbling depressive arcana into his notebook — they display their emotions so openly, so helplessly, so graphically, and with such precision as they attempt to negotiate the ragged terrain of early adulthood that it would all be rather horrifying if it weren't such a riot. Bagge's cartooning aids the cause, with one of the most idiosyncratic and inspiredly elastic and cartoony drawing styles in comics history.
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|  | Buddy Does Jersey TP
Writer:Peter Bagge
Artist:Peter Bagge
BUDDY DOES JERSEY is the explosively hilarious sequel to BUDDY DOES SEATTLE, in which a somewhat chastened Buddy Bradley is forced to move back in with his Garden State-based parents, neurotic girlfriend Lisa in tow. This newfound and very relative stability allows him to try to get his life back together again--he even starts working at his own business--but as dubious old friends show up and family members start going off the rails it doesn't take long for Buddy's situation to veer out of control all over again...
Reprints:
Complete Buddy Bradley stories from HATE COMICS VOL. II
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|  | Everybody Is Stupid Except Me & Other Astute Observations
Fans of Peter Bagge’s generation-defining, satirical fiction may not realize this, but the cartoonist doubles as an opinionated cuss, and has been contributing provocative (but still hilarious) comic-strip opinion pieces to Reason magazine for the last several years... finally collected in this volume. Although a libertarian by inclination (hence the Reason gig), Bagge (who lives in the fuzzy-headed, liberal capital of the Northwest, Seattle) is hardly dogmatic, and many of the pieces undermine traditional party lines in favor of a rather personal, rational and informed take on hot-button issues that will force partisan Democrats and Republicans alike to rethink them. And of course, Bagge’s well-researched comic strip - essays - crackle with the same energy and wit that propelled him into the collective Gen X consciousness with his comic book series Hate. Favourite topics include the erosion of our civil liberties (whether the post-9/11 Bush administrations’ gradual erosion of the Bill of Rights, the insanity of the war on drugs, or nanny-state meddling), ongoing boondoggles of the American public (for professional sports stadiums or ineffective public transportation systems), the Iraq war (Bagge is vociferously against it), politicians both in general and in particular (including the 2008 presidential race and a revelatory one-on-one with Republican not-so-hopeful Ron Paul that soured Bagge on the candidate forever), and the conservative/religious war on sex. Each piece features Bagge himself front and center as the puzzled, indignant, or deeply conflicted everyman-on-the-street trying to make sense of this 21st Century. And of course, every panel is delineated in Bagge’s glorious, laugh-out-loud stretchy 4-colour cartoon style, making even his disquisitions on some very serious topics go down as smoothly as Buddy Bradley’s latest escapade.
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|  | Comics Introspective Vol 01 Peter Bagge
TwoMorrows Publishing proudly presents a new book series that spotlights indy comics talent with an outside-the-box approach. Through a combination of original photography, multiple art gallery sections, and an introspective dialogue with each subject, Comics Introspective is unlike anything being published. Volume One features Peter Bagge, whose unique, expressive work runs the gamut from political (his strips for reason.com), to absurdist and satirical (the Batboy strip for Weekly World News), and dramatic (Apocalypse Nerd). From his Seattle studio, Bagge lets journalist Christopher Irving in on everything from just what was on his mind with his long-running Gen X comic Hate!, to what's going on in his head as a political satirist. This debut volume features an assortment of artwork picked by Bagge himself, and is printed on deluxe glossy stock to maximize the impact of the art and photography - all working to make it as breakthrough as the innovator it covers.
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