![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As the story proceeds, this routine becomes less a liability and more the point of the book expressed over countless panels. But there’s much more here than shock value Hanselmann’s repetitive grid mirrors the lack of progress in the story. (It’s no surprise that these strips run regularly in the sex and drugs-obsessed pages of Vice). ![]() On the other hand, he’d also be less likely to get away with drawing such graphic material under a more a realistic style, which is somewhat disturbing. This visual approach can soften the impact of the deviant events he depicts (vomiting, a cheese grater to the scrotum, cat-on-witch action, sexual assault among friends). Hanselmann fills his color palette with pinks, greens, whites and grays, and his style is fairly cartoony. It’s not just Megg’s depressive episodes, which are impressively bleak on their own, but the self-sabotaging behavior that all the characters participate in, revealing a deep, clear sadness behind the arching narrative. The small cast features Megg (a witch), Mogg (a cat/Megg’s lover) and Owl (a humanoid owl) the trio share a house where they spend most of their time smoking weed, watching TV and going on misadventures that start out comedic and slowly turn tragic. Packaged like a DVD box set with an end-sheet inspired by John Everett Millais’ painting of Ophelia, Simon Hanselmann’s Megahex - a collection of his popular episodic comic - is much more ambitious than its stoner characters might initially suggest. ![]()
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