Buddy Does Jersey

Even though Buddy Bradley is sort of a self-absorbed asshole, I love Hate. (I guess that's sort of the point, actually.)

I found the end of the series incredibly bleak. For some reason, everyone else I've ever spoken to seems to think it's a happy ending.

Human and funny, dirty and real. This is the second volume of what happens to the main character, Buddy Bradley, after he during the mid 1990s leaves American Seattle for New Jersey together with his girlfriend, Lisa, to go live in his parents' house. His decrepit old dad is mean and his younger brother, dishonourably discharged from the navy, stays at home and gets up to no good, which drives Buddy to try and start a new business with a friend. Things get more complicated as his relationship with Lisa moves in different directions and his "friends" edge him towards all kind of edges.

Of course, Buddy's master of his own destiny, and as such perhaps isn't the best captain of his own ship...

This is a very human, heart-felt second omnibus show more of comics from the depths of low society-life where Buddy confesses to living as a snarling, optimistic yet dirty scoundrel. Funny, original and I really liked the characters; I will most definitely get the third volume. show less