*He totally should have ditched their demented asses. Owl gets a pass though, he's okay in my book* Perhaps that was the point, but it's hard to have any empathy for depressed characters when they're pretty much monsters, both in the literal and figurative sense. Maybe I just wasn't in the proper mindset (high and drunk and tripping), but I just found all this more downbeat and mean-spirited than funny. Then they all drink and get high all day, are depressed sometimes, the end. Owl forgives them though since they acted kind of sorry. It was all just a birthday prank for Owl, so it's okay. Pretty good if you dig constant cruelty and bullying among friends, and find owl rape amusing, which is made even funnier by the fact that the owl's best friends, Megg the witch and Mogg the cat, are watching, and his other friend, Werewolf Jones, is the one doing the deed. It's not a nice book, but it's a book that stays with you. So maybe I would recommend the book after all, albeit with a warning. It's beautiful and heartbreaking, a simple moment crystallized in beauty and grief. In one scene, she dances in the living room as the lamp reflects the sequins on her miniskirt. Her depression, depicted in a series of increasingly surreal panels and splash pages, rang surprisingly true.
I think the book really shines in the section where Megg mourns the pending loss of her sick mother (only mentioned, very briefly). It's the same way I feel whenever I binge-watch Always Sunny-after one too many episodes, I just can't handle another 20 minutes of horrible people being horrible to each other. Taken as a whole, it feels a little trying. That's my problem with Megahax: taken in pieces, I absolutely love it. I want to print it out as a poster and hang it above my bed. I want to make it a patch and sew it on my favorite jacket. "I'm a fucking rich bitch," she says with a cigarette poised by her mouth. One of my favorites is a panel of Megg at a children's birthday party, black robes drawn up over hair legs as she sits on a pony. 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. 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.
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