{"id":9320,"date":"2021-02-22T16:20:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T21:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=9320"},"modified":"2021-02-22T16:22:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T21:22:00","slug":"poor-tired-and-depressed-on-planet-earth-evan-dorkins-hectic-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2021\/02\/22\/poor-tired-and-depressed-on-planet-earth-evan-dorkins-hectic-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor&#8230; Tired&#8230; And Depressed  on Planet Earth &#8212; Evan Dorkin&#8217;s Hectic Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThis is it. From <cite>Hectic Planet: Checkered Past<\/cite> this is the most Gen X comics panel ever created:\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/wissewords\/Hectic Planet 01.jpg\" width=\"711\" height=\"604\" alt=\"Hectic Planet: when you are so poor you cannot afford a glass of Nesquick\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nWhen you&#8217;re so poor, tired and alienated that the only thing you can think of to bring a little light in your life is a shitty overpriced chocolate milk substitute drink and you can&#8217;t even afford that. Welcome to Reagan&#8217;s America, except this is 2074 and what you&#8217;re reading is supposed to be a light hearted space opera sci-fi comic about underground Pirate Corps sticking it to the man. Instead it&#8217;s a series about twentysomething slackers with no jobs, no money, no future, living from day to day adrift in a world with no use for them. They survive on a diet of insipid pop culture references, underground zine culture and ska. Mix <cite>Clerks<\/cite> with <cite>Repo Man<\/cite> and 2-Tone and you sorta get what <cite>Hectic Planet<\/cite> was about.\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/wissewords\/Hectic Planet 02.jpg\" width=\"956\" height=\"466\" alt=\"Hectic Planet: the covers of the collected editions\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<cite>Hectic Planet<\/cite> was Evan Dorkin&#8217;s first series and it shows. The beginning is a bit rough but can see his art improving as the series progresses. Everything that he would later put in <cite>Milk &#038; Cheese<\/cite> or <cite>Dork!<\/cite> is already here in an embryonic form. The density of the writing and art, the pop culture trivia, the background of quiet ennui &#038; depression that&#8217;s present throughout brought on by the knowledge that there&#8217;s no place for you in the real world nor do you want one: this is perhaps the most Gen X comic ever created. Written in the late eighties, it anticipates the pop culture of the nineties, the depression after the false dawn of Reaganomics failed to turn into a mushroom cloud and a whole generation had to get used to the idea that they would have to become adults after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is it. From Hectic Planet: Checkered Past this is the most Gen X comics panel ever created: When you&#8217;re so poor, tired and alienated that the only thing you can think of to bring a little light in your life is a shitty overpriced chocolate milk substitute drink and you can&#8217;t even afford that. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1329],"class_list":["post-9320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comix","tag-evan-dorkin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9320"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9323,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9320\/revisions\/9323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}