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Complete Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist

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I've read this book through about twelve times (and that's a lot... it's a big book!) and gotten several friends hooked on it. It's gory and gross and violent and completely over the top. The ultimate angry Riot Grrrl feminist takes revenge on the sexist jerks of the world.

Anybody who's ever experienced the unfairness of the world and wished they could take revenge will love this book. It's simply the most fun book to read you'll find, but at the same time there are real insights here, things that will make you stop and think, things that will make you see the life a little differently, if only for a few minutes. And plenty that will make you jump up and yell, "YES!!" But it really can't be described in a review. You just have to experience the awesome power of Hothead for yourself.

This is probably my all-time favorite book. I reach for it at the end of a hard day of dealing with men, the media and all the other .... in my life. Hothead is hilarious, insane and a complete antidote to all the "superheroes" I've been spoonfed all my life. DiMassa pulls no punches, nothing is sacred. This book has a permanent place on my nightstand!

Buy this immediately and strike a blow for sanity and peace of mind. This wonderful book is for every gurl who's ever thought, "You wouldn't DARE do me this way if I had a penis!" Don't expect political correctness here.

Diane DiMassa is an emotional genius and a truly great cartoonist. Her drawings of Chicken the cat make me want to run out and buy tuna just in case she shows up at my door. However, if it was a choice between Trinity and Chicken, I'd have to think a while...

HH is the best cure for PMS, menstrual cramps, broken hearts/breakups, anger over sexual harassment, etc, that I've found yet. Great book to read in public places, too. Strongly recommended for sexual assault survivors and those who work with them.

This is a wonderful underground and quite subversive comic premised around overthrowing patriarchy and phallocentric society. DiMassa is witty and bold and clearly very angry with a world that has and continues marginalised women and create normalising barriers for non-hetrosexuals.

While the work is clearly tongue-in-cheek and based on exagerrated fantasy, the truth resonates, and DiMassa has a wonderful way of saying and doing exactly what all women have wished they could do. The characters are wonderful, particular Chicken, Hothead's lovely yoga-esque cat and her blind but centred friend Rox. It is definitely not as violent as I had imagined and much more plot driven, which is good.

The Complete work chronicles an entire comic, and while the work at the beginning is quite basic, the middle section is an absolute joy to read. However, the final section is somewhat patchy and difficult to follow, as Hothead slips into depression and seeming hallucination. The art progressively becomes more refined, and was very funny at times.

Overall, the entire piece was better than I expected, let down only by the confusion shrouding the final sections of the work. Nevertheless, a favourite comic collection of mine, to be read when I am feeling particularly inflamed by societal inequalities.

As a member of the subset of humans this book supposedly targets (single white hetero male), I can't recommend this damn book enough. Anyone who believes hatred or disrespect of any sort for any reason other than a person's actions will respect Ms. Paisan, and quite frankly, the section on depression practically saved my life during a bad spell a few years ago. Thank you, Diane Di Massa- if more people were like you, this world would be a lot better place to live in.

Hothead Paisan dares to do the things most of us just think about when confronted with homophobia, racism, sexism, and well, sometimes just because. I stayed up until the middle of the night reading this because I didn't want to put it down. It frequently made me laugh, sometimes it made me sad, but mostly it made me jump up and down screaming "Yes! Yes! I've always wanted to do that!" Hothead taps the homicidal lesbian terrorist in all of us. And if you ever start to feel bad for Hothead's targets, just remember her motto--NO GUILT! Oh, and Chicken rocks, too. =)

This is a great book for any rainy day. You can open the book to nearly any page and get wrapped up in Hothead's story all over again. I bought this book years ago, and I am still picking it up and having fun with it all the time.

Hothead is the ultimate revenge fantasy for any oppressed female. DiMassa's art is distinctive and entertaining.

I can only imagine what HH would think of the current state of this country...

Own both the volumes of which this book is comprised and would trade them for nothing or no one (not even Trinity of "The Matrix," which is saying something). Hothead has helped me blow off steam in ways a therapist never could. She provokes thought and makes me laugh. A must read by any card-carrying feminist, and a proposed forced study for all the world's spritzheads and their boyfriends.

a poignant examination of sterotypes and prejudices

humorous and thought provoking

empowering and delightful