Hectic Planet, Book Three : The Young and the Reckless (Bk. 3) [Paperback]

Evan Dorkin (Author, Artist)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 2001

The third collection of Eisner, Harvey, and Ignatz award-winning creator Evan Dorkin's Hectic Planet brings readers another unhealthy dose of Dorkin's pop culture-obsessed future of 2074. Welcome back once again to a universe filled with aimless youth living on broken-down spaceships, alien ska bands, overbearing security robots, psychotic mercenaries on the run, multi-species anti-gravity sex clubs, guerilla tele-journalists, and, of course, cheap beer--all colliding with humorous, dramatic, and violent results. The Young and the Reckless is a 96-page trade paperback collecting Hectic Planet number five and six, as well as the Vroom Socko: Paid in Full one-shot. It also includes new linking material and art, pinups, ska and punk album art from Mr. B's Ballroom, and all new packaging art. A nifty addition to the Evan Dorkin library of craziness!

Editorial Reviews

From the Inside Flap

Welcome back to 2074, an overcrowded, pop culture-obsessed universe where your ex lives on another planet, the cop on the beat runs on batteries, and alien crooks debate the true meaning of art. A place where hapless romantic losers co-mingle with heavily armed pill-popping paranoid psychotics, and where slice of future life stories collide with a slab of future death.

About the Author

Evan Dorkin is the Eisner, Harvey, and Ignatz award winning creator of Milk and Cheese and Dork. His animation writing credits include episodes of Space Ghost Coast to Coast and Batman Beyond. The Young and the Reckless continues the Hectic Planet storyline begun in volumes one, Dim Future, and two, Checkered Past.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: SLG Publishing (June 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0943151384
• ISBN-13: 978-0943151380
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 6.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,697,804 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best One Yet! (Hey Dork....Where's Book Four?!?!?!?), December 9, 2002

By 

Daniel V. Reilly (Upstate New York, United States) - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)   

This review is from: Hectic Planet, Book Three : The Young and the Reckless (Bk. 3) (Paperback)

Evan Dorkin's growth into one of the masters of the Comic-Book form is on display yet again in Hectic Planet Book Three: The Young and the Reckless. It's the best volume yet; Unfortunately, aside from three 8-page stories (Published by Slave Labor Graphics as "Hectic Planet: The Bummer Trilogy"), it's also the LAST volume. (Dorkin says there are more Planet stories planned for 2002, but I'm writing this in December 2002, and there hasn't been a peep yet....)

The book itself is fairly slim, but Dorkin packs in a lot of entertainment. Most of the plot revolves around Halby and Renensco out on the town; After an ill-advised hot-dog theft, the duo is thrown behind bars. There's a few great laughs, more than a few tear-jerking moments, and the Vroom Socko interlude has got to be the most brutally violent scene I've ever seen in a comic. (I still laughed, though.) Despite the futuristic setting, Dorkin's characters seem, if not just like us, at least like people we've known. (Except for Vroom Socko. I've never known anyone QUITE that bad!) The art is spectacular- Dorkin packs a ton of detail into each panel, yet his storytelling never seems cluttered. Highly recommended!

(I'd advise new readers to skip Volume One entirely- It's some of Dorkin's earliest work, and it shows. Everything you need to know is in Volumes Two & Three.)