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Hi-Horse Omnibus Volume 1

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Modern alternative comics are simultaneously amusing and disturbing to people like me that grew up in the age of the strict comics code. Before the relaxation of the censorship rules, the content of comics was sanitized to the point of blandness. There could not be even the slightest of sexual innuendo or hints of any other "dirty" body function or brutal violence.
This collection of comics is generally for adults, although given what happens in movies, it is far tamer than what often passes for PG-13 entertainment. There is violence, strong sexual suggestion, anger and swearing, bathroom humor and even a hint of incest.
Although there have been many technological changes over the last fifty years, human behaviors largely have not. There was a great deal of violence fifty years ago; people did not speak of it outside their homes and it did not appear in the general entertainment. Therefore, the comics have changed to become more real, reality has not been altered all that much.
If you have a dark, macabre sense of humor, then these comics will appeal to you. There are no happy endings; in most cases the conclusions are as ambiguous as life, where things often just end. If you do not have such a sense of humor, then you will probably find the content boring or distasteful.

If for nothing else, to see young emergent artists come out of the chrysalis. Zettwoch is more than enough of a reason to own this.