This may sound like a pure stoner comedy, but it transcends the genre: these characters struggle unsuccessfully to come to grips with their depression, drug use, sexuality, poverty, lack of work, lack of ambition, and their complex feelings about each other in ways that have made Megg and Mogg sensations on Hanselmann's Girl Mountain Tumblr. Their friend, Owl, is an anthropomorphized owl. Megg is a depressed, drug-addicted witch.
It might just keep you going or, at the very least, provide some rough chuckles.Genres: Anthropomorphic, Comedy, Leading Ladies It's kind of like the progression from 'Beavis and Butthead' to 'King of the Hill' that helps you appreciate that there was actually a lot more darkness and sadness in the former show than you first thought. The first quarter of the book may seem a bit throw-away or even stupid.
in a short amount of time you feel as though these guys are your stoner friends. There's a weird camaraderie about reading the comic. At the same time, you end up rooting for the bunch of them. Characters mess up and hurt each other and commit crimes and fall to pieces but they're not evil, so much as lazy, confused and wretched. The good thing is, unlike Kundera, Hanselmann isn't a misogynist. There's that distinction between experiencing life as 'heavy' and experiencing life as 'light' that's at the heart of Milan Kundera's 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being'. but his friends just see it as a prank and he can't get them to re-frame what happened. Without revealing too much, there's an incident which he (understandably!) insists was an assault. Perhaps an even better comparison would be 'Nathan Barley', with Owl as the character of Dan, who wants to rise above his surroundings, but at heart is no less of schmuck than his friends, who are far better at playing the post-ironic Vice magazine game than he is. The humour reminds me a bit of the Mitchell and Webb sitcom 'Peep Show' with Owl as a Mark figure and Megg / Mogg more like Jeremy or Superhans. The art is soft and tactile and appealing, shifting from bright watercolours, to near-monochrome grey scale, to suit the tone. What starts out as stoner hijinks slowly curdles into something much more sour and melancholy. Megg is a depressed witch with a Tumblr account Mogg is her familiar and lover, though isn't good at respecting her sexual boundaries Owl is kind of a huffy nerd, who the other two bully. Megahex collects Simon Hanselmann's 'Megg, Mogg and Owl' comics.
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