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Summary: The Best One Yet! (Hey Dork....Where's Book Four?!?!?!?)
Review: 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.)
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