If there was one book over the last several years I considered a must buy, it was I Shall Destroy All Civilized Planets, a collection of absolutely insane ’40s comics by demented (and, sadly, abusive drunk) cartoonist Fletcher Hanks. This is the real stuff, folks, a diret pipeline into a crazy man’s psyche. Comparing people to Ed Wood has become a tired and usually pointless cliche, but here the comparison is pretty apt. Both men seemed to be working from a logical framework not of this earth, and with a syntax to match.
In any case, as of today and at long last, the rest of Hanks’ work is now collected in a second tome, You Shall Die By Your Own Evil Creation. If it’s only half as good as the first volume, it will be WELL worth the money. Man, I can’t wait.
