A review by chelseamartinez
Buddy Does Seattle by Peter Bagge
3.0
I always read Peter Bagge like taking my medicine, because I came to him through his feminist biographies. Obviously, the original HATE comics that made him famous are going to be way different, and I stepped into these expecting the work of a younger, more rakish storyteller, which was warranted.
Mostly, this was interesting to me as a remembrance of liberal weekly newspapers now gone from this earth, and also to see the way people joke about heroin use
(specifically in the seattle slacker scene, I think... I'm currently reading a book about a doctor working in west virginia in the 1980s and 1990s as HIV makes its way out of the big cities and he is absolutely confident that intravenous drug use is just not a thing there)
and also realize that there were people who were too cool for the people I thought were cool in high school, which I would not have been able to fathom at the time!
Mostly, this was interesting to me as a remembrance of liberal weekly newspapers now gone from this earth, and also to see the way people joke about heroin use
(specifically in the seattle slacker scene, I think... I'm currently reading a book about a doctor working in west virginia in the 1980s and 1990s as HIV makes its way out of the big cities and he is absolutely confident that intravenous drug use is just not a thing there)
and also realize that there were people who were too cool for the people I thought were cool in high school, which I would not have been able to fathom at the time!