This is the first time the entire Seattle arc from the pages of Hate has appeared under one cover. Bagge's characters are some of the most fully realised in comics - Buddy, the slacker anti-hero, Valerie, Buddy's Prozac-normalised ex, Lisa, his masochistic, worm-eating latest flame, Stinky, his selfish, venereal-warted room-mate, and George Cecil Hamilton III, the resident intellectual', who sits in his room scribbling depressive arcana into his notebook - they display their emotions so openly, so graphically that it would be rather horrifying it weren't such a riot.'
