THE DIVIDED STATES OF HYSTERIA storytim

it's one of those comics


by image of course

though the writer/artist is actually a legit comics vet and not some rando they found on tumblr


but will you be able to tell the difference? let's find out

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nice art

I think those drones in the top right are mating


>one close calle

Howard Chaykin is an unintelligent, talentless hack with an obsession for edgy shit. The fact that the industry still looks up to him in a good way because his art looked decentish for 2 years really makes you understand why comics aren't respected as an artform.

not sure if it's the scan quality or the art that's just bad

>those feet

well, maybe the latter

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wyte ppl

is this a right leaning comic?

I expected some Marvel type of preach. Tis some Mark Millar shit.

is that a deagle?

I think the last guy who tried this exact thing IRL a couple months ago or so only got like 4-6

You know, at least when Neal Adams loses his mind he still draws really well.

This is like TDKSA level.

>This is like TDKSA level.

I'll fite u

this is gud comics

the writing in this comic is atrocious

i can't make out who's supposed to be talking in most of the panels

At least Holy Terror had the nifty art style to fall back on.

This is garbage. Please stop.

fuck with da trap dis gun go blap blap blap

>girls


never

Fucking wow

"Fuck that--I'm making HERSTORY"


maybe this storytime was a mistake

I didn't realize people knew they could be called traps.

oy vey

NO

We need to read it. We need to see this through to the end.

with jews you lose

*couch* Manchester *cough* London Bridge and Notre Dame

muh shoah

>Homeland security using WW2 era light tanks in defence of the white house

Fucking liberals had to eat up the defence budget.

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Wait is this referencing those sniper attacks from 2002? Or was there a more recent, higher profile black dude team who tagged some people I already forgot about? Because if it's the former it feels kinda late.

What is the point of this?

It's like reading a history novel from Transmetropolitan.

11/10 script

there was a thing in fresno but I remember it happened after the previews for this comic (which had that page) came out

I don't even know how this part could be relevant to the amerikkka schtick

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I dunno, maybe they are gonna hold a battle royale with criminals?

Chaykin's art is still great, but in his last couple turns at writing, he sounds like left-wing Frank Miller (cf that weird, socialist-themed Buck Rogers series from a couple years back). I can't say this thing bodes well for his future.

What the hell is this supposed to be about?

>Chaykin's art is still great,

:V

I don't think drones work that way

also oh shit

This isn't a serial killer, it's just a mob enforcer. Like if he just watched Goodfellas and The Iceman and put a bunch of cliches together.

Is it left-wing, though? It seems like it's pretty clear about the 'moral decay' theme.

Frankly, it could be left-wing. It's all a disjointed, 'fuck America' monologue put to paper. I'd rather listen to an Antifa rally chant

INFIDEL MOTHER FUCKER
well that ended with a bang ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

get it?

I can certainly believe that

THAT CARTOON INSTAGRAM JEW IS A FUCKING SCIBBLENAUTS CHARACTER

So, is it trying to be funny and failing, or is it trying to be dramatic and failing?

>Chaykin's art is still great

BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE


ready for some words muh infidel mufuggas?

>Lenin'sLoveChild

kek, this writer's gonna be skinned alive by progressive harpies on social media.

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What has Chyakin done that could be considered edgy? Black Kiss and The Shadow are the only ones that I see as him making things edgy for its own sake.

Hell, Twilight went all Watchmen with Silver Age Sci-Fi heroes and still turned into a very beautiful story.

I won't deny his art has only gotten worse.

It was only a matter of time before the SJW-types discovered Chaykin. It's a wonder they haven't called for his balls on a silver earlier.

>guy on the street minding his own gets blown away with no warning.
>guy pointing a presumably loaded gun at a fuckload of armed police gets arrested instead of turned into a stain.

objective proof that everyone involved in this shitshow has lost touch with reality. even if we assume the comic world is a totalitarian shithole this makes no fucking sense.

forget internal consistency, this ONE PAGE isnt consistent. You have to work hard to fuck up this bad.

and now they're talking about word balloons and art and shit but fuck if I'd even look at this cuz the art is shit

The actual art would be fine if it weren't for all that overlaid clutter. I've read this thing twice now, and I'm still not sure what all that multilingual gibberish and faux-Twitter posts are supposed to be. Some sort of satire on social media? Your guess is a s good as mine... And those are the most gaudy and obtrusive narration boxes I've seen in decades.

the polices were trying to get their score up so they tazed him over and over for 5 minutes but than forgot to report the gun

It's funny because despite all that talk the fucked up lettering and balloon placement is worse than any I've ever seen including in shtity DeviantArt comics.

GIGA SATAN

Shit post, but dang, nice quints.

this is the last page for real, there's just an ad for another comic and the ripper's logo after this
did you rike it?

oh yeah and one final question


this, or renato jones?

sorry that still makes zero sense.

the second this fuck pulled a gun those police would have gunned him down, not calmly reached for their sidearm tasers to subdue him so they could torture him.

if that were true they would have bagged the fucker on the street, dragged him into a van and did him the same to him.

in fact that would have been a better way to go about it anyway since then the snipers buddy could die in custody and be covered up. which would provide a reasonable motive for him to go completely apeshit. instead we get "white people suck so i want to kill them".

shit writing and shit art.

No this is just standard art for Chaykin these days.

What a fucking shame. I wish he had found success in movies or TV just so he didn't have to fall back to comics even after he lost whatever mojo he had in his younger days.

I think there's a point where the Extreme Right and the Extreme Left loop around in back of the Moderate and blend together into ranty incoherence. Chaykin's always been an Angry Lefty(TM), spouting off like a poor man's Harlan Ellison in interviews, But he's generally kept it down to entertaining levels in his work. At least until the last few years.

So, in short, this is a comic about killing tons of white people

Exactly upside down Satan.

Well he's not wrong.
But the fucking word baloons make your book unreadable, you infidel motherfucker.

>I think there's a point where the Extreme Right and the Extreme Left loop around in back of the Moderate and blend together into ranty incoherence.
that's what the people who make the frogs gay want you to think

It's Chaykin, I have some hope. He's written good political satire before.

Gonna read it this morning.

I wouldn't be surprised if Millar's edge wasn't honed at least in part by Chaykin's works. I think him and Frank Miller are about on par in that regard.

Liking traps makes you gay

I agree with this guy.
Not on this one page being the dealbreaker on the whole story but on how this sequence was dealt with.
I mean, if for narrative reasons your angry black sniper guy has to survive being arrested, nothing short of a miracle or intervention is going to keep him alive. They should have lit him up. Maybe high ranking officer on the scene has orders from the mayor or the governer this guy HAS to make it to trial.... Maybe Gunnerman just survives on pure hate alone even with all types of blood spurting out of him and the cops torture him non-stop till he stands trial.
But this? Yeah, this breaks muh suspension.

Oh well. COMICS, amirite?

Hating traps makes you gay confirmed

I think it's either implying that monitoring the social media chatter is how our "hero" Frank the spook supposedly tracks his targets or it's just background noise meant to underscore the overall theme of a world on fire and brimming with nonsensical gibberish...

Eitherway it's more distracting and repulsive than it is clever and probably should've been dropped after, like, 2 or 3 pages tops.

You forgetting that the Beltway sniper and his spotter were taken alive?

is poorly done, but it looks like he was already in a gunfight with police (hence his neighbor getting killed, and this guy NOT blaming the cops for it, but blaming himself) and his gun being empty by the time he gets inside.

I don't understand a single page of that story

Is this supposed to be Hurr Trump and hate? Because it more reads like the results of cultural marxism and consumerism

What is it with Chaykin and nasty Jewish characters?

He believes in equal opportunity, giving shit to both anti-Semites and God's chosen like himself all the time. Blackhawk has a shitty Jewish gangster there too

I wanted to read this, what with it at least seeming shitting on both sides of the fence, but the page layout in this is unreadable. Polluted to the absolute core with all these semi-transparent social media feeds we don't give a shit about.

Chaykin's art is still on point even if this is his much less sharpened recent self, but the overall art direction in this book is a nightmare much bigger than the dystopic vision he's trying to portray.

Are you sure this isn't the latest issue of Crossed?

This is the ugliest shit I've ever seen.

Yes, even uglier than that issue of Hellcat.

Liking trap doesnt make you gay if you dont know you are fucking a trap

"know'm sayin" I don't believe that any person has ever said "know'm" Is this a thing people say?

>berg

9-1 KDA isn't that bad man, cheer up

>it's a writer tries to normalize Islam in the western world issue

I'd use at as toilet paper if anyone gave me a copy

Howard Chaykin.
Okay. Lemme strap in. Hojesus. Here we go.

>What has Chyakin done that could be considered edgy?

Let's start with
* American Flagg! was one of the first mass-marked non-underground comics to mix up sex and violence in what we Americans now like to think of as "business as usual"
* Time2 (srsly. Check it out. glorious shit)

But hell. I'm old. I was alive and reading comix in college when this shit came out.

>radical feminist makes HERSTORY by murdering helpful, innocent people in the name of Allah

I thought this was going to be some SJW ultra-liberal comic, guess I was wrong.

I've been slowly making my way through his work and I really look forward to reading those two as well as Satellite Sam. So far I've read Dominic Fortune, Twilight, Blackhawk, American Century, Black Kiss, The Shadow, Midnight Men and his stuff for Star Reach and Heavy Metal.

Any other recs?

>It was only a matter of time before the SJW-types discovered Chaykin. It's a wonder they haven't called for his balls on a silver earlier.

He feels the same way. Seriously. He thought by now he'd be crucified by the left over Black Kiss but since nobody under 40 really reads his stuff none of the shriekers are even aware of it.

Thing about Chaykin that a lot of people don't know is that he is incredibly well regarded by most of the big pros working now for his 80's work & that he's known for giving out a lot of advice to younger pros, sometimes brutally but they've all admitted they've been better for it.

I'm not saying everybody loves everything he does, but most people in the biz are always curious to see what 'Crazy Uncle Howard' has come up with this time.

I'm ready to be flamed now.

Flamed for what? Nothing you said was controversial.
>nobody under 40 really reads his stuff none of the shriekers are even aware of it.

It's funny that I love his work that I've read but I can't bring myself to recommend his work to the few folks I know that read comics precisely because I know his work would chap their asses. A while back I found and bought Black Kiss #1. Somehow my wife had heard of it and knew it was a "dirty" comic and insisted on reading it aloud to me. That stopped about three pages in kek

>You forgetting that the Beltway sniper and his spotter were taken alive?
Nah, that just helps makes user's point.
If the cops that took this guy in had such a kill boner for him that they gunned down what appears to be an unarmed kid in broad daylight in the middle of the street, there's no way in hell the older armed gunman waving a hand cannon at them is coming in alive without a shot fired.

fucking bullshit.

yeah, Beltway sniper AND spotter were *both* taken alive. and the page is poorly done because that's not his neighbor that's the spotter from the previous page. They're still wearing the same shirts. He's blaming himself for getting him into this shit in the first place and not being a lone gunman.

>yeah, Beltway sniper AND spotter were *both* taken alive. and the page is poorly done because that's not his neighbor that's the spotter from the previous page.

Huh, so it is. Yet another point on how this page is poorly done. Or the previous page, since you can't see the spotter very well there to recognize him as the same person.

>Blackhawk
goddamn, I love me some fucking Blackhawk. That's like, the keystone of my shitty edgy 90's comics phase right there. That, Skreemer and Grell's Green Arrow run.

Ironwolf is a fun middle finger to a lot of sci-fi tropes about utopian societies vs primitive ones.

I couldn't tell you, I've never had a conversation with a Chicagoan.

can we agree as a society to never use Herstory ever again. It sounds so forced and made up, like something from a fucking cartoon

it's almost like that's what this book is going for

I just finished reading it earlier today. Good shit. Not just the story and style but the characters. I'll probably start Pasko/Burchett's run next
Shit I forgot about that one. Looks neat