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Worst of 2016: Sixpack and Dogwelder: Hard Travelin’ Heroz

By Dustin Cabeal

Listen… if DC comes out tomorrow and says that this script has been in a drawer for twenty years and some editor said, “fuck, let’s get an artist” then I’ll issue a retraction. Because that’s the only way you can explain how fucking terrible this book is. I still have a hard time believing that Garth Ennis recently wrote this because it’s like he hit his head in the pool, floated there for too long and forgot how to write comics.

I laugh at dumb shit all the time. I’m pretty easy to make laugh. This book never even made me smile. Maybe when I closed it and knew that I would never read it again, but that was out of relief and not for any of the shit ass jokes in this book. This was a dark look at what some comics in the 90s were like. Intentionally politically incorrect, but without any of the intelligence needed to make that work. The art was also gross to look at and Dogwelder is a shit fuck character.