Product Description

This book collects the first solo work by Evan Dorkin, described by the man himself as Star Wars meets It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, with a ska/punk soundtrack and a cheap beer buzz. Featuring the original Eternity Pirate Corp$! issues one through four, plus new pages, pinups, rare art and promo material.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1358210 in Books
• Published on: 1998-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 120 pages

From the Inside Flap
Welcome to the year 2074, where trying to make a dishonest day's pay isn't easy. Especially when you have to deal with crazed politicians, killer robots, psychotic alien mercenaries, rowdy skinheads, angry ex-girlfriends, and a planet of drunks. It's a Dim Future all right, but somebody's got to live in it.

About the Author
Evan Dorkin is the Eisner, Harvey, aned Ignatz award-winning creator of Milk and Cheese and Dork. His animation writing credits include episodes of Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Superman, and Batman Beyond. Dim Future features his first solo comics series work.

Customer Reviews

Not the best volume, but still fun.
Yikes! The [...] is a little hard on this book, in my opinion. While it's definitely not as funny or as character-driven as the later volumes, it's still worth reading if you're a Dorkin fan. The second half picks up considerably, and while it's probably not strictly necessary in order to understand/appreciate the later volumes, it's still worth a look.

Substandard Stuff; For Die-Hard Dorkin Fans Only.
I'd read some of Evan Dorkin's Hectic Planet shorts in Dark Horse Presents a few years ago, and was impressed by the touching, funny, relationship-driven stories. So I decided to buy the 3 collected volumes of Hectic Planet. So far it's mostly a dud.....

The first volume revolves around an uninteresting bunch of petty crooks called a "Pirate Corp$", as they fly around space stealing things and making enemies. (The first half of the book is a poor man's Star Wars...) Things start to look up in the second half, as the team gets stuck on a planet, and Dorkin starts to actually develop his characters. Still, I found nothing even remotely interesting about the characters and situations, and, to make matters worse, the book is VERY poorly bound; It almost completely fell apart in the hour and a half it took me to read it.

I'm sure that the later volumes will improve; After all, Dorkin is one of the modern masters of comics. But maybe only Dorkin fanatics should pick this up.....Try Dork! or Milk & Cheese instead.