That kind of devotion made “Wasted” a must-read. They wanted to know what was going to happen to Eric- even if deep inside the reader probably already knew. The readers waited for the following issues, even though they came out irregularly. It was romantic in a fatalistic way and yet the violence was cathartic-though the book remains, as it will always be, strictly for mature audiences. There was nary an ounce of political correctness in it. “Wasted” was unabashedly visceral and violent, stunning the reader with its ferocity from the very first issue. The art was raw but effective it scared the heck out of anyone reading it. It was depressing then and it is depressing now, which is a good thing. Unlike what you would expect in a conventional comic book story, this was not going to end well. He was hurting so bad that he wanted to hurt everybody else until it stopped hurting.Īs each issue went by, the stakes got higher. So Eric took it out on the world around him, sometimes with his bare hands. His girlfriend had left him for another man.
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