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posies23's review
5.0
I love this book.
Bagge isn't afraid to point out the foibles of folks in both parties, and his comic style is the perfect way to get his points across. There was a lot to think about here, but also a lot of entertainment value.
Highly recommended for Bagge fans and people who like to think outside the box politically.
Bagge isn't afraid to point out the foibles of folks in both parties, and his comic style is the perfect way to get his points across. There was a lot to think about here, but also a lot of entertainment value.
Highly recommended for Bagge fans and people who like to think outside the box politically.
alexrobinsonsupergenius's review
4.0
An enjoyable bunch of rants, drawn in the classic Bagge style. I don't always agree with his politics and still don't see what he has against roads but still a good read.
mschlat's review
4.0
I've been reading Peter Bagge since the early days of his Hate comic book, but his more recent works of fiction (done for Dark Horse Comics) have been rather hit or miss. This was a refreshing change --- it's a collection of his comics journalism/op-ed pieces for Reason magazine (a libertarian publication) and it's throughly entertaining as well as thought provoking.
psykobilliethekid's review
4.0
The rantings of a cartoonist on society as a whole detailed in his popular art style that I ended up enjoying. Well done Mr. Bagge.
chelseamartinez's review
4.0
In a mostly pointless Facebook thread in which I confessed that I enjoy Paula Poundstone's comedic stylings on "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me," a college friend told me that I was wrong that Libertarians are politically conservative. I checked this out to help me understand; also the drawings caught my eye. These comics are good but exhausting. Still I think I understand my friend's point of view better thanks to Bagge's articulate comics.
rebus's review
0.25
Bagge displays the ignorance of a far right winger who flunked out of an art school on nearly every page of this puerile piece of garbage. He bashes Boomers despite being one (yes, Buddy was not 24 in 1991 when Hate premiered, but Bagge was 35 then and recounting an 80s he said he hated, when in fact it was the 90s when culture went to crap). He ludicrously claims that an armada had superior power in revolutionary times, when in fact their range and accuracy would be limited and they'd have to go to shore where they would be vastly outnumbered. He talks about chastity belt, which NEVER existed except for a couple of 19th century fakes and claims men should have self control, despite the fact that we cannot control the male gaze.
He loves malls and hates gambling, but supports the right to gamble. His views are ludicrously hypocritical on every level, and this is not the 'live and let live' policy of a leftist (which is a bad policy either way, as proven by the blight that is Transgenderism). He's just another uneducated, Libertarian dullard who doesn't realize that their program is merely GOP corporate Capitalism that doesn't care about your drug or sex life. He flat out lies about every homeless stat in Bums, not realizing that Kings of the Road do exist in large numbers and they are not by definition crazy, and whines about the cost to the 'rest of us' when most is taken up by church charities. He's wrong about monorails and Amtrak, even if he's right about taxpayer funded Stadia. He also ludicrously believes he can talk to DAs to get the other side instead of believing a guy who has worked against them daily for decades (they will lie to you Petey boy).
He bashes Boomers even though he's practically their poster boy and has always displayed his lack of intelligence by spelling a lot of words wrong (boarderline? really?). He claims that NE establishment moderate Republicans were marginalized by the religious right as if Puritans and Salem never happened. His love of Republican Americana is the height of bad taste and he's too dumb to realize the frog costume was Pepe, the darling of the Alt Right (who are so prominent in the Pacific NW). Only a moron would read bios of past presidents and think they were somehow more noble than the presidents during our lifetime. He ludicrously loves the Federal Reserve and worked with the Neo Nazi Dave Weigel at Reason (which had none). He mocks a woman who hates Obama for Iraq and the Patriot Act, claiming that Obama opposed both, then we saw the Obomber start 6 wars without Congressional approval, the Obummer then also passing the far more fascist NDAA.
He's a typical uneducated moron who decries junk science, when every example he cited has proven true in recent years, from 2nd hand smoke being worse for non smokers, to vaxes having major issues, to GMOs being horrific, to electromagnetic fields posing health risks.
He still fails to realize the ideology he ascribes to is as fascist as the Constitution he adores--he needs to read John Dahl and Charles Beard on the document--and may be one of the dumbest public figures in the last century.
He loves malls and hates gambling, but supports the right to gamble. His views are ludicrously hypocritical on every level, and this is not the 'live and let live' policy of a leftist (which is a bad policy either way, as proven by the blight that is Transgenderism). He's just another uneducated, Libertarian dullard who doesn't realize that their program is merely GOP corporate Capitalism that doesn't care about your drug or sex life. He flat out lies about every homeless stat in Bums, not realizing that Kings of the Road do exist in large numbers and they are not by definition crazy, and whines about the cost to the 'rest of us' when most is taken up by church charities. He's wrong about monorails and Amtrak, even if he's right about taxpayer funded Stadia. He also ludicrously believes he can talk to DAs to get the other side instead of believing a guy who has worked against them daily for decades (they will lie to you Petey boy).
He bashes Boomers even though he's practically their poster boy and has always displayed his lack of intelligence by spelling a lot of words wrong (boarderline? really?). He claims that NE establishment moderate Republicans were marginalized by the religious right as if Puritans and Salem never happened. His love of Republican Americana is the height of bad taste and he's too dumb to realize the frog costume was Pepe, the darling of the Alt Right (who are so prominent in the Pacific NW). Only a moron would read bios of past presidents and think they were somehow more noble than the presidents during our lifetime. He ludicrously loves the Federal Reserve and worked with the Neo Nazi Dave Weigel at Reason (which had none). He mocks a woman who hates Obama for Iraq and the Patriot Act, claiming that Obama opposed both, then we saw the Obomber start 6 wars without Congressional approval, the Obummer then also passing the far more fascist NDAA.
He's a typical uneducated moron who decries junk science, when every example he cited has proven true in recent years, from 2nd hand smoke being worse for non smokers, to vaxes having major issues, to GMOs being horrific, to electromagnetic fields posing health risks.
He still fails to realize the ideology he ascribes to is as fascist as the Constitution he adores--he needs to read John Dahl and Charles Beard on the document--and may be one of the dumbest public figures in the last century.
theartolater's review
4.0
A collection of Bagge’s Reason comics from the last decade or so. A lot of them were ones I’ve obviously seen since I’ve been a subscriber since college, but still some different, new stuff in there for me. It’s just fun to see the occasional anger that sepes out.
mkat303's review
3.0
Some of it is really good. I'm not a libertarian, but I am a Peter Bagge fan, so I enjoyed it.
rickklaw's review
4.0
Like many on the Left, I respect and enjoy Peter Bagge's art and humor, but not always his politics. His denouncements of many public services and his stance against gun control fly in the face of my beliefs. On the other hand, his Libertarian views on sex and drugs are refreshing in our puritanical, hypocritical society. With great candor and wit, Bagge tackles all these issues and more in Everybody Is Stupid Except for Me, a collection of his strips from Reason Magazine. As in his previous works like Hate and The Bradleys, Bagge deftly manages to simultaneously anger and amuse the reader with his intensely personal stories about larger topical issues.
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