Hate #26

In "Let's Start a Crackhouse!", Peter Bagge’s signature dark humor and sharp-eyed realism hit full stride as Stinky returns to town with a vengeance, dragging Buddy and his disaffected circle into a chaotic web of bad decisions and escalating desperation. With Bagge handling writing, art, and letters, and Jim Blanchard on inks, the issue’s gritty, chaotic energy is elevated by a vibrant, layered color palette from Joanne Bagge, Rhea Patton, Citizen Color, and Jeff Johnson—while the cover by Bagge and Blanchard captures the story’s anarchic spirit in bold, messy detail.