The Complete Buddy Bradley Stories from "Hate" Comics

Peter Bagge's legendary slacker saga gets a chaotic coda in this three-issue Fantagraphics series, collecting the final Buddy Bradley stories from the pages of Hate alongside a Johnny Ryan-penned interlude. Bagge's signature rubbery, expressive art charts Buddy's uneasy drift into middle age, while Ryan's contribution offers a more unhinged take on the character's world. Essential for completists, this 2005–2014 run wraps up one of alternative comics' most enduringly relatable antiheroes.