Evan Dorkin is ruthlessly funny , and sometimes just ruthless , inthis consultation with Paste magazine . The occasion is the release of the 2d and final issue of Dorkin ’s The Eltingville Club , but it ’s an chance for Dorkin to divvy up his typically snarky thoughts about the nation of the funnies industry and the dark side of fandom .
Dorkin ’s been drawing the Eltingville Club — four geeky frenemies who embody all the worst aspects of hardcore fandom — since the 1990s . They even had their own short - live Adult Swim toon . The Eltingville Club # 2 brings an end to their adventures while satirize the modern state of fan culture , with the finale taking the guys on a Heart of Darkness - style ocean trip through the San Diego Comic - Con . In Dorkin ’s opinion , the ugly aspects of fandom have fetch uglier since the Eltingville Club ’s first merging : “ A band of it ’s found on things I ’ve seen , and a pile of it ’s overstatement … It ’s shivery when I do something that I retrieve is really ugly and then I read about something that ’s even worse . ”
you’re able to expend hour poring over the gang scenes in the preview pages and picking out the twelve of geeky references . They ’re like “ Where ’s Waldo , ” but with Sergio Aragones and the Hate - Monger .
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