By: Evan Dorkin Publisher: SLG Publishing Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: SLG Publishing Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 96 Publication Date: October 01, 1997
Product Description: Milk & Cheese -- a carton of hate and a wedge of spite! Follow the adventures of these dairy products gone bad as they trash the American pop culture landscape. Violence, humor and lots of shtick. Comic book funnies at their finest.
A Carton of Hate and a Wedge of Spite! One day a little boy named Evan Dorkin drew a drawing of a piece of cheese on a cocktail napkin. Later, he added a little bottle of milk. Thus a comic book legend was born...
I haven't checked out "Milk & Cheese" for quite some time, but I was feeling nostalgic so I picked up this collection. It collects all the "number 1" issues published by Slave Labor Graphics, "Milk & Cheese #1," "Milk & Cheese's Other #1," "Milk & Cheese's Third Number One," and "Milk & Cheese's "4th Number One"." There are a few extra pages thrown in and an alternate cover for "Milk & Cheese's 1st 2nd Issue."
I'm happy to report the dairy products gone bad are still pretty funny! Sure some of the humor is dated. "Milk & Cheese" lambaste and destroy fads that are long since past, and Seinfeld jokes just don't carry over nowadays, but it is hard to find fault with the "Merv Griffin" skit. A gin-fueled rampage of destruction is always good times, and no one delivers quite like "Milk & Cheese."
This collection is visually designed to pair with Evan Dorkin's Hectic Planet, which is his more "serious" work. You can make a little Evan Dorkin library!
funny, violent, clever, repetitive and everything else good This is the best humor comic I have ever read, laughing out loud through every issue. Milk and Cheese basically hate everything and everyone with the exception of booze drinks, sharp objects, TV, Don Knotts, violence and Threes Company. They do what every person has wanted to do at least once in their lives (or several times a day for some)...maul and eye gouge their way through most segements of the population. Nobody is safe from these dairy products gone bad, they taget everyone from fat people to stand up comedians (with satisfying results)! That being said, keep the kids and the easily offended Sallys away from this one. The book is summed up best in their own words: "We hate what you hate, and we hate you!"
Booze and violence This is one of the funniest comics around today (another being DORK, also by M&C creator Evan Dorkin). Why is it funny? Because Milk and Cheese get away with something we all wish we could get away with: getting liquored up and beating the crap out of annoying people. That's all this comic is, but then that's all it needs to be. Well, maybe that, and a dash of talk-show viewing, but even to do that, they have to rend, pummel, lacerate, and bludgeon anyone who gets in their way. This is pure mayhem, a 2-man riot.
Hilarious dialogue only adds to the mayhem. It's apparent that M&C take their mission, to destroy all idiots, very seriously. The question is: how can Evan Dorkin take essentially the same storyline and make it entertaining over and over again? Believe me, he does it VERY well, and the little comments and asides add immeasurably to the fun. I would prefer to give this 9 of 10, so please forgive the 4.
Now if only he'd start collecting DORK in trade editions. I need more!
Dairy Products Gone Horribly Wrong MILK & CHEESE : Alcoholic dairy products filled w/ hate and aggression bent on correcting the status quo and the insipid (are they the same? They think so). It's downright hilarious and completely leftfield. An absolute *MUST* for anyone who sees a riotous playground in seeing an animated carton of milk and a wedge of cheese (my heroes) wreak havoc on everything and everyone.
This is the trade paperback that collects the first 4 volumes. Collect them all!
Milk and Cheese are godlike!! Abolutely the funniest comics in the world!!! Read all of their books now!!!
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