Aug 18-24 indie comix week: When I was a kid, I used to read Mad Magazine and Cracked, so when I got a little older, it didn’t take much convincing to pick up Eightball and Hate. I’m an OG in the “complaining about superheroes” game and my scars were anointed on the Comics Journal message board!

Marty Jackitansky (Joshua Burge) is stuck in the corporate world, working for a bank, turning to crime to keep things from getting to him. He’s even taken checks from the bank itself and is making small amounts of money by writing fraudulent amounts. Then he goes into hiding in his friend Derek’s (Joel Potrykus, who directed and wrote the movie) basement, playing video games and making a Nintendo Power Glove into a Freddy weapon by adding knives.

There’s a three-minute scene here where Marty just eats spaghetti in bed, getting it all over himself, that is just incredible. There are long stretches in this where nothing happens, so when something does, it’s violent and shocking and just makes you want to be patient during the slowness. Plus, Marty wears a Demons shirt for most of the movie and even if he is a violent jerk, you can forgive him some of his crimes due to this fashion moment.

You can watch this on YouTube.