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!

Directed and written by Michael M. Bilandic, this is the tale of Jobe (Jaspn Grisell), a rollerblader and drug deliveryman who is blamed for the overdose of A-list actor Royce (Theodore Bouloukos). He runs — skates — away into the late-night streets of New York City, trying to stay ahead of the police — from the pigs, the fuzz, the cops, the heat — plus the press and every strange person who has decided to make the city theirs tonight.

After all, his drug dealer boss Linda (Lindsay Burdge) claimed that the drugs he was bringing were “worse than what killed MJ and Prince put together.” Jobe shouldn’t be surprised, but you may be, as this is kind of After Hours but way too high to get to any set point, and I love it for that.

Make more short movies!

You can watch this on Tubi.