Troutman, Dick – The Dick Troutman Handy-Dandy Pocket Guide to Successful Suicide

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The Dick Troutman Handy-Dandy Pocket Guide to Successful Suicide

This is a work of sheer genius. It’s not technically a comic book, I guess, but there’s no way in the world that I was going to leave this off my page. It’s exactly what the title suggests: a guide to committing suicide without screwing it up. It takes a dark sense of humor to really enjoy this, but if you’re lucky enough to have one of those, this is the kind of thing that you’re going to want to buy 10 copies of just to make sure you keep one when all your friends start borrowing them. All kinds of ways to kill yourself are covered: hanging, drowning, drug overdose, explosive decompression, animal attack… The descriptions for all of these are brilliant. He alternates between bullying and understanding, and outlines all the pros, cons, and effectiveness of the methods, along with whether or not you can have an open casket and how messy your death will be for whoever has to clean up after you. Frankly, I’m astonished that something like this can exist in a world as PC as this one, but we’re all lucky that it does. It’s $5, and forget whatever I said about any other comic on this site. This is the one that you should get immediately, and there’s no way that you’ll be sorry.