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Punk Rock Romance: A Review of 'Henry & Glenn Forever & Ever: The Completely Ridiculous Edition' - The Bookends Review
As the vocalists of Black Flag and The Misfits (among many other projects), Henry Rollins and Glenn Danzig, respectively, are widely considered two of the most outspoken, manic, and/or hypermasculine figures in punk/hard rock and metal. Of course, Rollins has also established himself as an impassioned and intellectual socio-political author, actor, and radio host, but his original persona still follows him somewhat. As for Danzig, his fascinations with horror, eroticism, and the occult/theology—joined with his often-chronicled imbalanced behavior—have made him quite the interesting character. It makes wonderfully twisted sense, then, that they’d be turned into an off-the-wall domesticated couple in Henry & Glenn Forever & Ever, an underground comic series by Tom Neely and his Igloo Tornado troupe that ran for the past decade or so. Luckily, those who missed its initial run (including myself) will find the newly released Completely Ridiculous Edition (which collects “all of the comics, jokes, artwork, and stories that have made a cult-hit phenomenon out of the dumbest idea that ever fell out of a beer bottle”) to be delightfully bizarre. Filled with incredibly diverse artistic styles, subtle insider humor, plentiful madcap misadventures, and—oddly enough—a strong romanticism beneath it all, Henry & Glenn Forever & continue...
Jordan Blum