![]() ![]() but his friends just see it as a prank and he can't get them to re-frame what happened. Without revealing too much, there's an incident which he (understandably!) insists was an assault. Perhaps an even better comparison would be 'Nathan Barley', with Owl as the character of Dan, who wants to rise above his surroundings, but at heart is no less of schmuck than his friends, who are far better at playing the post-ironic Vice magazine game than he is. The humour reminds me a bit of the Mitchell and Webb sitcom 'Peep Show' with Owl as a Mark figure and Megg / Mogg more like Jeremy or Superhans. The art is soft and tactile and appealing, shifting from bright watercolours, to near-monochrome grey scale, to suit the tone. What starts out as stoner hijinks slowly curdles into something much more sour and melancholy. ![]() Megg is a depressed witch with a Tumblr account Mogg is her familiar and lover, though isn't good at respecting her sexual boundaries Owl is kind of a huffy nerd, who the other two bully. Megahex collects Simon Hanselmann's 'Megg, Mogg and Owl' comics. ![]()
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