The Wang: Who’s Your Daddy?

    (Squid Works, 2006)
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A follow-up to The Wang: The Big One, the oddly amusing Who’s Your Daddy? begins with our hapless hero, Eugene Wang, newly employed as a stockbroker. Eugene’s friend George, who has benefited more from picking up chicks in college than Eugene ever did from actually going to class, gives Eugene an impassioned speech on the evils of stock ownership. George also rails against the Bush administration and, somewhat naively, against the War on Terror.
After the first chapter, the action becomes less political, as Eugene’s life takes unexpected twists and turns, including a stint on “vibrator duty,” a horrible car accident, and a search for his long-lost father (which seems shoehorned into the latter portion of the book, despite its titular emphasis). The art is solid overall (think of a poor man’s Daniel Clowes), but the renderings are occasionally flat and jumbled, especially during a disturbing dream sequence featuring Eugene, his ex-girlfriend, and his mother.
Who’s Your Daddy? is an uneven (if sincere) reading experience.

— Brett Weiss
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