Good Lord, this was awful. I made it about 60 strips in before finally giving up. Terrible, rudimentary art. Jokes often with no punchline. None of it was at all funny. A complete waste of time. Somehow I think Brandon Reese would be proud of that.

Delightfully funny; it is hard to emulate in words, and I would rather draw some accommodating comic strips, but unlike Reese, I lack any talent. The post-comic captions were as equally hilarious and I cant wait to read more of his work in the future. Not for the faint of heart, perhaps, but an absolutely brilliant set of comics. Even the niche interest ones - ones that as a young Brit I may not quite understand - still resonate humour.

This won't be for everybody. Reese's comics are... weird. Some are hilarious, some are just really weird and maybe even offensive.
I'd advise not to read this book in one sitting. Because it will drive you a bit mad.

I just didn't get most of these so I'm probably not the target audience. I liked a couple of the less vulgar ones but generally I found it quite boring and the writing was hard to read.

I love, love, love Branson Reese's chatoic engery. I've been a big fan of his webcomics so I got very excited when I saw this arc copy. I enjoyed it so much. Reese uses a very minimalistic, kinda messy way of drawing things but every now and then you see how that is a choice because that man can draw! So the art style furthers the narrative. And what weird, funny, smart, and even philosophical narrative it is. I laughed so many times!

Ugly in an unfunny way, and unfunny in an ugly way.

Ugly in an unfunny way, and unfunny in an ugly way.

I'm obviously not the target audience for this art. I love dark humor and black comedy, but this is too much. Some of them didn't even make sense. The writing was too small and the "art style" is bad to say the least.

But I respect that he might be a niche artists with his own fans, but I don't see myself becoming one of his fans. but I thank netgalley for the free arc, in exchange for this honest review.

***Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for providing me with a digital copy of this book in exchange for an honest review***

Though there were a few comic strips I found amusing, the majority was bawdy and vulgar just for the sake of shock value. Not quite funny.

More and more I feel like collections of gag strips are the toughest thing to review. Already with a comics review, I can completely understand why some people include excerpted panels, just as you would quotes when reviewing prose. And with four-panel strips you can really get a much better feel from reading a couple than from anything I can say about them. So with the understanding that this is an entirely imperfect medium in which to convey the effect: scratchy, scabrous little vignettes, often ending with one or more of a) an unexpected cock and balls; b) unexpected pooping or c) a defiant, deranged scream at a blank and uncaring cosmos. Most of them have explanatory notes underneath, which generally serve more to cement Branson Reese's persona as too cool for school than to actually explain anything. God generally comes out of it about as well as he does in a book by Richard Dawkins, or as we used to call him, Oolon Colluphid. The strange bit, though, is how they get better the more of them you read at a sitting. Normally with gag strips, I just feel a little glutted if I go through too many at once, stop relishing them in the same way. Whereas here I need a few to get warmed up before I get in the right mindset to start cracking up at this marriage of occasional high culture references (Truth climbing out of her well to shame the world is a particular highlight) with puerility and nihilism. Maybe it just takes me that long to admit what an understandable response that is to this world.

(Netgalley ARC)

I haven't laughed so much for a such a long time. This was exactly my kind of humor, it was not disgusting but put with the right amount of weirdness. I am going to buy this no matter what. I am glad I find this author and can follow his accounts and see his creations, because man, this is really awesome.

I genuinely love Reese's art and I can't remember the last time a set of comics made me laugh so much. It hits all my buttons, in spectacular style.

But at least as funny as the book itself, are all my fellow Goodreads reviewers who collectively turn their noses up at the book, making me feel wildly interesting and intellectually superior, while they will see me for the uncultured idiot I undoubtedly also am, so everyone's happy. Thanks, Branson Reese!

Hell was Full. I assume these comics are popular somewhere with someone but unfortunately, that will not be me. I have to be honest, most were not funny, most were very badly drawn, and had no point or punchline. An hour of my life I will never get back is harsh, dude.
I expect “comics” to be funny. These definitely aren’t the ones I grew up with.

Now some will say, Oh you’re too old or square to appreciate a sick and twisted sense of humor. Not true. I appreciate sick and twisted but poop jokes, dick jokes, are for 12-year-old boys. I am not a 12-year-old boy.

Now having said how much I disliked these comics, there was one panel I enjoyed and agree with 100%, in “The Nightmare Before Christmas” there definitely should have been a “Good Friday” Land. That would have been soooo cool!.

I received this graphic novel free from Net Galley.com in exchange for my honest opinion. They may regret this later.

This was not my kind of humor. It was just a bunch of dick jokes and weird stuff. It felt like it was written by a frat bro for frat bros. None of the jokes were relatable or intelligent. The artwork is subpar at best. I also do not like that it was just a bunch of 1 page comics all bound together, there was no story.

I am a fan of dark humour but this book wasn't it. I didn't laugh a single time when reading this book and generally just found myself wishing for it to be over. I suspect that there is an audience out there that would enjoy this but it was just too puerile and crass for me to take any enjoyment out of.

If you enjoy lots of cartoons penises and toilet humour, you might enjoy this book, if you don't, I would probably skip this book.

read about 40 pages, smiled on maybe 1, this book is not for me. i thought it was too boring. it didn't feel like the author spent a long time in making sure that the content made sense and was actually funny.

Hell Was Full is a collection of comics that rely on puns and witty commentary in attempts to be edgy with it's messy erratic art style. I found a couple of the panels entertaining, but overall I felt that it was trying too hard to be offensive, disgusting or shocking which just made it feel hollow and unoriginal.

I love Branson Reese's weird little comics. He's been one of my favourite internet artists for a very long time, so it was a delight being able to get a review copy of his book!

It's very much a specific sense of humour that he captures, and if you don't like the first few strips, it's probably not for you. But if you like alternative comedy, 'weird' humour and a very niche viewpoint of the world, then it's definitely worth giving it a try.

I was torn by this, I get the humour is subversive and some of it I really liked and thought was funny, but unfortunately a lot just fell flat for me and didn’t evoke any reaction in me. I’m sure certain people it’ll really be their bag and I did enjoy some, but on the whole just didn’t amuse me as much as I was hoping for.


Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for a free copy for an honest opinion

I appreciate having had an opportunity to read and review this book. The appeal of this particular book was not evident to me, and if I cannot file a generally positive review I prefer simply to advise the publisher to that effect and file no review at all.