If you are a fan of the punk rock scene, bands like the Sex Pistols, and families...this is a great book. Needless to say I loved it.

From the Oh YA! Comics blog.When Zero Hopeless-Savage wakes up one morning to find her punk rocker parents, Dirk Hopeless and Nikki Savage, kidnapped by fascist music execs, it's up to her and her siblings, martial artist Arsenal, mod theater designer Twitch, and the long-lost Rat--who rebelled and became a respectable businessman--to team up and rescue them. But it is only the first of many quagmires that the family find themselves in. In this bind-up volume collecting three previously publishe...

Once in a while you'll find comics that you fall in love with instantly, that cater to your every desire. Hopeless Savages is one of those comics. Not only are the main characters interesting & original, but the artwork is drawn by many of the big names in the indie comic circuit. The plotline consists of Skank H-S discovering that her parents have been kidnapped by persons unknown with the only note saying for her not to call the police. After freaking out, she calls her siblings to help discov...

I truly love this collection! I own the stories in issue form, but I love having a collection that is easier to find and read.

Not bad, but it just wasn’t for me

For this year's Band Books Week, I thought I'd revisit one of my favourite comic series, one that charts the lives of the nuclear family of former punk all-stars Dirk Hopeless and Nikki Savage. Hopeless Savages is delightfully rollicking and more indie than it is punk.[Skank Zero = the hooskiest]Writer Jen Van Meter teams up with artists such as Christine Norrie, Bryan Lee O'Malley, Ross Campbell, and Chynna Clugston to deliver three very different volumes that exist as easily digestible stand-a...

It's not enough that Oni Press raises the bar on what comics can do to tell stories. They also have to go ahead and put out books like Hopeless Savages which in inundated with 70s punk culture. As such, this book is a treat for music (and especially punks) from the get-go. Hopeless Savages is a lighthearted and hilarious account about a punk rock mom and dad who ended up having kids and being parents. Fully immersed in punk rock and counter culture, the kids turn out street punk, goth, mod, and

Jen Van Meter's Hopeless Savages is infuriating. The set-up, a family drama centered around a now-settled punk couple (Dirk Hopeless and Nikki Savage, the Hopeless-Savages) and their many children, is rich with possibilities, but it stumbles from the first issue. Our narrator and surrogate is Skank Zero Hopeless-Savage. Let that name settle for a minute. That's the kind of 'edgy,' overwritten nonsense you can expect to encounter in every panel. Skank (or Skankabelle or Zero or Zee or Zed) has th...

This was interesting. That art style.

I think I got lost chasing the macguffins in each of these books instead of just enjoying the concept. I think the first book was the best but the resolutions of each were mostly unsatisfying. For me, there were too many characters and I was often confused as to which character I was looking at, especially since different artists jumped in and out of the series and there were a lot of flashbacks. A couple characters really stood out and the one-shots at the end of the collection were snappier an...

I almost wanted to start re-reading it again right after finishing it. It's that good. I really hope Jen Van Meter decides to write more of this comic someday.

This is the most amazing comic ever. I had gotten these from the library, and then my sweetie got me this really nice compendium as an anniversary gift. When we first started dating, I made him read Ground Zero, and he asked me if I saw myself as Zero and him as Ginger. <3The Hopeless-Savages are the best family ever. Dad is a Sid Vicious-type punk rock guy, Mom is sort of along the lines of Kathleen Hanna. They made it big, got clean, got married, settled down, and had 4 distinctly interesting

If the narrator's name, Skank Zero Hopeless Savage, doesn't clue you in, this is an over the top punk adventure. Things happen in an extreme, and often not quite believable way, but it's a fast paced and fun roller coaster, packed full of family, drama, music, fashion, fighting, and more.

Jen Van Meter has my undying gratitude for writing these stories about the Hopeless-Savage family. (I may or may not have kissed the cover after I read this book the first time. There is no video evidence either way, is all I'm saying.)The Hopeless-Savage clan is comprised of two parents who met during their careers as punk rock musicians, then settled down to have four children, in a suburban setting which isn't always the best match. Whether they're foiling their parents' kidnapping, de-brainw...

The art is all over the place, but the writing has an undeniable, quirky wholesomeness to it--like a punk rock Addams Family.

Hopeless Savages features a sort of 'who's who' of indie comics from the period, and explores a sort of domestic punk world--the world of classic punk rock moving into family life. It's cute, and illustrates the sort of social consciousness which came from that movement on a familial scale: what do children of punks idealize, and in what manner of tiny ways? The genre skips around from series to series, but always makes a point to high light a better world through punk's dying--and forgotten by

Zero Hopeless-Savage has quite an unusual family. There's her mum Niki Savage, and dad, Dirk Hopeless, famous English punk rockers (now retired) her two brothers, Rat and Twitch, and her sister, Arsenal. Dirk and Nikki might be retired, but they'll never lose their punk rock roots and they've raised their kids the same way. No matter what happens, whether it's her parents getting kidnapped or she's dealing with problems at school, Zero knows she'll always have her family behind her.LOVED. So muc...

I picked this book up at a book fair and had no background to the characters or the story. I was pleasantly surprised as this is a really engaging family. Dirk Hopeless and Nikki Savage are a couple of punk rockers who have four children, Rat, Arsenal, Twitch and Zero. The stories are primarily told through Zero who is your typical teenager, all gung-ho emotion and thus erratic. The dialogue is quite humorous and the stories rocket along. There are several artists involved in the series and you

This collection was fun and a great introduction to the Hopeless Savages that left me wanting more. It was engaging and original and I found the characters interesting. However, the stories could be hard to understand or follow at times, and there were several problems with the art, including: -the art shifts-difficulty distinguishing characters from one another or recognizing them from one art shift to another-inconsistency in character design between art shifts-particularly Skanky's height/siz...

Omni have just published a complete collection of four of the Hopless Savages books and yesterday I sat down and read the whole thing cover to cover. It was really great!!! I think that if there were one comic book world I'd like to live in this would be it. While the ageing punk parents didn't seem to be utilised enough the happy punk family was great. There was a goth daughter who loved kung fu a cute gay mod, and the youngest daughter, who despite a blonde pony tail, was the most punk. The st...