If you are on the Internet, you’ve read Cyanide & Happiness. Generating over a million hits a week, the webcomic is one of the longest-lasting strips out there, and everyone can relate to its hilarious slice-of-life depictions. Since the dawn of man, stick figures have been used as an important device for storytelling. Cyanide & Happiness has taken this language and mashed it up with Internet culture, bringing us some of the best satire and dark comedy out there. One of the most popular and successful webcomics, like, ever, Cyanide & Happiness has consistently offered up a humorous look at life—in stick figure form—and we are big fans. The experimental, hilarious voice of Cyanide & Happiness embodies the spirit of BOOM! Box and we jumped at the chance to collect it.
I found I had read a few of the comic strips before, but that didn’t stop me from enjoying this quick and humours read. A bit dark and twisted at times, exactly how I like my Cyanide and Happiness comics. The choose your own adventure at the end (The hot date, a chew your own adventure) was I highlight for me. I kept going back making different choices to get to read all the alternating versions of the ending. Despite the title and cover image thankfully no zoo animals are punched.
