Burlap Face

When Jonny had dinner with Bro Joe and their friend Penny, Joe announced that from the restaurant he would be driving to a nearby mountain where he would hike to the top and sleep in a new contraption that he’d purchased which he described as “a mesh coffin.” This prompted Jonny to tease him that he would be murdered during the night by a maniac named Burlap Face. The narrative then took a turn and it was decided that it was JOE who was actually Burlap Face, and everybody laughed.

When Hack heard about it, he immediately wrote this gruesome erotic thriller based on the concept. Jonny threatened to sue him for plagiarism until he found out that the character based on his college-aged self lost his virginity to Conan the Barbarian-era Sandahl Bergman, so he signed off on it.

Go Topless Day

Go Topless Day is an annual event observed on the Sunday nearest August 26, Women’s Equality Day, to support the right of women to go topless in public on gender-equality grounds. Women bare their breasts (wearing either fake latex nipples or pasties to cover their nipples and avoid arrest due to laws in some states that prohibit women from showing their areola and nipples in public) in protest of the double standard.

Men are supposed to wear bras or bikini tops in support, but Hack wanted to mock Jonny’s man boob as well as bring awareness of the event to the general public, so he finessed the rules a little for this novel. Anyway, it’s Hack’s favorite holiday.

The Red-Headed League

When Hack heard that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories were public domain, he decided to adapt them into the Jonny-Boris universe. Hack being Hack, his “research” consisted only of looking at a list of titles and coming up with completely new stories from scratch based on them.

He was inexplicably still served with numerous plagiarism lawsuits.