Category: Red Menace

Black Russian

When Hack’s cover artist Jonny M. was having a conversation with his friend, black standup comedian Dévyan DuMon, Dévyan went into a comic riff on racial matters and kept giving Jonny openings to join in. Jonny, being a wealthy, entitled lily-white, dude knew there was no goddamned way that he could say a word on the subject and curled up into a self-conscious pretzel, to Dévyan’s conspicuous amusement.

Hack loved hearing about Jonny’s anguish and wrote this Cold War espionage thriller to immortalize it. It sold well in Berkeley.

Doppelganger

“After Jonny’s rectum had been pulverized by the agent’s massive shvantz, Agent 99 quietly asked him why he didn’t just take her place at jury duty instead of surrendering his anus in return for the information. He and Boris exchanged an enigmatic look and Jonny gazed intensely at his female colleague.

‘Where’s the fun in that?'”