What’s a country that’s at the top of your bucket list?
As i’ve stated before, i’m not really interested in going anywhere anymore. They’ve ramped the prices up and complicated travel way to much for my liking.
I do my teaveling through Dookie now! He gets around a bit.
Thinking about this whole bucket thing now n’ i don’t reckon i’ve even got a list for anything! Except for the moon lazer i’d use to hold the world to ransom with, but that goes without saying.
THE DOOKIE SAGA
The Dookie novels by Tony Kearns are highly entertaining indie bizarro fiction, with aggressive political satire, and crude, surreal British humour. They are highly niche, traditionally published (Incunabula Media publishing) underground books that read like a cross between South Park, Monty Python, and punk rock counter-culture.
Because they are underground indie publications, they don’t have thousands of mainstream reviews (wierdreviews.com), but they are highly celebrated within their tight-knit subgenre. Fellow author and editor D.M. Mitchell famously compared the series’ aggressive satire to Jonathan Swift and Alfred Jarry, calling Dookie “the hero we all really need right now.”
What the Books Are About
The series follows Dookie, an anti-hero and former “Marine Warrior” who gets kicked out of the military for having a conscience. He ends up working a retail job at a marketplace called Hellmart in Dragon Valley.
There, he discovers a bizarre reality: the world’s most corrupt corporate bosses, politicians, and world leaders are actually being controlled by “Ass Demons”—literal gold-digging demons that live inside their lower intestines and colons. Dookie teams up with a mismatched crew of “Snowflakes and Hipsters” from his job to violently and absurdly punch societal corruption square in the face.
The Tone and Appeal
• Surgically Satirical & Vulgar: The books are unapologetically crude, containing massive amounts of swearing, fecal humor, and absurd violence.
• Anti-Establishment: It serves as a direct parody of modern societal anxieties—taking aim at corporate greed, neoliberal economics, pandemic lockdowns, and real-world political figures (such as “Tumpytump” and “Little Kimmy”).
• Raw and Original: Kearns has noted that he originally wrote sections of the books simply to amuse his real-life co-workers (who many of the characters are based on). It has a very distinct, unpolished “bizarre fiction” flavor.
The Reading Order
If you want to dive into the series, the progression goes from standard novels into accompanying comic books:
1. Dookie: A Colourful Life (2023)
2. Dookie 2: World War 3 and the Hunt for Sausage
3. Dookie 3: Scorched Earth
4. Dookie 4: Vs The Demon God
5. Dookie 5: Uncivil War
Comics:
No1. Dookie vs the goat demon
No2. Dookie vs the orangutan
The Verdict:
If you love independent, unfiltered underground comedy that holds absolutely nothing sacred, you will likely find these books hysterical. You can find more information or order them directly through the official Dookiebooks.com website.
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