Unfortunately for Sebastian, the hope he had for the future at the end of Fight Club has been dashed and replaced with a hopeless present. How humorous, then, that Chuck Palahniuk would team up with Cameron Stewart and Dark Horse to bring us a sequel to his anti-consumer culture treatise in a mass media periodical format that is arguably the best modern day example of everything being “a copy of a copy of a copy.” How interesting that, despite the ironic circumstances surrounding its production, the first issue of Fight Club 2 manages to be one of my favorite comic books this year.Īs Fight Club 2 opens, we discover that the narrator now calls himself Sebastian and lives in the suburbs with his wife Marla Singer and their young boy.
It reinforces the notion that there is something wrong with capitalist America even as it undercuts the validity of Project Mayhem’s response to those ills. The original novel, beneath its hyper-masculine exterior, is a critique of traditional masculinity and mass-market consumerism. There are many layers of irony to the mere existence of Fight Club 2.
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