Evasion. . - Zine Thing - periodical review

Thrasher Magazine, August, 2002 by Wez Lundry

This is interesting, especially compared to Cometbus. The philosophies of the protagonists are essentially the same (live life well outside the borders of the acceptable, practice self-sufficiency), but the methods are completely different. The author of Evasion (it was a 'zine, but has since been expanded and published by an anarchist press) is a straight-edge, vegan, dumpster-diving hobo.

It reads like a well-written memoir of "the life:" hopping trains, dumpster diving, shoplifting, running scams, hitchhiking, squatting houses. It's the kind of stuff which the earlier Cometbuses were full of: Finding girls, getting into shows, finding friends lost five states over, as well as humorous recollections of scams past pulled off and the ways and means of supporting oneself completely off of what others throw away or are too stupid to notice. It is not as though it is amorally written--there is an implicit code of ethics that drives "the life," restricted further by diet. What is amazing is how the author makes e verything seem so easy (which it can be) when things are going well, and so benign even when they are not. That is the driving difference between this and the people in the latest Cometbus, I think: embracing one's environment with humor as opposed to rejecting it with scorn... Send $6 to: CrimethInc. HQ, 2695 Rangewood Drive, Atlanta, GA 30345.