Hate (comics) - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• In the 1995 film Kids, during the scene Casper is sitting on the stoop of a home, he is seen reading a Hate comic.

• In the 1996 film Joe's Apartment, Joe is seen reading a Hate comic, which Ralph the cockroach chews through to replace Buddy's head with his own.

• In the 1996 Film Glory Daze, Ben Affleck is seen wearing a Hate T-shirt.

• In the 1998 film Pecker, during the first scene on the laundry you can see a boy (the one who Christina Ricci shouts) reading a Hate comic.

• Michael J. Nelson mentions the comic in his book Mike Nelson's Movie Megacheese (published in 2000). He claims to be unable to recall the single-word title, yet guesses it correctly as Hate after discounting Drip and Fall.

• In the TV series Criminal Minds, series 3, episode 9, a panel from Hate is seen on Penelope Garcia's PC desktop. The point appears to be to establish Garcia as an aficionado of underground or 'alternative' culture.