A scrappy, provocation-heavy issue of early VICE that leans hard into laddish humour, sexual bravado, and deliberately crude satire, framed by a Terry Richardson cover. The editor’s note openly frames the issue’s tongue-in-cheek “sex tips” and the pull-out Vice Guide to Picking Up Chicks as part of a knowingly obnoxious, gender-baiting joke that reflects the magazine’s confrontational tone at the time. Inside, the contents bounce between shock headlines, sleazy comedy, lifestyle riffing, and underground culture energy.
What really punches through the noise is the Horomix feature. Amid all the smirking chaos, Hiromix reads like a cracked mirror held up to the magazine’s own worldview, part satire, part cultural prank, blending astrology parody, attitude, and absurdity into something that feels both throwaway and strangely sharp. It gives the issue a weird, memorable spine, a reminder that early VICE wasn’t just trying to shock for sport, but to scramble pop culture signals into something warped, funny, and slightly unhinged, like a fortune cookie written by a delinquent oracle
