<p>When the emperor wore plaid and people still hung phones on walls, Brad Yung&rsquo;s weekly comic strip Stay as you are. was a beacon to the slacker generation that bathed in irony and rejected everything else.</p><p>A true underground underdog, the strip appeared in photocopied zines, alternative weeklies, small-town newspapers, and a few national magazines. Too savage, too biting, its targets too spread out and numerous to mention, the strip knew it was never going to achieve mainstream success and didn&rsquo;t care.</p><p><em>The Complete Stay as you are.</em> honours these remnants of a simpler, yet more complicated time. A review once called Yung the world&rsquo;s first meta-ironist &mdash; if that&rsquo;s true, he should probably apologize. But he won&rsquo;t.</p>