This issue of TANK is the one hundredth since it first exploded onto the shelves in the autumn of 1998. The graphics are all new in this issue: inspired by the post-war Japanese architecture of Metabolism, our design platform takes its first tentative steps into our cruel and unforgiving world. We hope you’ll agree it’s a beautiful baby.
It’s also tackling a big question: why does evil exist? As Epicurius laid out, the original problem of evil was the dilemma of squaring the existence of evil with an omnipotent and omnibenevolent god. In the ensuing two millennia, explaining the existence of evil hasn’t become any less difficult. This issue of TANK looks to interrogate evil in all its implications, pleasures, and, perhaps, how we might be redeemed of it.