Move over Stan Lee: Comic Book has Keyboard Kommandos fighting Liberalism

[CatWoman]

Calling Captain America!
A new comic book series aimed at young conservatives envisions a dark liberal dystopia

By Christopher Dreher | August 28, 2005

IT USED TO BE that Superman and friends stood for traditional values, the triumph of good over evil, and the American way of life. But these days, not even superheroes are safe from attacks on their patriotism. Icons like Captain America--who fought Nazis between paper covers during World War Two--are now being accused of undermining US foreign policy and the war on terror.

In an April 2003 white paper for the conservative Foundation for the Defense of Democracies titled ''The Betrayal of Captain America"--which caused a stir in comics circles--writers Michael Medved and Michael Lackner claimed that ''Marvel Comics and other publishers are disseminating comic books that actively promote a destructive cynicism and distrust of the United States government."

But have no fear! A new comic series bearing the unwieldy title ''Liberality for All" is coming out in October from ACC Studios, a recently formed one-man publishing venture in Kentucky. Advertised as ''an Orwellian nightmare of ultra-liberalism," the series features radio pundits Sean Hannity, G. Gordon Liddy, and Oliver North as biomechanically tricked-out members of a conservative underground resistance called F.O.I.L. (the Freedom of Information League). Writer and creator Mike Mackey, an affable comic book aficionado, says it's the conservative movement's first comic book series (unless you count the three 1987 issues of the exquisitely low-camp ''Reagan's Raiders") and the only series put together specifically for a right-wing audience. (A story synopsis and sample panels are online at accstudios.com).




http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2005/08/28/calling_captain_america?mode=PF

[sniffa]

1. save me sean hannity

:rofl:

this is the worst comic book since bicLops

[Arkana]

5. Yawn, then barf. Talk about propaganda.

[FVZA_Colonel]

21. But he wears glasses!

nt.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. pass the barf bag

the commandos claimed the same in the 1950s, so here we go again

[PatrioticLeftie]

3. Fascism via MSM wasn't good enough for them?

Now they have to taint comic books?

[MeatLoafZero]

4. Oh good Lord.

I'll stick with Ghost Rider and Black Orchid, thanks. Oh, and Preacher, too.

[jonnyblitz]

6. "president chelsea clinton and vice president michael moore"

oh i have to read these!! :wow: :P

[PatrioticLeftie]

7. No, O'Reilly, I think I have a better description of extremism n/t

[Borgnine]

8. I'm sure they'll be giving Superman a run for his money.

Well, maybe in Bizarro's World.

[AntiCoup2K4]

22. Well yeah, but maybe you didn't notice....

...this entire country has BEEN in Bizarro World since December 12, 2000 .

[LunaSea]

9. Marginally talented? Tired of rejection slips?

You too can be a published author/artist!
Call 1 888-republican for a free brochure today!

[BrewerJohn]

10. More like "Move Over Jack Chick" n/t

[Dr Fate]

13. At least Chick has a charming, cartoonish art style.

HAW HAW!!

[Usrename]

11. Seriously, how do I stop my brain from leaking out of my ears?

I can't figure this one out. He (Dreher) is saying that Chelsea Clinton as president in a Union with Usama Bin Laden is Orwellian. I think not. I think he might want to try reading a book. Is he a shill, or just stupid?

It hurts - nobody is that stupid. Are they?

edit <I just went back and looked and he (Dreher) didn't say that. Ignore above. My bad.

[Dr Fate]

12. Lord. I HAD to re-post this in the Comic Book Group forum.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=300&topic_id=375&mesg_id=375

LAME as LAME gets.

[Contrary1]

14. Featuring Mann Coulter

as Captain Androgynous.

[TroglodyteScholar]

15. U.N Ambassador Bin Laden?

These people (can I call them that?) are truly and deeply twisted.

[kodi]

16. I refer to them as "The Lesions of Super Whores"

And no Jeff Gannon in spandex tights?

[wli]

17. perhaps a liberal response is in order n/t

[Dr Fate]

18. Comics have been Liberal leaning for years- if not always.

Comics are best without heavy handed, administration specific storylines anyway.

[Borgnine]

24. Yeah.

Both DC and Marvel have been left-leaning for years now. In the pages of Green Lantern a few years back, there was an entire storyline about one of the supporting characters coming out of the closet, and then becoming a victim of a hate crime. In Superman and other related titles, Lex Luthor became President of the United States, and there were many parallels thrown in to Bush and his wackiness. Captain America isn't even the same jinoistic, unwavering patriot anymore.

[Dr Fate]

25. Cap was an FDR & Kennedy man anyway!!!

n/t

[Dr Fate]

19. Other conservative efforts from the past:

http://www.fortunecity.com/tatooine/niven/142/politics/...

Officially beginning with the creation of Mister A, Silver Age cartoonist Steve Ditko began to present a number of works with a consistent message deriving from his own dabbling in the Objectivist philosophy of Ayn Rand. But he took his own emphasis: Evil exists; Reason can identify it; and it originates through self-delusion, epistemological hedonism, wishful-thinking; and the Rational Man discards the corrupt concepts which convince him of a fatuous right to live at the expense of others, or to treat other men as property...

...Some fans describe this approach as "The Punisher meets Jack Chick." In essence, we have a small superheroic component introduced into a longer philosophical tract. Later, more mature Mister A stories integrated the costumed-adventurer story and the philosophical mini-treatise into a single piece and single form...

...Ditko picked an interesting moment in comics to, in essence, come out politically. While Marvel made a visible shift from Eisenhower-era Cold War mode to a kind of Robert Kennedy bafflement at the military morass in Indochina, Ditko shifted in another direction. Noting the advance of the noose of taxation and regulation around the American neck, he found inspiration in the curmudgeonly libertarianism of the Objectivists.

[jayctravis]

20. Oh come on! You realize the humor potential this has?

Is that supposed to be Hannity kneeling with his hand in his crotch??

Look how absolutely undynamic that first frame is. How can a comic book artist not fill the cover??

[DarienComp]

23. Has there ever been a conservative artist of any significance?

Do they have even an iota of creativity? Sean Hannity and G. Gordon Liddy? They can't even create their own characters? This looks like somebody put a budget behind a couple of pimply-faced teenagers who write internet fan-fiction.

[Threedifferentones]

26. Before I saw the link at the bottom

I was SURE this was a joke. Suddenly I have stopped laughing.

[Zero Division]

27. Unintentional Self-Parody

Unintentional self-parody seems to be a specialty of right wingers. This looks hilarious. I bet most of the people who buy this comic will be liberals looking for a good laugh. It's so crass and uncreative I'd be embarrassed for myself if I were a right wing comic fan. :rofl: