Posted on 08/15/2005 6:13:25 AM PDT by Mike Mackey
It is 2021, tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of 9/11 It is up to an underground group of bio-mechanically enhanced conservatives led by Sean Hannity, G. Gordon Liddy and Oliver North to thwart Ambassador Usama Bin Laden's plans to nuke New York City ...And wake the world from an Orwellian nightmare of United Nations- dominated ultra-liberalism.
(Excerpt) Read more at accstudios.com ...
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Very nice -- Larry Elmore is a pretty well regarded artist, he did some famous artwork for the Dragonlance series, and lots of other TSR/D&D work as well.
Does Anne Coulter appear in it as a cybernetically-enhanced supersoldier? Because I have to tell you, there is a market for that.
Well... Larry Elmore is doing the art so...
... mmmmmm... Anne Coulter in chainmail bikni...
Wow, this is so amazingly cheesy.
I can't believe anyone would buy this tripe.
I'm buying it because it's so cheesy.
(Heck, that explains about half the DVDs that I own...)
Well, it does have a bionic Sean Hannity....
But still. Other than people who appreciate the campy wonders of old Godzilla movies, who would buy stuff like this?
About anyone who is sick of Hollywood socialism and wants to reads/watch something original.
"Sacra Bleu, that's just up the rue"????
Puh-leeze.
Hannity doesn't need one more thing to inflate his ego.
I read some speculation on another site that it's actually a spoof of conservatism. I don't know of anyone who's actually seen it firsthand, so who knows. Just passing that along.
You can see about five pages from it on the linked website. It doesn't seem like a spoof. It's taking itself too seriously.
I want to see the bad guys: The Swimmer. Once a powerful U.S. Senator, the Swimmer has kept himself alive through regular transfusions of martinis, while periodically having himself regenerated through suspended animation by having himself frozen in an Oldsmobile at the bottom of a river and then being revived with shots of tequila. The Ice Queen: A former First Lady, she uses nanobots that are programmed to infect everything she touches and create a brainwashed "Global Village" for her U.N. masters. The Bubbanator: Her ex-husband, also a former President, who commands an army of cloned interns. He survives on a diet of cheeseburgers and pizzas which fuel his artificial heart, from which enemates a strange ray that gives him power over gullible young women and magazine writers. The Screamer: A former Governor of Vermont, he can devestate his enemies with a high-pitched whine which has been perfected through years of practice. The Massachussetts Marauder: He is instantly recognizeable by his deep monotone, which has been known to drive lesser men mad. He has had his face rebuilt many times to give him the illusion of sincerity, while he uses the money from his late wife's ketchup empire for nefarious purposes. And finally, The Blob: A former filmmaker who acts as their official bootlicker, he puts fear in the hearts of McDonald's managers everywhere.
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Now that is funny! I guess I will have to plan a sequel!
This is the COOLEST THING EVER!
Chelsea Clinton is the US president, and Osama bin Laden is speaking to the UN. It's happening in the world of comic book writer Mike Mackey, as David Batty discovers.
Thursday September 15, 2005
A scene from Mike Mackey's Liberality for All. Photograph: Mike Mackey/ACC Studios
What would a world run by antiwar liberals look like? That's the premise of a new comic book, Liberality for All, set in an alternate future in which Al Gore won the 2000 US election and liberals went on to create a dystopia where a corrupt UN, led by the French president, Jacques Chirac, has appeased Islamist fundamentalists and invited Osama bin Laden to give the memorial address on the 20 anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
Needless to say, the comic's author, Mike Mackey, is a conservative fed up with liberal protests against the war in Iraq.
In his story, Chelsea Clinton is the president, Michael Moore is vice-president and the Department of Political Correctness has curtailed freedom of speech. It's up to a trio of neo-con cyborg superheroes, including Oliver North, to free the US from "ultraliberal extremism".
The series opens with the heroes attempting to stop Bin Laden - who has been appointed the UN's Afghan ambassador - from detonating a nuclear bomb at the September 11 memorial service. The nuke has come courtesy of Saddam Hussein's son, Uday, who is now the president of Iraq because the liberal Gore government didn't have the balls to invade the country.
Tasteless, tacky - or just a wind up designed to push people's buttons? Online previews of Liberality, published next month, have provoked both outrage and praise on blogs and internet talkboards, with posters divided over whether it is neo-con propaganda or a send up of rightwing fears. Mackey, a 37-year-old comic book dealer from Kentucky ("what Michael Moore refers to as Jesus Land"), says he wrote the book partly in response to the liberal view that the occupation of Iraq was misguided.
"One thing that embodies liberalism for me is that bumper sticker saying 'war is not the answer'. The idea is war is never the answer. Well, there were 17 UN resolutions on Iraq. What would have been enough before taking action - 25, 40? So the book imagines the consequences of not going to war."
Does he consider the antiwar movement unpatriotic? "I hear people on the left saying 'don't question my patriotism' - but you don't see a [US] flag in sight at the antiwar protests," he says.
Unsurprisingly, Mackey's own assessment of the occupation is at odds with that presented in most of the world's media - bar, perhaps, Fox News. "It's going fantastically well in a way that's not being reported in the news," he says. "I understand 3,000 schools have been built and women have the right to vote and not to be raped by Uday Hussein."
Given his views, I ask him whether he's concerned about being interviewed by a liberal website like Guardian Unlimited? "You're liberal? That's not what I'd heard," he says. "A friend of mine said you were like Fox News on the web. Maybe it was Sky News."
I suddenly imagine the sound of my editor-in-chief choking on her lunch.
Some critics argue that Liberality is so far-fetched it doesn't work as satire. Given her father's shenanigans while in office, would Chelsea really be likely to want to go back to the Oval Office?
"She's a moderate in the book. I think she's a sympathetic character," he says.
And Michael Moore? Mackey admits it was "almost too ridiculous to use him" until he saw Moore sitting in the place of honour next to Jimmy Carter at the Democratic party national convention during the US election campaign.
"Then it almost became dangerously prophetic," he says. "But the book's meant to be fun. It's not propaganda. It's not like I've made a movie and called it a documentary like Michael Moore did."
The furore has attracted coverage from newspapers including the Boston Globe and talk radio, helping the Liberality website notch up 500.000 hits in two months. Not bad for a self-published comic with a print run of just 10,000 copies.
It's doubtful Mackey will find a big audience outside the US, though. UK readers are probably aware of Oliver North, given his involvement in the covert sale of arms to Iran during the Reagan administration. But would they recognise his other two heroes? Maybe a few will recall G Gordon Liddy, who was involved in the Watergate break-in that led to Richard Nixon's resignation, but Sean Hannity, a rightwing talk show host, is unheard outside of the US.
Staff at Gosh! Comics, in London, have ordered just one copy - and only out of morbid curiousity.
But we Brits should perhaps be grateful we come off lightly in this nightmare vision of the future. The UK is noticeably absent from the countries applauding Bin Laden's UN address in the first issue.
"That was me tipping my hat to you guys," Mackey says. "I've got a lot of time for Tony Blair. I tried to envisage where the UK was in my reality. I think the British government would be very conservative."
Perhaps Liberality isn't so far-fetched after all.
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