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Tag Archive: government corruption
Oct 28 2012
Osborn: Evil Incarcerated – Kelly Sue DeConnick
Seeing how Halloween is coming up, it feels like a good time to post a review of this tale of true evil. Norman Osborn, you may recall, was once “little more” than the Green Goblin, a Spider-Man villain, and I loved him as that. Then he gets put in charge of the most powerful spy …
May 17 2012
The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
In the future we are divided into districts controlled by the decadent in the Capital and must pay tribute for a past rebellion by having a group of teenagers fight to the death in a bizarre arena for amusement. Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take the place of her sister and face this almost certain death. …
Mar 16 2012
John Constantine, Hellblazer: Scab – Peter Milligan
The amoral, black magician Constantine’s new relationship is strained when his body is covered in a magical rash. No, there is no message of practicing safe sex here, although it might have made for a better story. Instead, the situation revolves around a union organizer who sells out and is likewise infected. Milligan attempts to …
Feb 21 2012
Political Advantage
Click to enlarge. Do you think Congress seems aloof to the needs of average Americans? Perhaps it has something to do with all their political advantages: The average member of Congress makes $174,000 per year. The average American is lucky to reach $50,000.1 Members get an automatic cost of living increase.2 I’ll bet you had …
Feb 07 2012
Privacy? Please…
In honor of Google’s new worrisome privacy policy and the news that the FBI may be using FaceBook and other social media to spy on Americans: Click to enlarge In the Information age, data is power, and it should be no surprise that governments and companies want as much access to your personal information as …
Jan 24 2012
If I Ruled the Planet…
Click to enlarge. A true ArmzRace collaboration! Conceived by Mark! Directed by John. Performed by Lyric. Sold out by Cej.
Jan 19 2012
Vada a bordo, cazzo!
We live in a world where people are quick to pass the buck, to claim it’s not their problem, to blame others, to manipulate the truth, to lie. It might not be anything new, but I feels like it gets worse every year. The outraged that Italian cost guard commander De Falco expressed at the …
Nov 15 2011
Nothing to see here folks…
In the middle of the night the police move in to kick out the OWS protesters. The mayor said it was over health and legal concerns. Thank goodness NYC is run by someone who cares so much about health and legality that he gives no-bid contracts to drink venders in our schools and decides the …
Jul 01 2011
The Black Diamond – Larry Young
If ever there was a comic that longed to be turned into a movie it was this one. Fast cars, slightly futuristic setting, chase scenes, government plots, kidnapping, hot women, and artificially poignant conversations that no one would actually have about trivial things are the hallmarks. Heck, the ending is written in screenplay format. What …
Jun 20 2011
The Librarian: A Novel – Larry Beinhart
Beinhart is probably best known for the movie Wag the Dog which was an interesting/scary look on how a politician can fake events in order to manipulate the country, but the idea that an entire war can be faked is stretched too thin. Sadly, this book with its similar plot (a Bush stand in has …
Nov 03 2010
Congratulation Republicans!
Congratulation Republicans! You overwhelmingly took back Governorships, the House, AND THE SENATE (you already have the Supreme Court). By embracing and incorporating a fringe movement, working lock-step within party platform of being rigid and uncompromising regardless of the issue, and your willingness to accept money from any sources and use whatever tactics necessary to win, …
Oct 13 2010
Fun with Graphs
The Drawing Board This idea is blatantly stolen from Cej (see, Cej, you mom is right; you shouldn’t talk to me). Since the midterm elections are coming up, I wanted to do something social/political, which I haven’t really done since the ABCs of the USA. Obviously, I can’t draw, but I’ve always said that the …
Jun 25 2010
Dear Media
Click to enlarge. I realize that it’s a lot of work for journalists to describe what is happening in the world, especially when it’s so much easier to act as stenographers for politicians and corporations. The idea that the media is still calling this “a spill” two months into the crisis proves to me that …
Apr 28 2010
Snail Mail? I wish!
A friend of mine just got a book I sent her in the mail…back in 2009.
Feb 08 2010
Mark! has a comic in “The Brownbag”
The Brownbag, an online magazine “dedicated to providing news and opinion on the Arts, Culture and Society of our times, in the New York area and beyond” is hosting another of my comics. Take a look as they changed the layout in a really cool way (or wait to see the comic on this site). …
Jan 22 2010
RIP United States of America
Yesterday marked the death of the proud experiment to have a government in which people attempted to form a more perfect Union. It was replaced by a group of corporations. I could trace the illness that led to this demise and give a biography of all the wondrous (and, granted, sometime not so wonderful, whether …
Aug 03 2009
Oliver VII – Antal Szerb
Mark Beta gave me this novel, translated from the Hungarian original, for my birthday (Mark Beta is a Magyar at heart). It revolves around King Oliver VII of Alturia who is exiled after a “coup” (there is a reason for the quotes) and attempts to experience “real life” (those quotes are self-evident). Unfortunately, this involves …
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