Two Birds. One Stone. Killed.

How to Succeed in Politics Without Really Trying

Hear ye! Hear ye!  My latest mad creation for the Queer Eye on Comics series over at the Prism Comics site is up, and since I had picked out IDW's Obama/McCain bio-comic Presidential Material for the Comic Geek Speak Forum "Ten Trades in Thirty Days" challenge, I thought I'd use it for the Queer Eye piece, too. 

Despite a decided lack of high adventure, cliffhanger endings, and hero-on-villain slugfests, I enjoyed reading about both men, and actually felt as though I understood them both better in the end. As usual, though, I just took my base reactions, ramped them up about 135%, and wrote with my lavender sunglasses on.  Thus, I spend a bunch of time running through various synonyms of "dickhead" to describe (mostly) John McCain.  As it turns out, there are a lot of them. Who knew?

As promised, here is my mini-review for the CGS Forum, in the format laid out by the thread originator.

McCain: A Big Bottom

Presidential Material: Barack Obama/John McCain
Pros: I genuinely learned things about both candidates. Especially as regards their motivation to get into the unforgiving world of politics, it really does re-inforce who I'm voting for.
Cons: As with any comic portraying real people, the art is a little tough to get past. Both books end up being not a lot more than a narrated photo book, like a comic book version of a Ken Burns show. The McCain story does seem to succeed a bit better with using the medium as a way of actually telling the story, but it's only in a few spots.
Freking Sweers: 3 out of 5

So... registered to vote?  I'm talking to you Nevada, Colorado, Ohio, North Carolina, and Florida!

Good.

"We were alienated."