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2000AD PROG 1939 (Review)- Joining evil, to change evil

Writers: Numerous
Publisher: Rebellion
Released: 15th July 2015



The IPCC (Independent Police Complaints Commission) is the body that investigates public complaints against the Police in the UK. The commission is made up of twelve Police commissioners, so what you have is the police investigating complaints against themselves.

Expecting impartiality or justice out of the IPCC would be like expecting impariality and justice out of the INCC (Independent Nazi Complaints commission) a body that I just made up, consisting of Nazi’s investigating complaints against Nazi’s.

‘It has been noted that "no policeman has ever been convicted of murder or manslaughter for a death following police contact, though there have been more than 400 such deaths in the past ten years alone." (From the IPCC Wiki page)

The IPCC is ridiculous. But it’s a good example of how those in government approved positions of authority always investigate themselves (and call themselves ‘Independent’ when doing so) thus ensuring that officially sanctioned criminality is allowed, just as long as it maintains the positions and power of those in governmental positions of authority.

PROG 1939 of 2000AD features three stories with individuals playing the role of the IPCC. Three stories with officially sanctioned individuals investigating corruption within the establishments that they are working for.

Tellingly, the irony is not pointed out, it's taken as a given that the authorities investigate the authorities, that's just how things work, isn't it?

Judge Dredd investigates, finds corruption, kills a bunch of low level order followers, and scowls.

Absalom investigates, finds corruption, has a go at Guardian readers, and sends in some police goons to beat up some silly demon types.

Jaegir investigates, finds corruption, shoots a gun at zombie monster types, and gets a scary new boyfriend.

What they all have in common is the assumption that the system that they serve is perfectly fine. All they need to do is keep doing their job, keep on putting on their uniforms, and keep on maintaining the status quo. The system is fine, it’s the rotten apples within that system that need to be sorted out.

That’s the mindset that maintains perpetual human enslavement to governmental control systems, the mindset that it’s okay to join evil, because you can change the system from within.

It’s crazy, but that’s what you get in mainstream comic books in 2015. There’s an idea that the individual is stronger than the system. Apparently, all that we need is new people (usually young women) in positions of authority, and then everything will change.

The tyrannical control systems (centralised government, countries, kings, queens, political leaders, political parties, tribes, races, religions, ideologies) that have kept humanity enslaved for thousands of years will suddenly transform, and all we need for this magical transformation to suddenly spring into life is a personnel change.

Hey kids, remember to keep on voting. You know it makes sense.

This is extreme idiocy, and it’s pushed like it’s common sense. This ideology of the transformative effect of the ‘good’ individual in a corrupt system, is perfect for the system itself, because it offers false hope, maintains the status quo, and allows a never ending new supply of corporate recruits eager to join said system of human enslavement.

Hey, join the army, the cops, the government, the local council, the educational system, the pharmaceutical corporations, the cancer charities, the banks, the mainstream media, join, join, join, you can change it from within, promise you can, would we lie to you?

And that is how the slavery business of modern western neoliberal consensus corporate statist hegemony is maintained, forever.

The ridiculous, deluded belief that change comes from the ‘good’ individual working within a corrupt and evil system is an insidious lie that hides the truth about how the world actually works.

The truth is that the 'good' individual soon becomes just another compromised individual, and another brick in the wall of perpetual human enslavement. S/he joins the system full of hope and a desire to change the evil that has afflicted the world, and s/he ends up drunk on impotence, horrified that s/he bought into the lie and has become just another cog in the machine.

For more details see the life and times of Charles Kennedy (MP, RIP) the poor bloke.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jun/02/charles-kennedy

I could say more about the content of PROG 1939 of 2000AD, but I want to leave this ‘review’ with a quotation that I feel is apt, a quotation that is a warning, a warning to ‘good’ people who think that they can change evil, by joining evil:

“In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.” (Ayn Rand)



Rating: 5/10 (Dredd concluded on a downer. Absalom continues to be smart-ass and annoying. Helium continues to tell a good story. Outlier finished on an intriguing high. Jaegir could be interesting, but it’s a bit confusing at the moment).

Comic review: Book of Death #1- Hey Stoopid

Writer: Robert Venditti
Art: Robert Gill
Publisher: Valiant Comics
Released: 15th July 2015

Book of Death #1 is a cliché ridden threat event book with a bunch of superheroes fighting to save the world from an evil dictator, or something, and it has a book in it about a prophecy, and the only one who can read it is a young girl.

The story is about the girl, and who gets to control her, a heroic superhero bloke, or the heroic intelligence agencies. Yes, I said that correctly, the heroic intelligence agencies.

Soldiers and cops, the dogs of the state

The villains in the book are threats to the established order, and it’s up to the military and those working for them, to stop the threats, and to keep things going as they are, because obviously, everything is going just fine at the moment.

I found it telling that the book, when looking for historical examples of horrible things happening, went to the Spanish Inquisition and the Second World War. There is no mention of Iraq, or Gitmo, or rendition, or Abu Ghraib or Edward Snowden, or Bradley Manning, or Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, the Ukraine, ISIS and how the west is openly funding terrorism now.

No, forget all of the things happening NOW, that’s controversial, lets go back to the safe examples, and back to telling our silly little childish comic book threat event book.

I cannot conceive how any half-intelligent adult would get any enjoyment out of this embarrassingly stupid child’s comic book.

I know that contemporary comic book narratives have a habit of reinforcing the status quo and ignoring all of the important issues of our post 9/11 world, but this one really is taking things to a whole new level of deliberate, pointless, dumbed down idiocy. Every single thing about it is perfunctory to the core, and I see no point whatsoever in wasting any more words on it.


Rating: 2/10 (Childish drivel)

Comic review: Green Lantern #40- Corporate neo-liberal brainwashing 101

Writer: Robert Venditti
Artist: Billy Tan
Publisher: DC Comics
Date of publication: 4th March 2015


I couldn’t help but read this book as the corporate mainstream whore satanic system trying to make excuses for itself, it’s actions and the fact that the alternative media is destroying its credibility on an hourly basis.

What makes me say that? Just reading the book and seeing how the Green Lantern character (Hal Jordan) is acknowledging that the system that he represents is now seen as ‘Cops, and everywhere we go, people don’t want us.’

Soldiers are not ‘cops,’ they are not peacemakers, they are not flying around the world to save and help poor innocent victim/civilians. They are told that they are the heroes, but that is a lie. We know it is a lie, everybody knows it’s a lie, so let’s start pointing it out. Uniformed order followers of the state operate as the private mercenary army of powerful banking and corporate interests, the 1% that the Occupy movement has been talking about, and ridiculed for it’s truth telling in the corporate whore mainstream media.

Green Lantern #40 is the story of one individual order following soldier. He defends the system that he is a part of, leaving it in order to personally shoulder the blame for it’s recent abuses, all of which are characterised as ‘mistakes’ rather than anything that is inherently wrong with the system itself. He acknowledges that he is not to blame, but he is prepared to shoulder that blame in order to prop up a system that he has religious faith in.

Hal Jordan has deliberately turned himself into a villain in order to back up a discredited control system. The system itself will use this sacrifice to carry on with business as usual. He’s sacrificed himself, just like a good soldier would sacrifice himself for the benefit of his comrades on a battlefield. This is a standard technique used by control systems, and the best thing about it is that no coercion is required, as the indoctrinated individuals willingly sacrifice themselves for what they see as the greater good.

Green Lantern #40 is reflecting the religious faith system of mainstream western ideology. That faith system is an unquestioning belief in neo liberal capitalism, centralised, corporate statism and with an army of order following mercenary soldiers to back it up with violence. The act of sacrifice, of having faith in a system that is rotten to the core, is presented as a heroic thing for a soldier to do.

Sacrifice yourself to the gods of the corporations.

Sacrifice yourself to the gods of the banking sector.

Sacrifice yourself to the gods of the mainstream media.

Sacrifice yourself to neo-liberal crony capitalism.

Sacrifice yourself to wars based on lies.

That’s how it works, hundreds of thousands of Hal Jordan’s pumped up with false pride, indoctrinated, propagandised since birth, sacrificing themselves to the centralised control system, the borg collective hive mind that helps the rich get richer, the poor get poorer and the entire planet enslaved…forever.


Rating: 4/10 (Subconscious mind-set of a neo liberal corporate slave)



*Lead Image on this review is the excellent movie cover variant front cover to Green Lantern #40 by Tony Harris