Comic review: Wynter #2- Inside the mind of a state sanctioned serial killer

Writer: Guy Hasson
Artist: Aron Elekes
Publisher: New Worlds Comics
Released: 30th April 2014


Wynter #2 focuses its attention on a government assassin as he tracks down, and murders ‘subversives’ in order to maintain the control system of centralised government. The book uses a first person narration to explore the character motivations of this assassin, and it is this decision to follow events from the point of view of the villain that makes it an excellent, must-read book.

The book portrays the assassin as a man who has good reasons for doing what he is doing. It’s not because he’s a comic-book villain, and not because he needs the money either. The book is cleverer than that. Writer Guy Hasson demonstrates a deep understanding of real-life human motivations, as opposed to ‘I just want to see the world burn’ comic-book clichés.

Simply put, the assassin is perfectly happy with murdering people because he feels that there is nothing wrong with what he is doing. His justifications will be chillingly familiar to most ordinary people. His mindset is not uncommon in the real world. It’s a mindset shared by government murderers of the past, present, and future.

Firstly, he sees his actions as benefiting the collective. He is simply helping to maintain ‘order,’ to stop chaos taking over the world. That is one thing that all statists passionate believe in. Cowards at heart they believe that government exists to help people, to stop people (who are all horrible brutes anyway) from falling into a chaotic lawlessness that will see them murdering each other in the streets.

By murdering a few ‘subversives’ he is simply helping to restore peace and order for everybody. Humans are nasty, selfish and not worthy of freedom, and they need to be enslaved to save them from themselves. That is how statists view humanity. They hate themselves, and they hate humanity, and they truly believe that people cannot be trusted with their own freedom. It’s a horribly depressive, scared, paranoid, misanthropic world-view, but it’s the world-view held by the majority of people in the world today. If you doubt me, just ask around, and you might be surprised at the answers that you get.

The second reason this government assassin uses to justify himself is that his immoral, murderous, cowardly actions honour his victim. It is okay to murder them, because the world is a horrible, indifferent place, and well, at least somebody is honouring this person, and it’s better than the apathy that normally surrounds their life, and eventually pointless death.  That sounds like the twisted justifications of a serial killer, right? I agree, it does, but that is what a state sanctioned murderer actually is, nothing more than a serial killer with delusions that help him hide from the true moral consequences of his actions.

The last justification given by the assassin ties into the typical atheist statist delusion that life is a Darwinian struggle, a battle, a war, survival of the fittest, where the weak get trampled and the strong prosper, so why not be one of the strong ones, right? Writer Guy Hasson cleverly and insightfully explores this poisonous worldview as he details the relationship between the government assassin and his son. It is a relationship based on behavioural science, the trust in the new priest class of technology.

The assassin holds a horrifyingly Darwinian world-view that is very prevalent in the west today. It’s a world-view based on survival of the fittest/Nazi ideology. It’s a belief that life is a struggle between the weak and the strong, that you are either the one doing the stomping, or the one being stomped.  He wants his son to be the best stomper possible, and will use every deceptive technique possible to ensure that his kid enjoys a life spent stomping on the weak, just like his good old Dad. Hey, it’s the only way to bring up kids, right?

Thematically speaking, this book is now starting to remind me of V for Vendetta, and that’s a very good thing. However, it’s a lot better than just a simple update of Alan Moore’s classic with the addition of apps and itechnology. The book is posing a very important question:

What happens when the technology that we use today is used to collect personal information on every single thing that we do in our lives, when we willingly give up every single facet of our lives to corporate/state authority?

What happens is what always happens when the state is in control of people’s lives. Freedom is crushed, individualism becomes impossible and humanity is homogenised into an easily controllable collectivised/communist centralised prison system. That is why Edward Snowden is so important, and the pathetic response of the public is a terrifying indictment of their current state of collective ignorance, apathy and childlike trust in the murderous gang of thugs, criminals and control freaks that is government.

I often say that statism is slavery. I say it so much that people get fed up of me saying it, but it needs to be repeated until people accept it as the truth that it is. This book is showing what happens when the state know absolutely everything about you, even to the point where whatever you think, and whatever you plan to do in the future has already been predicted, and (in case of sedition) prepared for. It’s a nightmare future, but a future not far removed from the present where every day of our lives we voluntarily give away far too much information about ourselves on corporate/government online database systems disguised as ‘social media’ platforms.

Issue #2 of Wynter concludes with a good old-fashioned tense and exciting cliff-hanger, so as a pure adrenaline driven, sci-fi story it works on that level as well. This issue was far superior to the first, mainly because of the decision to structure it around the first-person perspective of the villain. His voice helped to clarify the world enormously, and his attitude and general world-view was so chillingly realistic that it should give us all great cause for concern. Not because it is the attitude of a psychopath, but because it’s the attitude of the common voter, of the average man or woman in the street.

How many ordinary people want order, want state control, want safety, and strive every day with a Darwinian mindset to climb further up the greasy pole of corporate success? Now contrast that to the number of people who want truth, individualism and freedom from centralised state control. The former is by far and away the majority, whilst the later are the protesting, complaining troublesome minority.

We want slavery, so slavery is what we get.

The Hellish world of technological slavery in Wynter #2 shouldn’t surprise anybody. That is the world that we are currently building. Don’t blame the New World Order, don’t blame the corporate executives, and don’t blame the criminal bankers. Blame yourself.

We are consciously building a nightmare world through our own immoral actions and poisonous, cowardly, ignorant, apathetic, selfish mindsets. When we wake up to find ourselves living in a technological prison camp we cannot complain that we didn’t know what was happening. We knew. The problem was that we didn’t care.

Rating: 10/10