Comic Review (X-Files) Millennium #5- Sleepwalking Into a New Dark Age

Writer: Joe Harris
Artist: Colin Lorimer
Colourist: Joana Lafuente
Publisher: IDW Publishing
Released: 3rd June 2015



This X-Files cross-over book has now come to it’s dramatic conclusion, the series is over, put up your feet and stick the kettle on. So let’s scratch our noggins and ask the question, was it worth it?

For the nostalgia, art and beautiful colouring, yes. For the story and any deeper meaning that I could salvage from it, not really.

It did give me one thing though, that being a reminder of the times in which I am now living. A time when old (middle-aged really) men are portrayed as the sad, dying past and young girls are presented as the shining new, hope filled future.

It’s a lie of course, as everything connected to the corporate whore mainstream media is, that kind of goes without saying, though I do like to repeat it, less we forget.

I did however find Millennium #5 to be useful, as it’s narrative conclusion is a mirror that points at the norms of contemporary comic book culture. I can now take that mirror and shine it back onto itself, and explore what is happening within mainstream comic book, and corporate media programming.

The useful mainstream/corporate sponsored narrative 'liberal' lie of our age goes thus: The ‘mistakes’ of the past, the ‘mistakes’ that have made the world so unfair today, were caused by racist, sexist, homophobic white men. What we need now is a new age of strong independent young, multi-racial women with purple hair, nose rings and blurred sexual identities to see us into the promised land of butterflies, tolerance and free lollypops for everyone.

The implication here of course is that there is nothing wrong with the system itself, it's the people within the system that need to be changed, then everything will work out just fine.

Funny, isn’t it? You have to laugh, if you don’t then it’s crying time, and what’s the point in getting all depressed about the mainstream media anyway? It’s dying, it’s message is discredited, the lies are catching up with it, and whatever it portrays is well known to be fraudulent, manipulative bs coming direct from PR firm’s press releases, regurgitated onto newspapers and television screens by career journalists who couldn’t give a damn about the truth and what is going on in the world.

The mainstream media might be dying, but it still has the power to set the agenda. When that agenda is neo-feminism, lots of young girls are going to buy into it, not because they want to make the world a better place, but because the system is now opening doors where young women can have successful careers working for the corrupt system of human enslavement.

It might not be a very moral thing to do, to join a cartel of human slave owners, but the pay will be good, and the feminist guff gives it the illusion of ‘progress’ as well.

Lots of young men will go along with this nonsense as well, not because it benefits them, but because they want to impress young girls and show how politically correct their attitudes are, even if that means them facing a lifetime of low paid work or unemployment. They’ll understand later on, but by then it will be too late for them to do anything about it.

The new slave handlers, or management class of humanity, will be women, with careers and money thrown at them to keep them onboard. Not all women, of course, it will be a rat race for those controller jobs and those who do get them will actually feel like they have accomplished something, when all they are doing is helping the neo-liberal slavery system to continue business as usual.

Writer Joe Harris (of Millennium) is not part of some great ‘conspiracy,’ where he is subtly influencing the minds of his young readers. The conspiracy doesn’t work like that. What he is doing in this book, by having a young woman defeat evil, reject the help and advice of her father and leave to join a cool and sexy secret group (Hello CIA) is to play into the agenda as being set by the dying mainstream media.

All of the old men in this book are useless bystanders. They represent yesterday’s way of thinking. They represent a failed generation, used up, worn out and no longer needed. The female protagonist has the power of options now, and she doesn’t need old men in her life anymore.

She wants to join something cool, something fresh, something sexy, and something that will really upset her mean old Daddy. What does he know anyway? He’s just an old man, and he failed. She will choose to be used by the system, the system wants her, they can feed off each other, parasitic and diseased, they can rot the collective soul of humanity together. She can even kid herself that she is keeping evil under wraps, when she herself is the very embodiment of it.

Harris is working on a subconscious level here, and is producing a story that is allowable, that will shift a few units, comply with the PC dictates of the time, and not upset anybody. To this end he has succeeded.

Old fans of the X-Files and a couple of new fans will read the book. They will enjoy the art, and it will be mostly forgotten. What will remain, however, is the idea that the new age is a female age, that males are no longer necessary, that the system is fine, it just needs a personnel change, and that experience doesn’t bring wisdom, it brings obsolescence.

I don’t mind having women in positions of authority, but changing the gender of the person holding the whip is not genuine change, it’s Obama change, it’s fraudulent, and we need to call it out for what it is. Placing women in positions that used to be held by men is not the way to change a corrupt system. The system will easily adapt, and women thinking of themselves as survival of the fittest Darwinian alpha-females will be used as pawns and puppets against humanity, just as the men have been used before.

The cries of sexism, racism and homophobia will herald the dawn of the new world order, and as the lucky chosen few, purple hair and nose rings amongst them, take their positions as cattle controllers, for the vast majority, it’s more of the same.

There will be a new, friendlier feminine voice barking out the orders, as opposed to the old and out of date masculine version, but nothing else of any substance will change for the slaves on the corporate plantation. That is the vision of the future that is being presented in so many mainstream media narratives, and also in this fabulously coloured and drawn, but woefully entrapped in the mainstream matrix X-Files cross-over comic book. You boys have had your fun, but it's all about the girls now.

I loved how it looked, but the more I think about the story, the more depressed it makes me feel about the state of the world as it is, and also what is going to come next for the entire human race as a whole. But will I let it get me down? No way, the future is not set in stone, and slave masters don’t always get what they want, especially when the slaves get wind of what they are up to.



Rating: 5/10: The art and colouring by Colin Lorimer & Joana Lafuente worked so well together, creating something that I enjoyed looking at, even if the story itself ultimately didn’t offer me that much except confirmation of the agenda that I’m already (vote Hillary) aware of.

‘Drones’ by Muse- Review- Is Anybody Listening?

Released: 5th June 2015

Official Site:
http://muse.mu/home.htm


Our freedom’s just a loan
Run by machines and drones
They’ve got us locked into their sights
Soon they’ll control what’s left inside

Don’t try to hide it, don’t tell me it’s not there

You’ve got strength
You’ve got soul
You’ve felt pain
You’ve felt love
You can grow (you can grow)
You can grow (you can grow)
You can make this world what you want
You can revolt
You can revolt
You can revolt.’ (Revolt)


Matt Bellamy is being very direct in what he is saying here. I don't need to interpret it. I don't need to spin it. I don't need to analyse it. Just read the lyrics.

Go to YouTube, find the song, and check out the comments. What are the Muse fans saying about it? Here are some random examples:

‘F****** awesome. Full of energy and spirit, got a real nice queen vibe. All the hipsters/haters can fuck off back down their mum’s basement.’

‘I'm having nightmares about Matt chasing me while singing this silly chorus D:’

‘I looooove this song!!  But I need help, there's a part in the chorus that reminds me of and very famous old song (like in the 60s or something), but I cannot remember which one! Has anyone any idea? It's the part when he says "You can grow (you can grow!), You can grow (you can grow!) at 1:13 thanks!’

Take this one song, the message, and then the entire ‘Drones’ album as a whole, and Muse fans reaction to it, and it’s pretty much the same. They go straight into fanboy/girl mode, defending the songs, attacking ‘haters’ and then detailing why the song is good because it reminds them of something else that is also good.

That’s okay. I agree with them, the songs are good, and they remind me of other good songs too.

BUT WHAT ABOUT THE THINGS HE IS ACTUALLY SINGING ABOUT????

There’s no discussion going on about that, and when it is brought up, it’s dismissed like his actual words and thoughts are completely irrelevant, even though these people are supposed to be passionate, loyal fans of his band.

So why aren’t the fans discussing what their favourite band are actually singing about?

Before I give my opinions on that, here’s a quick break-down of some of the best songs on the album, and what they are actually about.

1- Dead Inside- A good guy is turned into a selfish, cold-hearted person through his contact with a person who is ‘dead inside.’ At the end of the song the protagonist is ready to serve the system of human enslavement, death and war. He is ready to become a drone pilot.

2- Psycho- About the army indoctrination cult training process that prepares soldiers for mass slaughter and obeying orders (Nazi style).

3- Mercy- The song’s protagonist looks for forgiveness, explaining that he was trying to infiltrate the system, to change it from the inside, but has seen that this is impossible. He now wants out of it, and forgiveness for what he has done whilst serving the system.

4- Defector- The song’s protagonist loudly declares that he is a free man, unable to be brainwashed and manipulated by the anti-human control system, or ‘society’ as a whole.

Meaty stuff, don’t you think? So, again, what do the fans make of it? Go again to YouTube, pick any video and tell me what you are reading. I’ll do it now. I’ll pick one song at random, and type out the first comment that I see. Here we go:

Psycho (first comment, 24 likes):

I love the music...
Matt says: I gonna break you. 
Lol.... 
He is intense... 


So, why no discussion? Why aren’t the fans discussing the song lyrics, at all? Their hero is belting out his heart and soul, and telling them what is happening in the world NOW, and their reaction is largely banality and LOL jokes. What is going on here?

Here’s my opinion:

Muse fans are not stupid. They love the band, but they are mainstream people. They watch television, they vote, they go to school and college, they work, they have children, they like cool music, they want to rock out to a catchy tune.

In other words, they are normal, everyday people. They are not rebellious, and they don’t want to think about horrible things that are happening in the world around them. They are stuck in ‘little-me’ mode. They want a good job, friends, relationships and to be happy, and if they have to become a Drone pilot to do this, then that’s just fine, they’ll do it.

They’ll pay their taxes, support the latest wars and believe what their betters tell them to believe. They love Muse, but they are just a band, nothing more than that. They are entertainment, you don’t have to listen to what he is saying, just enjoy the cool tunes, high notes and guitar parts.

This is the attitude not just of a Muse fan, but of an indoctrinated mainstream media programmed slave, a person that will not rebel, not because s/he is stupid, but because s/he has chosen to live a life of DELIBERATE IGNORANCE. It’s a choice to accept slavery and to try to make the best of it. It’s a choice to not care about anybody in the world beside themselves, their families and any friends that they are particularly fond of this week. It’s the mindset pushed by the corporate whore mainstream media, pushed because it maintains the status quo, pushed because it turns people into mindless animals, easily controlled, and easily culled when the time comes.

‘Drones’ by Muse, is an anti New World order/globalist/neo-liberal/corporate hegemony concept album. I was always going to appreciate the lyrics, but there’s passion, defiance, fight, emotion and a lot of really good tunes in there as well. The album, tells a story, even though Muse fans are unwilling or unable to hear it at the moment, so to get the best out of it, put on your headphones and listen to the entire thing from beginning to end. This is how you will get the most out of it, and that’s what Muse fans should do as well.

Your rock God hero is trying to tell you something about truth, morality, the human experience and the world as it is today. He is telling you that all of that wacky ‘conspiracy’ stuff is real, and that you are a part of it, and that you help it move along with your quiet acquiescence and feelings of weakness and learnt helplessness. He’s telling you to wake up, telling you that you are stronger than you think, telling you to fight against the new world order beast, but only by recognising that it exists at all will the true fight begin. That’s where most Muse fans are right now. They don’t want to look under their own beds, because they fear what they WILL find there. Matt is yelling, but how many people really want to hear what he is so loudly, passionately, eloquently and beautifully saying?


Rating: 10/10 (Are you turning into a human drone?)

Book Review: Truth is a Lonely Warrior- The Meaning of Life

Full title: Truth Is A Lonely Warrior- Unmasking The Forces Behind Global Destruction
Author: James Perloff
Publisher: Refuge Books
Released: October 10th 2013
Author’s website:
http://jamesperloff.com/truth-is-a-lonely-warrior/



Have you ever read a book review that started out by discussing the meaning of life? Perhaps you have. I don’t know, but if you haven’t, you’re in for a new experience, because that’s exactly what I’m about to do here, to discuss the meaning of life.

James Perloff

I don’t even know why it’s such a mystery really, as to me it’s simple. The meaning of life is to grow, physically and spiritually. The first part is easy. It’s the second part that people have problems with.

Life is a test. You are challenged to grow from the baseness of the body, and material desires, to spiritual enlightenment, fulfilment, or Nirvana.

That’s the goal, and that’s what you are here for, to understand that you are a spiritual being having a material experience in order to learn and grow.

Do you know how you are guaranteed to get nowhere? Sit in your house, watch television, and go to work, and back. Repeat forever, don’t forget to eat, and don’t forget to vote every four years or so. Is that life? Yeah, it’s life, but do you think that you were put on this beautiful and terrible planet to do just that?

I don’t, and that’s why I come across like a pompous ass, and talk about concepts like truth, knowledge, morality and spiritual enlightenment. It makes me unpopular, but seeing as popularity is not something that I’m going for, I can deal with it. No, what interests me more than anything else is learning the truth about the world, so I read. I attempt to gain knowledge about what has gone on, what is going on, and therefore what is likely to happen in the future.

A lot of people like myself, with my thirst for knowledge, start off with history books, and that’s what I did, and continue to do. But as I continued to read and grow I saw a pattern emerging. That pattern was the control of information, through the schooling and educational and media monopoly systems that are corporate/government sponsored. It became increasingly apparent to me that knowledge was being controlled and manipulated to serve the agenda of the status quo control system structures of our society.

Examples are everywhere, from the JFK assassination, to the suspicious circumstances surrounding 9/11. The mainstream acceptance of government sources was getting ridiculous, so I began to search outside of the mainstream, to look at information that was not government approved.

This questioning of official sources seems pretty obvious now, especially after what happened with the Iraq war and the mythical WMD’s, but the process of awakening takes a long time. It’s not like the Matrix movie, you don’t wake up one day in a tank of goo. You have to read, watch videos, listen to long talks, question everything, especially the new information, and come to your own understanding of what is going on in the world. I’m not fully there yet, but compared to fifteen years ago, a time when I didn’t question anything, I’m a completely different person now.

Mocking the msm idea of the paranoid 'conspiracy nut.'

That brings me to this book, ‘Truth Is A Lonely Warrior- Unmasking The Forces Behind Global Destruction, by James Perloff. The book looks at the world from a Christian point of view, and that fact alone would have put me off reading it before my slow process of awakening. Fresh from my mainstream education into atheism I would have laughed at it, mocking the very idea of Christianity and I would have refused to even read the book.

If I was forced to read it, I would have rushed through it, determined to mock it with a scathing review that I’m sure would include some reference to Richard Dawkin’s and the Flying Spaghetti Monster in the sky.

I would have done that before, but not now. With the university arrogance now just a distant (bad) memory, I look at the book with impartial eyes, and I carefully process the information, reading the facts, the details and not just what I want to read in it.

The book is not only from a Christian point of view, it’s from an American one. The writer is American, so it’s understandable that he wants to know what has happened to his country, and why it has become the global Empire of lies, war and destruction that it is today. The book takes the reader on a journey, starting with the false flag (deliberate acts designed to justify war) that define America’s history. It talks about the banking cartel that has taken over the country and how they use the media, education, freemasonry, environmentalism, terrorism and wars to control a nation. The book also discusses the ideologies of Zionism and Marxism and how they tie into Satan’s plan, the plan being the creation of a New World Order, a centralised control system for the entire planet.

A lot of this is not new to me personally. I read about this agenda all of the time. I see it being justified on my television set and newspapers by the puppet politicians, as they come and go, changing their faces, their races, their genders, but always pushing the same totalitarian control system, and the creation of this tyrannical one world government control system for the entire planet.

I’m not a fan of government. As a general rule, and with regard to my historical understanding of world history I think it’s an unarguable fact that the more government you have, the less freedom you get. So the idea of one all-powerful WORLD government controlling everything and everybody is completely insane in my eyes. Why would anybody want that? It’s madness, and I’ll fight will all I have to stop it from happening.

‘Truth Is A Lonely Warrior,’ is a concise, easy to read book that gives a historical context to what is happening in America right now. It doesn’t mess around. It’s angry, and it wants to tell you all about what is happening, and who is responsible. It’s particularly detailed when it comes to the truth behind vaccinations, giving testimonial after testimonial from Doctors and parents of children damaged by them.

Reds under the bed.

If you didn’t already know about the eugenics programme that is modern vaccinations, then this book will shock you, not because it’s silly ‘conspiracy’ opinion, but because it contains cold hard facts and detailed evidence about what is actually going on.

The book is split into tightly edited chapters, and the writer uses a kid friendly technique of using a little frowny face as a dissenter, questioning him as he goes along. It helps to clarify points, and is very useful, not just to young readers, but to adults who instantly dismiss any new information as a reflex reaction caused by their many years of mainstream indoctrination.

I sped through the book relatively quickly, and I have to applaud the writer for his clarity, for a writing style that was extremely reader friendly, enjoyable, angry, but always aware that a book with important information should steer away from being too dense and too academic.

I would give this book as a gift, to either a child (ten or above) or an adult not yet aware of what is happening in the world. I would give it as a gift that is intended to spur spiritual growth. It’s strongest on vaccines, and the influence of Marxism today, and how it has become a huge factor in mainstream educational establishments, warping the mind of supposed ‘intellectuals’ making the bright dumb, and convincing them that they are superior from the common cattle whilst doing so. 

I enjoyed the book, and now I will pass it on.

Help each other out, share what you have learnt. It’s not always going to make you the most popular person in the room, but the meaning of life is to grow in spiritual knowledge, not just in social-status and popularity. Truth might be a lonely warrior, but what else are you living this life for?


Rating: 10/10 (Reader friendly and packed full of essential information)



*The funny photos in this review are from the author's own website, showing that he has a great sense of humour and that it's important not to treat yourself too seriously. 

Comic Review: Fight Club 2 #1- It’s a New Tyler World Order

Script: Chuck Palahniuk
Art: Cameron Stewart
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Released: 27th May 2015


I often say this, but my experience of comic book fans is that they are the most asleep to reality people that I have ever met.

It’s a generalisation, but the comic book fans that I have interacted with are not exactly big fans of reality and truth. “Comics are supposed to be fun man, stop being so serious man, nobody wants to hear about all of that boring ‘conspiracy’ stuff.”

I can see the comic book crowd reading Fight Club 2 #1 as something that is ‘cool.’ Cool because men are in a secret fighting club, and the art has flower petals and pills that hides some of the dialogue. Cool because it has nostalgia value, and cool because it has a girl inappropriately talking about sex with a group of old looking (Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome) kids in it.

Edgy man, sick man, so cool man, yeah man, really cool, just like the movie. The problem is that the people saying ‘cool’ are probably the least cool people in the world today. Sorry, but that’s the truth. Comic book fans are not cool. I’m not cool. Cool is for the young, and comic book readers are far from being young. If you are young and reading comics, sorry, I have bad news for you. You aren’t cool, and you’re reading stuff that is designed for old blokes like me.

People prefer to spend their lives trying to find something that is cool, rather than searching for the truth. Writers know that, so they try to give their readers what they are so desperate for, but can never actually attain. They can try and be clever and give readers some truth within that all-elusive cool, but what can they do when people are completely indifferent to truth?

The original Fight Club movie was about male emasculation caused by corporate, capitalistic compromise, and how men are unsatisfied because of the unnatural ways they are forced to live their lives. It was about the corporatisation of humanity, how everything has become monetised, but nothing has any real spiritual value. It was about the search for meaning, in a world that offers spectacle over truth.

A lot of people missed that of course. What they will remember is soap, Brad Pitt shirtless and sweaty, cool dialogue and a twist at the end with cool explosives. Message lost, and the world continues much the same way as before.

Which brings me nicely to that new Avengers movie? It was bloody terrible, wasn’t it? And do you know why it was terrible, why it left you with a feeling of emptiness in your soul? It was because it was all spectacle and attempts at being cool, with no heart, with no reality and zero truth.

I should be fair to the people of today, because it’s always been this way. The world changes, ‘cool’ changes, but humanity is still stuck in the same old rut of the past 2000+ years. I want to mention the Bible for a minute. Don’t worry, this won’t take long, and I really need to make this point clear.

Jesus said that he was the truth, the only way (John 4:16- Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”) And what do people do? They set up a divide and conquer religion and completely miss his message. His message was that you have to fall in love with truth. He sacrificed his life as an example to us all, his life being about the adoration of the father, the father being moral truth.

What is moral truth? How do I get it? How do I fall in love with it?

Remember all of that stuff about not murdering and lying and stealing and being horrible to people? Remember, do unto others as you would have done unto yourself? That’s moral truth. That’s the goal, that’s what Christianity should be about, that’s what life itself should be about, but isn’t.

Jesus wanted people to love truth more than anything else, but the message was lost, and thus Christianity, a moral philosophy that is supposed to be based on an adoration of truth became just another government sponsored control system.

How bloody sad is that? It’s an indictment of how determined we all are to ignore truth.

And so back to this book, a comic book sequel to a sixteen-year old movie about empty consumerism and living the hollow western capitalistic half-life. A movie that had a strong moral truth at it’s core, a truth that people completely ignored and carried on living their lives exactly as they had done before seeing the movie.

Do you see what I mean? Offer truth, and it gets ignored, every single time. People take the surface glitter, ignore the core, and the world continues to spin, exactly as before.

Do you remember that movie? Do you remember the main guy, the boring bloke? Fight Club 2 #1 opens with him. His name is Sebastian, he’s married, and the cool Brad Pitt character has disappeared. This Sebastian guy’s life has turned into nothing. Married, with a young child and drugged by big pharma, his wife misses the good old days with Tyler, and I don’t blame her. Most people compromise, and at least this book is realistic in that it shows this shallow, hollow, empty compromise suburban nothing life played out into boring middle age.

Unfortunately that makes most of this first issue a bit dull, you get the cool jokes of an adult nature, but they seem blunt now in these days of full frontal graphic horribleness on our Game of Thrones idiot boxes. The book started to bore me, the cool wasn’t enough, it was old cool, Dad cool, not the cool that it used to be, but the cool that it still wants to be, but can never reclaim. The book isn’t quite embarrassing Dad dancing bad, but it’s not the cool that it once was. The panels feel like old re-treads (therapy group jokes, bruised waiters waving the bill) and it needs to do something new to be relevant to the world as it is today.

I was about to give up on it, but then as it concludes, something happens. The Dad dancing stops, Tyler Durden returns, and he’s seems….different.

I didn’t quite get what he was from the main book. I knew he was supposed to be different, he looks different, but I didn’t get it. On a first read he just appeared to be a wild and crazy old (imaginary) friend, perhaps involved in international arms trading, who was going to make the boring protagonist live a bit. But there’s an added section to the book titled, ‘Chaos Report,’ and it does a fantastic job of explaining who this new Tyler is.

Okay then, here is the bit that most people will miss. Tyler Durden now represents a Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) that is sent into foreign countries by the new world order to start revolutions, cause chaos and make sure that foreign governments do what they are told by the western banking elites. Vladimir Putin announced new laws a couple of days ago that are designed to stop these NGO groups from messing around in Russia, and the west isn’t very pleased about it, for obvious reasons.

‘Putin has frequently named NGOs as a threat to national security. “Western special services continue their attempts at using public, non-governmental and politicised organisations to pursue their own objectives, primarily to discredit the authorities and destabilise the internal situation in Russia,” Putin told senior officials of the federal security service in March. “They are already planning their actions for the upcoming election campaigns of 2016-18.”’ 
(Guardian newspaper article 19th May 2015)


These NGO’s often hide their true purposes under the umbrella of being ‘charitable organisations’ (like ‘Human Rights Watch’ and ‘Amnesty International’). The vast number of their members think they are doing good things, helping out the homeless etc, but in reality they are controlled by western intelligence agencies, and exist only to maintain corporate western hegemony. If you want an assassination done, a bomb planted or a revolution started (see the Ukraine right now) then the NGO’s act as an entry point to help you get the job done. Putin understands that, as does the writer of this book, Mr. Chuck Palahniuk.

Tyler Durden, the Brad Pitt character, is now the head of a NGO called Project Mayhem, but what is his long-term goal? Is he an independent operator looking to create his own New World Disorder, or is he helping to bring in the long planned (and real-world) New World Order?

Is Tyler a dusty old totalitarian communist type, or a freedom hungry (from governmental slave masters) anarchist?

Are any real world truths going to be revealed to the comic book reading audience, or is this just a middle life crisis book about one bored bloke and his chaos loving alter ego?

Is it going to tackle the real world issues of 2015, or simply ignore them like so many other contemporary comic books? We’ll see. So far they mentioned Spain, and the collapse of the Euro, so it’s a decent start, but we’ll have to wait and see how far it dares to go. No ‘conspiracy’ theories are necessary, the facts alone will do.

The original Fight Club movie felt real, it felt like it was saying something, but it was set in a time before 9/11, before the war on terror, before the modern age of mass government surveilance and endless wars based on lies. This sequel is set in a very different time. How far will it dare to go? Will it seek truth, or middle aged nostalgia cool? Will it point a spotlight on what is happening in the world today? Will it tell the truth, or will it compromise and just try to tell a funny, cool and entertaining story?

Time will tell, and would anybody notice the truth when they see it anyway? History teaches us that truth will stare us in the face, and shout until it makes our ears bleed, but still, the sleeping face of humanity will fail to see what is directly in front of it. The sad fact of the matter is that people don’t see, not because they are stupid, but because they don’t want to see. Life is easier that way, and the search for cool always wins out over the search for truth, especially when it comes to the world of comic books.

So, bearing this in mind, I hope that Chuck goes for it. Dump reality over our head Chuck. Engulf us in a tidal wave of truth. Most people won’t even notice. Give the comic book fans their ‘cool’ bits, tell us that the suburbs are a bit boring, treat us to a punch up and explosion every now and then, and I think you’ll just about get away with it.


Rating: 7/10 (Not that exciting so far, but it has promise)



Link to article quoted in this review:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/19/russia-bans-undesirable-international-organisations-2016-elections

Comic Review: Secret Wars #2 (of 8)- Delicious

Writer: Jonathan Hickman
Artist: Essad Ribic
Colours: Ive Svorcina
Main Cover artist: Alex Ross
Publisher: Marvel
Released: 13th May 2015


Secret Wars #2 is a delicious all you can eat buffet of a comic book that leaves you well satisfied and eager to return to the Marvel (ous) restaurant of superhero scrumptiousness as soon as is humanly possible.

The plot is simple. We are introduced to a brand new comic book world called ‘Battleworld.’ Doctor Doom is in charge. He controls everything. His law is the only law. His subjects worship him not just as a ruler, not just as a king, and not just as a god, but as the God, the creator of everything, the alpha, omega, and you know the rest, the big man in the old testament, yes that God, the only God.

Lots of things are happening on this Battleworld, but if you know anything about the real world concept of the ‘New World Order’ then it will be easy to understand.

What is the New World Order? It is the world that is to be created after WW3, after the horrendous death and destruction that takes place on this planet leaves people crying out for a centralised control system that will give them a guarantee of peace and prosperity and an end to all future wars. They will have that guarantee, but they will also find themselves living in a prison-cell.

This New World Order will be comprised of one religion, one judiciary system and one army enforcing the dictates of a centralised control system of unaccountable autocrats. That is exactly what is happening in the Battleworld of Secret Wars #2. Doctor Doom is the centralised control system and religion. Dr Strange heads up the judiciary, and a team of Thors make up the world Police/Army.

The only difference between this book and our own world is that in Secret Wars #2 the world is controlled solely by Doctor Doom and his group of specially selected order followers. In the real New World Order system the control will not go to one single person, but a group of elitist autocrats modelled on the EU or Chinese communist system.

However, if you want to look at it from the Christian prophesy point of view then perhaps this really is exactly what is going to happen? That would mean that the character of Doctor Doom is the comic book version of the Antichrist, the false Messiah of Revelations.

Take your pick between the two theories, secular or biblical. I myself lean towards the former, but either one could be correct. I guess we’ll find out as the book (and our own world) progresses. If it’s a team of heroes that are going to beat Doom then it will be a secular reading, but if it’s just one man leading an army against Doom (who could it be?) then we could well be looking at a biblical interpretation here.

Structurally speaking, this book has to introduce its readers to a huge new comic book world. That can be tricky, but writer Jonathan Hickman deals with the problem with ease. He begins with the tried and trusted method of introducing the world through the eyes of a new initiate. That new initiate is a young Thor, a character we both know and enjoy, so already we are at ease with the story. The book then hints at a discovery that might upset the status quo of this new world, a discovery that readers of issue #1 will already be well aware of. That’s clever, and very enjoyable for the reader as we already know more about what is happening than the characters in the book. The reader feels like he has special insight, and that is always a good feeling to have as a reader, and helps to clear any sense of confusion that you might have in reading what is potentially a very confusing story about a strange and disorientating new world. This world is then further clarified for the reader with a demonstration of how disputes are settled, and the book closes with a dramatic, super hero action packed scene of violent confrontation and threat to the status quo.

It’s a big book, but that solid, clever, enjoyable, and expertly crafted structure makes it easy to assimilate all of the information, to contextualise what is going on, and to enjoy it all as a good comic book story. It’s a new world, but it’s never a confusing one. We know exactly what is going on, and the sense of anticipation is deliciously enticing throughout the entire book. All of this is helped of course when the art looks top notch, as it does here. That art, by the tremendously talented Esad Ribic, is superb and the entire book is a joy not just to read, but to look at as well. I’ve talked a lot about the themes, plot and structure, but if this book was in Japanese it would still be a glorious, beautiful looking comic book.

This is how you put together a decent comic book. Develop a strong backbone idea that resonates with contemporary societal anxieties and concerns, formulate a tried and tested narrative framework, load it up with interesting personalities, throw in some action that will threaten the status quo, and get a talented artistic team to make your vision come to life.

That is what you have here in Secret Wars #2. This event is just beginning, but it’s got off to a flying start. I know what people think about comic book events, we’ve been let down so many times recently, but banish all thoughts of Avengers versus X-Men, and give this one a go. Secret Wars 2015 is in an entirely different league to that big pointless punch-up, and this is coming from a guy who not only bashes Marvel on a weekly basis, but has vowed more than once to never read any event story-line ever again.

If you are a comic book fan then you’ll want to read this book. I know it’s Marvel, and I know that they put out a lot of nonsense, but this book is a bit special.

Far too many contemporary comic books (and movies) devolve into self-aware, post-modern analysis of circle-jerk geek irrelevance, and the last thing I want to do is to read comic books written by a bunch of fanboys stroking their own egos and congratulating themselves on how clever they all are.

I don’t see any of that annoying smugness in Secret Wars #2. What I do see is a comic book that has dropped the stupid quips and knowing jokes and has buckled down to tell a good, serious, entertaining story. How refreshing, how entertaining, and how absolutely delicious it all is.


Rating: 10/10 (Yummy)

Review: Secret Wars- Prelude- 2015 (TPB)- Collapse of the Marvel World/Collapse of our own

COLLECTING: New Avengers (2013) 1-3, Secret Wars (1984) 10-12, Fantastic Four 611, Ultimate Comics Spider -Man (2011) 1, Ultimate Comics Ultimates 4
Publisher: Marvel
Released: 6th May 2015


I don’t know if I’m falling in love again, but it feels like the early days of anticipation, before the rejection or awful realisation, that moment when reality clobbers you over the head and you either fall into the pit, or pick yourself up and carry on, carrying that nauseous fresh in your gut feeling that insists on the impossibility of purging what was never there, an impossible bind that is queasy sick, an empty belly mocking false memory that wants you to retreat into hate, and to shut out everything and everybody, forever.

It’s amazing how a comic book can make you feel, even making you feel anything at all is quite an achievement today really, but Secret Wars #1 by Hickman and Ribic made me feel and, yeah, does that explain the spontaneous riff in the previous paragraph?  Hey, it’s a blog, not a review on a site pretending to be the corporate whore mainstream media, so what do you expect? I enjoyed the book, and it gave me hope, yeah that stupid emotion of the eternal loser, but I’m a sucker for hope, it wins elections you know, and the book was cool so why not hope, at least for a while? There’s nothing else to do, is there?

Hope led me to Secret Wars Prelude (tpb) and I’ve just spent my Monday evening which is my Saturday morning, and my Tuesday afternoon which is my Sunday morning, reading and thinking about the book, doing it slowly so I can get my remaining brain cells around it, and now a couple of neurones have fired together and I’m spitting out a review on my blog. Oh crap, been reading too much Kerouac again.

It’s a joke man, did you get it?

Anyway, so the book, it’s cool. It’s a wallop, a reminder, and some back-story research that ties into what is going to happen in the upcoming Secret Wars 2015 story arc. It begins in 1985, those years when comic books still looked like comic books and people like myself didn’t complain about new world order or neo-liberal themes being ignored in the books because they were just comics, and well, I was a comic book reading little kid back then, and this was before the whole new world order thing became the awful reality that it is today, with the focus on social justice warrior nonsense blinding us all to the wall of dry crap reality that is the backdrop to it all.

The first three stories are reprints from the mid 1980’s. There’s a lightness, a silliness to them, but so much packed information, I read it slowly and it deceives. You think it’s silly, childish even, and sometimes it is, but sometimes, it isn’t. Wolverine questions, too much power concentrated in a single man is the theme, and I see how the past is today, how that concentration of power leads to the destruction of an entire country, hundreds of thousands of deaths, and the call for human rights and democracy used as excuse as power does what power inevitable always will do.

The book shifts to 2012, Doctor Doom, a main player today as can be seen in Secret Wars #1, is rescued, by the young, the young indoctrinated by the system as it is now, telling them they are smart as they jump threw hoops marked ‘incorporated.’ A pretty girl, propping up the status quo, with hope, love, naivety, ambition, arrogance/ignorance perhaps she will understand, in time, but will it be too late? The young generation of social justice, neo-liberal warriors, the position fillers of the consensus now, make not the future; instead they prop up the system as it is today. Slotting into place, helping that which needs to be left to die a natural death of evolutionary redundancy, feeling pride as they build platforms for evil, their young minds failing to recognise the slavery system they help to maintain, concentrating on the little, whilst missing the whole.

From there it’s Ultimates, Thor getting beaten up by the young as he represents not the status quo, but a link to something greater than animal man, he represents God, of faith, and faith in this time of the robotic, machine man, transhumanist new world order, has to go.

After old Thor (religion) is beaten up we go to new Spiderman, or ghetto man, as he probably should politically incorrectly be termed. This Ultimate Spider lives in our neo-liberal now, his life a lottery, in squalor and urban Darwinian selfishness he strives, Oprah like, to get out of the hole that he has been placed in. Don’t worry, he’s a comic book character, he will get out, the majority don’t.

After the spider it’s the beginning of the end, a tie in to the world’s colliding stuff that is happening now in Secret Wars #1. Things falling apart, the comic book heroes act on rare love of humanity, of life, think they can fix it, but how to fix neo-liberalism? The only way to fix something so irrevocably broken is to start all over again, to destroy the world and rebuild from the ground up, not top down as is happening now, world’s colliding, destruction inevitable.

And so the stage is set. What did that 1985 stuff have to do with the now? It’s simple, in my mind. Thatcherism, Reaganomics created our neo-liberal world. Thatcher elected in 1979. Reagan elected in 1981. They built the universe we now inhabit, opened everything up to private banks and corporations that have been raping and pillaging the entire planet for how many years now? Thirty something? Do the maths. What has been created since those free market days has resulted in what we have now. They have created the neo-liberal world order, is it now the time where the neo-liberal order crashes into a ditch, spits into flames, dies, only to be replaced by what’s next, you know what’s next right?

It’s the New World order mate, not the pretend one, the real one, and to get to that it’s always been the goal to rip the world in two, to have world’s (east and west?) collide, happening now in the middle-east, and being (subconsciously?) paralleled within the pages of this comic book event. The death of the old world, replaced by the totalitarian new. A one world Police state, one world army, bank, government, chips for everybody, but no tomato sauce available unles GM contaminated, eat up, cancer a certainty.

Umm, I fall down now, exhausted on Jack Kerouac adrenaline, said what I wanted to say, this event then is a parallel between the world as it is now, in a moment of change, I know it always changes, but this one is the big change. Neo-liberal world seen for what it is, the world shudders, things falling apart, a catastrophe, bang, bang, bang, and the world is on fire. But fires eventually die out, and when they do its time to rebuild. Marvel worlds are dying, as is ours, do they recognise how close they are, how much relation there is to the story in the book and the reality of the now? I’m going to get quite a lot of mileage out of this Secret Wars 2015 event. I’m going to follow it closely, see the parallels, talk about them on my blog. I’m looking forward to this one. It’s going to be good, and there's that hope again, feels like love.



Rating: 8/10 (I loved the 1980’s re-prints, and the New Avengers 2013 material is very strong as well).

UK election 2015 Book review special: The Establishment- ‘And how they get away with it.’

Author: Owen Jones
Publisher: Penguin
Released: 4th September 2014


There’s a general election going on in the UK tomorrow; not that it really matters. The people have the choice between more of the same, or more of the same. The only thing up for change is the composition of the political puppets that will appear on our televisions and in our increasingly irrelevant newspapers. We’ll get to blame somebody new perhaps, or maybe we’ll just get to blame the old bloke again.

Yeah, the democratic process in the UK in 2015 is pretty messed up, broken so badly that it’s not even worth engaging with it, and that’s what most people do. They turn the channel, mumble a few curse words at the goon in the suit and watch the football instead. Why bother? They’re all the same. They’re all liars. They’re all in it for themselves.  I tend to agree with that kind of mentality. Why bother when it’s all a con?

And so the democratic process slowly dies, and the rich people who control it remain in power, relying on their repeater voters to trudge down to the local school every four years or so, voting not to make the world a better place, but voting for the same party that Mum and Dad voted for, voting based on fear because the television and newspapers have scared them and more of the same is the best that they can hope for, even though more of the same is killing everything around them, their families, communities and country as a whole.

The fresh faced young author

The Establishment ‘And how they get away with it,’ is a book by that posh young bloke (Owen Jones) who appears on BBC Question Time every now and then. It’s a book from the mainstream point of view, even though it’s supposedly attacking the mainstream. Everything is a coincidence, nothing was planned, and the rigged world that we have found ourselves living in today just needs a bit of reorganisation, a change of a couple of policies here and there, and then everything will be okay.

The story is that in the 1970’s a bunch of academic ideological outsiders (the author calls them ‘the outriders’) kept going on about privatisation, individualism and free market ideas. These ideas were thought of as crazy at the time (by the establishment as it was then) but rich people saw an opportunity, funded the outriders, and got their buddies into political positions where they could put the outriders intellectual justifications into practice in order to massively enrich themselves. The book talks about Thatcher, Reagan, New Labour and the current Cameron led Tories, and how they all share the same neo-liberal ideas that were started by the outriders. The problem now that is that we are living in a neo-liberal world as envisioned by the 1970’s outriders, and it’s bloody horrible, well, unless you are a very rich person or working in the neo-liberal establishment yourself.

What has been created is a world of selfishness, greed, Darwinian survival of the fittest ruthlessness and everything that is potentially wrist cuttingly depressing about the human species. That’s the status quo of 2015, and if you go up against it you are the crazy one, the loon, the person to be shunned by all right thinking people.

Owen Jones spends the book talking to the people who make up what could be loosely termed as the ‘establishment.’ As a whole they are a pretty smug bunch of a*** holes really, and why shouldn’t they be? They’ve won, and it doesn’t look like they have anything to worry about as all opposition to them is fragmented and at a very early stage of development. They own the mainstream media, they own the politicians, they own the banks and corporations, and think tanks, and universities and PR agencies. THEY OWN EVERYTHING.

The current gang of corporate sponsored goons

Their mentality is that of a bloody cartoon villain. They think that ‘All resistance is futile,’ and as I finished up this book I had that sinking feeling that bar a massive bloody, worldwide revolution they may just be right.

Jones details their mountain of spewing corruption, from the university intellectual yes men, the career obsessed politicians and journalists and PR agencies, the revolving doors between politics, finance, regulatory boards, tax cheating, writing the tax laws, then advising on how to get around those laws. He talks about how the Police were used as hired thugs but are no longer important as resistance is declining, and the cops themselves are targets of the neo-liberals now. He talks about the state, and how it is used to finance private interests, and to take the fall when things go badly. He details how the state steals money from the people, handing it over to private corporations, then demanding more and more as the desperate working class youth die in wars of corporate profit, whilst their grand parents die in hospitals that are being purposefully destroyed and prepared for privatisation.

Get those dead paupers out of here. We have some money to make. It’s a nightmare, and the mainstream media is there to give you scapegoats, and to divert your attention from the people really responsible for the dehumanising machine that is rolling over us all. They tell us that it’s the fault of those at the bottom, not those at the top. It’s those immigrants and single mum’s to blame, not the state bailed out banks that were given over a TRILLION pounds in bail-out money in 2008. That nice lady on the television sells the disinformation, with a friendly fake smile on your lonely television. She’s a nice lady, and she wouldn’t lie to you.

Owen Jones could depress for Britain, but what he has detailed here is truth, the harsh truth that our entire mainstream media exists to spread lies and to turn the poor against the poor, shielding real villains from public scrutiny.

With a book so heavy weighed down in its depressing, but awfully true lists of lies aimed against the public (that’s the 99% of us not in the neo-liberal corporate club-house) you need some big ideas, big arguments to leave the book on a high. We already know that the political system is rigged, that’s why we don’t give a crap about this election in 2015, so give us something, give the reader the feeling that things are so unfair, so upside down that things have to change.

I was waiting for that moment to come at the concluding part of the book, but it never really did. What did happen was a list of pitter-patter policy details that could be changed to make things better for us all. These ideas were to be talked about in think tanks, and hopefully they would filter through into the mainstream, much like the outrider’s ideas of the 1970’s.

The ideas themselves are good, but who is going to listen to them? The outrider’s ideas of the 1970’s were useful because they helped to justify the greed of the corporate elites. Why would the ideas that Jones discusses in this book, that talk about a ‘democratic revolution,’ even be listened to? In other words, why would the rich and powerful change what to them is already a perfectly satisfactory situation?

My opinion is that they won’t change, because change doesn’t benefit them. It doesn’t matter how much you talk about fairness and the restoration of the trade unions etc because the very people who would be damaged by these changes OWN EVERYTHING and are going to fight to the death to hold onto what they have.

Same as it ever was.

When these people OWN EVERYTHING the only way that change is going to happen is revolution, when masses of people all over the UK take to the streets and say, no more. Until that day happens, nothing changes. The establishment is too powerful, it OWNS EVERYTHING, and pitter-patter policy changes are not enough.

Writer Owen Jones criticises ‘The Establishment,’ but he himself would be the first to admit that he’s very much a part of it. Like Russell Brand he is surfing that wave of popular discontent, telling us what we already know, but I don’t see any long-term solutions here.

What I have read is a list of grievances, a coincidence narrative (please don’t call me a ‘conspiracy theorist’) and a concluding chapter that tells the working suckers/masses to calm down and to work for change within the already rotten system. It’s a very well researched book, and the information it contains is immense, but what is it really doing? It’s telling us that we have been screwed over, but we already knew that.

What actions can I personally take after reading this book? I can vote, can’t I? Will that change anything? No. So what else can I do? Join a think tank, become a new ‘outrider?’ That’s not enough. I’ve already talked far too much about things, and we are getting to the stage where talk is not enough.

It’s time for action, it’s time to get to the streets, to actually do something, and good as this book is, that is one thing that it is not advocating, and for that reason alone the book isn't quite as 'revolutionary' as you might think. Put this one in the Russell Brand section, and label it as an establishment reaction to what it fears is coming. The information here is valuable, but I can’t see any genuine solutions other than to continue to work within what is already an utterly broken system. It needs to call for a revolution, and it doesn’t do that. The minor changes that it is calling for are all very nice and polite, but the time for being nice and polite is over. It’s time to take things back. The talking has been done. It’s time for action.

Rating: 7/10 (Worth reading for the detailed information on corruption that it contains)

Comic review: Alex + Ada #14- Run from the ballot box

Story By: Jonathan Luna & Sarah Vaughn
Art By: Jonathan Luna
Cover By: Jonathan Luna
Publisher: Image Comics
Released: 29th April 2015



In the New World Order of the very near future your choices will be limited to comply or die. Driving your own car, paying for goods with cash and growing your own food will seem like subversive acts. Your life will be about living in a bubble of compliance to the will of the corporate state. If you resist you will be an enemy of that state, arrested, imprisoned, or murdered by uniformed order followers, and denounced as a terrorist on the corporate media.

Alex + Ada #14 is a very unhappy comic book, but it has to be. The future portrayed in the book is the future that we are currently building, so any other portrayal would be unrealistic, disingenuous and dishonest to the readers.

At the moment we are sleepwalking into total state control. Neo-liberalism, corporatism, illiberal democracy, fascism, new world order, globalism, call it whatever you like. Names are no longer important as our very language becomes warped, twisted, turned inside out to suit those who would enslave us with a friendly smile, a soft feminised voice, but a bullet in our head if we dare to resist their softly sold tyranny.

Here’s a warning. Voting for change will not bring about any change because the voting process is compromised.

So how to bring about real change if it’s impossible through the ballot box? It’s very easy actually. You take the lessons from Alex + Ada #14 and apply them to your own life.

Do things on a local, personal, face to face level.

Build your relationships from a bottom up, not top down perspective.

Use cash, not electronic money.

Grow your own food.

Put down your islavery device.

Live a simple life.

Don’t vote for your own slavery.

That last piece of advice is from me, obviously. The last barrier to change is the idea that democracy is still an avenue for change, and that is not addressed in the book. The other points however are addressed, and in this vital instalment of Alex + Ada you are given a truthful representation of what happens when you resist the state.

I won’t spoil it, but the protests happening in Baltimore US right now are highly significant and illustrative of the problem addressed in this book. What happens to people when they want to be left alone and an uniformed order follower is barking instructions at them that they ignore? Do they have a chat and sort out the problem, or does the state-sanctioned god do what he is allowed to do?

Alex + Ada #14 is about two people who want out of the New World order soft slavery system. They commit no crime other than a failure to comply. There is no victim, no harm has been done, and they just want to be left alone. That human desire to be left alone is incompatible with the top down corporate control system. Because Alex + Ada want to be left alone they have become the enemy of the state and will be dealt with as all enemies of the state are dealt with.

Buy this comic book, not because it has taken it’s time to tell a fascinating and emotionally engaging story and not because it has a refreshing lack of social justice warrior campaigning and the ability to step out of the politically correct clichés of it’s day. Buy it because it’s a comic book that shows you what will always happen when you vote for a centralised control system. Buy it and remember what you are voting for when you go the ballot box (on May 7th in the UK) and put a dead little cross in the box of your propagandised choice.


Rating: 9/10 (Dramatic and climatic)

Comic review: Bucky Barnes: The Winter Soldier #7- Inside the mind of a traumatised boy soldier

Writer: Ales Kot
Artist: Langdon Foss
Cover Artist: Michael Del Mundo
Publisher: Marvel (Disney)
Released: 8th April 2015


I purchased this book because of the creatively rendered front-cover. The actual content of the book, the writer, the artist, the characters involved etc, were not a factor. I bought it for the cover, thinking it would look nice on my wall, and it will, but what about the actual content of the book?

Looking at the first page, a page that featured a childishly drawn image of Crossbones with a bloody knife, I was immediately disappointed. I’ll put up the image in this review so you can see it for yourself. What do you think?

Here’s what I think. It reminds me of the kind of sketch that you’d expect to find in the back of a bored school-kid’s maths book, that’s what it looks like to me. Basic, big muscles, blood, skull, knife, guns, corpses littered around ‘awesome’ bad guy. In other words, it’s as naff as Hell, a twelve-year-olds embarrassing first attempt at doing something ‘cool’ to impress his friends.

I was worried (understandably, right?) that this book with a great cover would turn out to be a load of junk, so I read on with a sinking feeling, expecting the worst and thinking about better comic books that I could read after finishing this one. I kept reading, and to my great surprise I managed to get something out of this book, and I can even find a reason to justify the childish art as well.

Here’s the reason. The book is coming from the point of view of a villain. That villain (Crossbones) is a traumatised, over-grown little boy with parental abandonment issues. He has been hurt, so he wants to hurt other people in return. He bought into the lie peddled by his father that soldiers and cops fight for freedom and peace, and when the lie was exposed and reality kicked him in the pants he reacted in exactly the same way as other little boys react when their world view is shattered. Rather than fighting against the order following, immoral institutions that make the world/galaxy what it is, he blamed life itself. Hating himself, everything and everybody he did what all secondary psychopaths do, he lashed out at the world with violence, attempting to put ‘order’ on what to him seemed like random acts of chaos.

People like this usually become Policemen or soldiers, or politicians, or other cogs in the new world order machine of inhumanity, order following and control, but seeing as this is a comic book about a super villain, this traumatised little boy of an order following absent father became a hate filled super villain instead.

What writer Ales Kot has done here is to show the making of a soldier. Crossbones is a control freak who wants to punish people, wants to hurt people, and wants to get revenge for the trauma that he has been through. If he were an Afghani villager who had experienced a childhood of watching the death and horror of US drone strikes he’s join the Taliban, or ISIS, or Al Qaeda. If he was a young boy living in America who had been traumatised by what happened on 9/11 then he would have joined the US military and happily gone off to Iraq to help the banks and corporations rape, loot and burn that country.

That’s how soldiers are made. They are grown-up, traumatised children, not just in the west, but everywhere in the world. You can put on a uniform, or not, but when you join up and join the machine of violence you are doing it because you are lashing out at the world. You hate the world, you have given up on the world, you feel little, powerless, small, and you want to punch somebody in the face. You pick up a gun and start shooting back, and violence continues, the elite’s continue to use your hatred and the world keeps on repeating forever, and ever.

This book should have been subtitled’ How to create a soldier,’ because that’s what it’s really about.

The basic, childlike artwork is perfect for the book, as it’s simplified, making violence look childishly cool, bringing you straight into the mind of the traumatised child soldier.

I didn’t like the art, but it really works here, and whether or not that was intentional doesn’t really matter, as the end result is a book that makes a very good point about the world, how it is today, and how it will always be unless a childish mindset of order following, trauma and revenge is dealt with by critically aware, thinking, analysing, questioning adults.

The powers that shouldn’t be around the world rely on traumatised children to keep the wheels of their war machines turning. If we are ever going to change the world and make it the peaceful, co-operative place that it should be then one of the biggest challenges facing humanity today is to understand the mind-set of the traumatised children that the control systems use to keep their machine running.

How do we do that? We talk to children open, and honestly. We teach them that order following is evil, and that if you put on the uniform of the state you are essentially giving away moral responsibility for the immoral consequences of your own actions. When you do this the end result is slavery for everybody, and the rule of the planet by a tiny number of psychopathic elite families. That’s the lesson, and I thank Bucky Barnes: The Winter Soldier #7 for illustrating the mindset of a traumatised child, a mindset that has to be acknowledged, then dealt with, if anything resembling peace is ever to have a chance on planet earth, a planet full to the brim with traumatised children, and with archonic, satanic families clamped upon humanity like a giant, vampiric, blood sucking leach, exploiting trauma they divide and conquer, and end up ruling us all.



Rating: 7/10 (There’s a lesson to be learnt in this book, but how many people will see it?)

Review: 2000AD PROG 1925: It’s a lovely spring day in England, and all is right in the world

Writers and authors: Numerous
Publisher: Rebellion
Awesome Cover Art by: Simon Davis
Released: 8th April 2015



Last week’s 2000AD was great, it gave new readers a perfect jumping on point, and gave long-term readers a tremendous feelings of optimism for what is to come next, so let’s get straight down to it and see if this week’s 2000AD can build on that promising opening.

Judge Dread- Enceladus/New Life has some nice red colouring and a tension packed story-line involving whether or not the Judges will shoot down an out of control spaceship as it hurtles towards the city centre. There are echoes of a certain (suspiciously disintegrated) United Airlines Flight 93 here, and the end result also plays into what happened on 11th September 2001. Do you really think that they would allow what is essentially a flying bomb to hit buildings and kill innocent lives? That’s the question, and the answer is in a document called Operation Northwoods (See link at the end of this review).

Here’s the sad truth. Yes, they would allow it to happen, but NO, they wouldn’t tell you about it when they do. This 2000AD fictional story ignores all of that pesky real-world reality stuff of course and the good guy judges do what you would expect them to do if you spend all of your time watching mainstream television. They save the day, just like they don’t do in the real world where life is essentially meaningless to government order followers in silly uniforms. Anyway, it’s an okay strip, the plot has intrigue and I enjoyed it. No ‘truther’ stuff, but I don’t expect to see any in a comic book that I can buy in WH Smith’s, which is bloody depressing, but there you go. The corporate whore state is nothing if not predictable. No truth is allowed in the mainstream, but you already knew that, right?

The second story in 2000AD this week is Orlok, the psychic painter bloke. It begins with your usual comic book portrayal of a violent anarchist. Poor old anarchists are always portrayed as violent criminals in comics, because anarchy means freedom from centralised control, and comic book writers (99% of the time) are slavery loving statists. Oh well, no surprise here then, so let’s see how this violent anarchist is dealt with, yawn. Ummm, the anarchists kidnap the psychic artist bloke, and actually get away from the cops. Keep your eye on this one. Perhaps it’s not going to be as formulaically statist worshipping as I thought? Yeah, I know, I’m hoping for the impossible, but that’s what I do.

Third story is the awesome Slaine- The Brutania Chronicles where our hero is fighting against a crazy religious cult leader who likes chopping people’s heads off for the demonic sacrifice demanding god of his nutty religion. Sounds familiar, don’t you think? Now, what other crazy cult followers can you think about who are slaughtering people for their demonic false little god?  If you don’t know what I’m talking about then off to the Google machine, or just pick up a newspaper. That real world bloody death cult is quite busy right now, and they are getting plenty of good PR support in the corporate whore mainstream newspapers. Back to Slaine. Everything about it is fantastic, from the art, the story, to the hidden meanings behind the narrative themes. It’s excellent, and you need to buy 2000AD for this story alone.

Grey Area is the next story and it also interested me in that it appears to be about a planet of new ager aliens who don’t appear to recognise that there are nasty things out there who will do them harm, and that if they don’t defend themselves then they are going to get their friendly, tolerant, peaceful, spiritually awakened heads kicked in. It’s a book about ignoring the self-defence principle, at last that’s how I’m reading it so far, and for that valuable lesson alone I’m both enjoying the story and having a bit of a laugh with it as well as I get to know more about this ridiculous left liberally tolerant mad universe that’s about to get it’s arse kicked.

I don’t really like the art in the final story (Strontium Dog) but the main protagonist is an old childhood favourite of mine, and I’m enjoying the story which is essentially a p*** take of what a future world with China and North Korean crazy dictators in charge would look like. Much like what we have now I would suggest just without the pointless fake elections that they insist upon every few years or so. But I digress. I enjoyed this one as well, it was funny, silly and the plot has elements of real world stuff in it that I (obviously) found very interesting as well.

I began this review by asking whether or not 2000AD could build on last week’s excellent jumping-on PROG of new story arcs. The answer to that question is a stomping and trumping Elephentine YES. They’ve kept the momentum going brilliantly. PROG 1925 is an excellent comic book that has lots of things going on, a fantastic feature story (Slaine) and very little weak points in between. Spring 2015 is looking very bright indeed, the day has been lovely, I’ve just read a fantastic comic and I couldn’t be feeling better. Oh dear, things are looking far too good. I’m starting to get a bit worried now.


Overall rating: 9/10 (Just as great as last week’s awesome Spring 2015 opening)

Best story: Slaine: 10/10 (Weird and wonderful)

Worst story: None. They are all pretty decent. 


Info about Operation Northwoods:
http://io9.com/5838778/operation-northwoods-the-1960s-government-plan-to-fake-terrorist-attacks-on-the-us