Comic review: 2000AD PROG 1938- Still in love with the cult of the order follower

Writers: Various
Publisher: Rebellion
Released: 8th July 2015


2000AD has gone a bit sleepy, liberal, statist, feminist and irrelevent at the moment, so why should I waste my time constructing a detailed review when all I will do is repeat what I said about it last week?

Judge Dredd, an icon of authoritarian cool.

If you want to know what I think about Judge Dredd and female protagonists punching men in the face and bossing everybody about then look at my previous reviews. I’m not going to repeat myself, so I’ll keep this week’s review of 2000AD PROG 1938 short, and to the point.

The cover (by Neil Roberts) is nice. I like the layout, the blur and unconventionality to it, it’s a good one, and that’s coming from somebody who hates Judge Dredd.

Absalom has one panel with our heroes (the Police) rushing off to capture a dangerous criminal. As their van thunders through the streets they knock somebody of his bike. This is not going to be a big part of the narrative, it’s a minor detail, but it’s the best thing about the story, as it shows a truth about the Police.

Cops don’t actually give a s*** about people, it’s just fun and games to them, a case, a puzzle, a promotion, whatever, people don’t really matter, it’s all about them and their precious careers, not the people that they pretend to serve.

Cops are not there to defend the public. They are there to protect the status quo, the corporate overlords, the political minions and the demonic banks that control them.

If politicians decided that the wearing of a hat was now a criminal offence punishable by a lengthy prison sentence, cops would happily arrest you for wearing one, and send you to a gulag to rot away forever.

Order following thugs portrayed as heroes

The truth about cops is that they are not good people, they are order followers. Order followers are never good people. All cops are bad cops because they have chosen to disregard personal moral responsibility for the selfish pursuit of a career and money.

Don’t believe television cop programmes and don’t believe comics, books and all of the other media that portrays cops as heroes, because that is not based on reality. Cops are order following, selfish, immoral cowards. They always have been, and they always will be. That’s the truth, like it or not.

That’s all that I want to say about PROG 1938 of 2000AD. All of the stories have cops/soldiers as protagonists. Order followers all, there are no heroes here. If you are still under the misapprehension that order followers are good people then pick up a copy of Mein Kampf, and carry on as before. I have better things to do with my time.

Order followers are bad people. You will not sell me on the virtue of being a Nazi. It cannot be done. Comic books that portray cops and soldiers as heroes to children are doing a disservice to humanity. They are infecting the minds of the young, instilling in them a disease that maintains the evil, immoral, world that we live in today. I will not promote disease. I will not bow down to the immoral cult of the sociopathic order follower. Humanity needs to recognise truth, and to stop promoting, and bowing down to agents of the state. Cops and soldiers are order following servants of the satanic ‘elites’ that enslave us all, and it doesn’t matter how they are portrayed in mainstream media ‘programming’ vehicles. Truth will eventually out, and humanity will not be enslaved forever.


Rating: 3/10 (The narrative in Helium has a tame correlation with the many resource wars that the corrupt western elites have engaged in since 2001)

Secret Wars #4- What is a superhero?

Writer: Jonathan Hickman
Artist: Esad Ribic
Publisher: Marvel (Disney)
Released: 1st July 2015



Go to a comic book shop, pick up a new superhero comic book, read it, and ask yourself the following question:

What is a contemporary mainstream comic book superhero?

Grant Morrison thinks that they are stand-ins for soldiers.

I agree.

They are soldiers, and what do soldiers do?

They follow orders.

Who TODAY is in charge, and who is giving the orders?

According to the mainstream media it’s the Clintons, Blairs, Obamas, Camerons and all of the other blue and red puppets.

Puppets?

Yes, puppets.

But if they are puppets, who is controlling their strings?

The neoliberal corporate/banking elites.

Who are they?

They are the people who run the privately owned banks and corporations that fund governments. They are the globalists, the western elites, the new world order.

Back to comics, back to superheroes.

A superhero is a soldier, soldiers take orders from political puppets, the new world order is a corporate entity, and mainstream comic books are a part of that corporate entity. Therefore, a superhero appearing in a mainstream comic book is a soldier working for the new world order.

Did that truth taste bad? I hope so, because truth is a bitter pill to swallow, and that is why people don’t like it, and get upset when you try to force it down their throats. I understand, but I want to talk about more than the art and panel designs in comic books. I want to talk about the world, and comic books are the platform that I use to do that.

So what does the new world order want?

They want one world government, and total control of the entire planet.

What is the role of a soldier/superhero in the new world order?

Their role is to eliminate all opposition to the new world order.

Therefore, all ‘villains’ in contemporary comic books have to represent a threat to the new world order.

The villain in Secret Wars #4 is Doctor Doom, a crazed dictator type.

It’s always a crazed dictator type, in comic books, and in the real world.

The crazed dictator will sit on a throne, scare people, act like a villain, and cause problems until he is finally defeated by the soldiers/superheroes.

In Secret Wars #4 that process is progressing towards its inevitable conclusion. Doom fights the soldiers, and he acts like a power-crazed delusional madman. He wins a battle, but in the long run he will lose the war.

That’s how contemporary corporate entity comic books work. A dictator threatens the status quo, soldiers/superheroes are sent in, cue battles and some character stuff, the dictator is defeated, and it’s back to the beginning again.

In comic books it’s The Joker, Doctor Doom, Magneto, The Red Skull and Lex Luthor.

In the real world it’s Hussein, Bin Laden, Gaddafi, Assad and Putin.

Comic books villains exist to serve the narrative, to sell comic books.

Real world villains exist to serve the narrative, to sell the new world order.

Secret Wars #4 is a comic book about superheroes/soldiers fighting against the latest dictator, the latest threat to the new world order.

It’s a comic book that people will read and enjoy. They will discuss the art, the characters, the fights and the plot. Deeper issues and socio-political assumptions that are made within the text will not be discussed.

I will be ignored, or criticised, more of the former, a little of the later, if I’m lucky. That’s okay. The new world order relies on the consent of the governed. If the people want it, then they’ll get it. That’s the world that we live in, that’s the world that we want, that’s the world that we deserve.


Rating: 7/10 (Starts better than it ends, and it’s all about the characters now)

Comic Review: Planet Hulk #1- Captain Pony-Tail & His Pet T-Rex

Writer: Sam Humphries
Artist: Marc Laming
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Released: 20th May 2015



I’ve often wondered, and reading Planet Hulk #1 has made me think about it again, that the only thing that makes a comic book hero an actual ‘hero’ is that he fights against dictators.

The hero stands up for ‘democracy, and freedom.’ That is what he does, and that is why he is a hero. The unquestioned assumption of course being that democracy equates to freedom.

So what happens when a democracy becomes compromised? What happens when obscenely wealthy people purchase the democracy, and propagandise the people through their media manipulation machines, thus making the democracy a sham, an empty charade where the people are not as ‘free’ as they might think that they are?

What happens when change is impossible, when the political parties represent not the people that vote for them, but the people who fund them? What happens when a democracy becomes nothing more than a dictatorship of the wealthy, and people go along with it in the hope that they can at least make a decent living out of the corrupt situation that they have found themselves living in?

Where are the comic book heroes to be found in such a situation? Where are the comic book heroes in 2015? What do they do, what do they say, and do they even deserve to be labelled as 'heroes?' Let's jump into the larger than life world of comic books, and see what the heroes of today are getting up to.

Heroes in Marvel comics of 2015 come in many different shapes and sizes, but they all do one of two things:

1- They fight against fictional bullies and dictators (whilst ignoring real ones like the western backed gangster family in control of Saudi Arabia) and pretend that democracy in the west is not broken.
2- They become ‘social justice warriors,’ and fight for all of the politically correct ‘freedoms’ that are pushed by the mainstream media, the same media that is ran and controlled by the people who run and control the sham democracy.

I think it's safe to say that Marvel comic books of 2015 focus mainly on evil dictators, and social justice warrior issues. The writers are almost 100% feminist neo-liberal in their world-views and frequently pat themselves on the back for having stories that deal with issues related to race, sex or gender. Their idea of controversial is what would have been controversial thirty years ago, not what is actually controversial today.

Why am I bringing all of this up in a review of Planet Hulk #1? It's because that backdrop informs what I am now going to say about this particular comic book.

Planet Hulk #1 has a simple story, and reads like any other mainstream comic book that you will find in your comic book shop today. It doesn’t have as many zombies or third-wave feminist empowered young girls as most of the other junk books on the shelves, but its overarching assumptions are very familiar.

The book’s villain is an evil, world controlling dictator. This dictator (Doctor Doom) sits on a thrown and orders people to do his bidding. People follow his orders (just as they would do in a democracy btw) and the world is a horrible place that needs the help of some comic book heroes. Captain America is one of these heroes, and as we begin this story he is a pony-tailed gladiator who rides around on a T-Rex. He works for said evil dictator in order to help his friend, Bucky. The book is about fighting, and if you like fighting you’ll like the book.

Oh, I almost forgot. You also get a backstory about how a place called ‘Greenland’ got to be radiated, and thus turned into a big monster play-park. The story might be fun, but only for those under the age of about ten years old. This add-on story is about monsters, and more fighting. So again, if you like fighting, you'll like this bit as well, and if you like monsters fighting then this will really make your day.

Here’s how I read Planet Hulk #1. Captain America is a US marine, a man who is fighting not for a great cause, but because he wants to help his buddy. I’ve read interviews with real soldiers, and when they are asked what they were fighting for their answer is normally the same. They were fighting to help their friends, not America, not democracy, not freedom, they are fighting for their friends, and their friends are fighting for them. Their objective is to get home safely, and if they have to murder people to do so, well, they’ll do it, a lot.

Don’t ask the soldiers why they are occupying a foreign country, and don’t question why they would agree to do such a thing in the first place. You don’t question the troops, and you certainly don’t criticise the troops. They are heroes, just like Captain America. What they actually do is not important. You thank them for your freedom, and you don’t question anything that they do.

Do you see the problem here?

I don’t have to spell it out, do I? You have a culture being created, being celebrated in comic books like Planet Hulk #1, where questioning is something that you just don’t do. But then look at the comic book again and look at the villains. Who are they?

Who are the villains in Planet Hulk #1?

It’s not Doom. He’s the face of it, but look at what he actually does. All he is doing is sitting in a chair. He’s not killing anybody. He’s not forcing people to do anything. All he is doing is giving orders, and people are obeying him.

Doom has an army of ‘Thors’ who fly around subjugating the local population on his behalf. This army of Thors rain death and destruction from the sky, targeting civilians as they do so, indiscriminately using violence to sucessfully complete their missions.

The Thors are the villains, the SOLDIERS. Doom is a politician, the president, and the man who gives orders, but he doesn’t do the actual killing himself, that is what his order following Thor/Soldiers are doing.

The villain in this book is not Doctor Doom. The villains are the people who follow his orders, the Thors, the SOLDIERS.

How do comic book readers read this book, and then look at their own soldiers as heroes? The Thors are soldiers, but they are not heroes. Soldiers are never heroes, because people who follow orders are not acting under moral law. They are voluntarily giving away their moral responsibilities, and acting in an immoral way that is inconsistent with the actions of a good, moral person. This is what soldiers do. It’s what soldiers always do. It’s a part of the job. You cannot be an order following soldier and also be a good moral person, the two things are completely incompatible. People might not like to hear this truth, but truth is what it is, and it needs to be said.

After acknowledging that order following soldiers are not heroes, the book then uses the ultimate order following soldier (Captain America) and attempts to portray him as the hero of the narrative. It’s already contradictory, that a man who follows orders is a hero, but then look at what he is actually doing in this book.  He is also working for Doctor Doom, accepting a mission where he is to murder somebody, just on the say so of Doom. His rationale of course being that he is doing it for his friend, the same rationale I discussed previously in this review.

What is this comic book saying?

To me, it’s saying two things. Firstly, that it’s bad to be an order following Thor/soldier, but if you are doing what you are doing in order to help your buddy (remember, the cry of all soldiers) then, well, that’s okay, you a good moral person now.

I guess that if you are following orders to help your buddies then morality no longer counts? You are not a villain anymore. You are Captain America now.

Tell that to the Nuremberg trials of 1945/6 and see if they’ll buy it. They won’t, and do you know why they won’t? They won’t buy it because it’s BS. You are always morally responsible for the results of your actions, no friendships, no orders, and no excuses. If you do evil things, the only person responsible is YOU.

Do you see the insanity, the self-delusion, and the practised ignorance of reality that is on display here in this (very typical) comic book? It’s quite incredibly really, and that’s what you have going on in most mainstream comic books in 2015. An acknowledgement that following orders is probably not a good thing, but this idea that if you are doing it to help your friends then that’s perfectly okay, and even admirable.

It’s madness, pure madness, encouraged in comic books, like Planet Hulk #1, by Sam Humphries, and on display in countless other Marvel, DC and independent comic books that are on the market today.

Is the world mad, or is it just asleep? They understand that western democracies are broken, don’t they? They understand that following orders is what the Nazi’s did, and that is why we call them ‘evil’ don’t they?

They have to understand, and yet they (I’m talking about the writers and readers of contemporary comic books here) are ignoring these two issues.

I’ll read other reviews of this book and they’ll talk about the plot, the art, the characters. I know they will. The deeper issues will not be discussed. My review will be the weird, ignored one. I know that is going to happen, because that is what always happens. And so I put out this review for one reason only, for the sake of my own conscience. I saw what was going on, and whilst others remained silent, I refused to say ‘cool,’ and ignore what was going on. I’m the bad guy who told the comic book reading world that their emperor is not wearing any clothes. Somebody had to do it, sorry, but it had to be done.


Rating: 4/10 (Get it if you want to see a pony-tailed Captain America riding a T-Rex) 

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?)