Writers and artists: Numerous
Publisher: Rebellion
Released: 10th June 2015
A warped out Slaine is on the cover of 2000AD this week, excellent, let’s see what’s inside.
A new Judge Dredd arc begins this week, and it starts with a mercenary trying to murder a judge. The interest in the story is in discovering, who paid him, and why? I’m not a fan of the judges, so I don’t really care, but it could be interesting, we’ll see.
You know what? I agree with them. If everyday news consumers knew what ‘false flag’ actually meant (attacking yourself and blaming somebody else in order to justify actions that would otherwise be unjustifiable, see 9/11, 7/7, Gulf of Tonkin and Reichstag Fire) then there might be a moment when the news watching programmed masses start to question things and discover a thirst for truth about what their governments are getting up to.
The story itself (Absalom- Under a False Flag) initially confused me. It certainly wasn’t making it easy for the readers to get into it, and it took me a couple of reads just to understand what it was supposed to be about. It had some lame blokey jokes about people from Newcastle, the art was very nice, and the plot involved Police/Slave controller protagonists and one of their assets. I’m intrigued, and look forward to see where it goes next week. Oh, and it was set in a demon and magic filled future, so it could say something about the world as it is today, under disguise of it’s fictional sci-fi setting, but we’ll see. The title at least is a good start.
‘What seems to me to be white will be black, if you tell me it is so.’ (True words spoken by a loyal order follower who does not want to know the truth.)
‘They hate living flesh and will only tolerate it when it can be controlled.’ (Do you ever get the feeling that governments hate their own people? I do. People are always the real enemy of government. They want compliant slaves, dogs, and that is why they lionise order followers, soldiers and cops as heroes at every available opportunity, whilst cutting their pensions and letting them starve and die when the cameras are no longer shooting. A compliant population is a slave population, and that is the goal of all governments.)
Slaine talks about the ‘archons’ this week, the gods of humanity, the slave masters at the top of the pyramid. It’s fascinating, dripping with truth and revelation about the state of humanity as it has been since the dawn of time. What is an archon? Watch this ten-minute video, and find out:
It’s not possible to top something as essential as Slaine, but ‘Helium,’ the last story in PROG 1934 of 2000AD is fun, and easy to get straight into (unlike ‘Absalom- Under a False Flag). I am uneasy with the central narrative premise though, that being the commonly pushed mainstream lie that you can change a corrupt system by joining it. I dislike that premise, because it’s not true, and I see it everywhere, from television cop shows, to this comic book script. We need to break the illusion, and we need to expose the lie.
Once again I’ve put together a far too long review, but what can I do? I start writing about 2000AD and there’s so much to say, and I can’t help myself, being the blabbermouth that I am. Thanks for reading, if you got this far, it’s another great week in 2000AD, get the book, support UK comics.
Rating: 9/10 (Interesting new arcs begin here, plus Slaine continues to excel)
