No matter how dispiriting your Monday looks to be, at least you weren’t responsible for the Steampunk Palin comic (“… fifteen pages of story, followed by eight pages of pin-ups of Sarah Palin”).
I would credit the commentor responsible for the link, except I can’t find my note, and besides “credit” may not be the word I’m looking for here.
Southern Beale
“Steampunk Palin” eh? You know, there are a lot of nutters in this country, always have been. My dad was in the music business all my life, and I remember back in the late-’70s, early ’80s he’d get letters from some nutter infatuated with Olivia Newton John, who the nutter referred to as “Olivia Outhouse Newton.” Repeatedly. It was “Olivia Outhouse Newton” this and “Olivia Outhouse Newton” that and it went on for about 10 pages, front and back, all handwritten.
This “Steampunk Palin” guy reminds me of the “Olivia Outhouse Newton” nutter.
Comrade Kevin
That is fucking nutso.
Yutsano
Words. Fail. Almost as much as that comic does. Yowza.
freelancer
Whoever originally linked that, I sent it out to friends.
Subject line: For your “WTF, no seriously WTF?!” folder.
AxelFoley
Since it got overlooked on the California thread, I’ll repost this here:
http://theobamadiary.com/2011/01/22/nice-company-you-keep-arianna/#comments
Yeah, check who Arianna was hanging out with the night of the Tuscon shootings. All hugged up with the dude, huh, Arianna?
JGabriel
Anne Laurie:
Au contraire. We are ALL responsible for Steampunk Palin. We built, or allowed to be built, the society that produced it. Just like we all killed the Kennedys and put Jesus on that cross.
.
Turbulence
Ahem…I’m afraid I have to take, um, credit for that. In fairness, I only saw it because my wife sent me a link. Her quest in life is scouring the internet for the most horrific things imaginable and sending me links to them because…well I guess because she takes pleasure in my suffering.
khead
Tried to post this earlier in the football thread but ended up in moderation hell.
This week in southern WV/southwest VA wingnuttery:
WV legislators decide to try to go around those meddling Feds at the EPA
Giles County, VA board sticks it the heathens complaining about the Ten Commandments in the public schools.
Bluefield Daily Telegraph columnist mentions Hitler while discussing environmentalists on same day as Manchin op-ed piece blasting the EPA.
Khead +4
Go Steelers
MikeJ
I saw this on bb, but I don’t remember if they had a unicorn chaser.
RossInDetroit
Robama? That’s actually kind of inspired.
zattarra
I am an avid comic collector. Trust me, nobody is buying this POS and it’s distribution is probably non existent. This is an insult to comics and worse will be when the wingnuts find out about it and make the 100 or so issues into collector’s items.
RossInDetroit
I must have a copy of this. Seriously. Ordinarily I avoid giving my money to crazy people but this is just… too… awful to resist.
Ija
@RossInDetroit:
I love how Robama is basically Palin’s sidekick. Palin and Robama, better than Batman and Robin.
morzer
So this is how Andrew Breitbart spends his spare time. The poor sick bastard.
hamletta
@RossInDetroit: You and me both! I want to share it with my brother’s grandchildren: Back in my day, many politicians were certifiably crazy!
Wile E. Quixote
Wow, something as badly written and drawn as Liberality for All which is the gayest comic book ever written, and when I say it’s the gayest comic book ever written I don’t mean that it’s gay like Howard Cruse’s Stuck Rubber Baby or Tim Barela’s Leonard and Larry or Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For. You know, wholesome, out of the closet and well-adjusted despite having to deal with huge quantities of shit sent your way by ignorant bigots, gay. No, Liberality for All is nothing like that, it’s more like Ernst Röhm leading a group of drunken leather-clad Sturmabteiling thugs on a mission to burn down a synagogue and beat up some Jews before going back to HQ and rogering each other stupid gay under pictures of Adolf Hitler gay. It’s Mark Foley asking your teenage son over for a sleepover gay. It’s Larry Craig walking into the bathroom stall next to yours with a cordless Sawzall gay. It’s crazed right wing general Edwin Walker and Lee Harvey Oswald being arrested for lewd conduct and public indecency in a Dallas park gay. It’s “show us on the doll where Bill Donahue touched you” gay. It’s Roy Cohn gay, that is to say that it’s nasty, shame-filled, self-hating, closeted and hypocritical. You know, conserva-ghey.
Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen
Holy Fuck. Looks the doctors put the dual power source in her chest.
@Turbulence: Repeat after me:
Handcuffs.
Riding crop.
Safe word.
You all can purchase additional fancy clothes if you like, but the three things listed above will allow her to make you suffer without any chance we’ll be made to suffer.
Omnes Omnibus
Can someone explain this? Seriously, why would this happen?
RossInDetroit
As awful at Steampunk Palin is, this might just be worse.
handy
@RossInDetroit:
These are very serious people we’re dealing with here, these Palin fans.
RossInDetroit
Okay, I have a copy on the way. Five bucks. What the hell. Maybe I’ll frame it.
Comrade Kevin
@RossInDetroit: Holy shit, that’s frightening
RossInDetroit
Is it possible that this is a spoof? I haven’t looked at it in detail, and these days it takes close scrutiny to tell satire from reality on the Right.
Wile E. Quixote
Oh, and while we’re on the subject of comic books surely I can’t be the only comic book reader who thinks that it would have been nothing short of awesome if Tom of Finland had been an artist for Marvel Comics. Imagine the in your face male homo-eroticism of Tom of Finland combined with the balls to the wall, leaping out of the page hyperkinetic action of Jack Kirby. It would be like having balls in your face, male homoerotic hyperkinetic leaping out of the page action. Or something like that. I don’t know, I just want incredibly hot sex scenes with lots and lots of Kirby dots.
If an artist combining these two sensibilities ever comes to the fore I have the perfect vehicle for him. A remake of the short-lived Marvel title about a heroic construction worker from the 1980s, Steelgrip Starkey and the All-Purpose Power Tool.
Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen
@RossInDetroit: The writer and one of the artists commented on the … thing AL
inflicted onshared with us.Richard W. Crews
PILF!
Wile E. Quixote
@Omnes Omnibus:
Here, this tract from Jack Chick explains it all.
Omnes Omnibus
@Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen: I didn’t read as far as the comments. People actually took credit for this?
RossInDetroit
@Omnes Omnibus:
Starbursts. Power pr0n. Celebrity pr0n. Or it’s a spoof. I sincerely hope the latter. I’ll report back when my copy arrives.
Gravenstone
@RossInDetroit: Dude, you just gave me a nervous twitch, I don’t think I’m ever gonna shake off.
Mike in NC
@morzer:
And good luck to him with all those pages that are now stuck together.
Omnes Omnibus
@Wile E. Quixote:
@RossInDetroit:
No. Neither of those can be it. Lovecraft is probably closer, but I think it is too cheerful and sunny an explanation. It must be something darker.
RossInDetroit
Quote from the author:
Whew! I can sleep tonight.
Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen
@Omnes Omnibus:
Writer:
Writer also wishes he’d had 24 rather than 16 pages for story telling.
Creator of all but one pinup:
Omnes Omnibus
@Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen: Aha, it was a cruel joke.
asiangrrlMN
@Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen: Um, but it’s not funny. It just made me cringe and wince–not my usual reaction to a comic book.
Wile E. Quixote
@Omnes Omnibus:
Oh, you didn’t click on the link. I hate it when people don’t click on the link.
Persia
@RossInDetroit: There’s always BitTorrent.
Wile E. Quixote
Funny? You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
RossInDetroit
Well, funny or not, comics have their own standards, idioms and traditions. I’m surprised that a parody got reviewed as a serious story. Someone didn’t do their homework, although the review seemed well written.
hilzoy
The people responsible for this have other gems as well. E.g.:
“Touched by the power of the Void, Abraham Lincoln continues his cross-time crusade to stop the fiendish forces of Void Stalin, the Tyrant of Time! Now Stalin’s power has galvanized an enormous Asian nation into attempting world conquest—in the 1920s! Lincoln’s team join forces with two of history’s greatest aviators, Amelia Earhart and Lucky Lindy, to take down Apocalypse Mao and his Time Fighter squadron!”
http://www.antarctic-press.com/html/version_01/viewitem.php?id=5652&bk=
JGabriel
@Omnes Omnibus:
I kind of thought it must be sort of snark or cruel joke, because no true wingnut would let Robama be Steampunk Palin’s sidekick. A real teahadist would have made Robama Al Gore’s minion.
.
JGabriel
hilzoy:
Careful Abe, Lindy’s gonna turn on you as soon as Hitler talks to him about the Jews.
.
Paul in KY
Anybody know how you pronounce ‘ia’? When the characters in Lovecraft’s books freak out or scream, sometimes they say ‘Ia’! I’ve never figured out a good way of pronouncing that.
Maybe ‘EeeeAhhh’?
Sasha
About time we got an heir to Reagan’s Raiders.
RossInDetroit
My copy of Steampunk Palin came in the mail today, along with a copy of Rogue Warrior. I’m not a comics fan (much) but this is very entertaining. Thank you, Antarctic Press for sticking one needle in the gasbag that is SP.