Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

This fight is for everything.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

I did not have telepathic declassification on my 2022 bingo card.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Eh, that’s media spin. biden’s health is fine and he’s doing a good job.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

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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.

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  1. 1.

    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.

  7. 7.

    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.

  8. 8.

    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

  11. 11.

    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.

  12. 12.

    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.

  16. 16.

    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.

  17. 17.

    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.

  23. 23.

    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.

  24. 24.

    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.

  31. 31.

    Mike in NC

    @morzer:

    So this is how Andrew Breitbart spends his spare time. The poor sick bastard.

    And good luck to him with all those pages that are now stuck together.

  33. 33.

    RossInDetroit

    Quote from the author:

    no, the book is not meant to be serious so, yes, feel free to laugh at it.

    Whew! I can sleep tonight.

  34. 34.

    Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Writer:

    as the writer of Steampunk Palin, first off thanks for the review good or bad it may be…and second, no, the book is not meant to be serious so, yes, feel free to laugh at it. That is the point. It’s a very silly story and it’s the way I wrote it for a reason. I certainly do not want people to take it seriously, that’d be really silly!

    Writer also wishes he’d had 24 rather than 16 pages for story telling.

    Creator of all but one pinup:

    … and if this was on Robot Chicken you would have all laughed.
    if this was a webcomic you would have smirked and went back to work.
    But, it’s a comic, and y’know, comics aren’t supposed to be funny. So, off with their heads!
    Brian Denham
    yeah-I’ve drawn multiple images of Palin already. I throw up a little in my mouth each time.

  40. 40.

    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.

  41. 41.

    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=

  42. 42.

    JGabriel

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Aha, it was a cruel joke.

    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.

    .

  43. 43.

    JGabriel

    hilzoy:

    Lincoln’s team join forces with two of history’s greatest aviators, Amelia Earhart and Lucky Lindy …

    Careful Abe, Lindy’s gonna turn on you as soon as Hitler talks to him about the Jews.

    .

  44. 44.

    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’?

  46. 46.

    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.

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