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I think I'll have to find #s 28 and 29 of this series, because the idea of Etrigan running for POTUS, backed by a group of conservatives who want "to put a real conservative in the White House" (this being published during the first Bush's administration), and to "restore America to greatness" is just too good, and too real, to not read.
I just want to point out that this comic, scripted by today's featured creator Dwayne McDuffie, is 28 years old this year, and still, with the possible exception of everyone being on cell phones, reads like it could have been written today. I suppose this offers a nice illustration of just how long people have not only been dealing with but also commenting upon the systemic inequalities of Western culture. That the Republicans have been such an easy target for such a long time really only underscores the necessity of the uprisings happening throughout the United States at the moment. And Etrigan really is the Orange Man, literally. All that the current President is missing is wings and scales, but we have to assume he's got good make-up people. The Demon's plans of course include taking all the power for himself and using his position to invade Hell, and with the possible exception of the destination of Hell (we can hope), this sounds like most of the dodgy politicians that we've had to put up with the world over for, well, longer than I can imagine.
The aforementioned Mr. McDuffie, who passed away in 2011, is a luminary in comics, and has done work for just about every major publisher in the industry. His first major comics work was the first Damage Control series, which I remember buying when it came out, though it's since disappeared from the collection. Mr. McDuffie is also one of the founders of Milestone Media, a publishing concern that focuses on diversity:
"If you do a black character or a female character or an Asian character,
then they aren't just that character. They represent that race or that
sex, and they can't be interesting because everything they do has to
represent an entire block of people. You know, Superman isn't all white people and neither is Lex Luthor.
We knew we had to present a range of characters within each ethnic
group, which means that we couldn't do just one book. We had to do a
series of books and we had to present a view of the world that's wider
than the world we've seen before."
After his death in 2011, the Long Beach Comic Con established, with McDuffie's widow Charlotte, the Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity in Comics, and McDuffie was also included for posterity in the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
More to follow.
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I honestly don't know how much Milestone work I have in the collection, but I have read at least one comic for the project.
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