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Liberality: R for Right-wing Wrongness

 
  

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Our Lady Has Left the Building
13:48 / 15.09.05
Guardian Interview.

Unsurprisingly, Mackey's own assessment of the occupation is at odds with that presented in most of the world's media - bar, perhaps, Fox News. "It's going fantastically well in a way that's not being reported in the news," he says. "I understand 3,000 schools have been built and women have the right to vote and not to be raped by Uday Hussein."

Given his views, I ask him whether he's concerned about being interviewed by a liberal website like Guardian Unlimited? "You're liberal? That's not what I'd heard," he says. "A friend of mine said you were like Fox News on the web. Maybe it was Sky News."

I suddenly imagine the sound of my editor-in-chief choking on her lunch.
 
 
sleazenation
16:27 / 15.09.05
Heh - the barbelith-posting guardian journos certainly appear to be productive this week - I guess that re-enforces the point of Wooly's article - wasting time on message boards is good for productivity...
 
 
Phex: Dorset Doom
18:48 / 15.09.05
Jeez...
I had a vague suspiscion that maybe, just maybe, this was all a clever satire on Republican's bizarre belief in their supposed 'outsider' or 'rebel' status, that the ideology driving the most powerful nation to have ever existed is in some way under threat. I guess that, unless Mackay is doing interviews 'in character', this isn't the case and it really is one of the most ludicrous concepts to have ever existed in any media since the first cave painting.
 
 
eddie thirteen
21:15 / 16.09.05
It'd be supercool if the right had superpowers, because then if there were like this big natural disaster or something they could totally come in and save everybody. I mean, unless the people in trouble were black.
 
 
Lord Morgue
14:17 / 17.09.05
Didn't Bill Sienkiewicz do some touch-ups on Reagan's Raiders? Just so, you know, it would actually look recognisably like Ronnie?
 
 
The Falcon
01:17 / 19.09.05
I'm informed Rich Buckler did the touch-ups.

No, I dunno either.
 
 
Krug
08:39 / 20.09.05
Unbelievable. Haven't read the article yet but this twat should really not be getting the attention he deserves.
 
 
electric monk
17:10 / 23.11.05
Need a laugh? Said twat has challenged John Byrne to some sort of duel to decide who is the most conservative comic creator in a thread over at Byrne Robotics.
 
 
Phex: Dorset Doom
22:03 / 23.11.05
More Liberality news over at Newsarama.
I can't not be fascinated by this conceptual train-wreck of a book, it's like a sore tooth I can't keep my tongue away from.
 
 
gridley
22:35 / 23.11.05
I read the first issue (without buying it of course).

Sheesh... I was really hoping it would be so awful it was funny, but it wasn't even interesting enough to do that. Just lame.
 
 
Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo
16:27 / 24.11.05
Buckler was the editor and creator of "Reagan's Raiders", and believed the book would be a huge hit, since Reagan was so popular at the time.

As for this book...after reading it, I have to say that it is the ultimate manifestation of the right-wing's victim mentality in shitty, low rent comics form. Even though the right-wing controls all three branches of American government and most of the media, they still are able to get their audience whipped into a frenzy by claiming that the Liberals are out to get them. My only question is this a book by someone who believes that canard to be true (which makes him an untalented moron) or someone who is riding that crest to free publicity and sales for a crappy comic that wouldn't sell otherwise (which makes him an untalented moron who thinks there is money to be made in indy comics).
 
 
Phex: Dorset Doom
00:46 / 20.04.06
I've just downloaded issue two (you can find a torrent with it in here, and if you use the Azuereus bittorrent client you can choose to only download Liberality and not the actual good comics)

When I first heard about this series I thought it was a funny little curiosity, a so-bad-it's-good thing, maybe even a clever joke about the Right's persecution complex. Issue two has convinced me otherwise.
This shit is warped.
The key scene in this issue, for me at least, is Sean Hannity surviving an assassination- killing two Islamofascist terrorists who attack him with Saracen swords (!), pouring pig's blood over one of his attackers (!!) and proceeding to attach pig skin to said attacker with a nailgun (!!!). Now, everybody has the right to defend themselves, but religiously-motivated torture of an already wounded assailant is several giant leaps too far.
I'm seriously considering e-mailing Mike Mackay, and even Sean Hannity- nobody deserves to be portrayed as a sadistic, torturing racist. I'll keep you informed if I get a reply from either party.
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
19:13 / 05.12.06
...I'm assuming no reply, then.

I was actually looking for a thread on Chuck Dixon and stumbled across this one. Riveting. No news on the ACC site since July of this year, though, so perhaps the font of genius has finally run dry.
 
 
The Falcon
22:32 / 05.12.06
The Barbelith Chuck Dixon thread; you might miss the phrase 'troubled and bearded genius' in the abstract there.
 
  

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