... CAN'T... UN-SEE....

[filkertom]

Steampunk Palin: the comic book.

Comments

[siliconshaman]

It's still less insane and horrifying than reality. After all, in the comic she's intelligent, articulate and opposed to Big Oil...

[joshuwain.livejournal.com]

Eh, I liked it better when it was "Reagan's Raiders".

(Us old farts probably cringed just as much when that piece of crap came out back in the 80's.) :)

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Heck, I've got an old National Lampoon collection with G. Gordon Liddy, Agent of C.R.E.E.P.

[zenturbo.livejournal.com]

Now I shall have nightmares for the next week.

[dlobok.livejournal.com]

"Antarctic Press." That says it all.

[ladystarblade.livejournal.com]

*falls off chair laughing*

Can't...breathe...

[wrenn.livejournal.com]

8 pages of pin ups.

fetishising, all right.

I think I failed my sanity check, H. P.

[lizziecrowe.livejournal.com]

I don't think I ever MADE a sanity check, H. P.

[fair-witness.livejournal.com]

*clicks on link*

*reads article*

*reminds self to read a lot of favorite novels and watch a lot of favorite TV/movies this weekends to recover from steampunk Palin experience*

Wait a minute...

[arakasi1.livejournal.com]

If all the oil (and natural gas, I presume) was destroyed in a war, then what natural resources were the oil and gas conglomerates pillaging in Alaska? If they were mining coal, they would be stripmining West Virgina. They could be clearcutting the forests, but I would think that thetransportation costs would make that unfeasible

And for the love of all that is holy, when has Palin ever sided with keeping Alaska an idyllic place? Especially when that came in conflict with the oil & gas industry.

And why the hell am I actually wasting time trying to make sense out of the product of an extremely disturbed mind?

Now I need to check to see if my insurance covers elective lobotomies

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the gumball, Mickey warning. I have LOTS better ways to spend my time.

[shaharazad.livejournal.com]

She has been accused of having values that could be described as "Victorian". Makes perfect sense to me.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

She'd fit right in with some of the local steam community.

[droewyn.livejournal.com]

Can I haz a crossover comic where Agatha Heterodyne kicks her ass with SCIENCE?

Please?

[fair-witness.livejournal.com]

Ooh. I like this idea. I like it a lot.

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

MY EYES!!! MY EYES!!

Nope, can't unsee that one. WTF is wrong with some people??

[beldar.livejournal.com]

I'm inclined to believe that this is an elaborate hoax. I mean, if it is I'd feel like such a fool for falling for such an obviously insipid product.

Btw, I was under the impression that "Steampunk" took place in the late 19th century, not well into the 21st. And (presuming this is an actual comic) it was nice that they found writers with a middle-school slept-though-class grasp of global economics and politics. And I wonder, did they plan so many pages of pinups, or did they say "we ran out of story, can you give us more cheesecake?"

[redneckgaijin.livejournal.com]

Sadly, no it's not. AP has been balancing its books the last two years off of celebrity parodies. They did a four-issue miniseries- "President Evil"- featuring Obama as a zombie-fighting hero.

I used to work for that company once, back when they still did manga...

[vid848.livejournal.com]

Is this the literary equivalent of "2 Girls 1 Cup"?

[alverant.livejournal.com]

Part of me wants to ask what "2 Girls 1 Cup" really means since I never learned. But the wiser part of me knows that it will probably be disgusting and I'm better off being ignorant.

[fmh.livejournal.com]

BWAAAAHAAHAAHAAAAAAAAA.......heeheehee.....*snork*...ahem...oh, wait...they're serious???

[dave-ifversen.livejournal.com]

Now I need to go find my bottle of brain bleach.

[lemmozine.livejournal.com]

Lucky for me, I have a bad case of short-term memory loss today. Now, where was I - oh yes WWILFing.

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

Is it just me, or does that cover look like one of those "put your face in the hole and have your picture made as X character" photo sets? Seriously, the face doesn't seem to be in the same plane as the rest of the cover.

[alverant.livejournal.com]

Not just you.

[pandoradeloeste.livejournal.com]

Argh, they're totally right. They got their dystopian cyberpunk in my steampunk. (That's the main stylistic difference that I see between steampunk and cyberpunk - steampunk is all about being inspired by steam technology and optimism and discovering things and making life better through SCIENCE!!!, while in cyberpunk there's less optimism and more cynicism, and you can still make life better through science but it's much harder and first you have to battle your way through corrupt corporate-owned nation-states that want to appropriate your technology. The rest - goggles, top hats, steam-powered robots, etc - is window dressing.)

[umbran.livejournal.com]

The "-punk" is generally taken to be about dystopia, be it cyber-, diesel-, or steam-. This is rather obvious in, say, "The Difference Engine", by Gibson and Sterling, perhaps the seminal work in the current steampunk genre.

The optimism is these days seems to fit more under the name "gaslight romance" - all the visual style of steampunk, with more pulpy adventure, and without all the pessimism and cynicism.

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

Oh, fuck. *WHERE IS THE BRAIN BLEACH??*

[dornbeast.livejournal.com]

My thought in the comic shop when I saw this: "My sucky-sense is tingling. No, wait, everybody can tell this book is a waste of paper and ink."

[his-spiffyness.livejournal.com]

Good thing she's got a jetpack, what with that shark underneath her and everything.

[umbran.livejournal.com]

I note that the index claims it has 23 pages. Interesting....

[biomekanic.livejournal.com]

I'm going to treat that link as a "What's best in life Conan?" and not touch it.