{"id":3220,"date":"2008-11-30T10:31:55","date_gmt":"2008-11-30T17:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/11\/30\/prezs-cabinet\/"},"modified":"2008-11-30T10:40:23","modified_gmt":"2008-11-30T17:40:23","slug":"prezs-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/11\/30\/prezs-cabinet\/","title":{"rendered":"Prez’s Cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m trying to remember.\u00c2\u00a0 Was Neil Young portrayed at the end of Ed Brubaker and Eric Shanower’s 1994 “Prez” (reviewed here<\/a>, and with a quotation of regret here<\/a>)– sitting alongside the ham-handed\u00c2\u00a0likeness of Kurt Cobain and a supporting band made up of … well, the comic book was kind of embarrassing.<\/p>\n

I would like to call Brubaker and Shanower’s recreation of Prez ridiculous, but that would ignore that the original creation was rather ridiculous<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 The first image on this page shows the teenage president’s Cabinet.\u00c2\u00a0 When I get a chance, I’ll save and post the second image, which shows the corrupt Political Boss, Boss Smiley.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0I don’t know if Boss Smiley counts as a\u00c2\u00a0“bad guy”,\u00c2\u00a0but\u00c2\u00a0other\u00c2\u00a0“bad\u00c2\u00a0guys” battled by Prez — he’s more hawkish than you think<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In that sense, this was a more faithful to the spirit of the original than I’d suppose.\u00c2\u00a0 Brubaker has done better work.\u00c2\u00a0 The answer to the question “What?” would be roughly everything before this and roughly everything after — I’m particularly fond of the third issue of Lowlife, the DHP serialization “Here and Now”, and the Wildstorm comic “Point Blank”.\u00c2\u00a0 A caveat against the rule that everything else was better might be that weird and pointless tiny 8 page mini-comic “Bad Eggs”, a comic about the “Little Lowlifes” going out on a night of egging — which seemed to exist to run through a batch of green ink.<\/p>\n

Actually, come to think of it, that weirdly haloed world of rock musicians might fit Prez into the same genre category as Sonic Disruptors<\/a> … (hm<\/a>.)\u00c2\u00a0 And Neil Young figures into Prez, if he did, because — as classic rock radio always said through the 1990s — he is the grand-father of Grunge\u00c2\u00a0 — (er… I … guess<\/em>?\u00c2\u00a0 Because, as noted elsewhere, he looks a wee bit rugged… and is of the “crunchy”\u00c2\u00a0aesthetic as opposed to smooth).\u00c2\u00a0 The politics of the thing has something to do with the music as a force of uncorrupted good against a sea-shore of a corrupt political machine.<\/p>\n

Hm.\u00c2\u00a0 I wonder how Liberality Now <\/a>is doing in our new Obama led political epoch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m trying to remember.\u00c2\u00a0 Was Neil Young portrayed at the end of Ed Brubaker and Eric Shanower’s 1994 “Prez” (reviewed here, and with a quotation of regret here)– sitting alongside the ham-handed\u00c2\u00a0likeness of Kurt Cobain and a supporting band made up of … well, the comic book was kind of embarrassing. I would like to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}