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seiberwing ([info]seiberwing) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2009-01-27 21:12:00


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American weeaboos. What.
(Part fandom, part otf, part political...heck, I'll just put it here)

[info]rihatsu62 is starting her own comic and she wants [info]brits_americans to know all about it.

Name's Rihatsu, from the UK, and I've just started work on a vigilante-type webcomic, working title Foothold. My main influences are Watchmen, Atlas Shrugged, Bosch Fawstin and those retro 1960s Marvel comics of the Captain America/Iron Man ilk.

In the not-so-distant future, the Union of European Socialist Republics has renounced its history and denounced its culture, semi-Islamising according to popular demand, its economy failing and its people starving. Japan, a closed nation, withdraws from the global stage, its government sending agents across the world to monitor the international situation. The world as we know it is falling apart.

Amidst the chaos, only one nation—the United States of America—retains its former identity and prosperity. But slowly, the social and political institutions of the USA show signs of collapse. Donations of taxpayer's money are sent more and more frequently to the UESR, with no return and no signs of improvement in the recipient nations. The media attacks with increasing frequency and viciousness the industrialists and businessmen of America. The government is distrusted and the Universities preach altruism, relativism and, above all, pessimism.

Coinciding with a series of terrorist attacks that rock Philadelphia to the core, the paths of four unlikely individuals cross, and it soon becomes clear that optimism, individualism and integrity must prevail before America—and the world—can be saved...


[info]brits_americans is less than enthralled, most notably [info]ladykathryn.

That's interesting. It sounds like "V for Vendetta", only without the social insight and cutting criticism of unthinking patriotism, xenophobia, and herd behavior.

The ensuing commotion features a complete and painful lack of understanding of socialism, collectivism, class structure, human nature, and the entirety of American society. I think this particular gem illustrates it well:

What relationship between class and race? Traditionally here, the working class was white English and Irish. This hasn't changed. There are lots of white working classes and lots of black working classes. And while in this country, where class is based more on tradition, there are few black upper-classes, there are a LOT of black middle classes. I'm unsure of the situation in america, but i bet it's less tradition-based and more money based.

Also somehow transhumanism gets into it, I'm not sure what happened there.

Bowing to communist collectivist pressure, she later removes references to Rand from her list of influences for the comic. Sadly, it's still very obvious.


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[info]tehrin
2009-01-28 12:31 am UTC (link)
How can Japan be a closed nation if it's sending out agents to monitor the international situation?

Has she even been to America?

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[info]deliciouschaos
2009-01-28 12:32 am UTC (link)
Signs point to no.

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[info]tehrin
2009-01-28 12:35 am UTC (link)
Also, she has a community for her comic. Her two heroes she has so far are "The Eagle" and "The Hope." I was disappointed that they weren't Stephan Colbert Jr. and Obama.

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[info]seraphtrevs
2009-01-28 12:53 am UTC (link)
I was disappointed that they weren't Stephan Colbert Jr. and Obama.

Now that I would read.

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[info]tardis
2009-01-28 04:08 am UTC (link)
Word.

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[info]paladin
2009-01-28 12:55 am UTC (link)
From the description, I'm surprised that Obama isn't one of the villains.

I would be surprised about Colbert too, except that you can never assume that internet wackos know he's joking.

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[info]firebad
2009-01-28 01:39 am UTC (link)
Oh, but there's two more to come. I am reliably informed that they are named 'The Apple Pie' and the 'The Baseball'.

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[info]capsulekei
2009-01-28 09:43 am UTC (link)
Sadly I'm not sure whether to laugh or take your comment seriously given the caliber of the work in question.

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Totally OT
[info]dragonsong12
2009-01-28 03:09 pm UTC (link)
Your icon! I loves it!
I am a Lincoln fangirl

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Re: Totally OT
[info]capsulekei
2009-01-28 07:07 pm UTC (link)
I am an American politics fangirl (since it's what I study at Uni) and this gem of an icon actually combines that with my love of The Office. It's a quote from the Diversity Day episode. I can't take any credit for it though - it's by [info]_stellaricons over on livejournal.

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[info]tofuknight
2009-01-28 06:21 pm UTC (link)
Your icon! Who made it, so I can heap internet loving upon them?

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[info]capsulekei
2009-01-28 07:09 pm UTC (link)
[info]_stellaricons over on livejournal! I got many a funny icons related to The Office from them if I recall correctly (I found it at least a year ago).

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[info]feenix
2009-01-28 02:34 am UTC (link)
Knowing her, it's more likely you mean Stephen Colbert Jr. and Bristol Palin, who pulled herself up by her bootstraps (like all those welfare moms should do).

If it wasn't obvious, that last line was sarcasm.

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[info]tarash
2009-01-28 02:57 pm UTC (link)
Okay, so, The Eagle can probably fly, then, but what does The Hope do?

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[info]frequentmouse
2009-01-28 06:03 pm UTC (link)
Sing "Thanks for the Memories?"

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[info]cazrolime
2009-01-28 08:41 pm UTC (link)
Now that would've been awesome.

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[info]seiberwing
2009-01-28 12:38 am UTC (link)
Don't believe she has.

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[info]fishies
2009-01-28 03:06 am UTC (link)
They're ninja, so no one knows they're there.

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[info]serai
2009-01-28 02:06 pm UTC (link)
Hell, has she even heard anything about us? And what's going on here lately?

Because you know, this isn't the time to be pimping your webcomic about how great it is to be rich and selfish and not care about anybody else.

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