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The One Percent Solution from Occupy Comics No. 2

The One Percent Solution from Occupy Comics No. 2

"...a grand tradition rooted in its healthy scepticism with regards to rulers, gods and institutions; a genuine art-form of the people, unrestricted by prevailing notions of acceptability and capable of giving voice to popular dissent, or even of becoming, in the right hands, a supremely powerful instrument of social change.  It could even be said that, rather than such scurrilous and anti-social sentiments being a minor aberration in the otherwise sedate commercial history of comics, these expressions of dissatisfaction are the medium's main purpose." 

So, um, sorry if I spoiled anyone last week for Occupy Comics #3. I got a digital download from King's Road Merch and I assumed when the physical copy wasn't in my standing order that my LCS had just stuffed up. I didn't realise it wasn't supposed to be out until this week.

Mea culpa!

This week’s installment of Alan Moore’s Buster Brown at the barricades makes me feel so guilty that the majority of my standing order is made up of Marvel titles.

Although this line did make my heart cry out in recognition: “‘Crossover events’, transparent ploys to make a loyal and trusting readership buy every title in the line for fear of missing some important part of a ridiculously sprawling and incomprehensible non-story, would become the major companies’ sole strategy for selling their directionless, lacklustre wares.”

This is my favourite image from this issue. It’s pretty simple, maybe a little cliché, but I think it’s powerful.

I don’t know what to make of Shannon Wheeler’s last comic, specifically the reference to OWS as a ‘party’. Not sure if that’s meant in a positive or negative way.