[review] [ZUM!] Smokey Bush Meat

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Smokey Bush Meat
Review by David Birchall

The content of this was really spot on, I thought. Anything  that 
doesn't take politicians seriously gets a thumbs up from me. If that 
involves  pointing out the possibility that these people are power 
crazed, stupid beyond  belief, ignorant of issues wider than what'll 
get them and their mates rich, and  into bestiality, then all the 
better. I'm writing this only a few days after they  found Saddam 
Hussein (or someone who looks suspiciously like him) down a hole;  so 
there's something they can try and justify that war with...? Anyway 
there's  still no weapons of mass destruction however, that's all 
been quietly forgotten  about; I guess the real reasons they went to 
war is obvious to most us now - control  of resources etc...
Maybe I should start talking about the comic now rather than 
politics, although  I suppose the comic is political so... Anyway, 
there are some very funny bits  in here, Colin Powell as balloon, 
Bush's constant amorous encounters with canines,  Osama Bin Laden 
hiding out as a member of the Washington Redskins American Football 
team...
Stylistically the drawing didn't particularly excite me, but then it 
didn't detract  from my enjoyment of the story, which artwork I don't 
like really has a tendency  to do. While it's well rendered with 
slightly demented looking figures and distant  landscapes reminiscent 
of ...someone whose name I can't quite recall at the moment.
Essentially, it's great that people are prepared to deal with 
political stuff  in there comics, especially if they treat the fools 
that have some kind of power  over us in such an irreverent and 
humorous manner- in that way we don't take them  seriously and they 
start to loose some of their power?


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