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Is this a joke? No. Is this steampunk / dieselpunk / atompunk / chromepunk etc? No, there is nothing remotely "punk" about it. It might have the occasional fantastical contraption or extrapolation from 19th and 20th century technology, but it is not punk. This is satire, though, right? No. So is this a superhero comic, a manga or a Euro album? None of them. But it is a joke, right? No. Will there be ghost / monster / psychic etc stories? Back when I made series 1 of the RWB, I was an extreme atheist, and made an undertaking that the comic would not "encourage an unhealthy beleif in the supernatural". Well the new version still won't encourage readers to beleive in such things, but they can make for good stories! So, yes, they will appear sometimes. This is still meant to be satire, though, yeah? No. Are the editorials going to be about the 21st century readers "eating their food pills while watching the hyper-footy on channel 6?" No, unlike the likes of Cosmic Ray (which was basically just socialist propaganda) and The '77 and spinoffs (which I imagine are not much better), this comic only looks like it's from the 20th century. It is otherwise a product of the 21st, and stories set in 2020 will actually look like 2020. Unless they're set in an alternate history, anyway. But it's not actually serious, right? You aren't actually making Boys' Own adventure stories, right? Wrong. Is this going to be apolitical? Well, now, that depends what you mean, doesn't it? We all know that comics were always political, because Captain America was depicted punching Hitler in 1940, and Ronald Reagan was implied to be a villain in 1979 (even The Beano had Addie and Hermy!). With this vast sample size of two pieces, we can conclude there has never been a truly apolitical comic. Even Cyberfrog Bloodhoney, a supposedly apolitical comic, mentioned the name of the president in 1998, and was thus every bit as "political" as any of the "woke" comics it was created to rival. So yes, a World War 2 story might name-drop Churchill or Hitler, and one set in Victorian times can't avoid mentioning the name of Queen Victoria. So these comics are, of course, completely political, and I'm a hypocritical grifter who is money laundering. Heh, I get it now, you're only pretending to be making traditional adventure stories. Really it's going to be subtly making fun of Brexit-voting gammons, right? Wrong. You're making this in Japan, and printing it in the USA! How is it a "British comic"? It just is, the end. |