The Hackenblog has moved to http://hackenblog.hackenbush.org/ or www.hackenblog.com.Please update your links, thank you.[Previous entry: "Anti-Lance Armstrong-ism redux"] [Main Index] [Next entry: "Issue 4 J LHLS"] 07/26/2004 Entry: "Comic-Con 2004" Comic-Con 2004 (the express version) I have never seen so many voter registration people milling around near the tram stop across from the convention center in my life. And they were all wearing Kerry buttons. Yay! And, please note, this number does not include the very nice lady at the "Babes in Space" (THE funniest sci-fi T&A comic books since TOS Star Trek) table, who, after a few moments conversation, hauled voter registration forms from under her table and told me she is the Kerry coordinator for western LA. This is how much all kinds of thinking people want the bush junta out of office. Keith Knight was there this year and was his usual political self. I'm told Aaron McGruder was somewhere in the building the same day I was, but our paths didn't cross. (But, you know, Aaron blew off an interview at J LHLS last year so he was probably avoiding me and Laurel anyway.) Edit 082004: New url for TEX! http://www.bushcomic.com/ However, the most amazing thing was Mike Wellman dressed as Uncle Sam, hawking and practically giving away, copies of "Tex - George Bush and the Fine Art of Character Assassination" which is protest comic, rant, and vote Democrat tract if I ever saw one, which also includes five pages of notes documenting the facts in the comic and a back page urging people to register to vote and how to do it. Oh, and there's an original CD that comes with the comic. The content is facts about the bush junta and the crimes of the last three plus years with danceable back beat. I'm having trouble finding a link online, but you can email Mike at I don't know exactly what this is but it sure seems like a geek revolution for Democracy. And what could be better than that? Bravo geeks, bravo comic books and comic book makers! The Mayerson Voter Registration Drive salutes you! Yay! Edit 082004: New url for TEX! http://www.bushcomic.com/ Edit 073104: A Message from Mike "TEX" Wellman: "Hey there! "...and we salute America, baby! The compuserve account you listed DIED a few months back. My email is atomicbasement@yahoo.com or you can order "Tex" from "The Comic Bug" at (310) 372-6704. Thanks guys! We can do this!!! "Mike" And if Mike says we can do this, you better believe we can do this! Replies: 6 comments Hey there! ...and we salute America, baby! The compuserve account you listed DIED a few months back. My email is atomicbasement@yahoo.com or you can order "Tex" from "The Comic Bug" at (310) 372-6704. Thanks guys! We can do this!!! Mike Posted by mike "The Chief" wellman @ 07/30/2004 09:11 AM PST Rather interesting and certainly enlightening that such a large numbe of your potential Democrat voters get many of their ideas from comic books and fictional films such as Moore's third travesty. The fact that so much of the Democratic vote depends on people who really are incapable of reading and live lifes of visual stimulations says much for their ability to think. One liners and pictures are about all that seems to make an impression on those you praise so wholeheartedly. Posted by Don @ 07/31/2004 08:24 AM PST Hang in there, Don, hope is on the way. Even for you. Posted by Ginger @ 07/31/2004 09:49 AM PST Well thank you Ginger. Yes indeed hope is on the way. The Democrat mayor of St. Paul, MN, a state that has been leaning toward Kerry, just endorsed George W. Bush. This happening right after Kerry's idiotic Dukakis like "reporting for duty" salute at the convention is a pretty good indication of how well Kerry is being received across the country. Wisconsin and Iowa are battleground states ajoining Minnesota. The news of yet another Democrat endorsing Bush is very hopeful indeed. He joins ex-mayor of New York City, Ed Koch and current senator from Georgia, Zell Miller as life-long Democrats who see George W. Bush as the better choice. Viva la choice. Yes, there is hope and beyond. Dukakis at this point of the election cycle was seventeen points ahead of George I. Kerry, in some polls actually lost ground. A reverse bump. I am very cheerful about the future since it looks very much as if Kerry is going to go the way of McGovern. The more that is known of Kerry, the less the public seems to care for him. The lunatic left and pathologic Bush haters are of course going to ignore all and continue to beat the drum, but these are people who would literally vote for Osama or Saddam rather than Bush. These are very sick people and basically need mental care but that would deprive Kerry of some very needed votes so will have to be delayed until after November. Help is on the way Ginger. Be patient. Blow in a paper bag and wait your turn. Sincerely and very cheerfully, Posted by Don @ 08/02/2004 10:22 PM PST Hey, Just letting everyone know that they can buy TEX! the comic book at… And Don, my brother, you haven't even read the political satire as sequential art that we've created. I fear that you have little interest in honest discourse and feel the need instead to just go lumbering around like a bull in a ballet spouting half-formed opinions about books you know nothing about simply because they don’t agree with your politics. I read the right quite a bit, it informs my opinion far more deeply than if I stuck solely to left. In fact, it's the right that chases me to the left. Shouldn't you be willing to entertain the left in an effort to keep the discourse healthy? Since you made a jab at intellectualism (which, my brother, you have no idea what you're talking about when it comes to my intellect, a conversation on Kant and the politics of loneliness, or on Derrida as poet instead of Derrida as philosopher, might just snap your feisty little rubber band mind back into place) isn't it patently moronic to judge a work that you have not fully investigated? Isn't this called close-mindedness? Many many conservatives have supported this book, including, I might add, one of the cats that put the money up for it. Their tired of Bush peddling himself as one of them. Their tired of a rising deficit, of the politics of deceit on the Medicare bill, of the WMD debacle and the outing of a CIA agent, their tired of seeing the honorable John McCain under constant attack. Their traditional conservatives who do not agree with Bush's extremist agenda. So here's to an open-minded debate between kind-hearted people, regardless of where they fall on the political spectrum. We are all here to help each other see more clearly, not chop each other down. The cruel tone of your post suggests you may believe otherwise. If that's the case, well, I guess the politics of Rove is right for you. Demand a more interesting debate. Earnestly, PS: I stress, the comic book is satire. Posted by Joshua Dysart @ 08/16/2004 06:25 PM PST "They're tired" ...mike, Tex's editor and publisher I stand behind everything else this fine young man said. That's why he wrote this fine tome. Posted by mike "The Chief" wellman @ 09/01/2004 11:55 PM PST
 
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