Diceman Cometh
04-25-2006, 02:29 AM
Oh. My. God.
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http://accstudios.com/f/synopsis1.htm
http://www.accstudios.com/
Just in case you think this is fake....
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/dick_spruiell200512010814.asp
The Synopsis:
America’s future has become an Orwellian nightmare of ultra-liberalism. Beginning with the Gore Presidency, the government has become increasingly dominated by liberal extremists.
In 2004, Muslim terrorists stopped viewing the weakened American government as a threat; instead they set their sights on their true enemies, vocal American conservatives. On one dark day, in 2006, many conservative voices were forever silenced by terrorist assassins. Those which survived joined forces and formed a powerful covert conservative organization called “The Freedom of Information League”, aka F.O.I.L.
The efforts of F.O.I.L. threaten both the liberal extremist power structure and the U.N.’s grip on America, the U.N. calls F.O.I.L. the most dangerous group in the world. It seems the once theorized Vast Right Wing Conspiracy has now become a reality.
The F.O.I.L. Organization is forced underground by the “Coulter Laws” of 2007; these hate speech legislations have made right-wing talk shows, and conservative-slanted media, illegal. Our weakened government has willingly handed the reins of our once great country to the corrupt United Nations. The Department of Political-Correctness is required to assist U.N. monitors to properly edit all print and broadcast media. Live broadcasts are a thing of the past; all transmissions are monitored by the U.N. and any ‘offensive’ material is dumped.
Rupert Murdoch’s decision to defy the “Coulter Laws” hate speech legislations, has bankrupted News Corporation. George Soros has bought all of News Corps assets and changed its name to Liberty International Broadcasting. LIB’s networks have flourished and circle the globe with a series of satellites beaming liberal & U.N. propaganda worldwide.
The New York City faction of F.O.I.L. is lead by Sean Hannity, G. Gordon Liddy and Oliver North, each uniquely endowed with special abilities devised by a bio mechanical engineer affectionately nicknamed “Oscar”. F.O.I.L. is soon to be joined by a young man named Reagan McGee.
Reagan was born on September 11th, 2001. He is the son of a NYC firefighter whose life was spared by attending his son’s birth. Reagan has grown to manhood in an ultra-liberal educational system: being told, not asked, what to think. With personal determination, which alienates him from his contemporaries, he has chosen the path less traveled…the path to the Right.
Two decades of negotiation with the U.N., and America’s administration of 2021 (President Chelsea Clinton and Vice President Michael Moore), has culminated in a truce with fundamentalist Islamic terrorists, or so America is told. The honorable ambassador from Afghanistan has come to NYC to address the U.N., his name is Usama Bin Laden. Ambassador Bin Laden has announced that he plans a public apology for the “misunderstanding” of the events of 9/11. This apology will occur exactly 20 years to the minute the first plane hit the WTC; this will be on the observation deck at the newly renamed “Unity Tower” built on the hallowed grounds where the WTC once stood.
Tomorrow is September 11, 2021, the twentieth anniversary of the horror of 9/11, or as it has become more politically correct to say “the unfortunate events resulting from the uprising of middle-eastern fundamentalist Islam”. Just days before his arrival in NYC, Bin Laden made a brief visit to Iraq, now a nuclear power that is run by the vicious Uday Hussein. In Iraq, Bin Laden received a tactical nuke that is now contained in his private diplomatic briefcase. Bin Laden plans far more than an apology at the Unity Tower.
F.O.I.L. has become aware of Bin Laden’s plot to destroy NYC and has devised a plan to stop him while simultaneously gaining permanent control of LIB’s satellite network. Unfortunately, U.N. Forces have discovered the secret location of the F.O.I.L. Lair. It is a race against the clock to save NYC from a nuclear holocaust and the world from liberal domination. Only with F.O.I.L.’s help, can “Liberality For All” once again become “Liberty For All!”
National Review Article:
Tragic Comedy?
Liberality for All, good for a few cheap laughs.
By Anthony Dick & Stephen Spruiell
There's nothing particularly remarkable about a 37-year-old comic-book junkie from Lexington, Kentucky launching his first illustrated miniseries about a band of dashing superheroes fighting for justice in a futuristic dystopia. It might even be relatively ho-hum news that this new comic drama draws on the talents of both an Indonesian illustrator living overseas and a semi-famous Kentuckian fantasy artist who made his bones in the 1980s drawing pictures of dragons, wizards, and scantily-clad medieval babes for Dungeons & Dragons devotees. But how about these details? The series features a trio of sexy, bionically enhanced, right-wing protagonists — Sean Hannity, Oliver North, and G. Gordon Liddy, to be exact — struggling against the sinister forces of global U.N. oppression in the year 2021.
Please don't die laughing.
This is the imagination of Mike Mackey, on display in Liberality for All, a comic book described by its creator as a "patriotic knee-in-the-groin to the embodiment of the ultra-left." In Mackey's world, Ralph Nader has died in a car crash just prior to the 2000 election, leading to the election of Al Gore — whose first response as president after 9/11 was: "Let us first understand their motives to help us avoid repeating the actions that caused these attacks."
Mackey's liberal dystopia is a grim place. Hate-speech codes known as the "Coulter Laws" force rogue radio talkers like Hannity to hijack signals and broadcast from remote-controlled buses. All the "axis of evil" countries have nukes. And America's "In God We Trust" motto has been replaced with "In Peace We Trust," emblazoned above an even sadder-than-usual Abe Lincoln. Needless to say, the United States has ceded sovereignty to the U.N., and the world has turned toward the conciliation and appeasement of terrorism. U.N. Ambassador Usama Bin Laden has become an accepted world diplomat, and the only force capable of foiling his sinister plans is Hannity's Freedom of Information League (FOIL!), which operates in the shadows and periodically escapes to its undersea lair in a giant submersible fishbot — dubbed "The Manatee" — whenever the francophone U.N. enforcers come closing fast.
Liberality's artwork has re-imagined Hannity, North, and Liddy as a dream team of conservative comic-book heroes, each extravagantly embellished in his own special way. Hannity, of course, has a bionic, radio-transmitting arm and an eye patch to show for an encounter with terrorist assassins. A far cry from the clean-shaven and immaculately tailored Fox News commentator, the comic-book Hannity looks more like a Backstreet Boy crossed with the Terminator. North is the white-haired elder statesman of the group, presiding over debriefings and mulling FOIL's next move.
But Liddy is the real gem. Sporting his trademark bald pate and moustache, the 91-year-old nanotech-enhanced freedom fighter roars into the picture on his 1930 Harley, uttering codgerly lines like, "The XM-9... [a futuristic gun he and Hannity have wrested from a U.N. cop] ... You know, I evaluated the XM-8 model for the NRA before the organization was officially disbanded... so many cold, dead hands." Then, as the U.N. cops enjoin him to put the gun down, he retorts, "It's not a gun! It's called a weapon or a rifle. You should respect it! Even if it's made in France."
So just who is the man behind such brilliance?
On the phone, Mike Mackey is affable and good-natured. He is a genuine red-state conservative who says he has never really held down a job worth mentioning. What he has sustained, he says, is an interest in politics and a lifelong dream of making it big by producing his own comic books. His inspiration for Liberality came in large part after he saw a certain fantasy illustration by Bruce Caldwell, depicting a heroic Rush Limbaugh fighting off a snarling hydra of liberal repulsiveness. Literally, a hydra.
Yet despite his conservative bona fides, Mackey says Liberality is meant to be a mixture of both silliness and seriousness. When prompted further, he describes the comic as an effort of light satire aimed at the Left — a way to "have a little fun" with liberals, while raising a few serious questions along the way.
In the first of these aims — playfully tweaking lefties — Liberality seems to be succeeding. On the Internet, one agitated left-leaning blogger writes: "If you could take every single hyperbolic rant from right-wing punditry about 'the left' and compress it into a single comic book, I think it comes close to what we have here. Judging from the first five pages, this thing looks like Ayn Rand on Mescaline."
But putting aside irked liberals (when are they not irked, lately?), what about Mackey's aim of "raising some serious questions" throughout the course of his comic book? On the phone, he stresses his main point by posing a rhetorical question: "If [Liberality's] fictional world isn't the result of ultra-liberalism taking power," he says, "then what is?"
Well, let's consider it. What would things look like if the Michael Moore elements of the American Left had taken control of the country in 2000, and held power for two decades? Would the world in general be friendlier to terrorism and more hostile to liberty? Probably. Would the U.S. government have conceded a large chunk of its sovereignty to U.N. governance? Possibly. Would conservative American pundits be censored and persecuted by agents of authority? Unlikely. Would New York City welcome "Ambassador Bin Laden" to speak on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks? The borderlands of loonytown approach.
If satire is the stuff of Jonathan Swift — intelligent, probing, witty, sharp, and scathing — then Liberality falls woefully short. It is, in fact, none of those things. Walking a blurry line between oblivious self-parody and conscious self-deprecation, it is a hysterical, hilarious romp through a nightmarish right-wing fantasy land. In Mackey's vivid landscape of cartoon figures and comic-book quips, it's impossible to tell just who or what is being ridiculed. According to one lefty blog, "The debate rages on... whether or not this is all being done completely straight-faced or if it's a spoof of conservative attitudes." Philadelphia Weekly writer Steven Wells says that if it's not a spoof on conservatives, it might as well be: "[I]f lefty liberals were to concoct a savage satire of the pseudo-patriotic rabid right, in what possible way could it improve on Liberality for All? How could a lefty liberal writer come up with a fictional device that more effectively reveals right-wingers as crazed paranoiacs...?"
Regardless of how Liberality's humor is intended, it's there in spades. On the back cover of one of the comic books, Hannity's metal fist clenches a squirming caricature of an Arab terrorist by the throat, holding him up in a gesture of triumphant contempt. Purposefully or not, it is the perfect culmination of this carnival of colorful absurdity.
http://img258.imageshack.us/my.php?image=libissue1lg13tc.jpg
http://img160.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cartoon14nf.gif
http://accstudios.com/f/synopsis1.htm
http://www.accstudios.com/
Just in case you think this is fake....
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/dick_spruiell200512010814.asp
The Synopsis:
America’s future has become an Orwellian nightmare of ultra-liberalism. Beginning with the Gore Presidency, the government has become increasingly dominated by liberal extremists.
In 2004, Muslim terrorists stopped viewing the weakened American government as a threat; instead they set their sights on their true enemies, vocal American conservatives. On one dark day, in 2006, many conservative voices were forever silenced by terrorist assassins. Those which survived joined forces and formed a powerful covert conservative organization called “The Freedom of Information League”, aka F.O.I.L.
The efforts of F.O.I.L. threaten both the liberal extremist power structure and the U.N.’s grip on America, the U.N. calls F.O.I.L. the most dangerous group in the world. It seems the once theorized Vast Right Wing Conspiracy has now become a reality.
The F.O.I.L. Organization is forced underground by the “Coulter Laws” of 2007; these hate speech legislations have made right-wing talk shows, and conservative-slanted media, illegal. Our weakened government has willingly handed the reins of our once great country to the corrupt United Nations. The Department of Political-Correctness is required to assist U.N. monitors to properly edit all print and broadcast media. Live broadcasts are a thing of the past; all transmissions are monitored by the U.N. and any ‘offensive’ material is dumped.
Rupert Murdoch’s decision to defy the “Coulter Laws” hate speech legislations, has bankrupted News Corporation. George Soros has bought all of News Corps assets and changed its name to Liberty International Broadcasting. LIB’s networks have flourished and circle the globe with a series of satellites beaming liberal & U.N. propaganda worldwide.
The New York City faction of F.O.I.L. is lead by Sean Hannity, G. Gordon Liddy and Oliver North, each uniquely endowed with special abilities devised by a bio mechanical engineer affectionately nicknamed “Oscar”. F.O.I.L. is soon to be joined by a young man named Reagan McGee.
Reagan was born on September 11th, 2001. He is the son of a NYC firefighter whose life was spared by attending his son’s birth. Reagan has grown to manhood in an ultra-liberal educational system: being told, not asked, what to think. With personal determination, which alienates him from his contemporaries, he has chosen the path less traveled…the path to the Right.
Two decades of negotiation with the U.N., and America’s administration of 2021 (President Chelsea Clinton and Vice President Michael Moore), has culminated in a truce with fundamentalist Islamic terrorists, or so America is told. The honorable ambassador from Afghanistan has come to NYC to address the U.N., his name is Usama Bin Laden. Ambassador Bin Laden has announced that he plans a public apology for the “misunderstanding” of the events of 9/11. This apology will occur exactly 20 years to the minute the first plane hit the WTC; this will be on the observation deck at the newly renamed “Unity Tower” built on the hallowed grounds where the WTC once stood.
Tomorrow is September 11, 2021, the twentieth anniversary of the horror of 9/11, or as it has become more politically correct to say “the unfortunate events resulting from the uprising of middle-eastern fundamentalist Islam”. Just days before his arrival in NYC, Bin Laden made a brief visit to Iraq, now a nuclear power that is run by the vicious Uday Hussein. In Iraq, Bin Laden received a tactical nuke that is now contained in his private diplomatic briefcase. Bin Laden plans far more than an apology at the Unity Tower.
F.O.I.L. has become aware of Bin Laden’s plot to destroy NYC and has devised a plan to stop him while simultaneously gaining permanent control of LIB’s satellite network. Unfortunately, U.N. Forces have discovered the secret location of the F.O.I.L. Lair. It is a race against the clock to save NYC from a nuclear holocaust and the world from liberal domination. Only with F.O.I.L.’s help, can “Liberality For All” once again become “Liberty For All!”
National Review Article:
Tragic Comedy?
Liberality for All, good for a few cheap laughs.
By Anthony Dick & Stephen Spruiell
There's nothing particularly remarkable about a 37-year-old comic-book junkie from Lexington, Kentucky launching his first illustrated miniseries about a band of dashing superheroes fighting for justice in a futuristic dystopia. It might even be relatively ho-hum news that this new comic drama draws on the talents of both an Indonesian illustrator living overseas and a semi-famous Kentuckian fantasy artist who made his bones in the 1980s drawing pictures of dragons, wizards, and scantily-clad medieval babes for Dungeons & Dragons devotees. But how about these details? The series features a trio of sexy, bionically enhanced, right-wing protagonists — Sean Hannity, Oliver North, and G. Gordon Liddy, to be exact — struggling against the sinister forces of global U.N. oppression in the year 2021.
Please don't die laughing.
This is the imagination of Mike Mackey, on display in Liberality for All, a comic book described by its creator as a "patriotic knee-in-the-groin to the embodiment of the ultra-left." In Mackey's world, Ralph Nader has died in a car crash just prior to the 2000 election, leading to the election of Al Gore — whose first response as president after 9/11 was: "Let us first understand their motives to help us avoid repeating the actions that caused these attacks."
Mackey's liberal dystopia is a grim place. Hate-speech codes known as the "Coulter Laws" force rogue radio talkers like Hannity to hijack signals and broadcast from remote-controlled buses. All the "axis of evil" countries have nukes. And America's "In God We Trust" motto has been replaced with "In Peace We Trust," emblazoned above an even sadder-than-usual Abe Lincoln. Needless to say, the United States has ceded sovereignty to the U.N., and the world has turned toward the conciliation and appeasement of terrorism. U.N. Ambassador Usama Bin Laden has become an accepted world diplomat, and the only force capable of foiling his sinister plans is Hannity's Freedom of Information League (FOIL!), which operates in the shadows and periodically escapes to its undersea lair in a giant submersible fishbot — dubbed "The Manatee" — whenever the francophone U.N. enforcers come closing fast.
Liberality's artwork has re-imagined Hannity, North, and Liddy as a dream team of conservative comic-book heroes, each extravagantly embellished in his own special way. Hannity, of course, has a bionic, radio-transmitting arm and an eye patch to show for an encounter with terrorist assassins. A far cry from the clean-shaven and immaculately tailored Fox News commentator, the comic-book Hannity looks more like a Backstreet Boy crossed with the Terminator. North is the white-haired elder statesman of the group, presiding over debriefings and mulling FOIL's next move.
But Liddy is the real gem. Sporting his trademark bald pate and moustache, the 91-year-old nanotech-enhanced freedom fighter roars into the picture on his 1930 Harley, uttering codgerly lines like, "The XM-9... [a futuristic gun he and Hannity have wrested from a U.N. cop] ... You know, I evaluated the XM-8 model for the NRA before the organization was officially disbanded... so many cold, dead hands." Then, as the U.N. cops enjoin him to put the gun down, he retorts, "It's not a gun! It's called a weapon or a rifle. You should respect it! Even if it's made in France."
So just who is the man behind such brilliance?
On the phone, Mike Mackey is affable and good-natured. He is a genuine red-state conservative who says he has never really held down a job worth mentioning. What he has sustained, he says, is an interest in politics and a lifelong dream of making it big by producing his own comic books. His inspiration for Liberality came in large part after he saw a certain fantasy illustration by Bruce Caldwell, depicting a heroic Rush Limbaugh fighting off a snarling hydra of liberal repulsiveness. Literally, a hydra.
Yet despite his conservative bona fides, Mackey says Liberality is meant to be a mixture of both silliness and seriousness. When prompted further, he describes the comic as an effort of light satire aimed at the Left — a way to "have a little fun" with liberals, while raising a few serious questions along the way.
In the first of these aims — playfully tweaking lefties — Liberality seems to be succeeding. On the Internet, one agitated left-leaning blogger writes: "If you could take every single hyperbolic rant from right-wing punditry about 'the left' and compress it into a single comic book, I think it comes close to what we have here. Judging from the first five pages, this thing looks like Ayn Rand on Mescaline."
But putting aside irked liberals (when are they not irked, lately?), what about Mackey's aim of "raising some serious questions" throughout the course of his comic book? On the phone, he stresses his main point by posing a rhetorical question: "If [Liberality's] fictional world isn't the result of ultra-liberalism taking power," he says, "then what is?"
Well, let's consider it. What would things look like if the Michael Moore elements of the American Left had taken control of the country in 2000, and held power for two decades? Would the world in general be friendlier to terrorism and more hostile to liberty? Probably. Would the U.S. government have conceded a large chunk of its sovereignty to U.N. governance? Possibly. Would conservative American pundits be censored and persecuted by agents of authority? Unlikely. Would New York City welcome "Ambassador Bin Laden" to speak on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks? The borderlands of loonytown approach.
If satire is the stuff of Jonathan Swift — intelligent, probing, witty, sharp, and scathing — then Liberality falls woefully short. It is, in fact, none of those things. Walking a blurry line between oblivious self-parody and conscious self-deprecation, it is a hysterical, hilarious romp through a nightmarish right-wing fantasy land. In Mackey's vivid landscape of cartoon figures and comic-book quips, it's impossible to tell just who or what is being ridiculed. According to one lefty blog, "The debate rages on... whether or not this is all being done completely straight-faced or if it's a spoof of conservative attitudes." Philadelphia Weekly writer Steven Wells says that if it's not a spoof on conservatives, it might as well be: "[I]f lefty liberals were to concoct a savage satire of the pseudo-patriotic rabid right, in what possible way could it improve on Liberality for All? How could a lefty liberal writer come up with a fictional device that more effectively reveals right-wingers as crazed paranoiacs...?"
Regardless of how Liberality's humor is intended, it's there in spades. On the back cover of one of the comic books, Hannity's metal fist clenches a squirming caricature of an Arab terrorist by the throat, holding him up in a gesture of triumphant contempt. Purposefully or not, it is the perfect culmination of this carnival of colorful absurdity.