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Fun Stuff For A Cold Weekend

I am not making these up.

Visit Reagan To The Rescue:

A photoblog dedicated to the fact that Ronald Reagan — and only Ronald Reagan — can solve any/all of our problems. It is well known that Ronald Reagan is a time traveler who once won a drinking contest versus Thor and Zeus and bedded Aphrodite and Helen of Troy– at the same time. He lives among us still, selectively solving problems. If shit is fucked up anywhere in the world, he knows about it and can solve it. If he’s not solving it, it’s because the solution is still trickling down. Be patient! This page is a tribute to American’s greatest undead deity. Please save us Reagan!

I think the url says it all: http://reaganboner.tumblr.com/

Here’s a taste:

Reagan To The Rescue is parody. There’s no indication that Steampunk Palin is parody. It is gloriously insane.

From the Comics Alliance review of the comic:

That’s right. This book contains fifteen pages of story, followed by eight pages of pin-ups of Sarah Palin. If you actually felt a little sick start to crawl up the back of your throat when your first saw that, I can guarantee you weren’t the only one. And yes, they’re not kidding around with the pin-ups. But I will spare you that horror. For the moment.

And while I’m willing to believe this book when it tells me it’s trying to depict Sarah Palin, my response to the idea that it can be characterized as steampunk is more along the lines of “Hold on there.” Although to be fair to the book, Steampunk Palin defies classification into any literary genre, unless there’s a genre I’m unaware of simply called “WTF?!?”

That’s followed by the aforementioned pages upon pages of pin-ups, which continue the book’s cash-in on the fetishization of Sarah Palin, a phenomenon that continues to leave me baffled. Yes, if we’re limiting ourselves to the standards of “most physically attractive political figure,” I’m sure Sarah Palin does quite well. When she’s compared to the general population, I guess she looks pretty good for a woman in her mid-forties. But what crazy person imposes that first set of standards on themselves? “Oh I’m sorry, I can’t find someone sexually attractive unless they’ve gained a plurality of votes in an election for state or national office, so I’m ecstatic Palin came along. So long, Barbara Boxer!”

Go read the whole review to get the elements of the story. I believe they did just invent a new genre called WTF. Hopefully the sequel to the comic will have Steampunk Palin joining forces with Reagan To The Rescue to save the world from hippie menaces.

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