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5 Times Comic Characters Kicked Society’s Arse

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Comic characters know what’s up. With this badass list of them, you too can be ‘woke’…

 

Spider Jerusalem – Transmetropolitan series (Vertigo Comics)

Transmetropolitan is a series set in the future, in a place called ‘the City’, which, in many ways, is likely intended to reflect society and/or humanity as a whole. Crazy, loud and just downright unjust, Spider Jerusalem is the only person who can quite figure it all out – a journalist and, frankly, one of the most candour people in fiction. Recommended for those who want the wool pulled over their eyes to be ungraciously yet perfectly removed.

 

Wade ‘Deadpool’ Wilson – Deadpool: Dead Presidents (Marvel Comics)

Deadpool, a rather bitter Canadian with consistent charming lines to mask consistent feelings of insecurity, discovers that every deceased president of the United States has risen up as the undead! Wilson comes to the rescue and fills in for the gaping hole in justice the Avengers couldn’t fill, ‘de-un-dead-ifying’ Nixon to Lincoln to Regan. A must for anyone who despises the American government to any degree and feels like venting their rage through a man who’ll “do to that guy what Limp Bizkit did to music”. Also a canon pansexual in the comics and the film.

Cinderella – Fables series (Vertigo Comics)

Fables is a series about fairytale characters living in modern day New York (I guarantee you, it’s better than ‘Once Upon a Time’). In various kinds of wars with the oppressive empire they escaped from, Cindy is a secret agent working for ‘Fabletown’ (the fairytale characters’ name for their civilisation). A seemingly indestructible, independent woman with multiple lifetimes of intense training and learning the hard way, this character should be a role model for every woman who feels like kicking the arse of our one collective enemy: the man.

Ellen Forney – Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo and Me (Publisher Unfound)

Ellen Forney’s graphic memoir explores the parallels between mental illness and ‘creativeness’ – when diagnosed with bipolar disorder, she theorised she could follow in the footsteps of geniuses before her… but it wasn’t quite what she expected. Forney tells it like it is in this emotive, informative and simply honest guide to what it’s really like to have a serious mood disorder, setting herself apart from the sugar-coating or inaccuracies of the majority of books on mental health.

Maggie ‘the Mechanic’ Chascarillo – Love and Rockets (Las Locas Editions) (Fantagraphics books)

Maggie the Mechanic is a frequent feature in the ‘Love and Rockets’ collection. With Hopey, a fellow early ‘80s punk and her part-time best friend and part-time lover (sort of), the two’s adventures go far beyond the Mexican neighbourhood of the United States that the two of them come from. A strong, independent WoC who’s one of the most human characters to grace fiction of her kind, Maggie is for anyone and everyone who wants someone to relate to and also escape the mundane aspects of life with.

 

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