After I saw Aza Raskin mention this, I couldn’t get this out of my head – no matter how hard I tried. So I bought the comic, hoping that would scratch the itch and help me forget.
No luck.
A summary of the plot might help here. Sarah Palin survives an assassination attempt, but wakes up after a coma to discover doctors had to rebuild her as part robot. She teams up with McCain, Obama and a robot army to fight the evil Oil and Nuclear industry that is now polluting Alaska.
My, oh my. I still don’t know what to say.
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I’m astounded—happy astounded—you bought such a piece of Americana. Perhaps whiskey helps? Would love take a gander.
You know what ? The pitch of the book is just silly but in a way it’s just too bad they wasted time and talent on that. Because, let’s take the cover for instance : the cover artist is talented and I would really love to see a real steampunk book by this guy. But as a Palin spook, it’s just wasted time (and paper).