The announcement was recently made, one of my favorite comic titles is about to be canceled. I just picked an issue up out of curiosity originally but found it a good read and was hooked. Since then I’ve picked up each issue. I was a bit dismayed by the low circulation figures I had seen for the book so, I can’t say I was totally surprised when I heard the news.

I had never read anything else by the writer Micah Ian Wright. In fact I didn’t know much about him other than the fact he was writing a book I had come to enjoy.

Turns out Wright was a rather virulent anti-war guy. He claimed to have been an Army Ranger so had first hand knowledge of the destruction and aimless violence inherent in war. He even was author of a book gathering old war posters:

You Back the Attack! We’ll Bomb Who We Want!



From Publishers Weekly Former Army Ranger turned antiwar comic book artist Wright had what he calls a moment of clarity after participating in the U.S.’s 1989 invasion of Panama. Feeling that media coverage was blatantly pro-war, but that the post-invasion results for Panama were far from positive, he offers this as a (belated) warning against war on Iraq. Reworking American propaganda posters from WWI and WWII, Wright reveals his satiric take on current events: one poster reads, “Millions of troops are on the move - All To Protect Your Oil Supply! Is your SUV really worth their lives” In another, a girl sitting in her father’s lap asks, “Daddy, why don't YOU or any of your friends from ENRON have to go to war” And many are messages from the Orwellian-sounding “Ministry of Homeland Security:” The Statue of Liberty points to the onlooker and commands, “You! Stop Asking Questions! You’re Either With U.S. or You’re With The TERRORISTS!” The antiwar contingent will read these and weep, rather than laugh.

So anyway, quite the stir was apparently caused this weekend when the Washington Post ran this story:

In the Style section last summer we profiled a Los Angeles writer named Micah Ian Wright, who’d just published a shrill antiwar poster book called “You Back the Attack! We’ll Bomb Who We Want!” In his book, he described himself as a veteran of combat, a former Army Ranger whose experiences during the 1989 invasion of Panama turned him into a peacenik. In interviews with The Post and other media, he played up that background.

Needless to say, there has been significant fallout.