Journalist launches a crowdfunded comic with political platforms
NH Business Review reports about a communications specialist who's producing a crowdfunded sci-fi comic that's supposed to deal with issues like immigration:
And is this guy aware much of the mass, uncontrolled immigration into the USA and elsewhere has led to criminals like rapists and Islamic terrorists gaining footholds? Interestingly enough, I do notice the premise of Sentinel is that the star team of the comic are on a mission to stop a terrorist. But if it turns out he doesn't have the courage to confront serious issues like Islamic terrorism, metaphorically or otherwise, then this comic is pointless.
If men like Mr. Lessard who've worked in press reporting were really serious, they'd take issue with the bad apples who've damaged the public trust in journalism. Failing to consider those issues won't help even a comic dealing with the subjects Sentinel does.
Communications professional Ryan Lessard, of Manchester, has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a sci-fi adventure comic series with themes that touch on immigration/citizenship, democracy and the need for a free press to combat misinformation.I'm guessing this guy's not a fan of Stan Lee's vision with J. Jonah Jameson in Spider-Man, nor Marv Wolfman's with Bethany Snow in New Teen Titans. In any event, what makes this so unimpressive is the guy's refusal to take a balanced vision that recognizes there's journalists who can do bad, very evil things, just like there are those can do good things. If he's not willing to take an approach that's critical of left-wing journalists who've done bad things, and how they have blame to shoulder for the negative image of the press these days, that's the problem.
Lessard began writing the series in 2012 when he noticed the political discourse rocking the U.S.
“When I worked as a journalist for 10 years, I saw it as my civic duty to combat lies with facts, to report the truth with fairness, and to disinfect our toxic politics with indiscriminating sunlight,” he told NH Business Review in an email. “Telling the story of Saras Vedi, an alien journalist working for a futuristic news agency, I wanted to … present a morality play of our modern anxieties with metaphor, while also giving a positive representation to a journalist and a refugee trying to earn her citizenship.”
With Lessard at the helm of the series with a writing credit, he also collaborated with international and domestic artists — including Javi Laparra, an artist from Guatemala; Luiz Zavala, a colorist from Mexico; and Adam Wollet, a letterer from Florida — to bring the story of “Sentinel” to life.
“Too often, journalists are represented in various media as unscrupulous vultures, and that stereotype has seriously hurt the public trust in the free press,” Lessard wrote. “I also wanted to show what it is like for some refugees and immigrants who are seeking asylum or citizenship in a land that is foreign to them because they’re escaping dire and dangerous circumstances — a fact often lost in the public discourse around immigration in the U.S.”
And is this guy aware much of the mass, uncontrolled immigration into the USA and elsewhere has led to criminals like rapists and Islamic terrorists gaining footholds? Interestingly enough, I do notice the premise of Sentinel is that the star team of the comic are on a mission to stop a terrorist. But if it turns out he doesn't have the courage to confront serious issues like Islamic terrorism, metaphorically or otherwise, then this comic is pointless.
If men like Mr. Lessard who've worked in press reporting were really serious, they'd take issue with the bad apples who've damaged the public trust in journalism. Failing to consider those issues won't help even a comic dealing with the subjects Sentinel does.
Labels: indie publishers, islam and jihad, misogyny and racism, msm propaganda, politics, terrorism
