5/19/2023 0 Comments Prez, Vol. 1 by Mark Russell![]() ![]() Social Media War - took place in the 2020s with Twitter emerging victorious (but at the expense of tens of millions of lives).Corporate CEOs who are literally branded with their corporate logos.Sickstarter - a crowdsourced fundraising website to try to pay for medical procedures.Church of Wormology - religion that believes God favors viruses and bacteria because they are the most robust and plentiful organisms on Earth.Talking Head TV - televised debates with integrated like/dislike buttons to determine the winner.Along the way Russell treats us to an amazing set of biting satirical stabs. Through her pure heart and naivete, and with the help of Anonymous hackers, we see the corruption of the power systems for what they are. ![]() Russell does a masterful job of balancing national and even international politics with the profoundly human character of Beth Ross, a teenager who through a series of coincidences becomes president of the United States (it actually makes a lot of sense in the context of the story!). ![]()
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