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This was a comic that was released in 1957. It served as an inspiration for numerous civil rights advocates including Congressman John Lewis (who read it as a teenager) and protest movements across the Southern United States. More recently thousands of copies were distributed to democracy activists in the Middle East; Lewis attributed credited this comic as being one of the contributing elements in the 2011 Egyptian protests. History.com has more extensive write-up here.

As this has been made free from places like Comicsbeat and the Civil Rights Movement Archive I am posting the whole thing.

( Scans under the cut... )

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Hark! A Vagrant, by Kate Beaton of Nova Scotia, Canada, ran from 2006 to around 2016. (Beaton officially declared the comic over last month, due to ongoing book writing-and-drawing commitments, but the archives will remain online.) Beginning as a casual LiveJournal hobby, the sleeper-hit webcomic went on to satirize and teach history (in which Beaton has a graduate degree), and also to cover English literature, Canadian society, personal childhood memories, and self-described "nonsense comics."

( 'A corpse, eh? Bloody lack of discipline' )

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"[Although] I am largely unfamiliar with the Jewish milieu that forms Will Eisner's memories [...] [w]hat he has given us here are those memories, as tales, and realized in a fusion of image and copy. They are simple and they are harsh; there are no easy morals to be gotten from them. The Good Guys don't win and the Bad Guys don't lose because there are no good guys and bad guys. Instead, there are lonely, frightened and ambitious people, immigrants seeking relief from poverty, despair and the dread that, unhappy as the present is, the future may be worse. A man remembering that way is not likely to depict heroes and villains; rather, he will be compassionate to everyone, winner and loser alike, and compassion is the pervading, unstated theme of Eisner's work."
--Denny O'Neil, Introduction to the 2000 DC edition

( 'If justice is not in God's hands--where else would it be??' )

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( You have nothing to lose but your Pokeballs )

So, who would be Team Rocket in this scenario?

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Yes, you read that right. In 1971, Archie Comics took a rare foray into current events and an even rarer stance on political issues with "Summer Prayer for Peace," which sees Archie, Jughead and Reggie inducted into the army, then debating the morality of draft dodging with a radical friend.

( 'Sing, sing of freedom / Sing a song of joy...' )

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To commemorate the recent defeat of an extremist, intolerant French politician, here's a story featuring an earlier such figure. Warning for gore.

( 'The myths are dead [...] There is only the state, and the people.' )

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( Roll to read more. Go ahead, support the underlying power structure! )

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( When Shay met Kenway... also, (SPOILERS) )

Current Music: Jesper Kyd - Ezio's Family

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Plato's Apology, as any first-year philosophy student could tell you, doesn't have Socrates apologize for challenging others' conventional opinions. Rather, it presents his defence (the actual meaning of the Greek apologia) of his actions. But what, imagines Corey Mohler's webcomic Existential Comics, if Socrates had in fact defended himself in the form of an "apology?"

( 'And I'm SUUUPER sorry that...' )

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Warning for heavy racism, language, and violence.

In times like this, especially over the past few months since I last posted anything from March, I feel it's best to return to this comic.

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"You're trying to pin this on us?! Marville failed sales-wise because we couldn't accept your grand vision of world peace? We only wanted superheroes punching each other. Go to hell! Your comic didn't succeed because it started as a lame, unfunny parody of the comic book industry and then it was an inaccurate, moronic tale about God and the universe. It failed because it SUCKED!"- Linkara

Writer: Bill Jemas
Artist: Mark Bright
Inker: Paul Neary
Colorist: Transparency Digital

( Click here... if you want to. )

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"Among other things, this gave me the opportunity to finally read MARVILLE, which was prominently stocked. (MARVILLE was Bill Jemas' entry in Marvel's "cancellation sweepstakes" against the renumbered CAPTAIN MARVEL and whatever the other thing was, neither of which were in evidence, meaning either MARVILLE's getting some sort of distribution preference or the others are selling better.) I've read pissy reviews of MARVILLE, so I had some idea of what I was getting into, but I don't think reviewers have quite understood what a work of genius the book is. Certainly being that hamfisted and that obscure in a single story takes some sort of genius. I remember when Bill and Joe made their move at Marvel, and complained about the sort of story that you have to have inside information (like knowledge of Marvel's entire continuity history) to understand, and this certainly stands apart from that, but it's the exact same sin, a compendium of snipes and in-jokes really meant only for the cognoscenti, and pretty much guaranteed to baffle outsiders at the same time it drives home the nail that superhero comic books are really, really stupid. And this is from the guy who runs the company. (MARVILLE also became a topic of heat from retailers recently, when Marvel decided to run the second issue gratis on their website, rendering those non-returnable copies the retailers had ordered long before potentially unsalable, on the principle that you don't buy the cow when you can get the milk for free.)" - Steven Grant of Permanent Damage referencing the second issue

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"I will be honest: I was lying slightly with that “he is not the first of anything” line. Apparently he is the first modern human. You know, in 100,000 BC. And everyone else walking around is a Neanderthal. But it’s cool, because Logan can breed with them and he is, in fact, the father of the entire human race. I guess that makes this prehistoric Canada. Let’s set aside the multiple holes in that logic for a little, and get on with the story, where our modern-day clan is feeling attracted to the Neanderthal village we’re now ending up in. Jack handily tells us that our modern DNA feels a “natural bond” with our less-evolved ancestors, which is why Al, Lucy, and Mickey (man it’s been a while since I typed those names out in full) are wanting to get it on with the prehistoric pretties. Thank goodness Jack is here to remind us that this is all completely true, though. I mean, how can you argue with this logic?"- Fletcher “Syrg” Arnett

Writer: Bill Jemas
Artist: Mark Bright
Inker: Paul Neary
Colorist: Transparency Digital

( You may not be ready for this... )