Collective Action Comics

So you want to be a billionaire.

That's gonna cost you. But not really. In fact, you'll make money just for having money! And then you'll make even more money by stealing from the labor of everyone who works for you.

But where are you going to put this money? Who's going to keep an eye on it for you? What are you going to do to the people who try to take their lives back?

Congratulations!

You've just become a S U P E R V I L L A I N

[This week, we're tackling issue #4 of our seven-issue Justice League miniseries. It's a trip.]

It's pretty convenient that all of the enemies of the United States happen to be very strong and also very weak at the same time, right?

It's also pretty cool that they're definitely not normal people like we are, because they all like the same things and have no opinions, agency, or autonomy. Or is that...us?

In this episode, your host discusses some primo examples of American media flailing between panic and patronizing "our" most hated enemy and how the Justice League of the 1980's and its readers were the trickle-down victims of that dissonance.

There's also some sweet-ass missiles.

Long-term nuclear warnings substantially lose their sting when you consider that this Justice League series might be around for the rest of human history.

Speaking of history...we do just that in this episode. We're trotting out the worst villains of all time - Saddam Hussein, the East India Company, and of course, the New York Times.

On this first episode of the pod, your host gibbers and howls about how neoliberal alienation resulted in a very bad superhero team and some even worse jokes.