2021-05-28

Sweet Tooth #13



“Gus is pure innocence. Jepperd is all the hate and violence and regret of this world personified. As the story progresses these two will influence and change each other. I love putting complete opposites together like that. It creates real dramatic tension, and gives each character somewhere to go.” — Jeff Lemire

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U.S.Agent: American Zealot



"Gangsta rap, launched most notably with Cypress Hill and N.W.A., exploited the artistic acceptance of militant themes and imagery that made Chuck D.’s political protest acceptable to argue for the artistic merit of sophomoric, homophobic and misogynistic content directed not toward an oppressor class but toward each other. [...] Calling anybody, even [BET founder Robert Johnson], Hitler would be unfair. Hitler, after all, didn’t teach Germans to hate themselves. Mr. Johnson is certainly no Hitler, though he might have been the guy passing out the Nazi arm bands. Black America has been wearing its own version of Nazi arm bands—Ebonics, the idiotic sagging pants, a distinct cultural lexicon regardless of what region of the nation you visit—for more than a generation, now." - Christopher Priest

From U.S.Agent: American Zealout #1-5...

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