A cameo of sorts from Number 10
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scans_dailyI always like seeing the actual Prime Minister appear in comics.
Gordon Brown turned up in Captain Britain and MI:13
Lara Croft pulled an ersatz Tony Blair
Tony Blair has his own strip in 2000AD under the guise of B.L.A.I.R. 1
David Cameron's words appeared in Captain Britain and the Mighty Defenders although Cameron himself was not allowed to appear (he would have been meeting Dracula on the moon, if I remember right, and the pig fucker himself was only the Leader of the Opposition at the time.
Which brings us to this week, where the current resident of Number 10* is the racist, bullying, philanderer, liar and ditherer extraordinare, Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson. His face and words appear separately in John Constantine: Hellblazer #11, having already appeared in #1 having sex with a corpse.
Author Si Spurrier said
There's a page in Hellblazer #11 in which a British politician spouts a bunch of nakedly racist crap.
We had a conversation about whether we ought to tone it down -- until I pointed out these are all things our literal actual elected serving Prime Minister has said.
I mention this as a gentle SHUT UP AND GET IN THE FIRE to those folks complaining about the "politicising" of their favourite character. If you think Constantine would put up with Bojo and Co, I humbly submit that your Favourite Character is, in fact, entirely your own invention.
Our narrator is an entity who feeds on fear.
He discovers just how easy it is to make people scared
Former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has been accused of Islamophobia after saying Muslim women wearing burkas "look like letter boxes".
He said he was against bans on face-covering veils in public places, in his Telegraph column, but that it was "ridiculous" people chose to wear them.
What 'Boris' Johnson has said about Africa
*yes, he lives at Number 11 because it's bigger, but...come on
Gordon Brown turned up in Captain Britain and MI:13
Lara Croft pulled an ersatz Tony Blair
Tony Blair has his own strip in 2000AD under the guise of B.L.A.I.R. 1
David Cameron's words appeared in Captain Britain and the Mighty Defenders although Cameron himself was not allowed to appear (he would have been meeting Dracula on the moon, if I remember right, and the pig fucker himself was only the Leader of the Opposition at the time.
Which brings us to this week, where the current resident of Number 10* is the racist, bullying, philanderer, liar and ditherer extraordinare, Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson. His face and words appear separately in John Constantine: Hellblazer #11, having already appeared in #1 having sex with a corpse.
Author Si Spurrier said
There's a page in Hellblazer #11 in which a British politician spouts a bunch of nakedly racist crap.
We had a conversation about whether we ought to tone it down -- until I pointed out these are all things our literal actual elected serving Prime Minister has said.
I mention this as a gentle SHUT UP AND GET IN THE FIRE to those folks complaining about the "politicising" of their favourite character. If you think Constantine would put up with Bojo and Co, I humbly submit that your Favourite Character is, in fact, entirely your own invention.
Our narrator is an entity who feeds on fear.
He discovers just how easy it is to make people scared
Former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has been accused of Islamophobia after saying Muslim women wearing burkas "look like letter boxes".
He said he was against bans on face-covering veils in public places, in his Telegraph column, but that it was "ridiculous" people chose to wear them.
What 'Boris' Johnson has said about Africa
*yes, he lives at Number 11 because it's bigger, but...come on
