Four Horsemen #2: War

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[silverhammerman]

Now that the conceit is clear (the four horsemen talking about how biblical apocalypse is outdated) I kind of get the vibe here more. It's interesting and amusing, though also deeply dated and very Western.

I actually find it kind of strange that Ribic, who's Croatian, would be attached to a book which makes the sweeping generalization that war is an outdated thing of the past, bee-stings over the globe in "backwaters" like Yugoslavia. That's an enormously privileged and incredibly insulated Western position, bordering on offensive.

This whole installment also smacks of the naivete of the late 90's through to the advent of 9/11, Francis Fukuyama's "End of History", and the now pretty laughable idea that world history and politics were more or less settled and that conflict was a thing of the past.

Then again, maybe I'm reading this wrong, and there's supposed to be a hint of irony here. We've got a bunch of privileged Americans complaining about how nothing means anything to the literal agents of the apocalypse, and perhaps we're supposed to see them as out of touch. Curious to see how this one ends.

[donnblake]

I mean, it's probably not fair to compare every 'modern Revelations,' to Good Omens but here we are...

(Although Sir Pterry and Gaiman having Pestilence retire in disgust after the invention of penicillin hits with a bit of a bitter chuckle these days)