Sarah Palin, the Heroineof a Science Fiction Comic

Published in Le Monde
(France) on 24 January 2011
by (link to originallink to original)
Translated from by Tabitha Middleton . Edited by Gheanna Emelia.
After the excellent Quai d'Orsay, where Dominique de Villepin is depicted as a dashing foreign affairs minister named Alexandre Taillard Worms, comes Steampunk Palin, an outrageous comic that features the former governor of Alaska and former candidate for the U.S. vice presidency, who is now, overseas, an object of unprecedented fascination.

The comic is crazy in its form, as this UFO signed by Dunn, Denham and Espinosa contains 15 pages of a story without beginning or end, followed by eight pages of drawings depicting Palin in futuristic pin-ups. The comic is also crazy in its script, as Steampunk Palin brings to the stage Sarah Palin — a fierce defender of the oil industry in "real life" — as an activist for "steam power": energy using steam as an alternative to oil and nuclear power.

After being the victim of an attack, the heroine is resuscitated as a kind of half-cyborg — part of her body is robotic and now runs on ... steam. We quickly assess the various twists that follow to discover that Sarah finally makes an alliance with Robama to fight Al Gore, who himself admits that his Nobel Prize has slightly gone to his head.

For those who find this summary appealing, the Comics Alliance site warns: "Steampunk Palin defies classification into any literary genre. [It's] bad."



AUDACIEUX - Sarah Palin héroïne d’une BD de science-fiction

Après l’excellent Quai d’Orsay, où Dominique de Villepin est représenté sous les traits d’un sémillant ministre des affaires étrangères du nom d’Alexandre Taillard de Worms, place à Steampunk Palin, une bande dessinée délirante qui met en scène la gouverneure de l’Alaska et ancienne candidate à la vice-présidence américaine, devenue outre-Atlantique un objet de fascination sans précédent.

Délirante dans sa forme, puisque cet ovni signé Dunn, Denham et Espinosa contient quinze pages d’une histoire sans queue ni tête, suivies de huit pages de dessins représentant Mme Palin en pin-up du futur. Délirante dans son scénario, puisque Steampunk Palin met en scène une Sarah Palin — défenseure acharnée, dans la “vraie vie”, de l’industrie pétrolière — militante du “steam power”, une énergie utilisant la vapeur comme alternative au pétrole et au nucléaire.

Victime d’un attentat, l’héroïne ressuscite en une sorte de demi-cyborg, une partie de son coprs ayant été robotisée et fonctionnant désormais… à la vapeur. On passera rapidement sur les divers rebondissements qui s’en suivent, pour retenir que Sarah va finalement faire alliance avec Robama pour combattre un Al Gore qui avoue lui-même que son prix Nobel lui a légèrement monté à la tête.

A ceux qui seraient séduits par ce résumé, le site Comics Alliance met en garde : “Ce livre sort de toute classification littéraire… Il est mauvais.”
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