The Bad Guys Won! Let’s Laugh at Them!

A look at the recently completed and collected Billionaire Island comic series

We‘re almost to the end of 2020, which is more than over a quarter-million of COVID-19 victims can say. The slight majority of America have hopefully realized what happens when you elect a wealthy celebrity businessman with money into an elected office. We get a person who doesn’t know what he’s doing and doesn’t care. So they do what they naturally do, which is capitalize on their position to benefit themselves and other business partners (but mostly themselves). And if unhindered enough, they can cause near-irreversible damage to everyone around them. And if wealthy enough, they can continue to fail upward while being supported by other wealthy people and an abused populace who lives vicariously through said businessman’s cruelty.

Now let’s talk about the recently collected Billionaire Island comic series and try to pretend it doesn’t seem like a combination of documentary and prophecy.

Ahoy Comics already deserves a spot in the medium’s history for the material it has put out in seemingly direct retaliation to the scary political zeitgeist of the last few years. Much of the work I’ve seen rests on the shoulders of writer Mark Russell, the first creator I’ve seen in a while who appears more…