Polite Dissent

Look at this…my first day of blogging, and already the comics and political worlds are colliding. Micah Ian Wright, writer of Stormwatch: Team Achilles, had published a book wherein he “re-worked” some old WWI and WWII propaganda posters into anti-Bush, anti-Iraq War screeds. Admittedly, some of them were fairly clever.

He claimed, quite loudly at times, to have been an U.S. Army Ranger who saw combat in the Panama invasion. As you’ve no doubt figured out, the key word is “claimed.” He never was an Army Ranger, never saw combat, and even dropped out of ROTC.

Whether you are a conservative or liberal, or Republican or Democrat, you should find his actions wrong. It’s wrong to lie about your credentials, period. It’s even worse to do so in an attempt to gain the moral high ground. And it’s entirely reprehensible to have claimed to be in the military, much less in combat, when it’s not true. People are risking their lives for their country, and even dying, and Mich Wright didn’t have the guts to even finish ROTC.

He deserves all the scorn heaped upon him. He deserves having his second book canceled. And he has no one to blame but himself and his lies. I love seeing liars, and resume padders, brought low, so I shall enjoy every minute of this.

I just wonder what his parents think. They had to have known he wrote a book claiming to have been in the Rangers, and they had to have known the truth. Are they proud that he wrote a book? Or ashamed by his lies? I assume the latter.

Michele at A Small Victory [ed. note: sadly, this site is now defunt] has the best information on this, better than I could ever aspire to. Also check out the report at Comic Book Resources, and the words of Greyhawk at the Mudville Gazette.

As for his comics, I can’t say that I ever read Stormwatch: Team Achilles. I did pick up Coup d’Etat: Stormwatch (both covers actualy – damn those multiple covers) and all I can say is ehh. Not the worst part of the mini-series (that would be the pointless Coup d’Etat: Wildcats), and not the best (Coup d’Etat: Sleeper - which was still pretty mediocre), but in the middle. So it was the mediocre-est of a mediocre series. Not exactly a ringing endorsement…
I was looking forward to the new Vigilante series (but didn’t know he was involved)