What a topical book. If you've never read this book, and you want to know what kind of cynicism it displays . . . all you have to do is look at that golfer on the cover. I mean really look at him. Look at his legs. And the background. That's what this book is all about. It exposes and pokes fun at a variety of taboo. Things that we don't feel that we can talk about. Or are afraid to. We have siblings cheating and misleading each other. We have couples, with understandings, involved in extra-marital activities. We have military leaders worrying more about their sponsorships more than the men they're supposed to be leading. And we have kids involved in war. This one guy is looking for his wife, and he's got the help of these 2 soldiers. After going a distance, they decide to stop for the night. He asks them, "What's with you young guys and the military? I mean, what's the attraction?" To which they respond, "They figured out how to package the ultimate high, man. You Gen-X-Y-Z-ers and your geezer parents were the ones who left all these global catastrophes. F@#$ed up wars. F@#$ed up economy. F@#$ed up environment. All of it left for us to fix. We're stuck with the job of cleaning up your dirty diddees, at least let us have a good time doing it." And that . . . that is the feeling you get from this whole book. Basically we have this soap opera, in the future, with all these radical ideas, boundaries erased and set in the background of an overseas war. Sound familiar? It's only a stretch from what's going on in the world day-to-day. Fantastic work by Rick Veitch and Gary Erskine. I'm not sure if it's out in TPB yet, but it's definitely worth getting ahold of and perusing.
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