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Billi '99 - It's 1999, do you know where your civil rights are? (cloverpress.us)

submitted 1 month ago by jordanlund to c/comicbooks

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Found this at my local comic shop today, Billi 99 was originally a 4 issue book published by Dark Horse Comics in 1991, back when Y2K and 9/11 and the Patriot Act seemed oh, man, so far away!

"Set in 1999, Billi 99 embodies a cautionary tale in which corporate greed and corrupt government affected an America very much like our own today. With that, they posed the question, what is power when everything has been taken away?"

Nominated for 3 Eisner awards, the book is written by Sarah Byam and illustrated by Tim Sale...

Yes, THAT Tim Sale. Spider-Man: Blue, Batman: The Long Halloween, Superman: For All Seasons, Daredevil Yellow Tim Sale.

At that time though, he was relatively unknown, having done a very good graphic novel adaptation of the Thieves World books.

Now with brand new color artwork by José Villarrubia.

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[–] Zahille7 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Damn this looks pretty badass

[–] jordanlund 4 points 1 month ago

It is, I just finished reading it twice, first in the original black and white and the new edition in color.

It's clearly very early Tim Sale but there are some brilliant pages in there.

The story warns in 1991 what 1999 could be like, and it's just as relevant in 2025.

"Economic ruthlessness is a respected American business tradition, but it's wasteful and based on the assumption that we will always find more resources to plunder: More land, more oil, more young people to drive by flight or fight pressure tactics in maximum short-term productivity. Burn all you want, we'll make more...

The problem with that assumption is that it breaks down. One man, one machine, one bank, one economy, one planet at a time.

Because when one of us is so diminished, we all are."