Operation Democracy Comics, volume 2

Let the record show that the civic fields of XXX still lay sallow, with no sign of Democracy Operations. MoveOn PAC's CALL FOR CHANGE has not called the MINUTE TAKER to enlist another faithful soldier in the cause! The MINUTE TAKER can only conclude that the MoveOn commanders have fully withdrawn from XXX, leaving us conscripts without orders or equipment or, indeed, the ability to communicate. The MINUTE TAKER has resigned to sit idly, passively, in front of the television, cursing the insanity of the modern American condition, watching the moment in which we can TAKE BACK CONGRESS grow ever closer.

And yet--the record must show--so far away.

The MINUTE TAKER wonders.
The MINUTE TAKER dreams.
And, fortunately for the sake of the record, the MINUTE TAKER is not alone in this universe!
As if plucked straight from the MINUTE TAKER's fever-dreams of the heyday of Operation Democracy, and day-dreams of the fantastic possibilities of Call for Change, the mailman has delivered the long-anticipated MoveOn Minutes Illustrated: Volume II!
















Note the striking departure from the gritty dramatic realism of Operation Democracy: Volume I. This episode is a harrowing journey into a hellish dreamscape: the astral plane of civic energies, in which Operation Democracy engages Battle on numerous fronts. Let the record show that this apocalyptic scene conjures up, in equal parts, the triumph of Lady Liberty leading the French to Revolution, the orgies of violence and lust of Hieronymous Bosch, and the edge-of-your-seat ride-of-thrills-and-laughs of DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE.

Note that this anarchic dystopia is fraught with both the evil of man unto himself and the cruel wrath of Mother Nature. Amid the melee, the record will show valiant efforts of Operation Democracy troops to rescue the villagers from volcanic eruption, extinquish a city aflame, and perform other heroic acts of dashing derring-do -- for instance, the rescue of those who appear to be drowning in the runoff of Operation Democracy's Freedom Water!

Further note that the cursed landscape takes the shape of a supine, splayed, uni-bosomatic female figure. Oh, the whims of Art! Mark, this record shall remain devoid of formal interpretation -- let it be left to the critics and historians and sundry armchair-fuddyduddies to hem and haw upon the symbolism thereof (be it an allegorical indictment of Democracy's conception out of sin and war-i.e., the Civic Syphilitic Parable-or perhaps a cautionary tale of the destructive horrors of nearsighted urban planning -- the MINUTE TAKER does not know and cannot say).

However, this episode has renewed hope that Operation Democracy, wherever it is, is IN IT TO WIN IT!