Hot on the heels of the “tempest at a tea party” that resulted from the placards depicted in Captain America #602 comes Repuglicans, a bitingly satirical look at America’s right wing featuring caricatures by Pete Von Sholly and prose text by Steve Tatham. Published by Boom! Studios’ under its “comic lit” Boom! Town imprint, the 128-page Repuglicans, which has a cover price of $14.99, is actually not a comic book at all.   It is a prose work filled with acidic caricatures created in the tradition of David Levine, whose 66 different images of Richard Nixon, which included depicting the longtime politician as Captain Queeg, the Godfather, and a fetus, set the standard for this sort of political vitriol.

Advertised, with a nod to the motto of Fox News, as “a completely unfair and not balanced take on Republican Party leaders and apparatchiks,” and filled with portraits of Sarah Palin, John McCain, and Glenn Beck as vampires, freaks, and zombies Repuglicans is still unlikely to create as much controversy as the tea party protesters in Captain America #602 simply because it is not a mainstream comic.  In fact it is not a comic book at all, merely a volume of political satire of which there have been thousands through the years from all parts of the political spectrum.