ARTS The Michigan Daily Wednesday, September 13, 1989 Page 7 A comic for times of Crisis BY ANDREA GACKI B ATMAN was the hit of the summer. While this fact may seem not particularly newsworthy - indeed tedious - it still raises major ques- tions about the taste of some people, specifically the British. How can a nation don Bat t-shirts and exhaust the reprints of Frank Miller's Dark Knight when they have their own heroes to laud? What does Batman have that true Brit Buster Gonad and his Unfeasibly Large Testicles doesn't? Not much, I'd wager. And what about Billy the Fish? Batman and his whopping neuro- sis easily fade next to "the fish lad who can al- most swim through the air." In fact, the Empire Upon Which the Sun Never Sets has quite a bit we don't have - in the comic area, that is. While both the United States and Great Britain have conservative gov- ernments in power, only Britain has a comic book dedicated to discrediting said government. And the book willingly wears the label "mainstream." The horror of it. Crisis is the bi-weekly book dedicated to the destruction of global privatization. It carries sev- eral stories at once, but its current lead story is "Third World War." It's Thatcher's Britain in the year 2000, and Blacks in the fictional London ghetto of New Azania have united under govern- mental oppression. In this world, Black females are automatically sent to remedial institutions - "ESN" schools for the "Educationally Sub- Normal." The main character, Eve, escapes such a fate as she's from the anglicized upper classes, but now she's joined the struggle. Other stories in Crisis include "Troubled Souls," a story about Belfast in 1989; "Sticky Fingers," concerned with hip kids in Camden Town and their run-ins with the law; and one-issue stories such as "To Serve and Protect," wherein a police officer of to- day recounts the police's aversion to his father's desire to join the force upon arrival in Britain from Guyana in 1962. Crisis is not an archetype. Its art is generally well-done, albeit without innovation. Writing quality runs the gamut: while "Sticky Fingers" is predictable, "Third World War" has calculation and strategy injected into its storyline. What's different about Crisis as a mainstream comic book, however, is the advice it gives its readers. There are titles of alternative literature, films, plays, and video in every issue, and Crisis tells you the addresses of where to get them. They suggest everything from the film Cry Freedom to Britain's Institute of Race Relations' booklet Policing Against Black People. Though occasionally preachy, the book attempts neither to convert nor to anger but to educate in a mostly sophisticated manner. The stories in Crisis assume nothing; a reader can be totally ignorant of the politics behind the stories and still enjoy the book. Crisis surpris- ingly gives equal time to a skinhead on its letters page, and it's not a lunatic's note. His letter is an admirable refusal of the stereotype "racist" given to him by Crisis; he wants to reveal what he calls the true, non-racist nature of skinheads. It's a well-written piece by the "enemy." This book is not afraid to confront criticism in its own fo- rum; its politics do not survive by the suppres- sion of other beliefs. Any new ideas in comics should not be dis- couraged, but even independent comic books in the U.S. shy away from politics of the present. Although it does things characteristic of indies, Crisis is definitely mainstream. 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