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Unseen Justice In The Dock

Nikki Foxtrot writes on the facebook page for Unseen Justice, a new comic by John Prince and Justin Case.

Unseen Justice – that's the comic you haven't paid Steven Denton for colouring, right? Can I suggest you take the pages he did for you off your website, because at the moment you don't own them. You've had plenty of time to pay for what you commissioned. I fucking hate two-bit hacks like you; freelancers live or die on getting paid, in full and on time, by the people they're commissioned by. I have already warned you in private and now I'm warning you in public. Pay him his $400 odd dollars by the end of the day or I am going to your sponsors to inform them that you're infringing copyright.

He seems to have a number of sponsors… all with rather aggressive military symbols it seems. Indeed, I don't that the sponsors will care much. It's a peculiar comic, rather gung ho and neocon… and slightly confused about geography, such as this scene set in Afhanistan, which seems to reference Algeria in North East Africa.

Was that a strange typo for Al Jazeera, possibly from someone who has never seen the channel, or maybe just misheard it? And Haji, is that Mohamed Yusuf Haji, the senior politician from Kenya (East Africa)? All rather confusing…

Overall it seems a righteous fury for a man driven by insanity of war, his dead soldier buddy who he hallucinates, and applying deadly vigilante justice by taking the job as a prison guard. Clearly a troubled mind who needs institutionalisation at the nearest opportunity, the book glorifies his actions. And then takes breaks for some seriously obtrusive product placement for those sponsors – military supplies, knives, assault tools, coffee, which are then followed by in panel plugs or full page ads. It's like a paramilitary version of QVC at times and an interesting moel for funding the production of comics. I'm rather jealous.

But 'm not sure what the protagonist would feel about a comic creator who stiffs his colourist $400 though.

And then there are some rather odd choices… who is our protagonist on the far right aiming his gun at?

Nevertheless, it is an intriguing comic and worth checking out. Nice colours, Steven.

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