Justice Warriors by Matt Bors

Justice Warriors Reviews

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  Michael Burnam-Fink

  Justice Warriors is a dystopian satire about as blunt as a cop shouting "STOP RESISTING" while bringing down the billy club.
  
  
  Remember kids, the A in ACAB means ALL
  
  Frog-like Swamp Cop and his new partner Schitt (a living 💩 emoji) are those who work forces, patrolling and enforcing the law on the mutants who live in the UZ (Uninhabited Zone) outside the perfect and crime-free Bubble City. Things are going from bad to worse, as the Bubble's pop-star Mayor's erratic policies prompt riots, and the cybernetic social media obsessed cybernetic Pam Grier Chief is too busy dealing with her haters to fight crime. Meanwhile, the astrology themed terrorist Libra Gang plans a coup to take power and install a new balanced order.
  
  On the plus side, the art has some genuinely hyperviolent grotesquery, and the gags that do hit land pretty well. The problem is that there's a lot of stuff that just wobbles or hangs out there, without any of the specific satire of Bors' wasteland comics, Robocop, or Judge Dredd, and while it's weird, it's not Jodorowsky weird. There's a lot to be said about policing and copaganda media, and Justice Warriors doesn't manage to find the words.
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  Robert

  Wealth inequality, police (non) accountability, social media culture, & U.S. municipal politics are just some of the issues that collide to make a comic that feels like Judge Dredd meets Anna Dorn's Exalted. I Ideas like the speculative bread bubble, the fame obsessed political class, & the astrology fanatic revolutionaries, make Justice Warriors feel very reflective of our times. Unlike a great many other great comics, there's something about Justice Warriors that feels like it would resist adaptation into a movie. The characterization of Bubble City/the UZ would be difficult for Hollywood to get right. & maybe only Bors & Clarkson are able to make a story featuring a turd & a swamp monster as the main characters compelling.
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  Michael J.

  This is a dystopian satire from political cartoonist Matt Bors and filmmaker/illustrator Ben Clarkson. Their first foray into a comics mini-series has its moments, an interesting if very familiar premise, and plenty of digs at the police state, consumerism, social media, influencers, etc. If you like 2000AD/JUDGE DREDD and 2020’s LUDOCRATS mini-series you may enjoy this series.
  Ahoy Comics mini-series trend towards the irreverent, satirical and comedic categories and can usually be relied upon for quality story and art across their many titles. I found that JUSTICE WARRIORS fits the first two categories very well but only manages to be comedic in places. At least, I did not think it was that amusing. While the art is very creative and engaging I felt that the story dragged in enough places to make me lose interest.
  In the future, the world has been transformed into residents that resemble human caricatures or cartoonish versions of monsters and mutants. Bubble City is billed as the world’s first “perfect city”. Inside its protective shell, the metropolis proclaims itself as a city of equality, diversity, and prosperity with no crime whatsoever. Outside of the bubble is the Uninhabited Zone (UZ), home of the “Uzzers”, a densely populated slum where most of the mutant population resides and longs for the security of Bubble City.
  After watching his partner die after being run over by a self-driving bus, Bubble City veteran Swamp Cop (a cartoon version of the Creature From The Black Lagoon in a police uniform) suffers from PTSD and hallucinates. He is partnered with rookie cop Schitt (a giant pile of crap jammed into a police uniform) and is tasked with showing him how to bend the rules in the UZ.
  The main conflict that runs throughout all six issues (and seems like forever to resolve) is the siege of Bubble City by the mutant Libras (zodiac obsessed insurrectionists) led by Libra, their giant A.I. avatar. The main problem for me with this title is that I did not care about a single one of these characters, and the humor was spotty enough that I didn’t get to smile much.
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  Missnöjd Konfirmand

  Verkligen jättekul satir! Hade blivit högre betyg om den varit mindre rörigt. Tror de glömde storyn lite för de hade fullt upp med de träffsäkra detaljerna
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  Kelsey Atherton

  Sometime in 2016, reality broke satire. Matt Bors and his compatriots at The Nib began turning biting commentary of the news of the day into premises for vignettes against a wasteland backdrop. That skill of turning the unbelievable now into the baseline normal of bad and absurd futures is served well here, in a story that is compelling to read even as every detail of the world is scathing commentary on our present and future.
  
  In effect, Bors, Carson, and Sobriero pull off a major coup, both in-world (briefly) and in achievement. We have a cop story without heroes where the protagonists are engaging to follow, a revolutionary plot as reactionary as the world it rebels against, a satire that anticipates the news it is satirizing, and a breezy story deep in background detail that will reward revisiting.
  
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  Mind the Book

  Trodde nog inte jag skulle få användning fler gånger för min, en aning nischade, goodreads-kategori "people, places, Pisces". Det var avsnitt 174 av podcasten 'Stormens Utveckling' som fick mig att vilja läsa. Senare lyssnade jag på deras inspiration, även om det inte nämns; ett avsnitt av Bungacast där Bors & Clarkson är gäster.
  
  Som jag just skrev på insta @mindthebook tänkte jag på Huxley ("feeling blue? take two!), Orwell, Blade Runner, Truman Show m.fl. En väldigt otippad karaktär är Prince (ja, Prince!) som stadens borgmästare.
  
  
  
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  John Mihelic

  Three Sentences on Bors et al’s Justice Warriors
  
  I bought this because I am a huge Matt Bors fan, and I was not disappointed in seeing how Bors and his teammates create a world and a narrative within it.
  One of the fun things about this text is in the crowd scenes and seeing the detail and care that went into these throwaway background jokes.
  Just because the main characters are police, doesn’t make them the good guys.
  
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  Rick Ray

  Biting (and not at all subtle) satire on policing and the response by the communities being policed. The comic is mostly hilarious and witty, but the satire does start to get a little grating after the first few issues. The artwork by Clarkson is solid and works well in conjunction to the silly nature of the comic.
  
  
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  Lisa Marie

  It was an easy read, it was “cute” in certain ways and relative to mainstream media and police, activism and astrology that kept my interest. I’d probably label this is 3.5 ⭐️ it wasn’t my favorite, but kept me interested. The art work is lovely, great job there. I just wish it finished on a better note.
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  Kyle

  A comic romp in the satirical vein of Verhoeven but flawlessly updated for our "lol Ratio'd" times. The art is a blast and fits the crypto-maximalist-fascist setting. Also in case I didn't make it clear, it's also insanely funny! Love it!
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  John

  A mixed bag.
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  Josh Newhouse

  I wanted to love this but it reads as a slightly bloated and not as funny version of Mark Russell who ironically recommended. Parts are very good but it’s not flowing for me personally.
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  Bob Mackey

  Fully depicts the cartoonishly dark future I imagined the first time I saw ads at the bottom of security bins at the airport. Kudos!
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  Andrew Spohn

  A fun critique of police and consumerism. It’s like a comedic version of RoboCop and similar sci fi crime stories.
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  Drake Thomas

  Just hilarious and I'm going to recommend it to all my friends. I hope there's more to come!