>>148993915The way I interpret it is that its as much of an allegory as the rest of the comic. America is dead, murdered by thugs who will surely get away with it. The corpse is hollowed out by a coward who claims to love America dearly but never truly understood or believed in its principles, and once they own the remains fetishistically wraps themselves in its outer trappings to help their career in show business. Its a huge slam on Beeny and the kinds of people he represents.. The democrats really believed in the symbolism and cared for the people, which is why they went for the kind of bombing they did, but they were up against people who explicitly do not care about those things and have implemented even stronger totalitarian symbols of their might.
Its very weird and bleak, and the bit that got you also got me, but after a while I came to think think it works in context. I really need to find a copy of the recently rediscovered America scriptbook, it has commentary from Wagner throughout it.
For what its worth, the later comics also show that the surviving democrats eventually morph into a much more aggressive terrorist group called Total War, which probably woudln't have happened if things hadn't played out the way they did.
>>148994280The Zhind seem to be the thing now. If I remember right their parallel universe cousins even make a cameo in Fall of Deadworld.
