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Jon Stewart Vs. Bill O’Reilly: The Graphic Novel

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Just in time for this weekend’s debate in Washington, DC, Bluewater Productions has announced a graphic novel pitting Jon Stewart versus Fox commentator Bill O’Reilly. You can get Political Power: O’Reilly Stewart 2012 right now to learn more about these two cerebral pugilists and then watch the live debate this weekend.

Darren Davis, President of Bluewater Productions explained:

When we heard about the upcoming debate at Bluewater, we thought it would be a fun opportunity to showcase our bios in a commemorative graphic novel as a companion to the showdown. Political Power: O’Reilly Stewart 2012” gives the reader an informative look into the lives of these influential political personalities.

Jon Stewart is the force behind the award-winning program The Daily Show and was named “the most trusted man in America.” His show has become a source of news and opinion that sways a generation. Bill O’Reilly is a best selling author and one of the most popular commentators working today. The two are debating this Saturday, October 6th at 8pm ET in Washington, DC for charity. Dubbed O’Reilly v Stewart 2012: The Rumble in the Air-Conditioned Auditorium, tickets sold out quickly, but people can stream the event, a portion of which, “one-half of the net profits,” will be donated to a number of charities.

Bluewater burst onto the political scene four years ago with their popular comic book biography series Political Power which has covered politicos such as President Obama, Mitt Romney, Colin Powell, Vice President Biden and more.

Political Power: O’Reilly Stewart 2012 was written by Jerome Maida and illustrated by artists Aleksandar Bozic and Tsubasa Yozora. The exclusive, commemorative graphic novel is available now for digital download at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, iTunes, and more.

Political Power: O’Reilly Stewart 2012

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It’s a long weekend for most, happy holidays and here’s some articles to keep you busy!

Around the Blogs:

The Beat – THE DARK KNIGHT RISES breaks AVENGERS download record – The movie can’t come soon enough.

The Mary Sue – No, Really, Obi-Wan’s Home Planet Is Called “Stewjon” and Is Named After Jon Stewart – New goal, get something named after me in Star Wars.

Bleeding Cool – The Year In Dark Knight Rises Easter Eggs And Clues – Both Real And Imagined – Good rundown.

ESPN – Lance Briggs has passion for comics – Great to see comic coverage in non-comics media and hopefully this breaks the stereotype of comic book fans.

 

Around the Tubes Reviews:

CBR – Batman, Incorporated: Leviathan Strikes! #1

Nagareboshi Reviews – Green River Killer: A True Detective Story

CBR – Wolverine & The X-Men #3

Jon Stewart Tramples on Free Speech and Comes Out in Favor of Censorship

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On last night’s The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart took up the recently decided Supreme Court case Brown v. EMA which dealt with the restriction of sales of “violent video games” to children.  The court decided in a 7 to 2 decision that it violates free speech to limit the sales, but also that it’s a parent’s responsibility to make these decisions.

Justice Scalia put it succinctly and eloquently in the decision where he wrote:

Video games qualify for First Amendment protection. Like protected books, plays, and movies, they communicate ideas through familiar literary devices and features distinctive to the medium. And “the basic principles of freedom of speech . . . do not vary” with a new and different communication medium.

Those same protections that apply to Stewart’s nightly show apply to video games, and by not defending free speech in every form, that makes him a hypocrite.

Here’s the Stewart clip.

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Ironically, Stewart’s guest was Bill Kristol, the editor of the Weekly Standard and one of the loudest proponents of the war in Iraq.  So, to sum up his view, real war and death = good, fake violence = bad.

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Stewart is a known video game fan too.

So much going on, and two little fun things.

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Well, sorry for the lack of updates for the last week and a half or so. I’m in the hospital and just got internet access, so now I have tons of time on my hands for posts. Here’s what I owe for the future:

Hellboy II and the Dark Knight reviews – These will come when I get out to see the movies. Both have gotten great reviews from friends and I can’t wait to see them. These won’t come until the end of next week the earliest, sigh….

Persepolis Review – Watched the movie this past Saturday and have much to say, but I’ll leave that for the blog post.

Comic reviews – As soon as I’m sprung from the hospital I’m heading to the comic shop, sad I know. I’ll have two or three weeks worth of build up to get to.

But here’s two items to tie you over until then.

First! DCist (a great local DC blog) is covering someone’s trip across the country as he stops at comic shops. I always wanted to try this and can’t wait to read all of the updates. Some of my most fun memories is scavenging for comics or games on trips to Toronto, Rochester, or local shows when I lived in Buffalo. Such fun times. You can read the article here.

Second! So, sitting in a hospital with no internet connection until now (thank you coworkers!) you watch a lot of tv. The Daily Show last night had Jon Stewart interviewing one of the stars of the Dark Knight where he attempts to get into his comic reading habit.  You can check out the video here (sorry catching up on a lot and don’t have time to post the embed).