Digitally Speaking...28 "Classwar"

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Classwar #1 (Com.X)

From 2002.

Mainstream professionals Rob Williams and Trevor Hairsine make Classwar look mainstream professional....And that's about it, really.  That's the best I can say about it.

The idea behind Classwar is one of those expose-the-truth-behind-what-America's-doing deals, from back in 2002, a true Iraq War comic before the Iraq War even happened.  Reading it now, you wouldn't even realize that if you didn't know its original publication date.

Another blast from the past is a figure who seems comparable to Ultimate Nick Fury, also known as the Samual L. Jackson version we know and love from the movies who debuted, in full appearance, in the pages of The Ultimates the same year.  

All this weird prescience is probably as close as Classwar can get to being worth talking about.

The main character is a superhero called the American.  (Never mind that I just remembered the Jack Kirby character named Fighting American, a kind of Captain America who is...not called Captain America.)  Which is actually not a bad idea.  Straight and to the point.  Simplifies things, much as the storytelling does.  The American is like Superman if he were...Captain America.  See also: The Mighty.  Or Life and Times Savior 28.  Or The Plutonian from Irredeemable.  You get the picture.  Classwar is none of those. 

Move along.