Martha Washington Goes to War [Paperback]

Frank Miller (Author), Dave Gibbons (Author)

Book Description

Series: Martha Washington | Publication Date: February 6, 1996

Martha Washington -- prisoner, runaway, lunatic, soldier, and now seditionist -- has seen the future. It looks great on paper, but it doesn't work. The U.S. government is controlled by power-hungry nutcases. The ecology is a shambles. Everyone talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it . . . nobody, that is, except PAX and the very expensive weather-control satellite, Harmony. In Martha Washington Goes to War, it's Martha vs. PAX and the United States government, and the odds are more even than you might think!

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Dark Horse (February 6, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1569710902
• ISBN-13: 978-1569710906
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 6.7 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,812,069 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Frank Miller's Vision Comes of Age, December 12, 2000

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James Thomson (Silver Spring, MD USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Martha Washington Goes to War (Paperback)

At last, Frank Miller has given us a comic book for all Americans and a hero who represents the real America. It's strange to think that a medium like action comics, that wastes so much of its energy trying to reinforce the stale values of an America that hasn't existed since the middle of the last century, could be such fertile ground.

It has opened my eyes to the potential of comics to tell stories that have relevance to the modern world, not some lilly-white America that's been dead for decades.

I would have to call this his best, most mature work to date.

Buy it, or else!

2 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ahead of it's time..., October 3, 2002

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Brad Brasher "BadBrad" (TX, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Martha Washington Goes to War (Paperback)

When I stumbled upon this gem of ultra-cynicism, I thought for a moment that John Carpenter had got his hands on the Miller psyche'. Alas, no. What came out of this reading was such a complete skewering of Bigotry that the backwoods, context-skipping, agenda totting me-me-me creationists would practically bend over backwards to either look the other way or assassinate by character with the dreaded PC word. Wasn't this the dreaded semantics of hypocritical supremacy Miller that was cutting against? By the way, since when were names like FEMINAZI ever "PC".
Watch out for the Anti-Martha's who recommend books about Natural Selection( Darwins Black Box ) that they only heard about from other people who heard it misquoted by the ICR, and then try to bring it up in a review of a UBER-COMIC.
Anyway,this work illustrates how Miller's resurrection,( Sorry, no mythical-inference intended) led to the making of 4, count em'4 Batman movies. Now tell me Burton didn't have this kind of egala-mania in mind with "Batman Returns". Just admit it and give credit where it is due. This one will endure.

3 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars anti PC COMIC, May 27, 2001

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woodrow locksley "tdlockwood" (lINCOLN NE) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Martha Washington Goes to War (Paperback)

This qulity comic novel which is heavily influenced by Ayn Rand'sATLAS SHRUGGED. Like Rand, Millersees the greatest threat to freedom not in obvious totalitarians but well meaningidealists who are incompetent or paternalistic or both.The fact that the heroes are minorities is irrelevant to the story and only a bigot or a moron would focus on that in discussing this work.