.. thanks to Josh Williamson's extremely entertaingly UNFINISHED Xenoholics miniseries, who was taken away from us abruptly into the DCU to write another alien abduction series (a franchise-generic one as opposed to an original one..) called Voodoo resulting in me to talking in the third person (dam u DC he says).
Saucer Country is written by Paul Cornell whose work I'm only familiar with in terms of four other titles called Demon Knights (an experiment in medieval Justice Leaguers), Action Comics (an experiment in Lex Luthor's unwavering narcissism when facing death) Fantastic Four True Story (a self admitted faliure when I met him to say it was a facinating metafictional experiment..)and Stormwatch (meh). The man's strength seems to rely on experimentalism and the indulgent nature of a first person narrative character study (i.e. Demon Knights fails for me, it lacks the space needed to fully explore each character to the full extent of Cornell's writing), and so Saucer Country seems to be built tailored specifically to me.
Spoiler
Breaking traditional political narratives, and working with the theme of underdogs and rags to riches, Governor Alvarado a third Generation Hispanic milf is abducted and given an abortion by aliens shortly before her announcement for presidential candidacy (wait no stop laughing it was done with taste). With supporting cast of politicians and an ex-husband the Governor will have to find a way out of a sticky situation.
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Strengths of the book, pretty cover, well structured plot, well paced reveal, an engaging strong female hispanic protagonist (yay diversity 2012), dealing with post rohypnolism without victimisation, inevitable addition of a quirky cast member who sees imaginery naked people that tell him what to do (always a good thing), a well excecuted serious take on a surrealistic plot, a depressed cat on page 11
and on sale just before the actual primaries almost satirising the current cartoon candidacies.
How can I not buy issue 2.