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Visit Sesame Street via Robocop in Dark Horse's political satire Survival Street: The Radical Left
Sunny day? Not so much in the corporate hellscape that controls the new satirical comic from Dark Horse Comics - and we have an early sneak peek
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If you think things are bad in America now, wait until the Radical Left show up. By that, I mean Survival Street: The Radical Left, the new comic book satire from James Asmus, Jim Festante, Abylay Kussainov, Ellie Wright, and Taylor Esposito, of course. Why, were you thinking about a different radical left?
The four-issue series is a follow-up to 2022’s Survival Street, a satire set in an alternate(?) America that has been taken over by corporations and transformed into a deregulated dystopia where public broadcasting has been shut down… leaving a group of beloved educators on the streets, doing whatever it takes to survive. Yes, some of them are puppets more used to a place where the air is sweet. (I think you know what we’re saying.)
The publisher’s description of the new series is succinct in its appeal: “After America is sold off to private companies, this A-B-C-Team of ex-entertainers rescues kids from cruel company towns. But Portland can’t hold everyone they rescue, and the cracks are about to break… Prepare for a radical departure in the series Library Journal called a ‘blisteringly satirical mash-up of Sesame Street and Robocop.’”
"This new miniseries of Survival Street pits our team against all-new hyper-capitalism horrors - while expanding the puppet pantheon, and exploring new emotional and ethical conflicts for our heroes,” promised The whole creative team worked hard to deliver more of what fans (and we) loved about the first series, while adding more layers to the world, characters, and conflicts -- but made sure to pepper in anything new readers need to know."
Sound like the type of thing you want to read? Of course it does — but you don’t have to wait until the series’ September 25 debut to do so, because we have an exclusive preview in the gallery below. Sunny day!
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Survival Street: The Radical Left #1, featuring covers from Kussainov, Ben Dewey, Juan Doe, Marie Enger, Artyom Trakhanov, and Colleen Coover, will be available September 25.
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