**34th book of 2021: Dys-trope-ia **

I’m happy that this comic book series exists, a lower budget way to continue a plot that didn’t succeed in the meat grinder of television. I didn’t know I could be nostalgic for the fears of a pre-crash 2008 America, when our biggest collective anxieties were overpowered security contractors and the phantom threat of terrorism. Now I’m in the 2021 dystopia where the 2008 economic crash and 2020 pandemic reveal that we had much more boring villains to worry about.

But the tropes hurt. They really hurt. I wish we had names for all of them, here’s what I found:

  1. Bobby Fischer antagonists
  2. Bad guy jailbreak
  3. Gleefully deceitful politicians
  4. Bottom line corporate automatons -
  5. Destroy the world for its own good antagonists

I suppose this is what attracts me more to nonfiction: it may be dull but at least it’s original. There is more in this series, but I think I’ll end it here.