Finished the report.

We Stand on Guard
300 years after the War of 1812, the Americans invade and annex Canada in ostensible retaliation for an unattributed terrorist attack on the White House, but with the true intentions of siphoning off the freshwater.

- I'm a big fan of Brian K. Vaughan, who is actually an American. So the French spoken by the one Quebecois character is not quite right. The artist is Steve Skroce, best known for his storyboard work on The Matrix. Beautiful art of characters and giant robots, less beautiful art of corpses and injuries. Off the top of my head I remember several dozen dismemberments and bisections, two getting shot point-blank, and one character getting repeatedly lowered face-first into a tank of burning gasoline.
- Obviously Canada is fucked if America ever comes for our water.
- The ending is hopeful, but not happy. Almost all the characters are dead or in a POW camp and David Suzuki is definitely cartwheeling in his grave.
- There's a touch of jingoism (on Canada's part) but since Canada is rarely on the beneficiary end of it in fiction... so I'm ok with that.
- Highly recommended comic! It's only six parts of 40 pages each.
- Which is actually part of the problem. I think ten or 12 issues would have been better in fleshing out the team, the American... some consequences of the last issue?

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James and I were disembarking the streetcar with the tripod (boxed) and this older lady, with a fuzzy hat and a fuzzy coat, she asked James, "Is that a Christmas tree?"

He said, "No, it's a Christmas tree stand!"

And she said, "Oh, it's a big one! Or has your girlfriend been naughty?"

Mortifying.