It looks like Minx, a division of Marvel Comics, will be putting out a graphic novel on “eco-terrorism” shortly. There’s not much info about it available, except for a writeup at ComicBookResources.com:
“Burnout,†by author Rebecca Donner with art by Inaki Miranda is about Danni, a girl who moves to the Pacific-Northwest with her mom, her father having left the family years earlier. They move in with her mother’s new boyfriend and his son, who she develops a crush on. After following him, she discovers he’s involved in eco-terrorism.
“It’s a really amazing, smart, intense story of a young girl who has to choose between falling in love and getting involved in something that she knows is really illegal and how it’s going to change her life forever,†Bond said.
I think it’s fascinating how both mainstream and “alternative” media have had a field day with the “sexiness” of this issue (sneaking around at night, breaking the law… sex, love and balaclavas) but don’t want to take a look at how the “War on Terror” is being used to label property crimes as terrorism. Now, I have no idea which camp this comic book will be in: if it’s going to be some Green Scare style misinformation, or if Donner and Miranda are exploring the complexities of the issue.
But I can’t imagine it will be as absurd as that Law & Order episode where a federal informant was raped– yes, raped– by “eco-terrorists.”