One thing I always loved about reading Erma Felna was the "sociopolitical rammificaitons" or just plain discussion of how the hell separatism movements, nationalist thought, consumption-driven war machine and conflict that no one wants but the people upstairs come to be and work.

When I was in the Air Force, especially while in Germany, I thought it vital to keep on on world events and who was doing what to whom and why became very important. I wasn't on the pointy end of the spear, so to speak, but I was suppose to be in support of those who were, and in a wider/closer conflict, only a few minutes as the IRBM flies away. It is also when I became a social democrat, seeing the various European models of how thing could be done.

Me and my family got the short end of the stick and until the age of 5 I got a little taste of living behind iron curtain and despite me being young, I do remember how my father travelled to West Berlin to get me "good sweets" when he was visiting friends there (his German friends actually served in the Berlin).

Looking back at these young years of mine (from which I actually remember quite a fair bit given how strange these times are compared to the still-democracy I live in), I can see why people wanted out of that wretched system and the more I hear people wanting that system back the more upset I am. I'm also upset that while Erma tried to discuss politics in a reasonable and fairly objective manner, most of the current comics try to do it one-sided US vs THEM. There's no explanation of roots of the conflict, no explanation of how the conflict escalates and what gains there to be for the parties involved. Since I don't want to spoil a good plotline all I can say is that parties involved had very reasonable gains in the conflict from their standpoint and peace was not really a good option for them.

It's not the *system* people crave; it's the comparatively stable, comparatively quiet daily life. Sure, most people are better off now than they were before, in absolute terms, but at a cost of having to deal with seemingly crazy, predatory capitalism. Compared to that, the life under the previous regime was downright easy: do the absolute minimum required to not end up in prison, shut up your mouth and you'll have the basics guaranteed.

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Being more or less independent and being used as colonial cannon fodder.
This is a fear folks in the Pacific can well sympathize with.

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Erma is one sharp soldier.

She's one smart cookie, she is!

I swallowed your files in that site, before entering FA community. By the way, Erma looks so gorgeous in these pages. I would love it if there was a collectible statue or plush for sale!