"Prez" or when a rebellious teenager becomes president of the United States

'Prez' Comics Tells The Story Of A Teenager Elected President Of The United States Through Social Media, Which Is Impossible (Sure?) -

“Vote Loki!

That was Marvel's message in the 2016 US election, even as its CEO Ike Perlmutter backed Donal Trump to the tune of a million dollars.

This is of course not the first time that the comics are interested in the elections, nor the presidents.

Deadpool has already killed 31 zombified presidents, Captain America fought against Nixon and Reagan, the Clintons attended Superman's funeral, George W. Bush passed the famous Super-Human Census Act in

, and Barack Obama, and his Vice President Joe Biden, appeared alongside Spider-Man.

When Twitter propels a teenager to the presidency of the United States: Prez, is to be discovered tomorrow in bookstores!

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- UrbanComics (@UrbanComics) September 3, 2020

Beth Ross for President

Some superheroes, or villains, have become presidents themselves, like Lex Luthor, Captain America, and Howard the Duck.

Oh no, he had to withdraw from the race because of a sex scandal.

On the other hand, Beth Ross was indeed elected President of the United States.

At 19 years old.

Through Twitter.

This is the story, and dystopia, of

, comics by Mark Russell and Ben Caldwell published by DC in the United States in 2015, but published by Urban Comics in France this fall.

And still relevant.

We are in 2036, one week before the presidential election, and the powerful are still in the process of choosing the “best” candidates, implying the easiest to manipulate.

It will be Gary Farmer, "really not an arrow, but a good Christian, that'll be fine," and Tom Downey, an old-school politician who thinks TV spots and ends up humiliated among influencers.

It was then that Beth Ross, a simple waitress in a fast food restaurant, became a viral phenomenon on Twitter after putting her hair in a deep fryer.

The "fried girl" is propelled candidate in spite of herself, and soon elected after a laughable power struggle in the House of Representatives.

Prez at @UrbanComics also good at proofreading after having discovered it in vo and still relevant even more with the pandemic mentioned in the book.

What a pity that the series could not go to the end of the 12 issues initially planned.

Glad to finally see it in vf!

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- Guigoz (@gabrielthylin) September 7, 2020

A satire of American society à la "Idiocraty"

A catastrophe for democracy?

For the old world, yes, because "a president over whom we have no control, who does not care to be publicly humiliated, it is unacceptable".

With her youth, her freshness but also her doubts, Beth arrives like a dog in a bowling game.

One of his first decisions?

A tour of apologies around the world after years of American interference.

"Sorry for the two atomic bombs, especially the second, frankly, it was abused," she blurted in Japan.

Weapons, poverty, consumerism, political-media spectacle, corruption of elites, multinationals and even an epidemic (glurps) ...

is a vitriolic satire of American society, a society presented as futuristic, but ultimately not that much.

We think a lot about

, the 2006 prophetic film about the “phenomenon” who became President Donald Trump.

Prez Rickard debuted in Prez: First Teen President # 1 (May 17, 1973).

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- This Day In Comics (@thisdayincomics) May 17, 2017

“This is not a true story.

At least not yet ”

In her daily fight, perhaps lost in advance but above all stopped after only 6 numbers out of the 12 planned, Beth is supported by Preston Rickard, in fact the original “Prez”.

Because the comics had already been interested in a teenage president, from the 1970s, following the lowering of the right to vote to 18 years.

Chosen by the businessman Boss Smiley who thought he was manipulating him, the young blond and white Prez does as he pleases and tackles problems, always contemporary, such as pollution, the arms lobby, a militia of extreme right but also vampires and werewolves (very contemporary therefore).

Very short, Joe Simon's series will nonetheless remain very influential in the DC universe, inviting himself into

Neil Gaiman's

or

Frank Miller's

.

As Joe Simon wrote at the time: “This is the story of the most powerful person in the world.

He is not a superhero, but a teenager who has become President of the United States.

This is not a true story.

At least not yet.

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