Because all “good” movies need to be a trilogy…
In part 1, I analyzed the arguments Hillary and Obama have been throwing at each other. In part 2, I looked for a pop culture representation of the Hillary/Obama dynamic.
This time, I analyze the metaphor which is the Hillary-Obama struggle and cast in its truest and most cosmic form a la the characters from Neil Gaiman’s amazing series The Sandman (hat tip: Blog@Newsarama).
For those of you who have not yet read The Sandman, the series describes a world which is an “upleveling” of the traditional DC comics universe (e.g. Superman, Batman, and the Martian Manhunter all make guest appearances at one point or another) to incorporate cosmic and mythical entities (e.g. the Egyptian pantheon of Gods, the Judeo-Christian God, etc.). In that universe, a set of “beings” called the Endless are anthropomorphic representations of concepts beginning with the letter “D” who preside over those concepts: Destiny, Dream, Desire, Despair, Delirium (who was once Delight), Death, and Destruction. Specifically, The Sandman is about Dream, and the role he, and dreams in general, play in the universe.
In one of the earlier story arcs (issue 4!), Dream goes on a quest into Hell to retrieve his lost helmet. In Hell, he meets the demon Choronzon who has possession of it, and the two challenge each other in what I can only describe as an imagination game where they strive to defeat one another with images. It sounds very hokey, but it is very well done (and the series is definitely on my list of “must reads” for people who want to get into comics). In any event, some Obama-loving comic book reader must have stumbled onto the dialogue as it depicts, in no uncertain terms, the true character of the Obama-Hillary battle:
Can’t you see it? Not only does Hillary being an anthrax bacterium and “anti-life, the beast of judgement, the dark at the end of everything” make sense to me, but look at the graphic representation of Obama, the Dream King, and Hillary, the demon Choronzon of hell:
I think this works quite well. And John McCain?
Hell yeah. Vacation is awesome.