Justice Warriors: Vote Harder Is the Perfect Superhero Satire for 2024

The scathing superhero satire series returns just in time for election season.

Updated:

Sep 11, 2024 4:05 pm

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Sep 11, 2024 4:00 pm

Publisher Ahoy Comics is quickly becoming the place to turn when you crave a good superhero story mixed with a healthy dose of political satire. Just in time for another tumultuous election season, Matt Bors and Ben Clarkson’s Justice Warriors is back for a full-length graphic novel sequel.

IGN can exclusively debut a new preview of Justice Warriors: Vote Harder. Check it out in the slideshow gallery below:

Justice Warriors: Vote Harder – Exclusive Graphic Novel PreviewAs a follow-up to the original Justice Warriors (read the entire first issue for free here), Vote Harder explores new turmoil in the futuristic dystopia Bubble City as it holds its first mayoral election. Officers Swamp Cop and Schitt will find their relationship tested like never before. The book is co-written by Clarkson and Bors with art by Clarkson and backup illustrations by Bors. The creative team also includes colorist Felipe Sobreiro and letters by Bors.

Here’s Ahoy’s official description of the new book:

In crime-free utopia Bubble City’s first-ever election for mayor, feckless celebrity incumbent The Prince faces a challenge from within the Bubble’s elite: his half-cousin Stuffina Vippix IX, who promises austerity and competency. Finally a choice for the people! But out in the Uninhabited Zone, which is packed with millions of mutants, the radical and armed Flauf Tanko mounts a third-party run to inspire the masses who are fed up with the entire system. Rallying to protect the votes from the people, mutant cops Swamp and Schitt are called in on special duty. Schitt must act as bodyguard to the Prince, while his poll numbers drop and assassination attempts ramp up. Meanwhile, Swamp is sent on a clandestine mission inside the mutant opposition—to infiltrate, report, and maybe fall in love with a passionate activist triggering an identity crisis. Can the two partners survive being pitted against each other in a horserace?

“Justice Warriors: Vote Harder takes the feel of paranoid political thrillers of the 70s and updates it for the online age of conspiracy, partisanship, and the desire to break out of the confines of the ballot box to do something far more radical,” said Bors in a statement. “Unlikable candidates. An unfair media. And a system designed to prevent real change. It’s the most important election of everyone’s life—and possibly their last.”

“Justice Warriors: Vote Harder is an epic thrillride about the infiltration of civil society by law enforcement, the corrupt bickering of unaccountable elites, and unchecked military expansion which is, of course, unrelated to the regular healthy function of our corporate oligopoly — er, democracy,” said Clarkson. “It’s bigger, badder and more justicier than the original with a thrilling dose of orbital space lasers, giraffe assassins and obscure parliamentary procedure.”

Justice Warriors: Vote Harder is in bookstores and comic shops now. You can order a copy on Amazon.

For more on what’s coming up in the world of comics, check out our exclusive preview of Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans’ We Called Them Giants.

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