‘Shooting War’
Shooting War is an online promo for a graphic novel about the Iraq war which comes out next year. One side plot is about Bangalore being nuked by terrorists, and India weighing nuclear retaliation against Pakistan. There’s something deeply disturbing about the flippancy of the storyline about erasing the subcontinent’s cities.
Shooting War tracks hipster Jimmy Burns from the obscurity of video-blogging Brooklyn’s anticorporate beat… to his reluctant fame gained by vlogging an endlessly occupied Iraq for the Global News network… The multichapter online graphic novel by Anthony Lappé and Dan Goldman is set in a disturbingly plausible 2011: After a suitcase nuke explodes in Bangalore, U.S. president John McCain responds as a worldwide call-center disaster looms… [Link]
on Monday, October 30th, 2006, 8:36 pm in Comics, Military › 
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When NYC gets nuked it’s a remote possibility — AFAIK, NYC has been attacked only twice by int’l terrorists (excluding domestic movie theater bombings). Whereas India is attacked several times a year and is the #1 terrorist target in the world. Just a couple of days ago, Mysore was attacked, and the target was the Infosys campus.
The flippancy is about everyone in B’lore being killed, and the only impact being delayed customer service. Funny, but dickish.