Fritz Katzenjammer is sleeping with your wife!

[avram]

Cory Doctorow is raving about Warren Ellis’s spacewar comic Switchblade Honey:

[...] a savage and fast-moving space-opera that wins the prize just for having alien propagandists broadcasting messages like "WHILE YOU ARE OUT HERE FIGHTING IN VAIN YOUR CHILDREN ARE BEING ABUSED BY FAMOUS EARTH ACTORS LIKE BART SIMPSON" through the Terran fleet's warships.

I’d find that a lot funnier if I didn’t know exactly which urban legend from the first Gulf War Ellis was ripping off without so much as even bothering to update the cartoon character for the futuristic setting:

Baghdad Betty, a 1990's version of Tokyo Rose, is a product of the Iraqi propaganda machine and her radio broadcasts are supposed to demoralize the U.S. forces in the Saudi desert. In a recent broadcast, she reportedly said: "Why are you Americans here? Don't you know you will die in the desert? While you are here your wives and girlfriends are dating American movie stars . . . like Tom Selleck, Paul Newman and Bart Simpson."

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Bart Simpson

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OTOH, I expect Simpsons reruns might still be running in the far future.