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New Comic Book on “Eco-terrorism” From Marvel Imprint

Aug 4th, 2007 by Will Potter

Burnout Marvel Eco-terrorismIt looks like Minx, a division of Marvel Comics, will be putting out a graphic novel on “eco-terrorism” shortly. There’s not much info about it available, except for a writeup at ComicBookResources.com:

“Burnout,” by author Rebecca Donner with art by Inaki Miranda is about Danni, a girl who moves to the Pacific-Northwest with her mom, her father having left the family years earlier. They move in with her mother’s new boyfriend and his son, who she develops a crush on. After following him, she discovers he’s involved in eco-terrorism.

“It’s a really amazing, smart, intense story of a young girl who has to choose between falling in love and getting involved in something that she knows is really illegal and how it’s going to change her life forever,” Bond said.

I think it’s fascinating how both mainstream and “alternative” media have had a field day with the “sexiness” of this issue (sneaking around at night, breaking the law… sex, love and balaclavas) but don’t want to take a look at how the “War on Terror” is being used to label property crimes as terrorism. Now, I have no idea which camp this comic book will be in: if it’s going to be some Green Scare style misinformation, or if Donner and Miranda are exploring the complexities of the issue.

But I can’t imagine it will be as absurd as that Law & Order episode where a federal informant was raped– yes, raped– by “eco-terrorists.”

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  • Kim
    You can't try to convince me that there isn't anything sexier than a balaclava... except a balaclava + camo pants.
  • i saw that L&O episode and thought it was quite possibly the best farce on nonviolent, monkeywrenching activists since Michael Crichton's [sic] book about how they try to destroy the human race. lol. Gotta love the producers and publishers that are so ignorant they allow this shit to air/get published. By the way, what are their names?
  • Hi Will,

    DC/Minx Comics had a podcast from SD ComicCon that has a short section about Burnout. This is pretty much word for word what ComicBookResources is quoting.

    The interesting part is that DC/Vertigo/Minx editor Shelly Bond calls what the boyfriend's son is involved in "monkeywrenching" and "eco-terrorism". It's funny how the word monkeywrenching gets dropped but not eco-terrorism.

    ICv2 has a different write up: "A moral dilemma is also at the heart of Burnout by Rebecca Donner (Sunset Terraces), the story of teenage girl who discovers that her older brother is an eco-saboteur, who spikes trees in order to prevent logging, a dangerous illegal activity that, in spite of its noble ends, can have profound and injurious consequences."

    Also Comicbookbin.com has even more:
    "Noted author Rebecca Donner (Sunset Terraces) was the literary director of the fiction series at New York’s KGB Bar. For her first graphic novel, she collaborates with Inaki Miranda, one of comics’ rising superstar artists (Fables; The Road to Paradise). In BURNOUT, Danni follows her older, mysterious, soon-to-be-stepbrother Haskell when he sneaks out of the house through his bedroom window and discovers his secret: Haskell is a monkeywrencher. Haskell, it turns out, spikes trees with the intent to stop corporations from what he reverently believes is mass ecological sabotage. It’s a dangerous, illicit activity and it brings the two teenagers together in surprising and dangerous ways. "

    Comic Book Bin
    http://www.comicbookbin.com/news1165.html

    ICv2
    http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/11027.html

    DC/Minx podcast:
    http://www.dccomics.com/media/podcasts/DCComics...
  • Tina
    I remember that Law&Order. But there was one where Olivia goes undercover for the FBI and is supposed to find out if any of the activists protesting a company that has been poisoning the water are responsible for killing the CEO. As it turns out, the activists aren't responsible. Turns out the CEO had a secret life as pedophile and had held a girl captive for years. The girl ended up killing him, if I remember correctly.

    It was really good episode because it showed how activists are abused by the police. Olivia ends up sticking up for the environmentalists. She particularly starts to get close to a couple of them and even sympathizes with the cause.
  • That Law and Order episode was in fact a small series of episodes, not just one. The story line continued for at least a couple shows.

    They didn't do a great job portraying activists as real people, but rape does happen in all kinds of groups, so we shouldn't pretend it doesn't.
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