Raying: 3/5
What happens when we become so disenfranchised that we allow a teenager to be elected the president of the United States? This apparently. Beth Ross was a lowly worker at a corndog restaurant until a training video that she starred in went viral. A law allowing corporations citizenship also abolished the minimum age for elected office. So when the people can't decide between the candidates available, they make their own.
There is a lot of great stuff in here. It is scary how well the creators make this seem possible. The current political climate in the U.S. definitely plays a part in this. And Beth handles herself really well with the help of an ostracized senator that becomes her vice president. The way technology has grown and become integrated into everything is plausible. That is part of the driving force of the book, although it isn't really mentioned within the story.
The creators push their hand a little too much at some points. Playing the congressmen as having the personality of teenage girls for example. Don't get me wrong, it is funny, but not really what I was looking for in this book. The cat flu was ridiculous as well and didn't play quite as well as the bird flu in Chew. It didn't seem like it was affecting the nation that seriously to influence events of the story. Some more development of how things got to where they are could be useful.
This is a good alternative to all the superhero books that DC puts out. I would like to see the creators expand on some of their ideas in future portions of the series.
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