Get Your War On was the hugely popular satirical clip-art comic strip laying into the War on Terror. Since the strip’s inception in 2001, the creator David Rees’s crisp dialogue, foul-mouthed office workers and scathing discussions of terrorism and politics have mercilessly derided the Government’s response to 9/11 (in particular, what it perceives to be the pitiful efforts in Afghanistan), achieving such internet popularity that they have been made into a book, and Rees has become a sometime blogger on the popular news website The Huffington Post.

“This War on Terror is gonna rule”, says one character in the first ever post. “I know”, says another. “Remember when the US had a drug problem and then we declared a war on drugs and now you can’t buy drugs anymore? It’ll be just like that!”.

And now it’s finally here in animated form. The first offering addresses the “terrorist watchlist”, which one character claims has more than a million people on it, mostly due to “data entry kerfuffles”. The sparse “set” and echoey sound makes everything rather cold and detached. If you have ever seen Richard Linklater’s film A Scanner Darkly, which actually does look at a society lost in a futile “war on drugs”, this has the same kind of disconnect – allowing us to laugh but never comfortably. Provocative stuff.

Chris Crocker is back. (Or did he never quite leave?) The youthful eye-liner-obsessed vlogger who shot to fame with his “Leave Britney Alone” video, in which he wept for people to let his favourite celebrity be, has now released a similar plea for Barack Obama: “All you people care about is getting votes and getting into office. He’s a HUMAN!” Crocker howls. We might be persuaded to feel sorry for Obama. But Crocker, a shameless self-publicist, with iTunes hits and allegedly a reality show on the way? That’s another story.

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