Maureen Dowd Comic Book... At Last

Most of the time, when you think of New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, thoughts like "dated pop-culture references, retrograde view of gender relations, Gore-Bush hysteria, conflation of Republicans with 'Daddy,' repetition, laziness," come immediately to mind. What doesn't tend to surface in the conscious mind is "scantily-clad comic book vixen-heroine." But that's about to change!

Comic Book Resources brings the world word of this new offering from Benjamin Marra -- pulp artist extraordinaire and founder of Traditional Comics -- titled "The Incredibly Fantastic Adventures of Maureen Dowd." It lies at the nexus of the delightful and the disturbing, and I mean that in the best possible way.

[Yes, this is a thing that is happening in our lives.]

Told in Marra's inimitable, po-faced '80s-trash throwback style, TIFAoMD's preview pages show Dowd -- winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary and recently named the eighth-biggest hack in journalism by Salon's Alex Pareene -- lounging in lingerie, battling burglars, flirting with fellow Times columnist Tom Friedman, and trying to blow the lid off the Valerie Plame scandal before her big date with George Clooney. And for a political junkie like me, it's basically heaven.

We basically cannot go on with our lives without seeing Thomas Friedman depicted in comic-book form, so here you go:

[Hot, flat, crowded.]

Guaranteed to give you either the night-terrors or the night-something-else-I'd-prefer-you-kept-to-yourselves, "The Incredibly Fantastic Adventures of Maureen Dowd" is available for a recession-friendly price of $3. A preview is available here.

[H/T: Daily Intel]

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Comments

[Imzadi]

07:02 AM on 12/07/2010

They should have illustrated her sh00ting from the lip, not the hip...

[Dr Jimmy and Mr Jim]

11:30 PM on 12/04/2010

Maureen Dowd once said in a Vanity Fair article that she knew Al Gore never said the things that the press bashed him about mercilessly, (inventing the internet, Love Story really about him and his wife, etc.) Those comments were ALL taken out of context to wreck Al's reputation. Dowd knew these things weren't true, but said she went along with them and joined in the Gore Bashing because it was the popular thing to do.

In many ways, we have Dowd to thank for the GW Bush Administration.

Thanks, Maureen. Journalism today, sad, sad, sad, sad....

[Slash14]

05:57 AM on 12/05/2010

Matbe because gore is a D- B@G

[ElBruce]

07:00 PM on 12/05/2010

Nope. He's not.

[jagdey]

08:36 AM on 12/06/2010

And Cheney's your hero?

[glockman]

05:59 PM on 12/04/2010

From whom does she plagiarize her powers?

[loki]

05:00 AM on 12/04/2010

Personally, if I were her, I would have held out for a real comic artist.

[mutton]

09:57 AM on 12/06/2010

Yeah, that's the only problem I see - the art is not very good.

[sqeptiq]

08:22 PM on 12/03/2010

With Bob Novak as a villain, the Prince of Darkness.

[mackbolan]

05:09 AM on 12/03/2010

she looks good holding a gun....

[Tresco]

11:05 PM on 12/05/2010

With her left hand. What's up with that?

[Lorraine Roe]

01:11 AM on 12/03/2010

Wow! I love it!

[joedawg88]

02:15 PM on 12/02/2010

Somebody's bitter, and it isn't MoDo.

[DougSeelye]

11:03 AM on 12/02/2010

Buy it? Freakin SUBSCRIBE, man!

[Hopalongpoppyseed]

11:00 AM on 12/02/2010

I think I'll get a few for Xmas presents.

[Gamescook]

12:31 AM on 12/02/2010

WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOUR FACE!?

[hmmmmmer]

10:46 PM on 12/01/2010

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

[jhank]

10:46 PM on 12/01/2010

I am really surprised by the profussion of haters responding to this story. Guess sassy and snarky only makes you sexy if you're an insipid momma grizzly. Being bright and a feminsit is elitist and emasculating? Quite sad.

[mojo filter]

10:31 PM on 12/01/2010

Very disrespectful way to treat such a fine journalist. Remember all the brilliant insights she had about Al Gore's "earth tones" during the 2000 election?

[Zweiback]

05:17 PM on 12/01/2010

Look! Up in the sky! It's a cultural commentator! It's a sexy columnist!
No...wait...it's The Plagiarist!