Spider Jerusalem's bitter, hostile life continues in Year of the Bastard. As a writer who can only write when enraged, Spider is in trouble. Not only is he running out of things he hates with the city, but people are starting to like him, even emulating him and Spider cannot stand it. He hates being liked and cannot stand being copied. So he does the only thing he can think of to escape and not care, lots and lots of drugs. Unfortunately for him lots of drugs cost money and prevent him from meeting his publishing deadlines. This leave Spider with only one option left, politics. If anything can throw him into a rage long enough to bang out a column it is the campaigning race of the Opposition party. Here there are two candidates competing to see who gets to face the incumbent know as "the Beast". This book is likely offensive to the majority of people in the world as Ellis does not hold back and certainly pushes the boundary of what can be published. There are all sorts of despicable acts either mentioned or seen in this graphic novel, most of them perpetrated by Spider himself. Though I suppose if you can make it past all of the fecal humor and drug abuse there might be a lesson about politics.
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