Sunday, November 29, 2020

Billionaire Island

Billionaire IslandBillionaire Island by Mark Russell
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

When the word is going to hell in a handbasket, the wealthy elite build themselves a sanctuary to live it up in style and to keep out the have-nots, Freedom Unlimited, or Billionaire Island. But some less than wealthy people have found their way on the island with agendas of their own...

Mark Russell sucks the fun out of the wealthy elite in Billionaire Island with his Flintstones cohort Steve Pugh supplying the art. As usual, Russell brings the hard truth and it cuts like a knife. The billionaire class, wealth being conflated with worth, and people pretty much not caring who is in charge as long as someone is, are all skewered.

As with much of Russell's work, Billionaire Island is simultaneously thought provoking, hilarious, and deeply sad. Billionaires having the wealth to fix a lot of the world's ills but not wanting to, people blindly following misinformation, and corporate nonsense are all too real and Billionaire Island is an all too plausible way for the whole shithouse to go up in flames.

Billionaire Island is another sadly hilarious masterpiece from Mark Russell and Steve Pugh. 4.5 out of 5 stars.

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