"NPR interviewed a Trump voter in Georgia who said he thought the President was doing 'an A+ job.' When asked how his family was dealing with rising food prices, the man replied, 'My wife and I fast.' What’s the cure for this mass mesmerism? Trump’s like Fritz Lang’s Dr. Mabuse, without the medical degree."
--Jeffrey St. Clair, editor of COUNTERPUNCH, 5-20-26
My former Creative Writing instructor, Rachel Pollack (1945-2023), who was a multiple award-winning novelist and short story writer, once compared Donald Trump to her own Dr. Mabuse analog, Dr. Abuse, a mad villain she created for a wonderfully bizarre DC comic book called THE GEEK. In a 10-22-17 interview with NEWSARAMA, Rachel said, "Joe [Corallo] asked if we could do another revival of THE GEEK, and I immediately thought, like, Dr. Abuse has returned as Donald Trump. So after the first story, his essence is banished, so it floats around and settles in President Trump. I don’t know if they’d want to get that political, but I think that would be really fun."
You can read this entire interview by clicking right HERE.
I mention this merely as an excuse to plug one of my favorite DC comics of the 1990s, namely Rachel Pollack and Michael Allred's one-shot revival of THE GEEK (originally created by Joe Simon in 1968) in which a lightning-charged mannequin named Brother Power faces off against the psychological machinations of the insidious Dr. Abuse. You can find the comic book in a recent DC collection entitled DC PRIDE: A CELEBRATION OF RACHEL POLLACK.
Previous CryptoPosts about Rachel Pollack can be found HERE and HERE!
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