25. Gilda And Meek "Who Framed Bernadette Anderson: Part One: Video Doesn't Lie" (Un-Iverse #38)

 Rated PG-13: Adult themes, bloody violence, and mild language. 

























































Gilda And Meek #25 "Who Framed Bernadette Anderson: Part One: Video Doesn't Lie" (Un-Iverse #38) 

"And in this administration, He answers to ME!" 

We'll talk about the mystery in the next part, but for me that line is the perfect distillation of Vic Puff and the perfect place for his arc to wind up. 

As a teenager, having him run for President, the wisenheimer in me had him put God as his running mate to show how Christians often say and do things that are unintentionally blasphemous. Vic not understanding God is not supporting him in the role of Vice-President, but that he's suggesting He's subordinate to him instead, was the smartass teenager in me speaking, who knew little about politics other than smartassery. 

But that line decades later, fell into place, and felt absolutely perfect and as if Vic's entire arc that I came up with as a teenager led perfectly to it. It's frightening how utterly perfectly it fits into both Vic's hubris and narcissism. And I talk shit about how Donald Trump ruined Vic Puff's intention of being the worst Republican who ever lived by being far worse in reality. But the truth is, that specific line plays now BECAUSE of Trump. If Trump never came along I might never have come up with it, because the story wouldn't have NEEDED it. The necessity of making Vic the single worst person who ever lived, even if only for a sentence, is the thing that created the line in the first place. 

Making the Unkie Matty story a tragic drama to explore the entire title's failings is an actual story failing. But take note, it's STILL the best of the Unkie Matty stories. By far. Even the shit in the saga that doesn't work at all still seems to work a LITTLE bit. Beyond all reason. 

Thing to watch out for: This story contains the single nerdiest Twin Peaks reference in the franchise's history. I will argue it's the nerdiest Twin Peaks reference in POP-CULTURE history too. You have to have been on the total fringe of that franchise, and to have read the tie-in book "Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier" by Mark Frost to have spotted it. Did you? If you did, and GOT it, it's freaking SUBLIME. That's a Dennis Miller ratio joke I feel absolutely no guilt over. 

Next Issue: Gilda and Meek #26 "Who Framed Bernadette Anderson: Part Two: Amalgamation" (Un-Iverse #39)

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