you are so good...

V.

"Papers Please"

By those expressions I would expect there is not even that little pretence of politeness...

"Your coat feels so nice".

Oh those waskally wabbits!

Small time power trips get much worse when the limits are removed from the authorities.

Good one. Situation is crystal clear, despite no word balloons.

Exactly!

What he said.

Those ILR checkpoint guys' version of Buckaroo Banzai's mantra: "No matter where you go, there they are."

I think I still have the Zho-Chaka supplement.

Not fun, being in enemy-controlled territory.

if I remember the story correctly, if you were a regular citizen and the ILR took your planet, you HAD to join them if you were a rabbit, (not sure if that meant all the different species of lepines, Flemish Giants or jackrabbits, for examples) or be shot as a traitor.

Just wonderful details, poses, gear and expressions.

The US, after a fashion, or any state toying with fascism.

Regarding that part, I always want to know this: Have you ever had any problems with the ILR serving as a stand-in for the U.S.? This would be very interesting to know, especially when the comic debuted in the 80s, considering the fact that you are an American and a former member of the American military, and very likely many people could had complained for comparing the U.S. with genocidal, racist rabbits, especially in the tail-end of the Cold War.

Oddly, the only complaint I ever got regarding the politics in Albedo was regarding the EDF. The complainer did not like that the EDF troops were not sufficently brutal thugs and quasi-Nazis. On the other hand, to be fair, it wasn't like I was shouting my political perspective from the rooftops, so it was not exactly obvious. At the same time, I suspect that many people (or at least those who'd read Albedo) do recognize that there can be a slippery slope from benign capitalism to aggressive fascism and the reduction of citizens to consumers can be a part of that. That period was also the time of post Iran-contra and a growing awareness that the US could and did do all manner of nasty stuff, directly or via proxies. My last years in the AF was in Germany, so the realities of international tensions were no longer an ocean away. I became a news junky to keep up on things and became aware of a lot of history as well. It is also when I became something of a social democrat. But not an ideologue, merely as a practical process to do the best for the people.

And the EDF also reflected my experiance in the AF. I too was a fresh young face, brimming with high ideals and wanting to make the world a better place (seriously. and still hold my oath of inlistment to be binding even now more than forty years on) and like Erma, found that an institution is only as good as the members therein. I was in organizations that were everything I expected as far as motivation and sense of mission, and snake pits of office politics and self-dealing, mission be damned.

Curiously enough, comparing "rabbits" with "Americans" is not a new thing: If I remember correctly (feel free to correct me otherwise) the USAF already used rabbits as part of the tail or nose art in their planes, especially in the WWII.

Also, at least in Japan, comparing Americans with rabbits is also very common, but this because in Japanese the word for rabbit is "usagi", which it also can be acronymed as "United States of America General Issue". This was used in the Japanese manga "Cat Shit One" (also named as "Apocalypse Meow" in the States), when the American soldiers are depicted as rabbits.

Choosing authoritarians as rabbits came from Watership Down with that nasty crowd

Pawsome!

I can see why your considered a legend, Mr. Gallacci. This just speaks, without words.

All citizens with a sense of paranoia or social anxiety should stay home today.