Comics Review: Ted Rall’s “2024”

2024 is often-controversial political cartoonist Ted Rall’s take on George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel, 1984. Rall’s version, of course, is updated to fit its own time, so the danger is morphed to focus more on postmodern relativism, Gen X cynicism, deregulation, and securitization.

While it is interesting to see how close Rall manages to stick to the source material’s narrative and thematic structures, there is not all that much to say about the book. It is pretty heavy-handed, lacking...