# Bonus - The War on Terror Comes to Comics w/ Spencer Ackerman (Preview)

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Podcast: [American Prestige](https://stenobird.com/podcast/american-prestige-4093863)
Published: 2026-09-15T09:00:00+00:00
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Duration seconds: 625

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Subscribe now for the full episode. Spencer Ackerman, writer of the Forever Wars newsletter and author of Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America, returns to the program to talk about his upcoming political comic book No One Escapes the Dialectic and the state of the comic book industry. The discussion covers labor in comic publishing, the direct market and consignment system, independent publishers like Image and Boom Studios, the plot and characters of the book, the purge of the military under Pete Hegseth, and ICE and CBP’s role in immigration enforcement.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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