Limited edition 11x17" inkjet print. Signed & numbered by Michael Comeau.

Toronto-based zine and printmaker Michael Comeau’s Hellberta sees Canadian comics icon Wolverine return to his homeland of Alberta to face his greatest foe: Prime Minister Stephen Harper! Weapon X is recast as a messianic mutant out to revenge the destruction and ravaging of his home and native land. This satirical pastiche of politics, religion, comics, and exploitation films is a trenchant, and oftentimes hysterical, look at the current Canadian political landscape.

Winner of the Pigskin Peters Award, which recognizes the best of avant-garde or experimental comics, at the 2012 Doug Wright Awards. Jeet Heer, of the Wright Awards nominating committee which chooses the annual Pigskin Peters Award, described Hellberta as

“Many things — a pastiche of superhero comic, a political satire, a post-apocalyptic fable – all melded together to form a single nightmarish vision. Michael Comeau brings to this tradition an energetic line, a fertile imagination, and the courage to put his most outrageous ideas on paper.”