A Decade-Old Comic About a U.S. Invasion of Canada Is Booming in Popularity Again

While the United States and its northern neighbour managed to eventually pull back from the verge of anall - out craft warin just one of many unhinged moments in the first few weeks of thesecond Trump administrationso far , the sentiment of a potential , unprecedented conflict between America and Canada is suddenly on a lot of hoi polloi ’s mind . And to excise those thoughts , they ’re turning to a 2015 comic that explored incisively that .

A X agothis derive June – just week after Donald Trump had initially announced his candidacy in the 2016 presidential election – Image Comics releasedWe Stand on Guard , a six - issue miniseries fromSaga‘s Brian K. Vaughan andDoc Frankenstein‘s Steve Skroce . sic in a fictionalized 2124 , the series covered the wage hike of a Canadian resistance to a mechanized U.S. occupation of the country after a drone strike assassinated the U.S. president . While just 10 years ago the extrapolation may have looked like an outlandish imagining of potential U.S. and Canadian political sex act , in 2025 it ’s looking … well , still passably outlandish , but like it ’s scratch a nerve .

A nerve that seemingly has multitude reading . In the wake of the recent political upheaval ushered in by Trump ’s return to the White House , Image annunciate this cockcrow that in the last workweek , gross revenue of the series in roll up formats have exceeded prior sale of the series for the retiring yr , with hardcover collections ofWe Stand on Guardapproached a near sell out . “ Many of my gallant collaborations have been with Canadian Jehovah , and it was a particular quiver to finally work with legendary artist Steve Skroce , ” Vaughan sum up in a fresh - released statement . “ So I ’m grateful that referee have been revisit our nightmarish war story , which we desire remains fable . ”

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AsThe Beatreports , the genuine number paint an interesting watershed between U.S. and Canadian readers . On Amazon US , We Stand on Guard‘s collected editionranks at 19,856thamong all book sales as of authorship , rise up to second place in the dystopian graphic novels category , while in Canada the same editioncurrently ranks 1,084th , more or less down from a late high of 702nd . In Skroce ’s home nation , the Word of God is second in a number of categories on Amazon , including overall sci - fi graphical novel and , oddly enough , Canadian military account .

While Trump ’s bizarre calls for Canada tobecome the 51st statehave died down after a delay on the implementation of tariffs on goodness between the U.S. and Canada were put off on the eventide of their implementation , there is still peck of time for thing to heat up on the craft front again in the volatility of the current U.S. administration . stack of fourth dimension to get scan some comics , too , apparently .

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