"Citizen Jack" Volume 1 is a Trump-esque political satire in its ambitions and tone

Jack Northworthy is a slob, and a drunk.  He's often found in bed with random women, cursing up a storm, all the while running his snowplow business into the ground and fighting his ex-wife about finalizing their divorce.  Without any charm or charisma, he agrees to run for office as a candidate for the President of the United States, and he wouldn't have a snowball's chance in hell if not for his friend, Marlinspike.  Marlinspike is a sort of a demon, or a devil, or what have you, and after Northworthy signs his soul away to him, he only has one way to go.  But at what cost?

Writer Sam Humphries and artist Tommy Patterson create a dark satire that is scarily in sync with the current presidential election (you can probably figure out which candidate I'm talking about).   In this first volume of Citizen Jack, their vision is so prophetic that one would think it's loosely based on the current Republican Presidential nominee.  Whether Northworthy is swearing and screaming at random people he encounters, using his lame catchphrase ("Get Jacked!") or ordering his two wolf-like dogs to devour his own father, he comes across as a lost soul, an angel so fallen below the  absolute bottom that one wonders what the hell his manager, Donna Forsyth, sees in him and his campaign in the first place.  The man is not only not suited to run a country, but upon a closer look it's apparent he belongs in a rehab for loud, obnoxious, murderous drunks, if such a thing existed.

Part The Simpsons' Mayor Quimby - with a touch of vulgarity and sliminess all his own - and part the current Republican nominee that's been offending the left as much as he's been charming the right, Jack Northworthy is a fitting modern politician for this particular election, a man whose soul has turned so dark that very few redeeming qualities remain on his corrupt and vile heart.  I couldn't help but wonder who the real monster here really is: Marlinspike, that treacherous and demonic being who's ingratiated himself so deeply in Northworthy's conscience that he has him jumping through hoops, or Jack himself.  The answer to that question is the very genius of Citizen Jack.
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