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Calexit is a comic book written by Matteo Pizzolo and illustrated by artist Amancay Nahuelpan and published by Black Mask Studios.

20 Minutes into the Future, a fascist, autocratic President took over the United States. The people of California do not like this and decide to secede from the union. Chaos ensues.

Not to be confused with the book series Calexit; the comic takes a different tone, approach and political view to the possibility.

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  • Bad People Abuse Animals: Jamil's first on-screen customer was a soldier that recounts how his sister's ex spitefully poisoned their hummingbird feeder and had to watch the birds die.
  • Divided States of America: California has officially seceded from the Union, and the far-right government does not want others to follow suit.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones:
    • Rossie has a wife and kids.
    • Crowbar is genuinely saddened by the death of Eddie and confides in his girlfriend.
  • Dumb Muscle: Robo, part of the Bunkerville militia, is Crowbar's second-in-command.
  • Finger in the Mail: Rossie sends the head of Zora's father to their neighbor, a resistance sympathizer.
  • Handicapped Badass: Zora has a prosthetic leg.
  • La RĂ©sistance: California has seceded, but the federal government won't let it go without a fight. So the citizens respond in kind.
  • Malicious Misnaming: Zora McNulty was adopted at a young age by US citizens but Rossie refuses to acknowledge it and insists on calling her Zora Donato.
  • No Celebrities Were Harmed: The US President is clearly based on Donald Trump and Eddie, the leader of a skinhead militia, bears a strong resemblance to Steve Bannon.
  • Not in This for Your Revolution: Jamil helps transport Zora to her training camp but insists on remaining neutral.
  • Pretend Prejudice: Rossie works with skinheads and is implied to recruit kids to join them but he has a Latina wife.
  • Punch-Clock Villain: Rossie tortures and murders dissidents and then goes home to his loving family at the end of the day and cries about how horrible his job is.
  • Reassigned to Antarctica: Zora is sent to a "training camp" after she started a gunfight with Rossie and his greenshirts which resulted in several casualties on both sides and Rossie still alive.
  • Ripped from the Headlines: Besides the president being clearly modeled after Donald Trump, there's also showings of anti-immigration and anti-refugee sentiment (along with general xenophobia), the controversy over "sanctuary cities", and violent protests.
  • Robot Buddy: Jamil has Livermore, a modified drone that resembles a bird.
  • Sinister Minister: Father Rossie
  • Took a Level in Badass: At the prologue of Issue #1, Zora is running scared. At the end of the issue, after some time has passed, she's become a fierce gun-toting member of the resistance.
  • You Have Failed Me: Rossie kills Eddie and replaces him with Crowbar because it was his plan that led to the massacre of several greenshirts. Rossie then threatens to kill Crowbar and replace him with Robo if he fails to capture Zora.

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