* The Illinois Republican Party’s latest mailer is a cartoon. To see it, click here and here.

“Tax Man!” is the premise and the main character is, of course, the governor…

Repurpose this image to your heart’s desire.

       

118 Comments - THEGUN - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:04 pm: I don’t need any “stinkin” purple tie…. - Come on man! - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:05 pm: nah nah nah nah tax man! - Yellow Dog Democrat - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:06 pm: Backward Z-Man! Because reversing, A, H, I, M, O, T, U, V, W, X or Y seemed to easy. - AFSCME Steward - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:06 pm: Much better on the eyes than the Madigan ad. - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:06 pm: ILGOP - Dopes. “Caption?” “I like him without the cape…” - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:07 pm: “I am here to protect women from Bruce Rauner…” - Dirty Red - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:09 pm: - sal-says - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:10 pm: Apparently, both parties think that 6 year-olds are voting this year. - AFSCME Steward - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:10 pm: Faster Than A Sppeding Amtrack Train More Powerful Than an Assembly Veto Able to leap giant corn stalks in a single bound Look out in the field, it’s a pheasant is it wayward cow, no….ITs Soyboy - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:10 pm: “By day, he’s the mild-mannered Quinnocchio…” - AFSCME Steward - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:12 pm: Faster Than A Speding Amtrack Train More Powerful Than an Assembly Veto Able to leap giant corn stalks in a single bound Look out in the field, it’s a pheasant it’s wayward cow, no….ITs Soyboy Typos fixed - Norseman - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:12 pm: There he is, Night and Day Man - He’ll come and bore your enemies with a single hour long speech. He’ll change his positions with the flap of his cape. If you need him, simply take out your camera. Can be found anywhere except the Governor’s mansion. - RNUG - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:12 pm: BR on seeing this ad in print: I thought I was going to be on the flyer in a in red & blue with a $ and it was going to show my business success … - I'm New Here - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:13 pm: “Because he’s the hero Chicago deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we’ll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he’s not our hero. He’s a silent guardian. A watchful protector. A Dark Knight” - Casual observer - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:14 pm: Holy Equity! It’s the Tax Man, run for your lives. - PrairieFire - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:14 pm: I don’t know about a caption, but other than the tummy, he is looking mighty svelte. - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:14 pm: If Rauner loses, the Rauner Crew and the ILGOP can start a comic book company named Rinophant Comics Bruce could help with seed money… - CircularFiringSquad - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:15 pm: And many said the GOPies could not be dumber that the Billboards and Fire Madigan signs…. looks like you were wrong - Teddy Salad - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:16 pm: Seriously? Somebody trying to convince voters he would be a better choice for Governor using this stupid, childish, 2nd grade playground tactic? Who is running the BR campaign, Harold & Kumar? - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:16 pm: “We only spent $10K and 30 hours from concept to this drawing… …GOTV can wait, look at the boots!” - Well then - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:17 pm: Is it time to make the river green? - RNUG - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:17 pm: Kind of looks like a cross between The Hulk and one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - ~pfft - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:18 pm: Compared to Squeezy this is almost - flattering. - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:19 pm: “Brad Pitt will voice this one, and Will Ferrell will voice the Rauner character….” I’ve seen that movie, thanks. - RNUG - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:19 pm: ‘Stealthman’ - flying under the radar and creeping up on the bad guys - D.P.Gumby - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:19 pm: If they are going to go to all that trouble can they at least find a head that fits the body proportionately and at the correct angle. This mash-up just looks like a first grade classroom project. Sheesh. - Anonymous - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:20 pm: mighty quinn - Amalia - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:21 pm: the image itself looks too buff and in charge for their purposes! this could actually be spun positively. - Lunchbox - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:21 pm: Is NRI his cryptonite? - unclesam - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:22 pm: (Not pictured): The nemesis of Tax Man…Loophole! (Rauner in one of two costumes…satire of Penguin or Riddler). - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:22 pm: “If we take time away from GOTV, we can do a clay-mation movie!” - Wensicia - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:23 pm: Quinn: “I like it, makes me look commanding, in charge, though the suit should be purple.” - AFSCME Steward - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:23 pm: After a disappointing showing in last night’s event, Pat Quinn steps into a phone booth and emerges as “Debate Man”. - Anonymous - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:23 pm: zbart endorsement - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:25 pm: “We start with lunch boxes and coloring books, the election can wait…” - MrJM (@MisterJayEm) - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:25 pm: Look at what’s happened to me, I can’t believe it myself. Suddenly I’m up on top of the world, It should’ve been somebody else. Believe it or not, I’m walking on air. I never thought I could feel so freeEEEeee Flying away on a wing and a prayer. Who could it be? Believe it or not it’s just me. – MrJM - Anonymous - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:26 pm: medical marijuana tax stamp - A guy... - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:27 pm: NOT faster than a speeding bullet and we continue to have a shameful murder rate to prove it. - Anonymous - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:29 pm: zillionaire - A guy... - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:30 pm: “I’m not sure if I trust this cape to help me fly. Let’s jump off a shed to test it”. - walker - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:30 pm: Where’s his green boa? - anonymoose - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:31 pm: Who’s the leader of the club who taxes you and me? G-O-V’- N-O-R Q-U-I-N-N Oh, wait, wrong cartoon studio…. - Team Sleep - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:31 pm: His smirk…good grief… - I B Strapped - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:35 pm: Sorry GOP, NOT Tax Man but Testosterone Man! - northernwatersports - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:35 pm: The Govenator looks 20 years younger!! But where (or who?) is his trusty sidekick? - I B Strapped - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:36 pm: I am Squeezy’s worst nightmare! - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:37 pm: “We can print more on the other side of the “Fire Madigan” signs…” - courtsplus - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:38 pm: Not the first ‘Superzero’ of the cycle. Don’t forget The Gaffeman. http://www.gaffeman.com - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:39 pm: “Ok, next question, are you more or less likely to vote for a candidate that is made to be a cartoon WITH a cape… Are you more or less likely to vote for a candidate with a Utility Belt…” - B4L - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:39 pm: I don’t really like the way he’s looking at me… - bored now - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:40 pm: well, if you’re not willing to fire everybody you possibly can, you have to have revenues. you’d think someone who claims his business experience is the reason he should be governor would understand this. so, yeah, governments need revenues (taxes). to, you know, protect citizens against things like ebola… - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:40 pm: “On the bright side we sent it bulk mail…” - West Sider - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:41 pm: When budgethey math and GOTV (thanks OW) are too hard for Rauneroots it’s….. TAXMAN to the rescue!!! (I must say, campaigns are good for the Governor- I’ve never seen Quinn more fit ) - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:43 pm: “Yeah, we tried to think of Rauner successes, we got to a- doodlin’, came up with this instead” - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:45 pm: “Bruce don’t care, it’s only money, keep brainstorming…” - RNUG - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:46 pm: PQ: I look good in this ad. Much better than if they had dressed me in a Zoot Suit … - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:50 pm: “No, no, NO! It doesn’t have to be a ‘good’ idea, it need to be a ‘billable’ idea! And don’t forget the invoice.” - low level - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:50 pm: IL GOP HQ- Hehehe — snort “oh man we are sooo clever”!!! - Anonymoiis - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:52 pm: “Why, yes, this suit was white when I first wore it. Why do you ask?” - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:55 pm: “Wow. Ever since Peggy and Don left the Firm, Roger can’t get any good ‘creative’ out of his shop…” - Former Titan - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 3:57 pm: Hans and Franz did not return multiple phone calls and emails seeking comment. - Mason born - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 4:01 pm: The most Fit Pat Quinn has looked in 25 years. Quinn finally looks like he could lead a sick horse to water. - too obvious - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 4:02 pm: Disturbingly awful. And yet some Republicans will wonder why November was yet another disappointment in IL. - Skeptic - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 4:03 pm: “Check out *this* body language!” - Levi - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 4:03 pm: I’ve always thought Pat Quinn’s wide-eyed, earnest goofiness was a lot like Luca Brazzi in the first Godfather, when he said, “And may your first child…be a masculine child.” This super-hero motif is new. - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 4:05 pm: (*NOT* AWillyWord Con$ulting) - the koala - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 4:12 pm: any stranger than fiction fans out there? - Tim Snopes - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 4:17 pm: All of this mean-spiritedness and Quinn-bashing by Rauner and the GOP are going to backfire. Just sayin. - anon - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 4:18 pm: Actually, Quinn looks cute in green tights. Awww! - JS Mill - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 4:19 pm: Medical Marijuana Man is here to cool everyone out! - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 4:22 pm: “I think I saw this comic book in the movie ‘Clerks’…” - Bigtwich - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 4:23 pm: Let me tell you how it will be There’s one for you, nineteen for me Cos I’m the taxman, yeah, I’m the taxman Should five per cent appear too small Be thankful I don’t take it all Cos I’m the taxman, yeah I’m the taxman - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 4:28 pm: (snicker-snicker) “Wonder what all the Union people are doing…not having fun! Color the costume green…” - Buzz Fugazi - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 4:29 pm: I think Tax Man is powerless against Baron Von Carhartt’s Bust Out Scheme. - 47th Ward - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 4:32 pm: The Illinois Republican Party finally has some cash in its coffers and this is how they spend it? Brilliant. - Buzz Fugazi - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 4:33 pm: Sorry, that was an editorial remark. Here’s a caption: “Step away from the Eurovan, you fiend!” - Arthur Andersen - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 4:35 pm: PQ must have been wearing this costume under his suit during the debate last night. That would explain the “wedgie” look on his face. - Buzz Fugazi - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 4:37 pm: “No, Bruce, that is not a prarie chicken in my pants, and I am not happy to see you.” - vole - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 4:38 pm: Butch Quinn AKA Bruce Ruiner - Buzz Fugazi - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 4:38 pm: *prairie - Judgment Day - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 4:48 pm: Ok, why are we running eye tests on Capitol Fax? Is the goal to create more work for ophthalmologists (eye disease) here in Illinois? - Anonymous - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 4:50 pm: the 60 million dollar man`s arch enemy - Judgment Day - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 4:53 pm: “Can leap over tall buildings with a sin….SPLAT!” Oh, that’s going to leave a mark…. - Anonymous - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 4:54 pm: trick or treat - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 4:58 pm: “So we tell Bruce, ‘George Lucas made his money off merchandising’ and we showed him this. We need 50,000 units, preferably before the holidays….no, campaign, ’shampaign’ this is real money here.” - Judgment Day - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 5:00 pm: “trick or treat” ———————- Please, not Halloween. Think of the children! - Anonymous - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 5:02 pm: teflon gov. - Anonymous - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 5:07 pm: tax the rich feed the poor till there are no poor no more - Arthur Andersen - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 5:10 pm: “I’m Soy Boy the Tax Slayer! With my faithful sidekick Squeezy the Pension Python, we wreak havoc across the Land of Lincoln!” - Anonymous - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 5:10 pm: go tagless - Jimmy - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 5:19 pm: Don’t me unravel Squeezie. - Blazer - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 5:19 pm: Once again, the ILGOP make Pat Quinn look the best he has in years… - Anonymous - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 5:22 pm: lucha libra - Wordslinger - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 5:26 pm: That’s a good look for Quinn. Shouldnt it be negative? - Mighty M. Mouse - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 5:35 pm: If I’m the worst governor in America and I kick Rauner’s rear from here to Timbuktu on Nov. 4th, then he HAS to be the worst candidate in America! - Cheryl44 - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 5:43 pm: More proof the ILGOP has no one with any computer skills. - Insideout - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 5:45 pm: This ad is as stupid as Bruce Rauner — wasting 31 million and not being able to defeat the worst governor in America. - low level - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 5:52 pm: OW - the 50,000 units and merchandising. Yes. I got a guy is China too. Tell Bruce no way we make these anyplace where unions are within 1,000 miles of the boarder. - railrat - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 5:53 pm: the costume of a 2014 anarchist - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 6:01 pm: “The Big Flop Theory” 100… Well done ILGOP. - low level -, You are on the right outsourcing track. - Senator Clay Davis - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 6:06 pm: Since it kinda looks like Vigo the Carpathian…. “Only a *Carpathian* would come back to life now and choose Illinois! Tasty pick, bonehead! If you had brain one in that huge melon on top of your neck, you would be living the sweet life out in Southern California’s beautiful San Fernando Valley!” http://bit.ly/1tuIYLR - Wordslinger - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 6:09 pm: Raillrat, I see the school system failed you. Slow down, dude, only Wednesday. - FormerParatrooper - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 6:30 pm: That is disturbing on many levels… I only wish I could unsee that. The visual is as disturbing as the thought someone in the ILGOP thought this was a good idea in an election. I am beginning to wonder if Rauner is in this to help PQ keep office and not have to face a real opponent. - Anonymous - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 6:32 pm: gold gym graduate - railrat - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 6:37 pm: Mr. Mssr. Ms. Mrs.whatever “Slinger”; spell check for response? school failure ?lol sorry trivial and dumb like “slow down dude” come on your so much better than that. - Anonymous - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 6:39 pm: by the power of numskull - zatoichi - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 7:01 pm: What a cheezy cut out concept. At least do a Jack Kirby action shot. - Anonymous - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 7:40 pm: defender of the 99.99% - Empty Suit - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 7:51 pm: “The Beatles Taxman? Yes it was me I mean I” - Anonymous - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 8:16 pm: what happen to squezy the snake his sidekick - Ginhouse Tommy - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 8:16 pm: Lucha libre indeed. You night expect to see him on Smackdown. Even in a cartoon he has a beer gut. New name for our Gov. How “The Green Beefcake” flies again for truth, justice and a possible income tax hike. At least we have something to laugh about that Bruce Rauner’s campaign goofed on. Well it is almost Halloween. - Just the Way It Is One - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 8:33 pm: Just too ridiculous-looking to comment seriously on or really even try to be funny about. Ha ha. They couldn’t do better than THAT…?! - Ginhouse Tommy - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 9:04 pm: Empty Suit That’s right “don’t ask me what I want it for, if you don’t want to pay some more” You can thank George Harrison for that. - PSmyth - Wednesday, Oct 15, 14 @ 10:36 pm: Quinn to MJM: At least they made me a man! - SamHall - Thursday, Oct 16, 14 @ 12:09 am: Caption: Boxers or briefs? - Lt. Guv - Thursday, Oct 16, 14 @ 4:15 am: Republicans continue to think like everyone else is a Republican. It’s their on-going weakness. - Del Clinkton - Thursday, Oct 16, 14 @ 7:54 am: Bruce has openly said that taxes are going up if he gets elected. - Earnest - Thursday, Oct 16, 14 @ 8:08 am: This probably says more about me than the ad, but this is the coolest anyone has ever made Pat Quinn look! Love the costume and not an awful face shot put in there. Not snark–I’ve always loved comic books and graphic novels. Sorry, comments for this post are now closed.