OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – Some Oklahoma County voters can expect to receive comic books in the mail soon, but the subject matter will have a serious tone.

The 16-page publication prepared by Commissioner Brent Rinehart’s re-election campaign lampoons gays and criticizes Rinehart’s political opponents. It also features an angel who supports the embattled commissioner and Satan, who supports his critics.

“It’s more or less a story of my experiences of the last four years of being the county commissioner of District 2,” Rinehart told The Oklahoman, which obtained the comic on July 16.

Toga-wearing gays, political figures, trench coat-clad henchmen, concerned residents and Rinehart make up the rest of the comic’s characters.

In one sequence, Satan says: “I can get the kids to believe homosexuality is normal!”

The angel replies: “Hey Satan, not with Brent around you won’t!”

Among those targeted by the comic are Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson and Sheriff John Whetsel.

Edmondson filed felony campaign finance charges against Rinehart last year, alleging Rinehart and his former campaign manager illegally funded his 2004 campaign for county commissioner. A trial has been scheduled for September.

“A drowning man tends to thrash about,” Edmondson said through a spokesman. “Nothing Rinehart says is worthy of comment or rebuttal.”

Whetsel called the book “extremely pathetic and very bigoted.

“I was taken back that in 2008, a candidate would use that type of inflammatory material and do it under the name of being a Christian.”

Whetsel is depicted on two pages. In one, a sequence alleging jailer abuse of inmates at the county jail is followed by Whetsel demanding taxpayer money so he can buy “more, more and more toys!”

Keith Gaddie, a University of Oklahoma political science professor, called the book “one of the strangest things” he’d ever seen.

“I’ve never seen a comic book with the phrase ‘anal sodomy’ in it before. That was a new one for me.”

Gaddie said comics were common political campaign tools decades ago, but not today.

“He’s pretty much grinding every ax he’s got from his days in the county commission,” Gaddie said. “In a way, it’s a sophisticated piece.”

The strip, which Rinehart said took him two months to write, opens with a proclamation that Rinehart is a Republican and Christian who stands up to “liberal good ol’ boys” at the county courthouse.

“I do not know who the good ol’ boys at the courthouse are,” said County Assessor Leonard Sullivan, a Republican who has had public disagreements with Rinehart.

“I’ve really encouraged him on more than one occasion to get professional help. He really needs it,” said Sullivan, who is not depicted in the comic.

In a scene from the book, five gay men hold up signs, one of which says “Jim Roth is our leader.”

Roth, who is gay, served with Rinehart as a commissioner and the two men often disagreed.

“It’s typical Brent Rinehart subterfuge to distract from his bad job performance and likely criminal misdeeds,” Roth, now a Corporation Commission member, said.