{"id":349,"date":"2006-07-14T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-14T22:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/?p=349"},"modified":"2006-07-14T16:40:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-14T22:40:00","slug":"shooting-war-a-free-graphic-novel-in-weekly-instalments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/shooting-war-a-free-graphic-novel-in-weekly-instalments\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting War: a free graphic novel in weekly instalments"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\t\t\t<\/a> \t\t\tChapter 1: \u201cBoom\u201d<\/a><\/h2>\n

Hokay. Don’t miss this one. Click now and be prepared to spend a fair amount of time rivetted to your screen. Cos this is THE new graphic novel.<\/p>\n

Several great things about it.<\/p>\n

(1) It’s set in 2011, in a ‘future’ VERY similar to the one George W. Bush seems intent on creating for us right now.<\/p>\n

(2) There’s a hardbitten realism to this that suggests that the writer and artist have done a ton of research into what’s ACTUALLY going on in the Middle East today.<\/p>\n

(3) The world they posit is technologically probable. The hero of the piece is a video blogger who happens to be in the right place at the right time. He becomes a media hit when he accidentally videos a bombing on his cellphone. This is really where we’re headed.<\/p>\n

(4) The artwork is nothing short of stupendous. They’re marrying hyper-saturated photography with dirty, super-duper illustration. You’re IN this world with these characters.<\/p>\n

(5) Throw in the fact that it’s being released chapter by chapter every week, with a possible love-story in-the-making, and that the whole thing is free… what more could ya ask for?<\/p>\n

Stop reading my review. And go and treat yourself to a thought-provoking look at the politics of violence in Shooting War<\/a>, written by Anthony Lapp\u00e9 and  illustrated by Dan Goldman.<\/p>\n

Roy Blumenthal is a writer, director, artist, and visual facilitator<\/a>. Hire him to make pictures of your meetings or workshops.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chapter 1: \u201cBoom\u201d Hokay. Don’t miss this one. Click now and be prepared to spend a fair amount of time rivetted to your screen. Cos this is THE new graphic novel. Several great things about it. (1) It’s set in …<\/p>\n

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