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November 14th 2007
by Grand Central Publishing
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Hardcover, 192 pages
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0446581208
(isbn13: 9780446581202)
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New York TimesFriday, August 12, 2011As Rating Nose Dive Blogger Comes Under FireDespite a new round of terror attacks on American soil and a tenfold ...more
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Indie blogger Jimmy Burns is first on the scene at a bombed out Starbucks and, thanks to the right-wing corporate media, becomes a star. Then he's off to Iraq to discover the truth and regain his soul. Along the way Jimmy has unfufilling sex with a writer from New York Magazine and pals around with a cartoon Dan Rather. What's not to like?
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This read a lot better when it was first serialized online.
In book form the technical and stylistic deficiencies in the art are hard to shake off.
In book form the technical and stylistic deficiencies in the art are hard to shake off.
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Read in July, 2008
(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com:]. I am the original author of this review, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted here illegally.)
So Chicagoans, did you know that our public library system is starting to make grown-up graphic novels more and more an acquisitional priority, based I guess primarily on customer suggestions? Here's one, for example, that I recently found on the "new" shelf of my own neighborhood libr...more
So Chicagoans, did you know that our public library system is starting to make grown-up graphic novels more and more an acquisitional priority, based I guess primarily on customer suggestions? Here's one, for example, that I recently found on the "new" shelf of my own neighborhood libr...more
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Read in November, 2007
recommends it for:
fans of V for Vendetta and good journalism
I read this book in one night, right after watching V for Vendetta for a 3rd time. Whereas V for Vendetta the movie takes places in a dystopian near future United Kingdom dominated by a fundamentalist Christian militant government, Shooting War is a graphic novel set in the very very near future, almost now, where John McCain is President, the war in Iraq continues and gets worse and worse, and American journalism continues its downward spiral into irrelevance. Beautifully illustrated, frighte...more
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Read in February, 2008
In a possible near future, a blogger becomes a celebrity when his live webcam captures a terrorist explosion at a Starbucks in Williamsburg. President McCain's son, a soldier, is captured in Iraq, where a full-fledged civil war spirals out of control. A bombing of a Mexican oil refineries threatens America's dependence on oil. Meanwhile the Great Wall of Texas continues to be built on the border. The blogger, hired by Lockheed Martin's new media company, is pressured to capture more exclusives l...more
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Read in August, 2008
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Coryrecommends it for: Elaine, Lindsay, "left-wingers"
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Read in January, 2008
Described by its makers as a work of political satire. Shooting War is a graphic novel form essay on a speculative near future of media monopoly and the ongoing war in Iraq. Blackly humorous and striking in its plausability. The events it portrays lie only a few years in our future... I'm rather morbidly curious to see how true they turn out to be. Sometimes artists can predict the future better than those who get paid to appear on news shows and try that game. The Ex have a lyric on an alb...more
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"While making a video for his anticorporate blog, rugged Jimmy Burns serendipitously films a terrorist bombing at a Brooklyn Starbucks. Hired by a sensationalistic cable-news network—"The terrorists don't sleep and neither do we"—he lands in Iraq, where President McCain is continuing the troop surge. Burns unwittingly publicizes a revenge beheading; befriends a sage, flak-jacketed Dan Rather; and dallies with online groupies. Goldman's desert-landscape screen-grabs and kinetic...more
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Read in April, 2006
I first read this when it was a serialized web comic. The story is a hauntingly realistic portrayal of the mess the US will be in through our continued occupation of foreign land. The graphics are fantastic and the ideas expressed even better. I can't wait for the next edition.
PS- I also like them because they linked back to my blog. Little things like that make me happy as a clam.
PPS- How happy are clams? How would one gauge their happiness? For that matter, how could you tell i...more
PS- I also like them because they linked back to my blog. Little things like that make me happy as a clam.
PPS- How happy are clams? How would one gauge their happiness? For that matter, how could you tell i...more
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Read in May, 2008
I found Shooting War to be a very entertaining read. Kind of scary near future foretelling of a possible President McCain and $150 a barrel oil. Pretty good since it was written about two years ago.
It tries to walk the balance between humor and some very serious subjects (war, murder, destruction) unsuccessfully at time which is why I gave it three stars. The biggest example of this was the "Sword of Mohammed" leader. I felt he was a little over the top.
It tries to walk the balance between humor and some very serious subjects (war, murder, destruction) unsuccessfully at time which is why I gave it three stars. The biggest example of this was the "Sword of Mohammed" leader. I felt he was a little over the top.
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Read in April, 2008
Story was super compelling, but the art was muddled and sometimes inconsistent which only really bothered me after I put the book down. Might have been more stars if it wasn't so darn focused on a hipster-y reader. I have to say the cover was super compelling though, even if I assumed the book was about a photographer rather than a video-blogger. The latter choice was much more original, as was this whole story.
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Read in June, 2008
Another kid book, grabbed from the 12yo. Purports to be political commentary on news media, Iraq, etc. Falls short, but not bad. Perhaps appropriate for the kid who checked it out from the library. A near future fantasy, President McCain, CNN is still CNN but Foxnews has morphed into the Global News Network. Photoillustration style employed at times is interesting.
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SHOOTING WAR has some faults, including a protaganist who is difficult to like. But it's been one of the few major comics to directly tackle modern politics and wars with a sense of extreme urgency. At times, SHOOTING WAR feels like it should be illegal in some counties and that's what makes it work.
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Read in November, 2007
recommends it for:
fans of graphic novels and/or political thrillers.
Great "twenty minutes into the future" story about a would-be radical vlogger who gets co-opted by the corporate media and dropped into Iraq, where he discovers that the network isn't the only entity with an agenda for exploiting him.
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Really cool art - all painted with a bunch of real photographs thrown in as well. Story was a little preachy and political for my tastes - it is an Iraq War protest, but was still was entertaining.
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Read in May, 2008
Thought provoking and a fascinating read. This would be a great suggestion for a teen getting interested in politics or anyone who thinks the US is bringing democracy to Iraq.
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Read in February, 2008
Amazing writing concept combined with an innovative art concept. It is set in the near future and there are many funny "what if" type moments in the book. More later...
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Read in February, 2008
I have a hard enough time understanding and coping with the real political situations in the world, let alone these satirical ones. Plus the art wasn't compelling.
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Read in September, 2008
recommended to Elaine by:
Alyssarecommends it for: Anyone who thinks war is necessary
Thanks Alyssa for recommending this one! I would describe it as a very creative, clever (and scary) what-if-McCain-is-elected-in-November Graphic Novel.
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Read in September, 2008
Eerily current. I liked the visual style as well, with its combination of photos and drawn art, faux web pages and news broadcasts and magazine articles.
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