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Unlike fellow war reporters Ted Rall and Joe Sacco, who are also cartoonists, Axe collaborates with a different artist on each of his comics projects. Hamilton may be the best he has ever worked with. The story is bigger than before, as well. It began in the 1980s when erstwhile altar boy Joseph Kony turned his own religious movement into the Lord’s Resistance Army, vicious guerrillas roaming central Africa, sadistically destroying whole villages and kidnapping children to make them soldiers after sexually abusing them. Though greatly reduced in numbers, the Army is still rampant. In the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2010, Axe interviewed a young teacher, two priests, and a 13-year-old girl who escaped the LRA. Axe tells those informants’ stories, sketches Kony and his band, and describes the recently more organized—thanks to U.S. technical aid pushed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton—hunt for Kony, as well as the somewhat unstable state of that effort in 2012. Hamilton’s assured and detailed black-and-white brushwork art impressively maintains a serious, even dark atmosphere throughout. --Ray Olson
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“The artistic rendering of rape and slaughter is as powerful as it is horrific, and the narrative hits hardest on an individual, human level in the chapter about a young girl, kidnapped by the LRA and forced into “marriage,” and the ongoing trauma after she was rescued at age 13.”
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“Axe…sketches Kony and his band, and describes the recently more organized—thanks to U.S. technical aid pushed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton—hunt for Kony, as well as the somewhat unstable state of that effort in 2012. Hamilton’s assured and detailed black-and white-brushwork art impressively maintains a serious, even dark atmosphere throughout.”
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”Axe’s telling, in the introductory essay as well as in the comics portion, is uncompromising, and Army of God calls for a commitment on behalf of the reader… Army of God‘s silhouettes and shadowing… keep the blunt nightmare in focus while offering Hamilton an opportunity to exercise tactful restraint in the account’s more disturbing depictions.”
Metro (UK)
"Immediate and intimate… An invaluable guidebook to the conflict for the many millions who've so far viewed the Jason Russell documentary Kony 2012 on YouTube."
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Gordon McAlpin
on March 8, 2013
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The information in this book is important and harrowing, of course, and the artwork is wonderful, but the scripts never get the reader inside the heads of the participants or give us any insight into the lived experience of these horrific events. Frequently the subjects even go unnamed (though a few are identified in a "Dramatis Personae" section -- in the back of the book), as if their identities are unimportant details. We are passive, distant observers; we are not THERE. We don't get the survivors' perspective at all. What is the point of using the comic book medium, if not to take advantage of the immediacy it gives you?
Ultimately, Army of God is a decent collection of anecdotes, rotely adapted into comics. Axe's approach fails to take advantage of the medium in any conceivably way; the pictures add nothing to Axe's perspective, and worse, Axe's chosen perspective adds nothing to the story he is telling. Why is it a comic at all? Sacco's work feels like several hundred of page of research distilled into a couple hundred pages -- the pictures provide volumes of information, and it's all from a perspective you can't get anywhere else: that of the people the events of each of his books have affected most. This book feels like a magazine feature padded up to 100 pages. It's not that he isn't Joe Sacco, or that he isn't writing enough like Joe Sacco; Axe is just not telling this story in a compelling way. He may be a great journalist, but he is not a good comics writer.
Ultimately, Army of God is a decent collection of anecdotes, rotely adapted into comics. Axe's approach fails to take advantage of the medium in any conceivably way; the pictures add nothing to Axe's perspective, and worse, Axe's chosen perspective adds nothing to the story he is telling. Why is it a comic at all? Sacco's work feels like several hundred of page of research distilled into a couple hundred pages -- the pictures provide volumes of information, and it's all from a perspective you can't get anywhere else: that of the people the events of each of his books have affected most. This book feels like a magazine feature padded up to 100 pages. It's not that he isn't Joe Sacco, or that he isn't writing enough like Joe Sacco; Axe is just not telling this story in a compelling way. He may be a great journalist, but he is not a good comics writer.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Timothy R. Shaw
on April 14, 2013
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For some reason the Kindle version of this graphic novel does not allow you to zoom into the book. The text is too small to read, so the entire purchase is a waste of time.
This rating is for the Kindle version rather than the content of the book. I cannot read it to provide a judgement.
This rating is for the Kindle version rather than the content of the book. I cannot read it to provide a judgement.
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on May 29, 2014
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I didn't realize it was a comic book. I really wanted to learn more about this "son of a ___" but didn't enjoy the format.
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