Concrete Volume 5: Think Like A Mountain [Paperback]

Paul Chadwick (Author, Artist)

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Series: Concrete | Publication Date: June 6, 2006

Celebrity has its benefits... and its costs. Due to his status as the world's most unusual travel writer - being a thousand pounds of walking, talking rock will do that - Concrete is approached by a group of radical eco-warriors to see firsthand and write about their efforts to save old-growth forest. What begins as a lark soon turns into a harrowing struggle, and Concrete must decide whether to dispassionately observe or to join these people who would risk anything, even life itself, to save the planet. Called "the best comic being published by anyone, anywhere," Paul Chadwick's critically acclaimed Concrete is at once rousing fantasy and grounded reality, as thought-provoking and challenging as it is entertaining. Think Like a Mountain collects the 1996 Parents' Choice Award winning series along with bonus short stories, some collected here for the first time.

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Once again, Chadwick uses Concrete, a compassionate man whose intelligence has been transplanted into a towering, granitelike body with heightened strength and senses, to express a deeply held view on a pressing issue. In the story arc here, Concrete falls in with radical environmentalists seeking to win him to their side to save an old-growth forest. Initially observing from the fringes, Concrete struggles with his conscience, but exposure to the environmental defilement gradually convinces him to take an active role. The arboreal setting gives Chadwick the chance to show off his carefully wrought line work. Two-page spreads depicting, respectively, the remnants of a clear-cut forest and an abandoned drift net containing the carcasses of trapped sea animals are powerful. Chadwick's sympathies are evident, yet he gives the opposing viewpoint a fair hearing, and Concrete's ongoing skepticism helps keep the tale from preachiness, unlike, unfortunately, several ecologically oriented short pieces that round out the volume. Those are illustrated lectures, essentially, like the recent film An Inconvenient Truth. Gordon Flagg
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Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Dark Horse (June 6, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1593075596
• ISBN-13: 978-1593075590
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #634,688 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Another Great Collection, June 8, 2008

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Shane White (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Concrete Volume 5: Think Like A Mountain (Paperback)

Paul is flawless in his execution of the thought-provoking life of Concrete. He weaves his tale and makes you always think about the life you lead. The best stories are the ones that stay with you and cause you to think time and again.

This is no exception.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Chadwick's masterpiece, August 29, 2009

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This review is from: Concrete Volume 5: Think Like A Mountain (Paperback)

This is the most well regarded (and well known) of the Concrete stories, even by Chadwick himself.

Think Like a Mountain has Concrete fall in with a group of Earth First! enviromental activists in their attempt to save an old growth forest from logging. One of the strengths of this book is that Chadwick doesn't try to sway our opinions with common narrative tricks: the loggers aren't evil and the enviromentalists aren't saints in the least. Chadwick wants to win us over with facts and facts alone. As always Concrete, the thinking man's superhero, approaches the problem with, well, lots of thought; specifically on whether we should leave things to the slow route of diplomacy or we should take matters into our own hands for something we think is right - even if it means breaking some laws.