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King Vol. 1

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This is a gripping, gutsy series with very good art. But the dialogue, which is typed, has some really awful errors in it. "it is now the time" instead of "it is not the time", "farmer slaves" instead of "former slaves", and, worst of all, "Catholics and protestors". The last occurrs in the famed "I Have a Dream" speech at the end of volume 2. It's such a glaring typo that it stops the reader dead and totally ruins the impact of the speech, and the entire second book. Did nobody bother to proofread this book before it was published? How could nobody notice that the climax of one of the most famous speeches of the last century was incorrectly transcribed?

This book is a revealing documentary about one of the greatest men of the Twentieth Century, Martin Luther King. It essentially reveals that this man who is now seen as the Twentieth Century's equivalent of Abraham Lincoln was a man of foibles and some weaknesses and how much of his crusade still has to be won by us. And yet, the book does not take away the essential nobility of his fight, even though it was shown to be tougher than we remember. In fact, this book, by showing how King had flaws, emphasizes that we have ability to take up his cause and not be intimidated by the lionized image of this still great ma