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Courage and Cowardice packed in 68 pages
Updated On: 27 October, 2009 09:44 AM IST | | Lindsay Pereira
FYI tells you why tales of action on a battlefield and a charming space detective make for a great graphic novel
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FYIu00a0tells you why tales of action on a battlefield and a charming space detective make for a great graphic novel
It is an intriguing task, this review of a popular series of war comics. Intriguing, when one realises the subject in question has occupied a shockingly large amount of our time on earth.
This critic believed the best way to begin was by keeping the American writer Barbara Kingsolver in mind. She once wrote: "There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other.
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I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves.
Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature."
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