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The global war on terror is raging out of control. The president is popping Prozac. And the #1 selling videogame in 2011 America is the terrorist-simulator Infidel Massacre: Los Angeles. On the streets of gentrified Brooklyn, videoblogger Jimmy Burns' latest anti-corporate rant is cut short by a terrorist bombing of a Starbucks...but his live feed isn't. When his dramatic footage is uploaded by Global News ("Your home for 24-hour terror coverage") and rebroadcast across the planet, the obscure blogger is transformed into an overnight media sensation. The next thing he knows he's on a Black Hawk helicopter inbound for Baghdad, working for the same mainstream media monster he once loathed. Burns soon finds that everyone from his ratings-ravenous network overlords to Special Ops troops with messianic complexes to a charismatic band of tech-savvy jihadists all want to make him their pawn.
Shooting War is an irreverent and unflinching graphic novel satirizing network news, the Iraq War, and the burgeoning "citizen journalism" movement that Rolling Stone magazine calls "a scary-smart take on what the horrors of the future may hold."
"Fierce, shocking, over-the-top, and wickedly smart." -New York Magazine
"Ambitious...A determined citizen journalist (and overnight celebrity) infuriated by the mainstream media's indifference to the endless war, Burns aims to bring home the facts on the ground." -Paper
"This is a winner...the Apocalypse Now of the War on Terrorism, told in the form of a brilliantly rendered graphic novel." -Forbes.com
"A stunningly rendered graphic novel that manages to stick a red-hot skewer the war on terror, Islamic jihad, the mainstream media and the antiestablishment blogosphere in one fell swoop." -Newsweek.com
Shooting War is an irreverent and unflinching graphic novel satirizing network news, the Iraq War, and the burgeoning "citizen journalism" movement that Rolling Stone magazine calls "a scary-smart take on what the horrors of the future may hold."
"Fierce, shocking, over-the-top, and wickedly smart." -New York Magazine
"Ambitious...A determined citizen journalist (and overnight celebrity) infuriated by the mainstream media's indifference to the endless war, Burns aims to bring home the facts on the ground." -Paper
"This is a winner...the Apocalypse Now of the War on Terrorism, told in the form of a brilliantly rendered graphic novel." -Forbes.com
"A stunningly rendered graphic novel that manages to stick a red-hot skewer the war on terror, Islamic jihad, the mainstream media and the antiestablishment blogosphere in one fell swoop." -Newsweek.com
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terrifyingly plausible and plausibly terrifying.. originally free online, this strip deserves its enshrinement between the hard covers (James Lovegrove FINANCIAL TIMES)
The writing is witty and appropriately gonzo, with all the moral ambiguity that implies (The Observer)
riveting (Plan B)
One of the 100 Best Things in the World! (GQ)
it is fascinating to read a graphic novel about what the Iraq occupation might look like (Morning Star)
a darkly funny trip into a shattered country.. each page is packed with in-jokes and references (Max Leonard Time Out)
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The writing is witty and appropriately gonzo, with all the moral ambiguity that implies (The Observer)
riveting (Plan B)
One of the 100 Best Things in the World! (GQ)
it is fascinating to read a graphic novel about what the Iraq occupation might look like (Morning Star)
a darkly funny trip into a shattered country.. each page is packed with in-jokes and references (Max Leonard Time Out)
The web's first overnight sensation, political novel break out hit.
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- PublisherGrand Central Pub
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0446581208
- ISBN 13 9780446581202
- BindingHardcover
- IllustratorGoldman Dan
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