I'm not sure about this.
Regards, Ivan
Posted on 04/19/2006 3:31:42 AM PDT by MadIvan
The report on the September 11 attacks is to be turned into a graphic novel to portray the events "in a more gripping way", according to its publisher.
The 9/11 Report, A Graphic Adaptation, aims to take the findings of the independent panel, informally known as the September 11 commission, to a broader audience.
It has cut the page count from more than 500 to 144 and employed comic book-style images to depict events aboard the four hijacked planes.
At one point, passengers on United 93, the flight that crashed in Pennsylvania, are seen fighting with knife-wielding hijackers. One passenger cries: "We've got to stop them! Two planes crashed into the World Trade Centre."
The 2004 report on the attacks on New York and Washington was one of the most successful non-fiction books of last year, selling more than one million copies.
Thomas LeBien, the book's publisher, said he hoped that the graphic version would reach new readers.
"If you're 80, or 14 years old, you look at those timelines and it becomes more immediately clear, the catastrophic nature of it all, in a more gripping way than you might get from the report itself," he told The New York Post.
I'm not sure about this.
Regards, Ivan
Ping!
God, this nation gets more and more pussified every day.
As long as PC does not get blatant, is this bad?
No Comics Here:
ON THE NET...
FREEREPUBLIC.COM - The Threat Matrix
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1617489/posts
http://www.truthusa.com/911news.html
http://www.truthusa.com/911news2.html
http://www.truthusa.com/911.html
http://www.internet-haganah.com/jihadi
http://www.internet-haganah.com
http://www.memri.org/jihad.html
http://www.memri.org
http://www.memritv.org
http://www.jihadwatch.org
The dumbing down of the collective mentality goes on...
It doesn't look too bad, but the real test is how the "graphic novel" format deals with showing people who are about to die.
Everything gets the comicbook treatment. WWII got it but it wasn't PCed too badly.
The 9/11 commission report WAS fiction.
Left out ABLE DANGER, left out Gorelicks wall (on behest of hillary, afraid of the data mining that would expose their chinese fundraising--Doral link).
You are exactly right there.
somehow, it does not seem the same as the real thing
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1616525/posts?page=1#1
Moussaoui trial exhibits and documents
somehow, it does not seem the same as the real thing
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1616525/posts?page=1#1
Moussaoui trial exhibits and documents
Looks great to me. "Graphic novels" (though I don't read them) are a legitimate medium, just a way to communicate a story/message (like TV, radio, movies, theater, books, magazines, newspapers, blogs, and so on).
Ugh...
The dumbing down of America continues. Many highschool students don't know which side America was on in WWII yet they are convinced that George Bush is "Hitler." Next thing you know they will come out with 9/11 video games where little creeps can play hijacker.
I think you mean Loral instead of Doral.
This story needs to be told to everybody. If it is told through movies, comic books or on the backs of cereal boxes, it's all good, IMHO.
Different people get information in different ways. But every American needs to know this story.
Unless it is terrorist apologist bullshit, of course.
Some Graphic novels actually teach more than many textbooks. Depending how this is written, this may actually get some younger kids interested in this subject.
Absolutely! I am more attracted to visuals, as many people in my generation are (I'm a college student). Hopefully, this will raise awareness of September 11 among people across the nation and will help to further the cause of liberty during this long struggle against Islamic Fascism.
Marvel put out a series of comic books dealing with 9-11 and the impact it had on their various characters; they also put out special artwork that paid tribute to the ploice, firefighters, etc.
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