BBC News Dissects The 9/11 Report

You know how you're watching an American network news show, say about Hurricane Katrina, and the footage of Charlie Gibson or whomever on a French Quarter balcony and multiple features on food and music confuses the crap out of you and then you turn to the BBC's nightly newscast and while it still has all the shortcomings of television news it at least seems somewhat engaged with some semblence of real issues? That's sort of how I feel reading this article on The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation after a week of scanning dozens of stateside reactions to same. The writer is generally positive, but he diligently finds both quality moments and shortcomings in the choices made by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon, not in some perceived bias against comics or a misunderstanding of how the medium works and for whom. He even recognizes the straightforward approach taken by the veteran pair as just that -- an approach with advantages and disadvantages as realized -- not a morally superior wave of the hand that sidesteps elements of artistic emphasis.

Not every comic is a litmus test on "comics," and it's been refreshing to read someone engage the work itself in a reasonable, measured way. What's more important than who reads this acknowledged hit and why and how many of them there are is what they're getting out of it.
 
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