Shooting War

• Shooting war was the first graphic novel that i had the pleasure of reading, although most of the books was full with at times too much graphic images i felt that this was all in all a wonderful creative piece of work. The main character Jimmy was at times irritating, as well as compelling in is efforts to show the world what was wrong with it. With his first chance to be in the line-light when the building he lived him getting total, making him an instant celebrity for a news station he felt was part of the problem. Although he despise mass media he eventually took a job for the same people he felt was the problem. Jimmy in turn became the thing he despise the man that work for corporate America the big business the mass media and at some point he became the thing he disliked the most.

As for the violent images well there was a multitude, like the part where they cut off the man's head and the part where the women were blown to pieces.
The portrayal of American soldier was indeed something different, the American soldiers were seen as the enemy. What's fascinating to me was the soldiers in the masks, the big cross, something i felt was somewhat sacrilegious. In Jarhead, although the young soldiers were crude and at times violent, eg with a member of swofford team desecrated a courps for several days the image of the soldiers was not so negative. Then again I must remember that Jarhead was a memoir and not a novel.

Americans in this novel were portrayed as bullies, killers with no conscious the, evil entity that invaded a poor land killing the innocent occupants that occupied the space. Although the author political views is quiet apparent throughout the novel all in all i found it alright. the religious aspect of the novel i did indeed found interested in that take the part when the bullet enter the terrorist hand and he placed is hand up like Jesus did, well that was very profound, along with the cross, this was good