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Ties the US civil war to the beginning of the Iraq war with a ghost Confederate officer haunting his black-yankee descendant.
A lot of people probably didn't like this revision to the old DC Comics series. Then again I enjoyed seeing a few sacred cows thrown under the tank treads. The setting has been moved from WWII to 2003 Iraq and we discover the ghost of famous Confederate cavalry officer has some problems. That his image isn't all its cracked up to be, and now the descendant that he has to follow and protect is African-American Jamal Steuart. Yes the humor is a bit heavy handed at times, as it the moralizing about...
I love this concept. That being said, the overall story was not as deep as I wanted. I would have liked to see more of General Stuart's exploits in the Civil War.
So, they turned the entire concept on it's head, made JEB Stuart a racist, and peppered the entire story with foul language. Not for the fans of the original book series.
One of the better graphic novels I've read this year (and probably for the entire year). The premises seems ridiculous, but it works very well. A white southern gentleman soldier is condemned to assist in battle the soldiers of his descent, and who else does he appear to but the very black Stuart. What ensues is a study in racial tensions, hypocrisy, and hilarity. Marraffino juxtaposes different layers of racial conceit then turns the table... several times, and often during heated battle. It di...
The allegorical aspects are laid on a bit bluntly at times; with a bit more subtlety in the writing this could have been a Vertigo classic. Still, an excellent comic.
I was expecting this to be a ghost story about a haunted tank, but instead it was a tale with political messages. It was basically a story exploring racism. You had the haunted tank, which is haunted by the ghost of Jeb Stuart from the Civil War. The ghost only haunts tanks that have his ancestors aboard. The trick this time is his relative is African American. We come to find out that Jeb used to rape his slaves back in the day, and he has relatives in the current time from those rapes. (view s...
More battle action and less pissy racial superiority preening would have made for a better book.
