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"* "The next big thing." - Ain't It Cool News (on Y: The Last Man) * "A seriously funny, nuanced fable... 'A'" - Entertainment Weekly (on Y...) * "Handled with a wit and sophistication that leaves most comics standing" - Time Out (on Y...) * "Vastly entertaining first collection should have readers eager to read future volumes." - Publishers Weekly (on Ex Machina)"
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Based on a true story, acclaimed writer Brian K. Vaughan ("Y: The Last Man", "Ex Machina") and hot new artist Niko Henrichon ("The Sandman Presents") present a tale of love, war...and pride. In war-torn Iraq, many casualties have gone unreported - among them, an escaped pride of lions. This struggling family of four great cats must find a way to stay together and avoid the deadly conflict that's exploding around them in a world they can never hope to comprehend. This thoughtful, beautifully illustrated original graphic novel will engage both your head and heart - and you'll look at the war on terror through new eyes.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Astounding art and writing of a standard one expects from Vaughan. This is a thought provoking and tragic book, my only critiscism perhaps that it's too short to develop the characters fully.
To paraphrase the author in a BBC interview; people can perhaps engage more readily with the suffering of animals than they can with fellow humans who've been labelled 'enemy'
Surely graphic novels have proven themselves as an art form by now?
To paraphrase the author in a BBC interview; people can perhaps engage more readily with the suffering of animals than they can with fellow humans who've been labelled 'enemy'
Surely graphic novels have proven themselves as an art form by now?
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The partly true, harrowing, deeply moving story of an escaped pack of lions (note the double-meaning of the title) in Baghdad during the most recent (& ongoing) Iraq War II, this is a well (but not brilliantly)-drawn, beautifully characterised tale for the modern world. An original and powerful way of pointing out the mindless horror and gratuitous brutality of war in general & that war in particular, we follow the pride as they seek to survive and make sense of conflict-ravaged Baghdad.
It's somewhat short & the art work doesn't breathe the same air as Watchmen or The Killing Joke. Nevertheless, this one is for all of those people who have yet to realise that comic books - or Graphic Novels, to use their more respectable rebranded term - have grown up. If the aforementioned Watchmen or The Dark Knight novels are too long & daunting for you, this would be a very good place to start.
It's somewhat short & the art work doesn't breathe the same air as Watchmen or The Killing Joke. Nevertheless, this one is for all of those people who have yet to realise that comic books - or Graphic Novels, to use their more respectable rebranded term - have grown up. If the aforementioned Watchmen or The Dark Knight novels are too long & daunting for you, this would be a very good place to start.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I hate this book - in a good way. Everytime I think about it now, after reading it, I start to well up. I hate it when a book does that. The only other graphic novel that did this to me was Joss Whedon's We3 - God, I hate that book. Both use animals to rip out your heart and beat it with a mallet - repeatedly - until the end of time, but also to attack your brain in an unrelenting philosophical abuse of thought. A previous reviewer said it beautifully, how the use of animals, instead of human characters, can be amazingly powerful. In a nutshell the book uses a lion/human psyche mix to look at freedom and what it means in the context of the Iraqi war.
Now, if you'll excuse me I'm off to find some tissues...
Now, if you'll excuse me I'm off to find some tissues...
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great art - horrible story
I bought this book after it was recommended to me by a friend, who described it as 'powerful, emotional stuff'. It turned out he was talking complete rubbish.
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Published 9 days ago by JoeConsumer
A Strong Book
This was a read that left me in an odd position, I thought it worked well and I enjoyed it, but I was expecting a little more. Anyone who has read and enjoyed a Brian K. Read more
Published 20 months ago by JJG
Brilliant Thought Provoking and Fun
I saw this book in a local book sellers and after flicking through the pages for a bit I decided I couldnt leave without it, it really is something else, not in the same league as... Read more
Published on 19 Dec 2009 by Lark
Pride of Baghdad - and comics!
It's not often that graphic novels display both excellent artwork with an equally excellent storyline, however, Pride of Baghdad features both. Read more
Published on 17 Oct 2009 by R. J. Neal
Promised much delivered little
I heard an interview on the Today Programme with the author,Brian Vaughan, of this comic about the story of the three lions who escaped from the Baghdad Zoo in the first few days... Read more
Published on 10 Nov 2006 by the prophet
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