This is the hit graphic novel - now in paperback! Based on a true story, acclaimed writer Brian K. Vaughan ("Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina, Lost") and up and coming 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 - leaving you to look at the war on terror through new eyes.
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"Brian K. Vaughan's PRIDE OF BAGHDAD is easily amongst the finest pieces of comic book literature I have ever read and is also the best comic I have read, and probably will read, all year. Maybe even this decade." Ain't It Cool News "What I would contend, is the best novel, so far, on this most painful and tricky of subjects" The Sunday Telegraph * "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...)"
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Brian K. Vaughan's current work includes the Buffy comic, Ex Machina and the smash hit Y: The Last Man. He has won several Eisner and Harvey awards. Niko Henrichon is a relative newcomer to comics, but made waves with his art for The Sandman Presents, and is currently working on a new graphic novel for Humanoids.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
By R. P. Little
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?
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By jimbo cool
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.
By Susan Rose
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is a new favourite graphic novel of mine, its a self contained book about lions whose zoo is destroyed in the Iraq war.
It is a beautifully moving and well illustrated story, which even though is told from the perspective of Lions is also about humanity.
I don't want to tell you too much about the story because I think half of what makes this story so great is that you follow the characters on a unexpected journey.
However I can say I was so enamored with this story that I read it in one sitting, only to put it down and pick it up five minutes later and completely re-read it
It is a beautifully moving and well illustrated story, which even though is told from the perspective of Lions is also about humanity.
I don't want to tell you too much about the story because I think half of what makes this story so great is that you follow the characters on a unexpected journey.
However I can say I was so enamored with this story that I read it in one sitting, only to put it down and pick it up five minutes later and completely re-read it
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I'm slowly getting back into the world of graphic novels and for some reason I had this lying around my house. Read more
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Got this because I enjoyed We3 and it's more of the same, beautiful story, wonderfully drawn, original content, awesome awesome awesome!
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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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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. Read more
Published on 19 May 2008 by Kelley Townley
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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
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