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Review: Mandela and the General

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Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid hero and first leader of the new South Africa, is an international symbol of the power of a popular movement to fight structural racism. But his fight for democracy almost spiraled into an all-out race war. Knowing he couldn’t avert a bloodbath on his own, he reached out to General Constand Viljoen, the former chief of apartheid South Africa’s military.

This graphic novel chronicles the struggle of transition of South African from the apartheid state to the democracy of today and the men who avoided war to do so.

With today’s reality this graphic novel by John Carlin and Oriol Malet is more interesting now than ever.

Get your copy in comic shops and book stores today. To find a comic shop near you, visit http://www.comicshoplocator.com or call 1-888-comicbook or digitally and online with the links below.

Amazon/Kindle/comiXology
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Review: Mandela and the General

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Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid hero and first leader of the new South Africa, is an international symbol of the power of a popular movement to fight structural racism. But his fight for democracy almost spiraled into an all-out race war. Knowing he couldn’t avert a bloodbath on his own, he reached out to General Constand Viljoen, the former chief of apartheid South Africa’s military.

This graphic novel chronicles the struggle of transition of South African from the apartheid state to the democracy of today and the men who avoided war to do so.

With today’s reality this graphic novel by John Carlin and Oriol Malet is more interesting now than ever.

Get your copy in comic shops and book stores today. To find a comic shop near you, visit http://www.comicshoplocator.com or call 1-888-comicbook or digitally and online with the links below.

Amazon/Kindle/comiXology
TFAW

 

 

This post contains affiliate links, which means that if you click on one of the product links and make a purchase, we’ll receive a percentage of the sale. Graphic Policy does purchase items from this site. Making purchases through these links helps support the site

Around the Tubes

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It’s the weekend and we’re supposedly going to get slammed with snow and sleet (DC tends to shut down when that happens). I’ll be spending the weekend reading comics. What will you all be doing?

Around the Tubes

Kotaku – Disney Buys Indiana Jones – Now we can have a Star Wars/Indiana Jone/Disney Princess/Marvel cross-over event!

GamePolitics – Humble Bundle Details How Bundle Purchasers Helped Bring Clean Drinking Water to Ethiopia – I really wish there was a comic version of this.

Kotaku – Marvel Puzzle Quest: Dark Reign is now available – Anyone played it?

Sandusky Register – Realtor found comic book when clearing home – That’s cool.

CBC – Nelson Mandela’s activism inspires music, comics, concerts – Countdown until a Bluewater bio book, 3…2…1…

CBR – Drew Goddard Official for “Daredevil” Netflix Series – Interesting.

CBR – TV RATINGS: Tracking “Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD” – An awesome read.

Complex – Your Favorite Superhero Might Be a Conservative (Not That There’s Anything Wrong With That) – Nope, nothing wrong with that at all.

The Mary Sue – Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Gets Two More Recurring Characters – This is a good thing.

Mashable – New ‘Terminator’ TV Series Will Intersect With Film Reboot – Could be cool.

 

Around the Tubes Reviews

Talking Comics – Action Comics #26

CBR – Avengers Annual #1

CBR – Swamp Thing #26

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Astonishing X-Men: Xenogenesis #1

Logan – Rwanda to the west.  Genocide, corruptions, journalists being disappeared.  Burundi to the southwest.  Civil war, child soldiers, one of the poorest countries on Earth.  Uganda to the north.  A million-and-a-half people are refugees in their own country, the army abducts little girls for “wives.”  Tanzania to the east.  Massive drugs gateway, one in ten people have HIV.

and

Logan – African heads o’ state are all the same.  Put ’em in power and they all go nuts.

Emma Frost – Nelson Mandela?

Logan – Lemme tell you something about Nelson Mandela.  He ran a guerilla war — which means he ran kill teams.  Civilians died.  What do they call that kind o’person in the United States, kid?

Hisako – … a terrorist?

Logan – Don’t sound so surprised.  I mean, give the man credit, he copped to it himself.  “I do not deny that I planned sabotage.  I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation.”  Ain’t no saints in Africa, is all I’m saying.  Know how he got caught in the end?

Hisako – No, but you’re going to tell me…

Logan – The C.I.A. told the South African security forces where he was.

and

Ororo – Robert Mugabe.  “Let me be a Hitler tenfold,” he said, and then he actually grew himself a Hitler mustache.

New Mutants #13

Hank- And that’s the problem with faith… the stronger it gets the more people tend to die.

Siege #4

Steve Rogers – I want you people to promise me Osborn pays for his crimes.  In an American court.  He pays.  He goes to jail for this.