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28 Responses to “Chapter 8: “Unsheathed””

  1. Matthew Says:

    Consistently well done and thought provoking: excellent work!

  2. geedeck Says:

    One of the best chapters yet. I’m a sucker for combat and plot advancement?

  3. Sachyriel Says:

    Wow. I can hardly breath and think and type. I’m almost serious with that last bit of praise. But, still…

    Oww… My head hurts now, I don’t know what’s going to happen next…

    I’d say hurry the fuck up with the story…. But I want it to be good…

    So…take your time, I got this on RSS feed…

  4. Alice Says:

    Fascinating.

  5. Tim Hamilton Says:

    You have me glued to the tube! (or screen as is now a days)

  6. Breno Says:

    Very, very good!

    Congrats..

  7. Roy Blumenthal Says:

    Wow, guys! This is one seriously thrilling ride. I’m sinning on via RSS as my next move. And I wanna know where I can put my name down to buy a paper copy if and when it should happen to arrive.

    This is rock and roll deluxe.

    By the way… Flickr Alpha? Nah. Make it Zeta or something. But hey.

    What I’m really loving is the WIlliam Gibson/Neal Stephenson-ness of the world you’re creating. And I enjoy that our man is in serious jeopardy pretty much all the way. Noone’s safe in this li’l universe.

    The writing’s hot. The illustrations are hot. Phshew. Thank you for your generosity in putting it online. New media rules!

    Blue skies
    love
    Roy
    Blog: http://schmucknews.blogspot.com

  8. Dan Goldman Says:

    Roy:

    The art combines digital photography I’ve both shot and found/distressed with digitally hand-drawn vector art in Illustrator CS2; everything is composited/massaged to life in Photoshop CS2 and then lettered back in Illustrator.

    Glad to thrill you and have you aboard; it’s a wild ride straight through to the end from here.

  9. André Neves Says:

    Hi! I´m from Brazil and I´ve just took contact with Shooting War, I´ve read about it in newspaper today. It´s just amazing! Congrats!

  10. Anthony Lappé Says:

    welcome andre
    is that article online?

  11. Kristian Says:

    And so the good news has reached Norway:)

    Very nice work! Both the style and the story. I’m looking forward to following chapters. The fact that Americans still are critical to their government is a calming thought for a worried world citizen.

    PS: I read about this graphic novel in the Norwegian edition of Le Monde Diplomatique. Unfortunately it is not available on the web. Besides, it’s in Norwegian…

  12. willian catarim Says:

    Hi guys, i’m from Brazil, I was reading news on the web when I’ve contact whit the blog, it’s amazing, when I’ve read about the critcs wich the “chapters” does about the Bush’s government I’ve fall in love, it’s simplely amazing. Sorry-me by my english language.BYe Bye

  13. Dan Goldman Says:

    Norway! Brasil! Who else is out there?

    Sound off, citizens of Earth… tell us where you are finding our work in your corner of the world.

  14. Vg-35 Says:

    Muito bom, esse blog…

    Parabéns!

  15. toby Says:

    I’m from switzerland and i love this stuff..i picked it up on boing boing i think

  16. aliocha Says:

    hi from paris !

    can’t remember where i picked up, it was a bunch of chapters ago :)

  17. Imagepot.us Says:

    Its Great Blog!

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  18. jack Says:

    no speak’nglish! :#

  19. Jordan Millward Says:

    Very nice comic. It truely shows what trouble the US will be in if things aren’t sorted in Iraq soon.

    Also, I like the Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter bit in the combat. V cool.

  20. Some OS /bin/login Says:

    Maybe this firefight works for the gung-ho types enjoying this little ride, but it didn’t make much sense, militarily. This was a well-sprung trap, and your hero’s story would have abruptly ended exactly here. At least there’s a plot twist. But no way irani operatives would be carrying frigging passports. C’mon.

    This would have been one big all-american barbecue in real life.

    And when you use arabic dialog, get someone to write real dialog. This is gibberish.
    Nice try, though.

  21. Jake Says:

    this is disgusting

    you should be ashamed of yourself, Lappe

  22. Jpass Says:

    This story follows the offical narrative of 9/11. Same bullshit.

    Of course…the a-rab was the culprit for the StarBucks bombing…case solved in 1 hour!

    Anthony, thanks for perpetuating the constant stream of bullshit that is the narrative of 9/11.

    Always the damn A-rabs.

  23. Hanli Says:

    the work is artistically brilliant both in terms of the writing style as well as the imaging. the web, layout is fluid easy to read and engaging. the subjectmatter is handeld harshly, but with a double edged criticism that is thought provoking without being prescriptive. all in all, i must commend you on an excellent work. i look forward to the print edition. (south africa)

  24. DLInguist Says:

    the arabic should actually run like this
    liqud qutla ibni, you want to drop the terminal te as the women is referring to someone in the masculine, or if she means the soldiers as a group it should be qutloo

    also the second bit “you did this” is entirely recursive. it should simply be fa9al hatha, note I’m replacing the ain with a 9, because well, we just don’t have the sound in English. However it might be more culturally appropriate to have it in the present temse ” YOU DO THIS!” or possibly, you are responsible ” ANTA MUS’OOL”, it you read this and want any help with arabic translation im more than happy to help.

  25. Grahamr Says:

    When Crowley and his guys were shooting up the SOM insurgents, it looked like an FPS.

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  27. mujde ar Says:

    Really nice site you have here. I’ve been reading for a while but this post made me want to say 2 thumbs up. Keep up the great work

  28. Masker Says:

    This part is somewhat brutal but i think depicts the horror of war really well, something you shouldn’t mask…

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