You're reading the original Web version of Shooting War. The book contains over 110 pages of new material, including important story & art changes you won't want to miss.
SHOOTING WAR hits bookstores as a full-color 192-page hardcover graphic novel Nov. 6 in the UK (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) and Nov. 19 in the US (Grand Central Publishing).
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posted Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
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July 12th, 2006 at 4:57 am
Consistently well done and thought provoking: excellent work!
July 12th, 2006 at 6:23 am
One of the best chapters yet. I’m a sucker for combat and plot advancement?
July 12th, 2006 at 10:33 am
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…
July 12th, 2006 at 11:55 am
Fascinating.
July 12th, 2006 at 12:09 pm
You have me glued to the tube! (or screen as is now a days)
July 14th, 2006 at 3:33 pm
Very, very good!
Congrats..
July 14th, 2006 at 5:14 pm
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
July 15th, 2006 at 12:45 pm
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.
July 17th, 2006 at 5:56 pm
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!
July 17th, 2006 at 6:00 pm
welcome andre
is that article online?
July 18th, 2006 at 7:54 am
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…
July 18th, 2006 at 8:21 am
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
July 18th, 2006 at 8:59 am
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.
July 18th, 2006 at 9:13 am
Muito bom, esse blog…
Parabéns!
July 18th, 2006 at 10:14 am
I’m from switzerland and i love this stuff..i picked it up on boing boing i think
July 18th, 2006 at 7:53 pm
hi from paris !
can’t remember where i picked up, it was a bunch of chapters ago :)
July 19th, 2006 at 9:42 am
Its Great Blog!
Upload your images in:
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July 19th, 2006 at 1:44 pm
no speak’nglish! :#
October 14th, 2006 at 12:09 pm
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.
October 19th, 2006 at 7:45 pm
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.
October 25th, 2006 at 8:22 pm
this is disgusting
you should be ashamed of yourself, Lappe
October 30th, 2006 at 6:16 pm
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.
February 9th, 2007 at 6:07 am
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)
March 24th, 2007 at 3:53 pm
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.
November 24th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
When Crowley and his guys were shooting up the SOM insurgents, it looked like an FPS.