Pride Of Baghdad
Brian K Vaughan and Niko Henrichon
Based on the true-life story of a pride of lions that escaped from Baghdad zoo during a 1993 US bombing raid, this graphic novel reworks the Disney Incredible Journey talking animals routine into a subtle take on the Iraq War. Zoo-keepers stand in for Saddam's regime, a metaphor that works to explore the push-pull control of living in a dictatorship; while at the same time the casually brutal effects of "shock and awe" blanket-bombing are somehow even more shocking when seen through animal eyes. Avoids the potentially corny Babe aspects you might expect.
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