I know what you're thinking: "Two books in one day!!!! You're a machine, Bill" Actually, A) I finished Thunderstruck yesterday, and B) I usually read about 20 books at the same time, bouncing back and forth between them all. I has been know for me to spend years to finish one book, but sometimes I finish two in close proximity to each other.
But if a book is really good, I usually breeze through it. And this one is a good book. If you search around the blog, you'll see a review for Mark Evanier's other book, Comics and the other Necessiies of Life. This one is a follow up to that one and is just as good.
It seems like the articles in this volume are a little bit longer. But that's okay because Evanier is such a good writer that you really don't notice much.
The title comes from an article where Evanier examines the now classic book Seduction of the Innocent by Dr. Frederic Wertham. Another good part about this book is that when I ordered it on Amazon, Seduction of the Innocent came up as being eligible to be ordered. Yes, the most infamous book in comic history, the book that cause EC Comics to die and changed the face of comics forever, was apparently reprinted in 1996.Of course, I had to but it. Expect a review of it here in the future.
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