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Medical Mentions XVII
Medical Mentions are a group of graphic works. The graphic works reviewed here are books whose primary topics are not medical, and yet they cover a medical topic with some depth at some point in the work. The rest of the work might be fictional or nonfictional, while the medical portion is often technical and five pages or more. The reviewer will usually neither recommend nor discourage reading the work, except when the rest of the work is deemed outstanding or terrible, respectively. Typically, six graphic works will be part of the review with one paragraph for each. Prior Medical Mentions can be… Read More
Medical Mentions Book Reviews XII
Medical Mentions are a group of graphic works. The graphic works reviewed here are books whose primary topics are not medical, and yet they cover a medical topic with some depth at some point in the work. The rest of the work might be fictional or nonfictional, while the medical portion is often technical and five pages or more. The reviewer will usually neither recommend nor discourage reading the work, except when the rest of the work is deemed outstanding or terrible, respectively. Typically, six graphic works will be part of the review with one paragraph for each. Prior Medical Mentions… Read More
83 Days in Mariupol – A War Diary
by Jameson Rohrer 83 Days in Mariupol: A War Diary is a visually intense, distressing account of the people of Mariupol, Ukraine surviving the onslaught of the 2022 Russian invasion. Author and illustrator Don Brown delivers an incredible backdrop on every page portraying the plight of the civilians during this time with specific linework and coloring including lots of neutral tones and red that emphasizes the direness of the situation without being overly bloody or violent. This story provides a chronicling of how the civilians dealt with the invasion and the city’s destruction. In the afterword, it mentions that “Mariupol… Read More