Brent Dulak

Plucked this off the library's new graphic novel shelf without reading a single word on the front and back cover beyond the title. Based on the cover I was expecting some sort of Punisher revenge drama or crime noir when I started reading it this morning. It wasn't until I set the book down at the end of my 15 minute work break that I realized the main character's name was listed on the cover as an author. This is a memoir? Oops. That explains why it was a little slow getting the plot rolling...

I also realized I had just read [book:The 'Stan|42081234] by the other two authors listed on the cover. This is a longer variation on that as a U.S. Army medic strings together a series of anecdotes from his tour in Afghanistan.

Like The 'Stan, the artwork strikes me as a gross mismatch. But where Delliquanti's cartoony style in The 'Stan at least had a smooth, finished quality to it, Berg's rough cartoony scrawl here is distractingly ugly, made the characters hard to distinguish, and kept me from connecting with the material.… (meer)