Entertainment & Arts - Comics & Animation

SHOOTING WAR is a hardcover graphic novel by Anthony Lappé and Dan Goldman.

The story began as a serialized web comic in May 2006 on SMITHMAG magazine (http://smithmag.net). After receiving extensive media coverage and an Eisner nomination for Best Digital Comic, the story was acquired by Grand Central Publishing for publication in North America (11/19) and in the UK by Weidenfeld & Nicolson (11/04).

The full-color 192-page hardcover graphic novel will feature over 110 pages of new material, including all new plots twists and, by popular demand, more Dan Rather than you can shake a dead armadillo at.

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The year is 2011. The global war on terror is raging out of control. The American economy is deep in recession. The president is popping Prozac. When a suicide bomber blows a Brooklyn Starbucks to bits, hipster videoblogger Jimmy Burns is in the right place at the right time. His dramatic footage is picked up by Global News (“Your home for 24-hour terror coverage”) and Burns is transformed into an overnight media sensation. The next thing he knows he’s on a Black Hawk flying low and fast towards war-ravaged Baghdad. But Burns’ greatest dream – to become a war correspondent – quickly becomes his greatest nightmare. Everyone from his ratings-ravenous bosses, to a renegade squad of U.S. Army commandos, to a tech-savvy band of murderous jihadists all try to make him their pawn. But Burns has other ideas.

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