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New York Times bestselling author Don Yaeger tells the electrifying story of the game that broke down the last racial division in college football.The first integrated football game in Alabama was played on Crimson soil in September 1970, and the two teams that met represented two distinct faces of college football: legendary Alabama coach Bear Bryant's Tide was the all-white national powerhouse in the SEC; and the USC Trojans, coached by John McKay, featured an all-black starting backfield that reflected the social changes that were sweeping the nation. Bestselling author Don Yaeger, teamed with USC fullback Sam Cunningham and defensive captain John Papadakis, tells for the first time the complete story of what transpired during this historic game.
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Fight On! But not with this.......2007-09-16
I'm a dedicated USC fan - I just watched the Trojans drub Nebraska 49-31 in Lincoln - but I was aggravated beyond measure by TURNING OF THE TIDE: HOW ONE GAME CHANGED THE SOUTH.
By the mid-1960s, Division 1-A college football had integrated Blacks into their varsity programs except in the Deep South represented by the Southeast Conference. It wasn't until 1966 that the University of Kentucky and Vanderbilt broke the color barrier, followed by Tennessee in 1967, the University of Florida in 1969, Auburn and Mississippi State in 1970, Alabama and Georgia in 1971, and LSU and the University of Mississippi in 1972.
Alabama's varsity squad had yet to integrate in 1970, though Wilbur Jackson, the Tide's first Black signee, had been added to its freshman team that year. On September 12, at Coach Bear Bryant's invitation, Bryant's pal, Coach John McKay of USC, brought his Trojans to Birmingham, where they trounced the Tide 42-21 in front of the home crowd. All of USC's touchdowns were scored by Black players, led most famously by Sam "Bam" Cunningham's 135 rushing yards on only 12 carries.
The premise of TURNING OF THE TIDE is that this one game changed college football in the South for all time by demonstrating that Black players could excel on the gridiron and that unintegrated teams needed to cross the color barrier in order to stay competitive with the rest of the nation. Author Don Yeager, writing with Sam Cunningham and the latter's teammate, defensive linebacker John Papadakis, infers that Coach Bryant set his inferior Alabama team up for the fall knowing that a USC win would fast track fan, alumni, and school administration acceptance of much needed (and otherwise inevitable) integration. (And, of course, the SEC schools would miss out on the growing revenue from game telecasts and bowl bids if they didn't fall into line with the rest of the country on race relations. Is it all about money, you think?) Bryant, of course, never admitted to such a Machiavellian plot.
Whether you agree with the book's premise or not - perhaps the subsequent success of SEC teams, and Alabama in particular, during the 70s and 80s, with an ever growing number of Black players, would've happened anyway - the message, repeated ad nauseam, is diluted by the clumsiness of the writing and the atrociousness of the editing. It's a story that could have been more succinctly told in a 50-page pamphlet; it dragged out to an excruciating 252 pages. Midway through, I was counting page numbers until the end.
The structure of the narrative has an almost stream of consciousness flavor; it's all over the place with lots of filler. Pre-1970s segregation at SEC schools. The migration of southern Black players to the North and West. The early coaching careers of Bryant and McKay and the handshake agreement between the two coaches at Los Angeles airport that set up the Big Game. The pre-game jitters of the USC players at the prospect of being confronted by racial violence. The postgame myths. The background of the first player (Jackson) to make the Tide varsity squad. Alabama's domination of the game in the 1970s. The racial tensions on the USC teams of the period. Football in the South, mid-West and West after 1970. And, irrelevantly (though I admire the man enormously), the USC coaching career of the current incumbent, Pete Carroll. The narrative is filled with personal interviews that made this reader's eyes glaze over. Is it necessary to know how many times a particular player is elected captain of the team, described in his own words?
TURNING OF THE TIDE devotes only a couple of paragraphs to the September 12 game itself. A woefully inadequate photo section is all about USC with shots of (in order presented) the Trojan's Black quarterback Jimmy Jones, John McKay, Sam Cunningham, the 1970 USC team, Cunningham in action against the Tide's defense, John Papadakis in uniform, Cunningham in action again (against the Buckeyes?), and, finally, John McKay again as depicted in the "Crimson Tide Illustrated" on Game Day over a listing of both teams' starting line-ups. Where's the picture of Bear Bryant, the canny wizard who ostensibly set the whole scenario up, or the 1970 Tide team photo, or shots of Wilbur Jackson and John Mitchell, the first two Blacks to play for the Bear?
The underlying theme of the book is, of course, how racial fairness triumphed against prejudice. But the author and his helpers beat it into the synthetic turf to the point that I suspected an underlying agenda. At one point, they quoted human rights activist Richard Lapchick:
"(In) the Division 1-A schools ... the graduation rate for African-American male students as a whole is only 40 percent, in comparison to the 61 percent graduation rate for white male students - this gap remains scandalous at 21 percent ... Race remains a persistent academic issue, reflected in the continuing gap between graduation rates for white and African-American student-athletes. The significant gap between rates for white and African-American football players has to continue to receive scrutiny. One of the benefits of examining graduation rates is that it focuses attention on the fact that too many of our predominantly white campuses are not welcoming places for students of color, regardless of whether they are athletes."
Ignoring for the moment that the situation defined by the quote above has nothing to do with the mass team integrations in the SEC supposedly caused by the heralded Tide-USC match-up of 1970, what are the colleges and universities to do? Perhaps award willy-nilly B.S. degrees in Phys Ed to all athletes - Black, White, or Yellow - who make the various sport varsities. (And let's not forget that many college football stars choose to join the NFL after their junior year to get the immediate gratification of the big paycheck at the expense of foregoing graduation. Can you blame them?) Hey, the public elementary schools are already promoting to the next grade those who are otherwise flunking; "no student left behind" is the PC mantra of the times. It'll hurt their self-esteem, boo-hoo, poor babies. Why not extend the easy pass to public universities and colleges also? Oh, puhleeeze!
OK, I'm done with my rant against this overblown, self-important volume.
As an aside, in USC's stomp of the Cornhuskers just completed, one of the latest in a long line of Black Trojan running backs, Stafon Johnson, gained 144 yards and one TD in only 11 carries. Sam Cunningham who? Fight On!
For God's Sake, It Was Just A Game!.......2007-04-09
Although a hard core Bama fan, I do like and appreciate other teams. Like most fans I have favorites and I have teams I cannot stand. USC is one of those other teams I generally root for unless they are playing Bama or if their loss could benefit Bama. I especially like USC as they have had considerable success against one team I cannot stand, Notre Dame.
I do appreciate the Trojans but I cannot say I really enjoyed what happened in the 1970 game in Birmingham. My biggest memory was my dad coming down to my room and finding me in the closet -- crying. He kind of figured the game was not going well without even asking the score.
My first negative against this book is that it just droned on and on and on about the social significance of this game. Yaeger and his co-authors spend the first half hashing over southern football before 1970 and the second half of the book over the changes in southern football after 1970. But, to me, he never made a good case as to why this one particular game changed everything.
Yes, I realize there were Bama fans in 1970 who were not enthused about the athletic program being integrated. But the vast majority of Bama fans, and fans of other southern athletic programs, already knew it was going to happen. It was inevitable when black students started attending the University of Alabama in 1963. It was inevitable when high schools started to integrate in Alabama. Maybe not everybody was happy but most people were willing to accept it and hope for the best.
While trying to emphasize how this one game made a difference the authors continuously undermined their own case. Black players had made their appearances at SEC schools before 1970. Not many but a few. There had even been blacks who tried out but for various reasons left without playing. Wendell Hudson had already signed on the Tide's basketball program and was doing his part to restore respectability to Bama basketball. By the time of the USC game Bama had already signed its first black football player, Wilber Jackson.
Integration was coming. And growing up in Alabama at that time the main thing that I remembered was there was nothing to remember. Most of the venom and anger and hatred had already been used up and there was no noticeable controversy about black players wearing crimson uniforms. After a couple of sub-par seasons most Bama fans did not care what color the player was so long as he could play.
Integration of the Alabama football program would have happened when it did and how it did even if the USC - Alabama game had not been played in 1970. Yaeger is right when he says that within Alabama most people today still do not see the significance of the game. And I would maintain that the reason for not seeing the significance is there was no significance.
Couldn't put it down.......2007-01-10
I couldn't put this work down on the integrated USC and segregated Alabama football game in 1970 and its impact upon race relations and acceptance of integration in the south. Yes, given to hyperbole and repetition to make it book length rather than a lengthy essay--the book's thesis is sound and provocative.
Turning of the Tide.......2007-01-10
The book was very well prsented and gave a lot of insight of things that I was not aware of. Great book for not only the sports enthusist but the impact the Alabama vs USC had on intergration of an institution that opened up athletics for Blacks in major southern institutions. I did not think The Bear gave it a considerable thought.
Fabulous for a select audience.......2007-01-09
This is a 'must-read' for anyone with an interest in big-time college football and race relations in the US.
To paraphrase someone in the book, Sam "Bam" Cunningham did more in one football game to accelerate integration in Alabama and the South than the late Rev. King, Jr. did in 25 years.
Hyperbole perhaps but a point worth making.
The only down side to the book is that it isn't really a book.
The author repeated and re-repeated incidents, one surmises, to make it book-length.
That aside, it's a wonderful read.
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Jack Irish is recovering from his last foray into the criminal underworld when he agrees to look for the missing son of Des Connors, the last living link to Jack's father. It's an offer he soon regrets, as he discovers that prodigal sons often go missing for a reason, and they always have something to hide. The second book in Peter Temple's Jack Irish series, Black Tide takes us back into a brilliantly evoked world of pubs, racetracks, and sports - not to mention intrigue, corruption, and violence.
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Slangy, complex literary thriller.......2006-02-28
Snappy, slangy, eloquent prose and a smart, complicated, witty narrator makes Australian writer Temple's latest Jack Irish book a standout despite its overly complex plot. A Melbourne solicitor with an ambiguously shady clientele, Jack does elegant cabinetry in his spare time. He's also pining for his girlfriend, Linda, who has taken on a new TV broadcasting job in Sydney and seems to be breaking things off.
After helping a client organize an alibi and clear a debt, Jack takes on a favor for Des Connor, an old friend of his father's, mostly in return for stories about the father he never knew. Des, in a moment of weakness, lent his ne'er-do-well son Gary $60,000, money Des had inherited. Now it appears Gary has taken out a mortgage on the house his father lives in (left to Gary by his mother), defaulted on the loan and disappeared. Des is about to be destitute and on the street.
Jack soon discovers Gary is not the only one suspiciously missing and he is not the only one searching for him. Whatever Gary was into involves a many-tentacled company with dangerous executives and a pedigree hidden in a tangle of offshore finance. It may also involve the government, or at least some people who want Jack to think they are government, black ops style.
In addition to tracking Gary, Jack trails along with another client who is doing something confusing with racing and horses. These two operations take him all over Australia, though he's never gone from Melbourne for long, and provide plenty of opportunity for mayhem, particularly during the prolonged, action-oriented finale.
The main plot involves a plethora of characters and tangled knots, which is both the book's strength and its weakness. Strength because the complex plot gives Jack a chance to shine at what he does best, using his brain; weakness because some readers may give up in confusion long before Jack does, thereby missing the bang-up finale.
In addition, there is a crowd of secondary characters, from the finicky, mellow cabinet maker (Jack's mentor) to the "Fitzroy Youth Club," a group of ancient fanatical football fans who've lost their team. Then there's his array of contacts new and old, who provide information and opportunities for verbal sparring.
Atmospheric, semi-hard-boiled, humorous and clever, Temple's Jack Irish novels (winners of numerous Australian prizes) should win fans among those who like their thrillers literary.
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A welcome sequel by a masterful, entertaining wordsmith and storyteller.......2005-12-06
This is a welcome sequel to BAD DEBTS, the introductory novel to what hopefully will be an extremely long run of books featuring Jack Irish, a suburban solicitor (a lawyer, though it's a bit more complicated than that) with a practice representing some rather dubious but nonetheless likable characters in Melbourne, Australia. Melbourne isn't the first place that comes to mind when one thinks of potential settings for crime fiction, but I think that with the publication of BLACK TIDE and BAD DEBTS, that will change quickly.
BLACK TIDE finds Irish involved in a matter somewhat tenuously linked to the father he never knew. Irish receives a call from Des Connors, a rather crusty character who was a friend of the elder Irish and may well be his last surviving pal. In a nice bit of irony, Connors hires Irish to locate his son Gary, who has gone missing, along with a substantial sum of money that Gary had borrowed from Des. Irish starts digging around and finds out soon enough that Gary has some very dangerous folks after him. These same people are soon pursuing Irish, but for cross-purposes; some want him to quit looking for Gary because he is uncovering things that they would rather keep hidden, while others want Irish to keep looking so he can lead them straight to Gary. None are particularly interested in Irish's well-being, and Irish accordingly must rely on his wits as well as his network of friends.
The impetus behind Gary going missing and the mad hunt for him, along with Irish's involvement, requires a bit of suspension of disbelief, which the author, blessedly, is well aware of; one of my favorite parts of the novel comes when Irish asks himself how he could have gotten into a situation of such danger and complexity. Temple, however, is a masterful and entertaining wordsmith and storyteller, and one can pick up the meaning behind the occasional obscurity within the context of the narrative more often than not. There is also some wonderful dry humor here --- Temple had me simultaneously laughing and choking by the time I reached just the second page --- and in the middle of a funeral scene, no less.
But BLACK TIDE is not a comedic novel, nor is it for the faint of heart. There is a real water cooler moment near the end of the book, for example, wherein one of the bad guys gets his comeuppance in a singularly memorable if gruesome fashion. I've been reading this genre for a long time, and I thought I'd seen it all. I was wrong.
In the short space of two novels Jack Irish has shouldered his way toward the front of the pack of crime fiction protagonists. And --- joy! --- there are two additional volumes already in print that American readers have yet to see. It is good to have so much to anticipate. Let us hope the wait isn't long.
--- Reviewed by Joe Hartlaub
Noir From Down Under!.......2005-11-20
"Black Tide" is the second Jack Irish novel I have read, and although it is somewhat slower than the first, it still makes for a good read. Irish is a former criminal lawyer from Melbourne who turned into a noirish Aussie man-of-many-trades after a serious bout with self destruction left him down and out. Des Conners, an old friend of Jack's father's, pays our man a visit and it seems he has some serious problems. His son Gary disappeared after borrowing $60,000 from him. Gary, a shrewd and shady character at best, also has the deed to the old man's house, which has been put up for sale. Without the house, Des is on the street. Thus, one of many reasons to find the elusive Gary Conners is to make sure Des, a senior citizen without much capital, continues to dwell in the modest home where he thought to remain for the rest of his life. Irish, of course, offers to help Des, but is soon given cause to question the wisdom of his volunteer efforts. "It crossed my mind, not for the first time, that the pursuit of Gary Connors was getting completely out of hand." This becomes an increasingly familiar refrain as the investigation progresses and becomes more complicated. Jack justifies continuing the search for the missing son by telling himself that his father would have wanted him to help his buddy. When what at first seemed like a cut and dry missing person case turns into something infinitely more sinister, Jack no longer needs the motivation of helping a family friend to stay focused. With his life at stake now, he has no recourse but to go forward.
As the narrative develops and the plot gets more complex, many characters are introduced. Parallel to the primary story are various subplots which involve people, places and events that are permanent fixtures in the life of Jack Irish. Unfortunately, there really reaches a point in "Black Tide" when the mystery/suspense aspect of the novel suffers as a consequence of too much going on at once. Many scenarios are extraneous, not action oriented and definitely not crucial to the narrative. Meanwhile the main storyline becomes so intricate that it requires maximum attention to stay with events. This is supposed to be entertainment. I wouldn't want Mr. Temple to "dumb down" his prose for lazy readers, but I was hard pressed to continue at times. I would have given "Black Tide" 3 Stars except that towards the conclusion the author redeems himself with lots of action and salvages what could have been a mediocre book.
I like Jack Irish. I like him a lot. Fortunately for me MacAdam/Cage now publishes author Peter Temple's novels in the US. By the way, Irish is not Irish at all, but the great-grandson of I. Reich, a German Jewish immigrant to Australia. In a market chock-full of detective type anti-heroes, Jack stands above the pack as the only Renaissance sleuth. He also gives great Aussie slang! Professionally his moniker reads "licensed criminal attorney," but, as mentioned, he has branched-out into debt collecting and is not above doing his own investigative work either. A horse-racing man and habitual gambler, barfly, apprentice cabinetmaker and Australian Rules Football fanatic, Irish went downhill fast when his wife was murdered by a disgruntled former client. Jack stopped drinking recently and is only now beginning to cope with the rage and guilt while sober.
Although plot driven, I am extremely drawn to the protagonist and his supporting cast. These characters, and Irish's interaction with them, give wonderful depth to the book - but they need to remain in the background and remain secondary. If everyone is given his/her fifteen minutes of fame, there is danger that the fun vignettes will take over the thrills and chills - which are, after all, the main attraction.
Peter Temple has won four Ned Kelly Awards, (the Australian equivalent of the Edgars), for Crime Fiction, including one for Best First Novel with "Bad Debts." Known in Australia primarily for his Jack Irish novels, Temple has a following which could very well expand to include a US audience now that "Black Tide" (book two) has also been released.
Looks like a winning series to me. I would recommend reading the well written, thoroughly enjoyable debut novel "Bad Debts" before this one. Both are highly recommended.
JANA
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The Raging Tide: Or, the Black Doll's Imbroglio
Edward Gorey
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Greatest Book of All Time.......2003-07-17
Edward Gorey was a master of the macabre. his books were morbid and strange (sometimes unsettling, even), and the pictures made it all the worse. despite that, he was a wonderful story teller. his books were scary, yes, but in a comical sort of way. my grandpa used to read this book to my sister and me when we were young (a little bedtime story-type deal), and the pictures used to scare us half to death, but the book itself was very amusing. it's the sort of book one would expect to find in a Goth's house, i guess. i definately recommend this book to everyone. it would make a great edition to a Gorey collector's stash, or just to an avid book-lover's pile!
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Plenty of brains and brawn.......2004-02-04
DuBois' second Lewis Cole mystery opens with Cole's discovery of a headless, handless corpse in the cold surf off his New Hampshire beach home. Cole, a former Department of Defense spook, pensioned off with his secrets and a generous income funnelled through his job as a magazine columnist, puts the corpse out of his mind, intent on finding the deeply hidden owner of an oil tanker that ruptured, fouling his beloved coast with its cargo.
A wizard with a computer and a telephone line, Cole tracks the protected owner but has no way to get at him. Plotting his next step, he's distracted by a friend, Felix, a former Mob affiliate, who wants his help in resolving the fate of some stolen Winslow Homer paintings, long hidden in a dead mobster's safe house.
When a powerful thug is brutally murdered in their presence, Cole's friend Felix goes into hiding, and Cole embarks on the dangerous trail of the art thieves, a trek that involves skills Cole had hoped were behind him.
With plenty of rugged action and quick spook-type thinking, DuBois has constructed an absorbing tale of greed and utter ruthlessness, occasionally slowed by his hero's tortured, sometimes bitter ruminations over repetitive ground. The New Hampshire and Maine seacoast areas are vividly realized and the tangled plot liines are effectively sorted.
He's getting even better!.......2003-05-07
This is a great mystery...even better than his first, Dead Sand...but the plot is just a little far-fetched, and DuBois/Cole are still hung up on SWEAT. Get over it!
An impressive 2nd effort from a fairly new author........1996-05-23
Brendan DuBois has obviously learned much from his previous book, Dead Sand.
Black Tide picks up a few months after the conclusion of Dead Sand, and
pulls the reader almost instantly into the plotline. Unlike its predecessor,
Black Tide does not dwell on seacoast details for pages on end. DuBois
learns to get past the filler and primarily utilize events and character to
fill the page, rather than physical details of the landscape.
DuBois' sense of character is refreshing for the mystery novel genre; he has
created a both a protagonist and secondary characters that contain just about
the right amount of toughness and humanity, but don't cross that borderline
into the exaggerated realm of cliche.
One sin Dubois did commit in both novels, however, is that of creating a
murderer that the reader couldn't care less about. In both cases, a minor
character is chosen as the guilty party -- the typical "seems like a nice
guy, but I think there's some sinister under the surface" character that the
avid mystery reader can pick out after reading just a few pages that involve
the character. This is the fly in the soup that exposes what would
otherwise be a fairly unpredictable plot.
On the other hand, the story is very readable. This holds true in its pace,
action, and dialogue. There are some very exciting moments that take place
in this seemingly quiet little seaside town, and DuBois kept me hooked
through each new development. In the end, what the reader gets is a good
commercial mystery novel. I would recommend this novel to a friend, so long
as the friend had not read every Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, or Three
Investigators novel ever written. It is a great building block for an
author that is fairly new in terms of novels (DuBois has published many
short stories), and I look forward to his future development and books. I
will be waiting in anticipation of his next Lewis Cole mystery...
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Black Tides
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Black tides of spilled oil pollute the world's coasts with depressing regularity, giving scientists ample opportunity to observe their environmental impacts and learn how to clean up and restore the affected shorelines. Miles O. Hayes has been a leader in this work for over twenty years. In this highly readable autobiography, he describes his evolution as a scientist, his work in coastal oil spill contingency planning and clean up, and his personal philosophy of one's relationship with nature. A skilled raconteur, Hayes tells engrossing stories of responding to most of the recent, headline-grabbing oil spills, including the Gulf War spills, the Exxon Valdez, the Amoco Cadiz spill in France, and the Ixtoc I blowout in Mexico. Interspersed among them are personal events and adventures, such as his survival of a plane crash while mapping a remote part of Alaska. From this life story emerges a compelling statement of the ongoing conflict between environmental preservation and the exploitation of natural resources to sustain our modern society.
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When journalist India Kane agrees to accompany the Greenpeace ship Sundancer in its pursuit of a whaling fleet, she has no idea what awaits her. Buffeted by high winds and blinded by freezing fog, by the time they spot the huge tanker bearing down on them—it’s simply too late. Eight crewmembers are lost. Ned, one of India’s closest friends, is among them. When it emerges that the tanker that rammed Sundancer is unregistered—a “ghost ship,” untraceable and unaccountable—India is determined to bring the owner of the vessel to justice. India’s investigation will take her from the freezing Southern Ocean to the baking outback of western Australia, where corruption, greed, and betrayal go hand in hand. What she discovers there will lead her on a journey to absolute terror.
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Black Tide: Awakening of the Key
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Atlantis is now a myth, and the Atlanteans would like to keep it that way. Living secretly among us, their elite Black Ops team tries to protect us from supervillains from ancient times.
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COMPLEX PLOT WITH MANY CHARACTERS.......2005-05-02
Black Tide has had a publishing history as complex as the plot of its story. Starting with Image, then moving on to Avatar before finding its home at Angel Gate press. It's not easy trying to categorize Black Tide. There are characters with super powers who wear costumes but it's not a super hero title really. Part Sci-fi, part fantasy, with elements of covert intrigue and superhero action, Black Tide is one of the more multifaceted stories I've read in quite a long time. Trying to summarize the story in a short review would not really do the multi-layered plotline justice, but let me give you a bit of a synopsis.
Nearly 13,000 years ago the legendary lost city of Atlantis was destroyed and sunk beneath the ocean, yet its people endured. Using far advanced technology the people regenerated themselves, building a new home, far below the surface, cloaked from modern man. It is in this modern world we meet Justin Braddock, leader of a special ops team known as "The Deceivers." All his life he has been haunted by strange nightmares and he's finally about to find out why. While on a mission he encounters Kaila, an Atlantean and helps her rescue an Atlantean Prince named Theros. They return to Atlantis where Justin comes face-to-face with the revelation that he had once been Atlantis' greatest enemy, Villonious, responsible for much bloodshed and death. Villonious had been placed in stasis and was regenerated as a human who should not have had these memories of his previous life. Queen Celestia decrees that Justin be put to death for his past crimes but Theros intercedes on his behalf since he is the rightful ruler. He frees Justin, and to Celestia's consternation, Justin, Theros, and Kaila leave Atlantis for the surface world.
We then find out that Kaila herself is also a member of the Deceivers as well and Justin never knew it. They were once lovers in Atlantis but Justin now does not hold those same feelings as he did as Villonious. Celestia will not give up her son or Justin so easily and allies herself with the Catharta, the witch who stole Theros' powers. While all this is going on, Justin and Kaila are determined to find out who killed Justin's partner and friend, and also track down terrorists who intend to use a biological bomb at an international summit meeting. Theros is forced to return to Atlantis to deal with great trouble at home. The Atlanteans are not happy that Theros freed the slaves before he left and there is rebellion on the rise against him.
Whew! And trust me I'm being brief. Writer Debbie Bishop has woven a story that is extremely intricate and layered with plots, and sub-plots and even a few sub sub-plots, I think. It's certainly not a story you can breeze through and I found myself re-reading sections just to make sure I had everything straight. One thing Bishop does is devote a full page here and there to a character, giving their background, powers, etc, which really helps you get a handle on who is who in the story. Kind of like a graphic novel scorecard. The art by Mike S. Miller is first-rate and very smooth. If you like in-depth, elaborate storylines, then this is unquestionably a book you'll want to read. It's rare that you get a comic series this complex today.
Reviewed by Tim Janson
Interesting So far.......2004-06-05
I saw an article on Newsarama about this book and decided to check it out. So far so good, the art is above average reminding me of Crossgen's Scion.
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America at War!: Battles That Turned the Tide
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