A review by breakfastgrey
March: Book Three by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin

4.0

Perhaps it's because I read the entire series back to back, but I feel that some of the cracks started to show a little more clearly in this final volume. It is still an incredible, moving piece just like the other two, but I did have some concerns with the series that have been kind of swept aside until now: an enormous rotating cast who becomes increasingly hard to keep track of, a scattershot approach to events that feels more like snapshots at times than full realizations, and the book's inherent genre concerns. It's a graphic memoir and considered non-fiction, but one of the big rules with non-fiction is that you don't invent dialogue. That's a tricky task with graphic fiction told primarily through dialogue. I don't know what the proper balance is there, but it sets a bit of a worrisome precedent.